From Sarah:
The owners of East London shop Labour and Wait have the art of domestic science covered in their collection of cleaning goods for the home. Refreshingly, not an iota of plastic in sight. Go to labourandwait.co.uk to view the range.
Below: Aluminum dustpan; £28.
Below: Handmade rope sailor’s whisk brush; £12.
Below: Ostrich feather duster; £18.
Below: Enamel dustpan with Scottish wooden brush; £28.
Below: Scottish bath cleaning brush; £15.
February 25th, 2008
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From Julie:
Marcel Breuer, Serge Chermayeff, Walter Gropius, and Eero Saarinan all built houses on outer Cape Cod in the fifties and sixties. Painter James Lechay (1907–2001) moved in the same rarefied, intellect-heavy circles; his house remains one of the best examples of modest Bauhaus architecture in town.
Leshay in his studio; go to aaai.si.edu to read more about him and his work (his paintings can be glimpsed in the above photo).
Create the low-key, un-Hamptons Outer Cape look:
Midcentury sofa; $480 at urbanoutfitters.com:
Below L: Cream leather Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair; $4083 new at DWR. Look for vintage pieces on ebay. Not long ago I spotted one for $700; Below R: Lersta reading lamp, $9.99 at ikea.com:
Below: Celeste round New Zealand shag wool rug (six feet in diameter); $399 at crateandbarrel.com:
Below L: Hand-carved driftwood bird by Wales artist Kevan Hopson; £55 at
bluecoatdisplaycentre.com; Below R: George Nelson ball lamp; $300 at dwr.com:
Below L: Nikki table lamp; $170 at 2modern.com:; Below R: Scissor table by SF architect John Randolph adjusts from 18 to 30 inches in height, for ordering information go to randolphdesigns.com:
February 25th, 2008
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