Month: March 2011

18Mar

God is in the DETAILS

Fresh flowers, mirrored boxes and framed art in a powder room, all in
white, black and gilded- it’s always a delight to unveil. While
displaying more accessories such as sketches, handsome hand written
poems and artistic plates in front of a chicken-wire-like bookcase is a
nod to “everything is in the details”

 

sorry don’t remember the sources.

17Mar

How to wear all-black


Go chic or go and visit a funeral. Growing up I remember seeing old ladies who only wore black and did nothing more than go to funerals to pray. They were always mourning someone even if it was someone they didn’t really know. For me black has been a color associated with mourning and I literally feel heavy when dressed in black. When there is absolutely nothing for me to wear I would go for black usually because you don’t really distinguish one black outfit from the other, but Friends and family tend to compliment me on when “I have nothing else to wear” occurs. I did some search and concluded that the best way to wear an all-black outfit should be in a chic modern way. No matchy matchy suits or too formal outfits. All these ladies are inspiring me to see black clothes in a completely different way.

 
Caroline Sieber via Garance Dore


 The always stylish Anna Dello Russo

 
  Natalie Massenet 


 
 


 Giovanna Battaglia who seems to favor black.

 

16Mar

Allegra Hicks at home

What a great space-saving idea to customize a dresser for the end of your bed. I wonder if there is a TV in it.

After my post yesterday
about the beautiful fabric “La Fiorentina” designed by David Hicks I
thought it was a good idea to post a few images of the Chelsea, London
townhouse that belonged to Allegra and Ashley Hicks when they were
married. Allegra was born and
raised in Turin, Italy then moved to New York with ex husband Ashley
Hicks. Although she never worked in law or literature, both degrees that
she possesses, she preferred the arts, studying design in Milan,
frescoes in Brussels and attending Parsons while living in New York.
She’s been nominated as one of the top 10 best dressed in the world,
that was probably what motivated her to move from Interior Design to
fashion. In 1998 she launched her first line of fashion. I wonder how
she does it all!


two images above, the dining where Allegra herself painted the murals.
Portrays of Allegra and her two daughters.
16Mar

Plum done well


Belen Domecq 

If I’m asked what’s the most difficult color to pull off, I would say Purple. It is a color with a lot of different shades, but when done right can be quite breath taking. As these images prove it. In the first image, purple is used in degradation with accents of black and gold, lush fabric and smoked glass fireplace frame (doesn’t that look amazing?). The gilded neo-classical mirror and the whimsy Fornasetti chairs brake with what could be monotonous. In the second image, probably my favorite way, purple is combined with two or three different colors. But, because they are all on the same scale there is a lot of harmony and no clash.


Celerie Kemble