Day: May 17, 2011

 

Giorgio Armani vacation home  

It’s been very March lately so I’m looking forward to enjoying the outside and, as I said before, nothing else inspires me more than Nature.  These outdoor living areas are my own way of calling for April showers to bring more flowers.  Enjoy

Liz Ham photography
Two images above are part of Venturini Fendi’s house via.  
 
Tomas O’brien
I have this image by Melanie Acevedo on my inspirational board for the longest time and still makes me smile every time I look at it. 
Don’t you love the juxtaposing of the roughness of the wooden columns and the softness of chevron curtains?  via.

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Grasscloth wallpaper have come a long way since its retro time.  Long gone are the days when they were covering your grandmas’ living room in a mate-less refined finishes.  They continue to have the same organic elements in them such as made out of plant fiber typically dried out under the sun but they are all glam’d up now.  The modern versions of grasscloth wallpapers can now cover the walls of urban apartments and feel at home.  Phillip Jeffries has a great selection of those new shimmery wallpapers, some of them with beads that embellish them further.  Schumacher also has gorgeous ones that are also embroidered in scenery design.  Crezana Design’s Grasscloth Wallpapers are like a fantasy land from the most glamorous shimmery surfaces to embroidery ikat pattern ones that make me do victory dances every time I look at them.  Simply beautiful.  How not to love those designs.  Grasscloth wallpaper come in different texture and material such as raffia, seagrass, refine sisal, woven jute and paper weaves.

 

All images from Crezana Design. 

I’ve been saving part of these images that I found here for ever.  Most of these photographs were taken by Henry Clarke around the 60’s and I love that there were a lot of classic ladies wearing striped outfits.  Henry Clarke was an American fashion photographer who after meeting Celil Beaton at Vogue, became enchanted by the magic of photography, moved to Paris and soon started working for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.  Ada from Classiq recently made a great post about him. Check it out.  These images are just so inspiring and admirable to look at, especially now-a-days when there is so much obnoxious reality shows going on.  Sometimes I get to ask myself how did we go from there to now?

 
This vision of these models overlooking the ocean in Palermo is what I really want for my summer.  More please.
This photograph of Susan Murray also by Henry Clarke 1966 reminds me of the Whirling Dervishes in Turkey.
 

 

All photographs above are by Henry Clarke.

 

 Jackie wearing a striped shirt.

 

 Audrey Hepburn resting on a striped bench.

 

Grace Kelly

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