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2011-04-07T15:33:00.000-04:00

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Rugs

2011-04-06T11:18:00.000-04:00

Our beautiful rugs came from a man named Hassam in Marrakesh (via Kate.)

Portuguese Sensibilty

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Two of my favorite architects are Alvaro Siza (1992 Pritzker Price winner) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (2011 Pritzker Prize Recepient) from Portugal. Architects Aires Mateus are quickly joining their rank of great Portuguese Architects. Above a House for the Elderly they did in Alcácer do Sal, Portugal. We recently posted about their windowless house Casa em Leiria.

Storm Warning

2011-04-04T22:11:00.000-04:00

Our friend Lucas Allen took this photo from his hotel room in Chicago last night. Pretty amazing.

Rug Heaven

2011-04-04T11:51:00.001-04:00

Kate just returned from Marrakesh with 5 Beni Ouarain rugs for us. We can't stop smiling at them.

Rug 1: 66X126

Rug 2: 69X114

Rug 3: 72X92

Rug 4: 74X132

Rug 5: 84X124

Happy Friday!

2011-03-30T11:28:00.003-04:00

Photo by Tom Ashe in Cape Town, South Africa

**we legit thought wed was friday. wishful thinking.

From Grand Central to Dia: Beacon

2011-03-28T11:29:00.006-04:00

Pictured artist at Dia: Beacon, Ima Knoebel and Richard Serra

At Home With The Kids

2011-03-28T11:26:00.002-04:00

It was not Christmas or my birthday but still got two great gifts last week after going on and on about Patti Smith's Just Kids

Giant

2011-03-23T14:03:00.004-04:00

A title that befits her and one of my favorite movies: Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Giant

Lia on Television

2011-03-23T12:47:00.000-04:00

with brian williams

Obsessed

2011-03-23T11:01:00.002-04:00

We both just read Patti Smith's book Just Kids and we loved it. Listening to Patti's music and making necklaces will be a new A+L project. Above a picture of her and Robert wearing their self made jewelry.

Pendleton Towels

2011-03-21T12:58:00.000-04:00

Here.

Art Day: Saturday

2011-03-20T10:52:00.004-04:00

Met Ernesto Caivano.

Saw Terence Koh crawling for peace.

NY Times

Visited Mental States by George Condo at the New Museum.

PM Company

Walked on The High Line.

America (Martin) The Beautiful

2011-03-19T12:10:00.000-04:00

Saturday morning coffee and Vogue. I came across an article with the above title and it reminded me how much I love the work of California artist America Martin. A few of my favorite paintings:

Early Scuba

Take Me Home

Le Campement

2011-03-18T15:23:00.000-04:00

My friend Kate is going to Morocco. I'm jealous.

Privacy.

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Windowless home (the anti-glass house) by Aires Mateus in Portugal. Swipelife.

Field trip

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Harf Zimmerman, Philip Johnson Glass House

Let's go!

Drawing Rooms

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I so wish I could do this for my clients!

Maira Kalman’s gouache painting "Rajasthani Room of 2004-2005"

White Columns

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reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio at the Brooklyn Museum's Great Hall. The existing field of columns were covered in fabric so they could be stretched and twisted into new versions of their Beaux-Arts originals.

Sundays

2011-03-13T20:55:00.000-04:00

(some random blog)

Cool.

2011-03-12T10:35:00.005-05:00

I've had my eye on these lamps at Lawson-Fenning for a while:

And now they are confirmed cool (by Rachel Feinstein and John Currin.)

Or Mexico

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This would also do.

Paris Calling

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I need to go.

Up!

2011-03-07T12:50:00.002-05:00

I had pretty much the best walk to work this morning, behind this dude with ten billion balloons.

Gabriela Herman

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I love this photo. See more of Gab's work here.

Fog Morup Lamp

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Best ebay find ever (my sister snagged it for her dining room.)

