Read Between the Lines. Or Read the Lines.

Here we are passed Black Friday and Cyber Monday and everything in between and I have yet to buy one gift.

If you are in a similar spot, Out of Print may provide a snappy stocking stuffer.  Journals, featuring the covers of some literary favorites, use the opening sentences of famous novels as “lines.”

They’re clever for coming up with them, you’re clever for ordering them.  Here.

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Line Drawing

Not in the budget to hang a Mondrian above the mantle?  Perhaps it would suffice to have a little line and dash before the sofa.

Try a new sound and give the greatest hits of Adnet, Probber and Wormley the night off.

The Right Angles coffee table is a new design by Jason Phillips.  It is available through the Phillips Collection here and you can see more of his work here.  Also, it reminds me of my new dress.  If only I had shoes with a little gold capped heel.

Images courtesy of Jason Phillips; the table measures 48 x 34 x 17 and will be limited to twenty pieces.

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Winning Mr. Gili

More than once in the last week someone has mentioned to me the experience of sitting down with a design book – cozy chair, good light and hot tea – to read and to dream.  These books offer us both concrete inspiration and magical escape.

I am happy to give, in conjunction with Rizzoli, a copy of Oberto Gili, Home Sweet Home, to Karen, whom I have contacted already.

Image courtesy of Rizzoli New York by Oberto Gili from his book Home Sweet Home.

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Happy Thanksgiving

I originally ran this post for Thanksgiving 2009, but these images are worth repeating and are by Oberto Gili so we are quite on topic.  The sentiment remains the same.
Whether your Thanksgiving is filled with sterling and squab
or Cornell and carry-out,
we are wishing you
a very happy Thanksgiving.
All images House and Garden, November 1986; consistently, perpetually delicious photography by Oberto Gili. The silver pieces are French, commissioned for the Portuguese court in the 18th century.
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More of Less is More (and a Give Away)

Yesterday’s images from Oberto Gili’s new book were delicious and dense.

Today I am giving you a little taste to cleanse your palette before the feast.

Still Gili, still distinct, but with more air.

I know you may have been shopping or cooking or traveling to someone who is shopping and cooking on your behalf, so to soothe the strain I am offering up a copy of Oberto Gili’s Home Sweet Home.

Leave a comment here by Sunday, November 27th and I will announce the winner Monday morning.  Now, think this through.  I must, must, be able to get in touch with you if you win, so you might need to leave your email address in the comment section.  There’s no way around it.

All images courtesy of Rizzoli New York, photography by Oberto Gili.

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