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I’ve got a little post over at Emily Henderson’s cool pants blog about thrift store furniture getting a little f-to the-unky. Check it out! Slack off at work!
These weirdo things from The Salvation Army got together and made a room baby. A totally psycho embroidered Frank Stella room baby.
Recently I picked up Desert Works by Rick Joy, since I’ve been doing a bit of research trying to figure out solutions for our exterior (plus, I love me some desert architecture). Apologies for the terrible scans, our scanner is not what I would call “nice”. It’s a pretty cheap-o all-in-one printer type unit that doesn’t deal well with pictures.
Anyway, this book makes me want to build a minimal desert monolith and perpetuates my need to use steel as a go-to exterior treatment. Plus, butterfly chairs. ‘Nuff said.
I’ve also been stalking Barbara Hill’s portfolio for my fix of minimal desert modern design. It’s been a spiral of design despair around here recently.
Doesn’t look like we will meet our 2010 Year of the Exterior deadline. We failed. Maybe it was a bit overly ambitious to think we could get EVERYTHING done when we don’t have big budgets or lots of extra labor. I do know that we have some pretty exciting ideas and projects as well as other things coming up soon. Decisions need to be made, shovels need to be dusted off and wallets need to be cracked.
Time to get landscaping. (Or at least thinking about it in earnest).
Jon (of Happy Mundane and other fame) sent over a fresh copy of J3 Productions second issue of At Your Leisure. I’ve never seen a zine so well produced (and with a special dream catching gift – hello!). Zines at my high school were ramshackle stapled together ventures of poor photography and worse writing.
There are two great house tours included in the second issue. Firstly, Tracy Wilkinson’s Mount Washington pad shot by the super talented/fanciest/busiest lady I know, Laure Joliet. I’m destroying Laure’s great photos with my horrible scans.
The trend that caught my eye was wood in the bathroom. I want wood. I want it in my bathroom.
Is wood impractical? I don’t care. I want it.
Cheryl and Josh Brubaker’s mid century place in Orange, CA is equally cool. Love love love a hanging egg chair and walls of glass.
Check out this and much more, including sexy models, ephemera and geometry in At Your Leisure’s second issue: Vision. Get your own limited edition print version HERE.
