i have a habit of reading the contributor bios of every house beautiful i get. in the 02/12 issue, miles redd mentioned his latest obsess...

  left to right : embossed and gilded pasteboard simulating leather via surfaceview ; funny face (1957) directed by stanley donen; ha...

following the previous post on japanese papers, this next post is about japanese-inspired furnishing pattern. like many, i am unabashedly o...

looking back at what i'm drawn to and what inspires me,  i see there are influences that have stood the test of time. one is japanese d...

 this image by erwin blumenfeld perfectly captures what i'd like to be doing right now. though instead of a pimm's cup cucumb...

diatoms make up about a quarter of plant life by weight and produce  a quarter of the oxygen we breathe. some 25 million would f...

clockwise:  alicia bock on flickr marie claire bedroom   designers guild  cabriole fabric in heather untitled

top: old world weavers fabric bottom: nepalese rug by diane von furstenberg for the rug company ***   lion vis-a-vis tiger by william c...

the brilliant tiffany gem stones illustrated in the color plate from 1921 (above left) that i got from ebay  go so perfectly with th...