Just a heads up that Luxe Interiors + Design has wonderful images from the recent Maison de Luxe show house in their Winter 2012 issue. Michelle Nussbaumer’s green and black and white foyer and card room are offering some personal inspiration, but all the rooms have photographed beautifully.
Great coverage of the house at both the Peak of Chic and Style Beat.
“I was thinking I might cook.”
“What?”
“I was thinking I might cook.”
“The dinner?”
“Yes, the dinner.”
“What were you thinking of making me?”
“Happy?”
“I’m already happy.”
“I’ll figure it out.”
So I am making Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon, a Brussel Sprout Salad with arugula, bacon, cranberries and parmesan with honey mustard dressing and a Triple-Layer Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting. Favorites all. I am hoping that I can pay as close attention to detail as Mr. Gambrel has here.
All images from srgambrel.com.
Not all my inspiration for 2011 came from magazines. The Wall Street Journal’s Off Duty and Magazine have both provided loads of entertainment. This particular piece by Timothy Corrigan inspired the ceiling color, Farrow and Ball Cream (No. 44), in Bill’s den. You can see the article here.
Richard Mishaan’s Phillip-Jeffries paper at Kips Bay Show House sparked a project for the front hall.
And, I am obsessed with the Giacometti lamps in Frances Elkins’s projects. These in particular. Obsessed. Stephen Salny’s book is available here.
And, Mad Men, which I began watching this time last year (shut up in my room in the dark with my iPad for hours.) What jumped?
Jon Hamm? Too obvious. Sterling Cooper’s office door color. Could not get enough.
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| Veranda, July/August 2011, Lyford Cay home, design by Andrew Raquet, photography Max Kim-Bee |
As I said yesterday, don’t over-think it.
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| Elle Decor September 2011, Lynn Nesbit’s NY apartment, design by Coleman and Brockschmidt, photography William Waldron |
A little black and white. A flash of gold. Bare floors.
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| Veranda, October 2011, antique dealer Jean-Phillipe Demeyer’s Belgian home of his own design, photography Miguel Flores-Vianna |
Rich color.
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| Architectural Digest, January 2011, design by Windsor Smith, photography Erhard Pfeiffer |
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| Elle Decor, December 2011, Fabrizio Rollo’s apartment of his own design, photography Eric Piasecki |
Mirror. And all that personal jumbly goodness that says someone lives here.
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| Elle Decor, December 2010/January 2011, Rusty and Mary Lynn Turner’s Idaho home of her design, photography Miguel Flores-Vianna |
I have done year end lists now and again, though last year I did not. (Did not stitch ornaments, did not send out holiday cards, did not, did not, did not.)
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| House Beautiful, May 2011, Atlanta designer, Stan Topol’s office, photography Thomas Loof |
I don’t mean to imply that these are better or worse than any other, but they meant something to me.
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| World of Interiors, May 2011, Eileen Gray’s apartment, photography Roland Beaufre |
It was a very structured and orderly process, if you consider sitting amidst a pile of magazines with a pad of sticky notes structured and orderly.
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| Architectural Digest, July 2011, Philadelphia townhouse design by Thomas Jayne, photography Pieter Estersohn |
Don’t look too hard for a common theme.
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| House Beautiful, July/August 2011, Rebecca Phillips’s Brooklyn apartment, design by Nick Olsen photography Bjorn Wallander |
They meant something to me.
Coincidentally there were ten rooms. I’ve drawn specific inspiration from all of them, but they appeal in the big picture as well. Six through ten tomorrow.
