I always forget about ABC

I saw this white linen sofa with navy serged edges on the 3rd floor of ABC. I like it. Too bad white is a nightmare in this city, though. ABC Home.

Washington Square Park

The first phase of the Washington Square Park re-design is complete. I can't decipher a huge difference, but I appreciate the plantings on my walk to the office in the mornings.

Rockwood Rehearsal Dinner!

Storm King

I've been meaning to visit the Calder sculptures at Storm King for the past couple of years. Maybe this weekend. Five Swords by Alexander Calder

Classic Albuquerque

If you've seen BREAKING BAD, you'll get a kick out of this photo. It's classic Albuquerque exterior decor. If you haven't seen the show, download it now!

We've been traveling

Taos, New Mexico

This isn't our job....

But I'm a big fan of the fireplace.

...meanwhile at the Hall of Justice

I have always been quite taken with this structure that sits in the middle of the Hudson River, between New Jersey and Manhattan Island. It is the Ventilation Tower of the Holland Tunnel but to me it looks, and should be, the Hall of Justice!

Best way to accessorize your summer house

I've always loved Calder

I've always loved Calder's mobiles, but I recently saw a show at the Pompidou featuring his circus!

Alexander Calder: Les années parisiennes (The Parisian years), 1926-1933

A "transatlantic" artist, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is well known here for the large mobiles and stabiles of painted metal to be seen in French cities and parks. As well as presenting outstanding pieces, the exhibition offers an opportunity to witness the original state of works conceived in terms of motion and equilibrium but now condemned to immobility by the exactions of time or by the death of their creator and animator, these being here accompanied by films such as Jean Painlevé's and photographs such as Brassaï's, in which they are shown being operated by Calder himself.

Little animals of bent metal, acute magazine illustrations, toys sparkling with colour and ingenuity: the young Calder's earliest works offer a key to his art, the art of an inspired DIYer, of a magician who took base materials and primitive mechanisms and transformed them into true sculpture. These assemblies of recycled materials and objects, held together by wire, provided the models for his first masterpiece, the Circus, produced in Paris between 1926 and 1931.

She was my favorite --->

At the flea.

My new obsession: vintage palm tree postcards.

How to have a socially responsible orgasm and other life lessons*

We just saw Karl Haendel's show (*) at Harris Lieberman Gallery (89 Vandam st). Mostly all of his works are pencil on paper and they are really quite amazing.

Ashe + Leandro bird-sitter's club

Meet Trolly. She has a mean bite, a piercing chirp and doesn't think much of Vanity Fair

PIN_UP: Magazine for Architectural Entertaiment

Check out the new PIN-UP Issue 6 (Spring-Summer 09) and read my story on La Barraca, a mostly undiscovered Gio Ponti house in Caracas, Venezuela

Memorial Day

Hope you had a good long weekend. Maybe some of you (ariel) spent it at the beach like this Interview Magazine did...(photo taken on my most recent trip to Caracas)

We've been busy...

...installing on the upper west side.
Walls: Benjamin Moore "Caribbean Breeze".
Curtains, roman shade, platform bed and window seat cushions: Great Buffalo Custom Upholstery.
Bedding: Dwell.
Light: Noguchi.

Egyptian Cotton, from here to Pratesi.

Great Sphinx of Giza

The oldest known monumental sculpture, and my sister kissed it.

Stay VIP

A half finished restaurant, a garden, a fuchsia service corridor and part of a bedroom. Coming in September 2009, The VIP Hotel, Caracas, Venezuela.