Apartment Therapy

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(click the pic to read the post)

Armory Show Favorites (2011)

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Sergio Sister+

Caixa 115 2010

Oil on Wood

Galeria Nara Roesler

Richard Aldrich

Untitled, 2010

Bortolami Gallery

Anna Bjerger

Galerie Gabriel Rolt

Robert Longo

Charcoal (!)

Galerie Thaddaues Ropac

+thanks to glenn lowry for the tip

Ariel's Art Wall

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Clockwise from top left: N. Joffe still life (vintage), John Brown landscape 2009, John Brown "Three Trees" 2009, Richard Aldrich "Green Crosses" 2010, Akiva Schaffer photograph.

Finally!

2011-03-01T09:12:00.001-05:00

I finally got to use it in Los Feliz.

Want it.

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Nice closet.

LA Shopping

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Hit up all my favorite shops today:

Emmerson Troop
Blackman Cruz
Orange
Lawson-Fenning
Rewire
Here are the highlights:

still love the skull lamp at BC

lawson-fenning

rewire

Getting Ziggy With It

2011-02-22T12:26:00.000-05:00

Other possible titles for this blog entry:

Hey you guyyyys!

That's not a dog, it's a rug!

And of course 1-800-Hotstuff

Fred Conrad photographs 102 champion dogs, each the Best in Breed, at the Westminster Dog Show. NY TIMES.

Cordmaker Rumpus Bumpus (Ziggy the Puli)

Liontame's 1-800-Hotstuff (chow chow)

Palace Garden Malachy (Pekingese)

Wish this was in New York

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Gus Van Sant's New Paintings

Show is in Gagosian Gallery at Beverly Hills. It opens on Saturday February 26 so Ariel might get to see it.

The Real Thing

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Helped by the buzz of 'Black Swan' the New York City Ballet's 'Swan Lake' has become quite the popular ticket. Just being in the building was great. The dancing was beautiful too.

More Proenza Love

2011-02-17T10:57:00.001-05:00

EVERYONE loved PS. A collection of accolades. See the show here.

Fashion Week

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I wish people would stop wearing fur...

National Geographic Photo of the Day

Sofia Paris Vogue

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Closet Luv

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Since it's Fashion Week, and I'm obsessed, I thought I'd share this link (because I'm also obsessed with re-organizing my closet.)

Reinaldo has the BEST closet, though. (Photo by Miha Matei.)

Empire State in Pink

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Happy Valentine's Day

Altuzarra Love

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Want it.

(the dress)

I want...

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Alexa Chung's palm tree nails.

Freedom...

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...with bunny ears!
It had been a while since I had ventured downtown. The Freedom Tower is growing up so fast!

Fashion Week, Fall 2011

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has begun!
Favorite look from Jenni Kayne:

See the rest of the collection here

Tomorrow is Rag & Bone and Wednesday is Proenza Schouler!

Before it ends

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TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, NY, 1962

Seagram Building, Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson, New York, NY, 1958

Architecture Masterpieces as seen through the eye of Ezra Stoller. The show ends next week at Yossi Milo Gallery

Frozen Waves!

2011-02-03T12:02:00.001-05:00

Wow wow wow! From Black Eiffel.

Ice

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This is an ice fence, by Jeffrey Meyer
And this is Ice Wine, from Lia Ices

Eirthday.

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Too bad I was too sick to have a party. Because this invite was rad! Thanks to (me and) John Roman Brown.

Love Hurts

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I love the title of this review:

Love Hurts, and for Some Couples, That's the Point

Go see this play immediately.

31

2011-01-28T19:09:00.001-05:00

Here's what I want for my Birthday

A Mariachi band (obviously)

A million red balloons.

(Not Pictured)
Mascara
Mint Rosebud

Sunken Bed

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Bed in a hole. From Elle Decoration (UK) January 2011.

Another Earth

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Excited to see this movie! She's b e a u t i f u l.

Let Me Down Easy

2011-01-27T15:22:00.002-05:00

My new favorite song, and a nice picture of my sister Alexi. Because, why not?

