Today's Fab Five is just a little something I'm working on for a client. It's such a vibrant palette, don't you think?
Center // Rampura wallpaper from Schumacher Right Top // Indian Zag fabric by Suzanne Rheinstein for Lee Jofa Right Bottom // Kerala Ikat fabric from Schumacher Left Top // Vala fabric from John Robshaw Left Bottom // Hibiscus fabric from John Robshaw
I hope everyone has a wonderful, lazy, long Memorial Day weekend! What are your plans?
I recently had the opportunity to visit the store of one of my design icons. Michelle Nussbaumer's charming retail space, Ceylon et Cie, is brimming with the designer's finds from all around the world. It also showcases many of Michelle's beautifully designed pieces from her line of furniture and fabrics.
Next time you're in Dallas, block off a whole afternoon to spend here. In the meantime, you can shop Ceylon et Cie online.
Images taken by Krista Nye Schwartz using Instagram
Kathryn Ireland's Summers in France collection includes the most beautiful shade of natural golden called Wheat. 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
May 19, 2012: Update I kept looking back at this post and felt like it was missing something. Just featuring all of the fabrics in Wheat does a disservice to all of the glorious, muted shades that are a part of the Summers in France collection. So I did version 2.0 including more of the hues. Enjoy!
I'm so inspired by this lovely living room that is at once delicate and ecclectic. Not an easy combo to achieve, I might add.
Tami Ramsay of Tami Ramsay Design and I met on Pinterest and are quickly becoming fast online friends. I adore her design sensibility and dare to say that the feeling is mutual. One of the things that I appreciate about her, aside from her insane creative talent, is her openness. In this itty-bitty, yet simultaneously vast world of online design and social media there's a whole heck of a lot of people who don't take the time to stop and say hello. It often feels like everyone is so busy going a million miles a minute doing their own things that they are hardly able to slow down to appreciate the very thing we all have in common - a love of beautiful interiors. And yes, I am guilty of this at times too. Tami reached out to me and has been a total breath of fresh air in the midst of all the chaos of the online design world.
OK, enough of that little love rant and on to her crazy good design talent! So, the room featured above is Tami's very own living room. Don't you kinda wish it was yours? It's ok, I do too. Let's discuss...
NO. 1: That chaise! Tami and I first met online in a discussion over that killer vintage grey cane chaise that she was reupholstering. It turned out so unbelievable after she reupholstered it in Hable Construction's Aventurine Rope. She effortlessly pairs it with a couple of my all time favorite fabrics, Kelly Wearstler's Edo Linen & Sea Urchin (on the sofa opposite the chaise), both from Lee Jofa Groundworks.
NO. 2: The soft pale pink feminine walls are Benjamin Moore's Paisley Pink. The perfect shade of not-too-sweet yumminess.
NO. 3: The shaggy vintage Beni Ourian Moroccan rug (Note: if you want one for yourself, see my previous post about Maryam Montague of MyMarrakesh - she's the lady with the ultimate stash of these gorgeous rugs).
NO. 4: The beautiful original artwork gracing the walls that lead up to the barrel vaulted ceiling.
NO. 5: The relaxed Belgian linen roman shade + drapes on brass rods that are original to the house. So cool!
NO. 6: The symmetry. It's so subtle you hardly notice it, which I like, but this room is very nicely symmetrical indeed. It makes the space feel calm and orderly despite all of the pretty things you can look at every which way you turn.
Just one last shot of that chaise, please.
FASHION: Marchesa Fall 2012 & FABRIC: Erica Wakerly for Hygge Cooperative
Anyone who follows me on Facebook or Twitter probably already knows that I'm having a big old pity party for myself today. I'm in bed with the flu, achy from top to bottom and pretty much just plain miserable. Getting sick sucks, doesn't it? It's like nature's way of forcing us all to take it down a notch and just. chill. out. So, even though I've been feeling like absolute death today, slowing down has allowed me to appreciate the simplest things. Like my dear husband who went in to work late so he could get the kids up and ready for the day (thanks, hon!) or my amazing babysitter who brought me chicken noodle soup or my kids who drew me special "get well soon mommy" pictures. And so now, at just after 5 pm, I'm happy to say that the pity party is officially over and I'm just feeling grateful for the people in my life who love me and take such good care of me.
All of this reflecting on the simple things in life made me want to share this with you today. This uber simple set of tin nesting cups is so well designed, and so purposeful that it just makes me love it.
I adore the motif of birds in design, especially in textiles, and these are a few of my most fabulous favorites. Although let me tell you, it was hard to choose! There's so many gorgeous fabrics that fall into this category, in fact, that I've started a new Pinterest folder dedicated to these birds of a feather.
I'm presently having No. 3 paper-backed for the walls in the powder room in our new/old house renovation. It's going to make the room. I have butterflies in my stomach just thinking about Katie Leede's Isis on the walls. Yes, I'm a big old dork....but I KNOW I'm not alone. Who else gets giddy over these little things? What in particular in your home is getting you excited?
FABRIC: Schumacher Tortola & FASHION: Dries Van Noten
Carolina Irving Textiles' Amazon fabric in Aubergine (at top) is the inspiration for today's hue. Deep, rich, eggplant-y, royal, majestic, red wine-ish, moody, fancy. What other words come to your mind when contemplating the lovely color of aubergine?
Top: Amazon fabric from Carolina Irving Textiles; Clockwise: Chinese Dragon wallpaper from Osborne & Little, Zig Zag fabric from Mally Skok Design, Sag Harbor room designed by Steven Gambrel, Qarshi fabric from Oka
