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Drinks Are On Me

May 19, 2010UncategorizedProductMrs. Blandings

I’ve just heard back from the folks at John Stefanidis and you can order the drinks tray directly from them. $400, delivery about three weeks from your order. Just in time for cocktails by the pool. johnstefanidis.com.

Oh! And the lampshades, in case you were wondering, were made by Tindle Lighting in the UK.

Customize

May 17, 2010UncategorizedProductMrs. Blandings

I’ve seen this Jonathan Adler pillow twice recently. Once here, in Bazaar, on Giorgio Guidotti’s stylish sofa and once in the guest bedroom of a friend.

Here we go, more black and white, I know, but this might be in order for the Blandings’ kitchen sofa.

Clicking over I got sucked into the “custom” feature of Adler’s pillows, rugs and totes. (Hmmm…. could this wwwandering have something to do with not getting traction?) While not a totally cheap date, you can customize the front and back so you can double your creative pleasure.

Nothing to stop you but your imagination and, perhaps, a lurking boss. I don’t have one, a boss I mean, so I could click and create at will.

You could cook up a little something for yourself or your child or a friend. Pretty darn cute baby or hostess gift.

Jonathan Adler thinks Mrs. Blandings is j’adorable and gave me tons of free swag to write this. Oh wait, no. No, he didn’t actually, though he was very nice and said, “hi” at the gift show last year. I do all this craziness for free. Just in case you were wondering.

Off the Rack – Chicago Home + Garden

May 5, 2010UncategorizedProductMrs. Blandings

It’s always fun to pick up regional magazines. Chicago Home + Garden offered up several treasures including these Lina Nordqvist chairs and this Marie-Louise Gustafsson lamp. All graphic and great and reasonably priced. The Nordqvist chairs come in a pale finish as well if you do believe that blondes have more fun. And the lamp? It seems to me as if it is looking over your shoulder to make sure you carried the one.

Yowza

May 5, 2010UncategorizedProductMrs. Blandings

Current Anthropologie catalogue – anyone know where it was shot?

Conscious Joyce

April 15, 2010UncategorizedProductMrs. Blandings

Yesterday was busy. Good busy, but busy. I’m wrapping up some stuff for our school auction, gathering hither and yon for my table for Dining by Design (nudge – you can buy tickets here), finding shin guards and throwing away forgotten Easter eggs.

You know what could make it all better? One of these dreamy new fabrics from Kerry Joyce blowing in the breeze of my open bedroom windows.

These lovely, muted shades would surely make me forget the bat inspection and standardized tests and handwriting camp. (Mr. Blandings may think I need to attend handwriting camp with the convicted, but I think we may both make a break for it.)

I first spied these beauties in L.A. along with this wonderful paper.

Joyce is introducing this line which can be custom colored, or shipped as is to be painted on site.

The images are not on the site yet, but watch this space for the complete collection. The fabrics are available to the trade through Kneedler Fauchere in Los Angeles and San Francisco and Dessin Fournir in New York and Chicago. Joyce’s demeanor is quiet and gentle; I think this comes through on his profile on 1st dibs here.

All fabric images courtesy of Kerry Joyce.