Phillips De Pury: Important Nordic Design

Happy Thursday! Today is Phillip De Pury's Important Nordic Design auction and it's a knockout. Here are some of my favorites... It was so hard to put just these here. Please go have a look at the online catalogue.
The jewels (1,3,5) are Tappio Wirkkala. A Vilhelm Lauritzen sofa, Ilmari Tapiovaara Crinolette chairs, Eliel Saarinen chairs, and Frits Henningsen chairs.

Declutter Day

Today is declutter day! These are my inspiration...Husband's staying home and we're going through it room by room. Brutal. Thrift shop here we come!
1 from you are the river photo by pascal shirley, 2 from Jessica Vedel via meta interiors, 3 from designboom photo by Amit Gosher, 4 from desire to inspire, 5 from designboom photo by Amit Geron, 6 from Emma on Pinterest originally from arch daily photo by Takumi Ota.

Today

I hope your Tuesday was great! Today I began learning how to do this...This fiber artwork was given to me by a good friend for my birthday this year. I love it. It hangs on my wall where I look at it in wonder every day. Today, I went to her home with my sewing machine and she taught me the first few steps. We had so much fun. I'm really excited to learn how to create these and develop my own style.

Wright: Scandinavian Design

It's Monday again! I hope your weekend was restful. Ours definitely was. It was hard to choose just a few favorite pieces from Wright's upcoming Scandinavian Design Auction -- everything is fantastic. Here are some I see fitting nicely into my little home!I suggest going to look yourself. You will not be disappointed. Also go look at The North Elevation's picks (a blog I follow for many reasons, including their Favorite Picks series). Have a great day!

Ingeborg Lundin Apple vase, Poul Kjaerholm PK 20 lounge chairs, Poul Nørreklit cabinets, Ann-Mari Forsberg carpet, Märta Måås-Fjetterström "The Oak" carpet, P. S. Heggen wastepaper baskets, Paavo Tynell custom pendant lamps and let's not forget these lamps from Friday.

Happy Weekend

Have a good one! Winter has arrived here. We'll go out there and make the most of it! Love this funny photo. From the NYT, via Lonny and Vera Wang.
As always, thank you so much for visiting and commenting. You make my day.

Black, White, A Little In Between

Happy Friday! Some random things in my current inspiration folder. These Just Andersen lamps at Wright...
An ebony model at Il Segno Del Tempo...

Thinking of weddings because my little sis will be married next Summer...Paris from From Me To You...Vintage sunglasses on 1st Dibs...Mia's new shop is beautiful...
I tried this on while in SF (in the Bottega Veneta shop, because the very lovely salesperson brought it to me and slipped it over my shoulders. It was so amazing. and so out of my budget). I will dream about it for a loooong time...

And Calder always inspires...


Winter Arizona bride photo from Style Me Pretty by Sloan Photographers.
Arch photo by From Me To You.
*browsing through Lonny after preparing this, I was reminded of the title of Celerie Kemble's new book. I was going to change the title of my post but nothing else seemed to fit. So I'm sticking with it!

Weekend

Happy Monday! It's beautiful here today, but there's more snow coming. It's time.
We had a lovely, quiet weekend, and I had fun with the iphone...I hope your week is starting out so well.
instagrams by me.

The Selby: Italian Sweets

Have you seen these from The Selby? I love them...I love The Selby period. It's fascinating to see into creative people's personal spaces from Todd Selby's view point. Selby is also sought after by world renowned corporations for collaborations, and recently did a shoot for Fendi celebrating The Whispered Grand Tour. The Whispered is Fendi's guide to Italian master craftsmen...These photos are from that shoot. And the candy is from here, Moriondo e Gariglio... Wow!
All photos are copyright Todd Selby, used with his permission.

Happy Weekend and I Want My Hat Back

Happy weekend! I hope it's cozy and full of family time.
This morning I had breakfast and a browse at our local bookstore. What a treat. I happened to pick up what turned out to be the best children's picture book I've found in a while: I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen...
The sweet, funny illustrations drew me in, but the story -- dryly, darkly hilarious -- was the kicker. It's home with us now, the newest addition to the library. Today I've found the New York Times book review, Klassen's tumblr, and a fun interview with him here. Definitely buy this one for your little one... or for yourself.
Illustrations from I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen.
1st photo by me, 2 from Nucleus, 3 from Cartoon Brew, 4 via Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

One Hour

It's only Thursday, but I'm already looking forward to one extra hour this weekend. Set the clocks back and sleep!What will you do with your hour?

Happy Weekend

I hope your Halloween weekend is full of silly, dressed-up fun! I really love this little guy. He belongs to Linnea, whose dad made him when she was young. I confess I have a design crush on her (posted about Linnea and Uusi here and here).
Linnea's Bolts Man found on Gibber-ish.

Mountain Living Home of the Year

Hi? Wow, I've been gone a long time. I've missed my blog and blog friends. I hope you've been well. As Winter settles in here in the mountains, I hope I'm back more frequently. Fall was just so lovely; I spent it outside.
This fab home in Big Sky, Montana is a beautiful example of the way mountain home design has evolved in the past few years and I love it...The decor is clean, modern and really fun with so many custom pieces and fantastic textures throughout. It's completely sophisticated, while retaining all the natural elements --rough hewn beams, reclaimed lumber, chinking, stone, leather, and metals-- that evoke the West and are warm, cozy and solid when you come in from the raging snow. And I love its low, unassuming exterior profile: not overly showy at all. This home was pointed out to me by a friend whose cousin built it. You can see more of it in Mountain Living.
Architect: Kirk Michels of KMA, Inc.
Contractor/Designer: Todd Thesing and Rob McCrae of Highline Partners
Interior designer: Lisa Kanning of Worth Interiors
photos by Gibeon Photography for Mountain Living.