Posts filed under 'HOUSE CALL'
From Julie:
While perusing the Heath Ceramics newsletter recently, I came across a slideshow of artist June Schwarcz’s house in Sausalito. She’s lived in the hills of northern Sausalito since 1959, long enough to see her bohemian modern style go in, out, and back in again. Her pioneering vessels and pieces are in the permanent collection at NY’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and are carried by the Manhattan branch of our favorite SF-based store, De Vera.
June 23rd, 2008
Related posts:
- Shopper’s Diary: Flair Comes to NYC
- Accessories: Abra Candelabras
- Shopper’s Diary: Destination Japan at MoMA
- Outdoors: Shower Enclosures
- Storage: Metropolitan Produce Pot and Pan Rack
From Julie:
Who doesn’t long for a room of one’s own? A Virginia Woolf–worthy studio in North London, a sanctuary in the heart of the urban scene.
June 23rd, 2008
Related posts:
- Turner Castle Architects
- House Call: Amsterdam Office
- House Call: London Townhouse
- Lighting: Wästberg
- The Pink Bench
From Julie:
One of the greener homes we’ve seen in a while has just hit the market in Mill Valley; the owners used bamboo wood flooring throughout, ethanol-powered EcoSmart fireplaces, a high-efficiency gas furnace, and an energy-saving tankless water heater. The house is GreenPoints rated, has three bedrooms, and is listed at $2.2 million by Frank Howard Allen.
June 2nd, 2008
Related posts:
- Lighting: Energy-Saving Lightbulbs
- Slow Design: Recycled Water Carafe
- Gordon Watson Update:
- Editors
- Steal This Look: Mill Valley Sleep Quarters
From Julie:
Bicycle as sculpture, in a room from Flickr’s Amsterdam Living Room group. Read about the Dutch public transport bicycle program, OV-Fiets, which allows members to borrow bikes at train stations for the journey to the office.
May 22nd, 2008
Related posts:
- House Call: He’s Cool, We’re Not
- House Call: Brooklyn Heights Remodel
- Office: Otto Furniture
- Our Houses
- Outdoors: Shower Enclosures
From Julie:
We recently came across the new Amsterdam apartment of the mysterious Minimalist Flickr Guy from the Netherlands. He’s got a turntable, we don’t. He has no sentimental clutter. He painted the beautiful old wood floors high gloss white (”before anyone comments on how painting wood floors is such a crime, my decision is made,” he says). He has a Vernon Panton Topan Suspension light, a hard-to-love brown shag rug by FM Janssen, and a Euro airport-esque Lotus lounge chair, by Dutch designer Rob Parry (a former student of Gerrit Rietveld) reissued by Bränd Furniture. Also an Eames wire-base table and an Eames-like armchair. See his old Amsterdam apartment at Flickr, which we first spotted on the excellent Reference Library.
May 19th, 2008
Related posts:
- House Call: Amsterdam Office
- House Call: Brooklyn Heights Remodel
- Outdoors: Wood Slat Chaises
- Outdoors: Shower Enclosures
- Dutch Kitchens: Piet Boon
From Julie:
Solange de la Fouchardière is a partner in Ochre, and her Shoreditch loft (located in a former garment factory) features the UK design group’s signature moody glamour. The three principals of Ochre (Solange plus Harriet Maxwell McDonald and Joanna Bibby, art school classmates) have mastered the art of mixing textures—distressed velvet pillows, coconut husk mirrors, crystal chandeliers, mercury glass. Almost all the lighting, furniture, and accessories featured in the loft can be viewed online at Ochre and Ochre Store or seen in situ at Ochre at 462 Broome Street in Tribeca.
Photos from Interièur Magazin.
April 22nd, 2008
Related posts:
- Shopper’s Diary: Lighting Find
- Ochre Love Affair
- Steal This Look: West Elm
- Shopper’s Diary: Ochre Store
- House Call: Brooklyn Heights Remodel
From Julie:
A first look at London-based designer Ilse Crawford’s recently completed Das Kranbach spa hotel in the Bavarian Alps. Crawford’s StudioIlse has revamped the interiors using her signature mix of unexpected color combinations and daring furniture mashups. Suddenly George Nelson bubble lamps look new again when hung in clusters; white bentwood chairs are at ease next to Arne Jacobsen Swan chairs. Traditional Colonial Windsor dining chairs seem fashionable when painted glossy red. How does she do it?
March 27th, 2008
Related posts:
- Design Voyeur: Cool House
- Weekend Update: Blog Log
- Furniture: Ilse Crawford at Anthropologie
- Lighting: Wästberg
- House Call: Brooklyn Heights Remodel
From Julie:
A southeast London Edwardian townhouse, replete with George Sherlock sofas (available in the US through Ruby Beets) and numerous off-kilter, casually strewn about pieces. Notice that the owners fearlessly tacked a modernist kitchen onto the rear of the house, common practice in the UK. We hate to be covetous, but this might be the perfect domicile.
March 17th, 2008
Related posts:
- House Call: London Studio
- Design Voyeur: Cool House
- Weekend Update: Kitchen Remodel Blog Log
- Tray Chic
- Design Voyeur: Mixed Message
From Sarah:
British designer Suzy Hoodless used salvaged radiators, old doors, antique linens, and vintage pieces from Sweden to refurbish the chapel on the Corrour Estate in Scotland. The walls are clad in Victorian pine rescued from the roof of St. Pancras Station in London, and the walls are papered with old issues of The Scotsman newspaper. For more images, go to suzyhoodless.com; for a first-hand experience, check out rental availability at corrour.co.uk
March 7th, 2008
Related posts:
- Best of ’07: Slow Design, House Numbers
- House Call: London Studio
- Editors
- Furniture: Serv ce Station
- Slow Design: Recycled Water Carafe
