Archive for beauty

giving…

a big round of applause to the fascinating

Chad Oppenheim

for this beauty.

Aspen, CO

Oppenoffice

Photos : Robert Reck for the New York Times (my buddy from the Miraval Guestrooms)

NYT from September


adding…

one more post about my favorite neighborhood hotel I have yet to stay in.

Its open!

Wythe Hotel

Photos : Mark Mahaney

climbing…

on the media bandwagon for the opening of the beautiful

NoMad Hotel

Another Sydell Group Special

with

old school Jacques Garcia

Looking good!

Photos :  © Benoit Linero

admiring…

the gorgeous collaboration between two greats.

Jason Wu

and

Canvas

Already plotting homes for a couple of these beauties.

Images : Canvas

seeing…

these in lovely places like

BDDW

and

Anthropologie.

SO attracted to them.

Lostine

Philadelphia, PA

Images : Lostine

receiving…

these scans last week in a lovely email from my once instructor, now friend.

Stephanie Bower

is an architect, illustrator and incredible inspiration.

I’m especially enamored with the work because it truly is a dying art.

[This work is from a couple of sketchbooks she filled on trips to Spain and India last fall - so beautiful!]

When did my sketchbook die?

Stupid iPhone.

Sketchbook Pages : Stephanie Bower

looking…

at

daisy wheels

saving…

a few pics of the dreamy

Castel del Monte

in

Andria, Apulio

They say it’s an octagon because Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II wanted it to be a hybrid of heaven (circle) and earth (square)

looking…

forward

to

making a silhouette of the

little girl

[and putting it in an oval frame!]

“In America, Silhouettes were highly popular from about 1790 to 1840. The invention of the camera signaled the end of the Silhouette as a widespread form of portraiture.”

I am such a sucker for a sweet nostalgic treat.

Images : Unknown

melting…

down

over

Mjölk

(mi-yelk)

Finally! physical evidence that the Japanese and Scandinavians ARE in cahoots after all.

I swear the cultural sophistication has got to come from all that cold-water fish.

Images : Mjölk

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