Let Me Down Easy, Billy Currington

Most Wanted

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Richard Phillips celebrity custom colors for each most wanted star and brand

"What fascinated me about their expressions is that they are totally rehearsed and made only for the shot. It's a frozen moment meant to be consumed"

A Goat Wedding!

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Max Wanger

Rugs and Clothes. Same same but different.

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Anthropologie and Proenza Schouler.

PS. Thanks Vogue

Daphne Video Shoot: Lia Ices

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Video shoot for Daphne at Scribe Winery in Sonoma.

Looks Comfy.

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1960s American Studio Rope Lounge Chair

A geometrically-intriguing lounge chair comprising a solid teak frame wrapped over with jute cords. This is a well-conceived, well-executed piece that feels as good as it looks - - the rope conforms to meet your body's curves and the sensation is a bit like resting in a hammock.
SATYRICON, New York

Who's in?

2011-01-16T14:44:00.001-05:00

I must be missing New Mexico. This looks like it could be in Santa Fe, but it's actually an hour south of Marrakech. Cactus gardens and rose beds...
Kasbah Tamadot

This looks nice.

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"Camping Out Defender Style"

This chick's parents are almost as cool as mine.

I want a Hippo Bar too...

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Too late. I seriously love the peanut dispenser mouth. LSD is a lucky gal.

Rhinoceros II (open), 1966, design: Francois Xavier Lalanne

How is your Friday

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How was your day calendar.

Opera House Wallpaper!

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By Trove. We used Trove here.

Holy Moly

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Chanel Spring 2011 ready to wear. Does Chanel have a mouse in the house? I like it.

The End!

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At the M+B gallery in LA: photo by Rocky Schenk. I like his bio. It begins: Rocky Schenck was born in Austin, Texas during the last century, then moved to a ranch outside of Dripping Springs, Texas at age five. His dad was a part time cowboy and a full time postman. His mother occasionally worked for the Internal Revenue Service. Both were imaginative and creative artists, who enjoyed life, parties, and the occasional drink or two.

Dripping Springs? I love it.

Arcapita Mosque

2011-01-12T12:22:00.008-05:00

Our friend Stefan Gzyl just sent me this completed SOM project in Manama, Bahrain for Arcapita Headquarters. We were both responsible for the design development package and construction drawing set for this project. Great to see it come into fruition.

Clumsy Angels

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PATRICK HILL CLUMSY ANGELS

Opening reception January 13, 2011 6-8PM
BORTOLAMI GALLERY

Pillows

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Wow, cool.

Love doesn't hurt, it kills.

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New work by artist/skateboard extraordinaire Chad Muska. One year of work created in New York City.

WWJD?

2011-01-07T12:32:00.002-05:00

Caesarea (on the Israeli Mediterranean coastal plain) by helicopter. Photo by Tom Ashe.

(what would jesus do?)

First Love Last Rites

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Skye Parrot's show at Capricious Spaces: First Love Last Rites 'Photos that document 18 months of her life that represent a void filled by a relationship with a boy and drugs, both which eventually ended'

Her landscape shots our also great (not in the show)

Artist Shoutout: Thilo Heinzmann

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Thilo Heinzmann

O. T.

2010

Oil, pigment on canvas behind Plexiglas cover

148 x 138 x 10 cm

58.27 x 54.33 x 3.94 inches

Bedding

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I usually prefer all white bedding but this looks pretty cozy.

Shalom...adios...au revoir.

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Heading to Israel for the New Year. Check out the article on contemporary Israeli design that my friend Felix wrote for T Magazine.

Holon Design Museum. Photo by Yael Pincus

Off-Center

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5 o'clock shadow. If I've decorated for you, chances are you have Dior Grey paint somewhere in your home.

Congratulations Hadley & Daniele!

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With Love, Bob & Suze

Eclipse

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Shaky hands, by Tolya Ashe.

etc.

Books and Mirrors

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Custom mirror cubes and stack of books wallpaper of A+L finished (almost) project

(a pink moon and) The Longest Night of the Year

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A full lunar eclipse will be visible this evening during the longest night of the year. This will be the first time a lunar eclipse has fallen on the winter solstice since 1638!

Earth’s shadow will hit the moon at 1:32 a.m. and the moon will turn pink from 2:41 a.m. to 3:53 a.m. Forecast is clear and 24 degrees...enjoy.

Siren Islands: Li Galli

2010-12-18T11:03:00.014-05:00

The most beautiful place I've been (to date) is the Amalfi Coast in Italy, specifically Capri and the archipelago of Li Galli. Li Galli are three tiny islands grouped together that consist of Gallo Lungo, La Castelluccia, and La Rotonda. Li Galli is one of the mythical locations of Odysseus's Sirens. In Greek Mythology Sirens were dangerous bird like OR mermaid seductresses who temped men near their islands so the men would shipwreck. In the Odyssey, Odysseus wanted to hear what the Sirens sounded like, so upon nearing the islands he instructed his men to plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. When he heard their song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they refused. Post-Homeric scholars concluded that the Sirens were fated to die if someone heard their singing and escaped, and that after Odysseus passed they therefore threw themselves into the water and disappeared.

Il Gallo Lungo is the biggest island and it is the only one to have been inhabited since Roman times. In 1924 the American choreographer Leonide Massine had a majestic villa built on the ruins. The Architect Le Corbusier later made changes to the residence and it's currently owned and used as a weekend home by my wonderful friend Giovanni.

Herbert James Draper 1909

A Pile of Books

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At Vorstadt 14 in Switzerland

Obsessed

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She's the greatest. So is Rodarte. So is Ballet.

My Holy Trinity

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Three of my favorite things: The Beach, Interior Design and Perfume! This is almost too much for me to handle. I need to go now!

Coqui Coqui Spa in Tulum, Mexico

Photography by The Selby

Tie-Dye

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Thinking this wallpaper of Yangki wall coverings might be very cool on your walls

A+L Christmas Card 2010

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5th Avenue

2010-12-13T16:55:00.000-05:00

Excited to look at my new book 5th avenue by fred stein.

photo by Tolya Ashe

Writer's Retreat

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The library at Casa Kiki. See more here.

Nude as Muse

2010-12-10T15:51:00.001-05:00

The ultimate MUSE? A nude. Of course.

A supposed highlight (I wasn't there) at Miami Art Basel this year was "The Nude as Muse" event conceived by Brooke Geahan. Vanessa Beecroft's performance piece put 14 nude women in the pool at The Standard. "Miami is a sexy hot town, where a lot of skin gets shown," said Geahan, "but no one has ever done an event here that focused on the nude, which is the ultimate muse for art."

Photo: JD Ferguson

(I've been a miner

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for a heart of gold)

Cute stationary from Coral + Tusk.

On the Hunt

2010-12-10T13:45:00.001-05:00

I've been looking at vintage design books. I like these two: Carlo Mollino Architecture as Autobiography and Houses Architects Live In by Barbara Plumb.

I'd be cool with this: Rome

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My friends just rented this apartment in Rome for two weeks. Check out their other apartments.

Starstruck

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"Two artists who need no introduction, because they are already sleeping together" is how painter John Currin and his wife/muse Rachel Feinstein were introduced at Rob Pruitt's Art Awards last night (the Oscars for the art world.) I'm a little obsessed with these two.

Stay WARM!

2010-12-08T11:10:00.000-05:00

Pretty fireplace from Elle Decor UK.

More Lips

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"Kissing Series: Simone Palm Trees (Near)" (1975) John Baldessari

Lips

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Katy Perry's Bazaar cover reminds me of Marilyn Minter's paintings (yes it's a painting!) from Salon 94.

Neon Art

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Scholten & Baijings

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After all these years, I still love these pillows.

Block Party!

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Cinder Block vertical garden

Proenza Schouler Love

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Barneys

Indian Pottery

2010-11-28T12:19:00.001-05:00

I grew up around a lot of Indian Pottery. Yesterday, I discovered that my favorite style is from the Acoma Pueblo. The patterns are geometric and very detailed. See below.