Home & Design

Elegant Home and Art

    “Less is more.”    — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe     via:cyntemesy Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918), Mädchen im Grünen [Girl in the Foliage], 1896.  Oil on canvas. 32.4 x 24 cm. via:specksofglit   “Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.”    — David Lewis       Beautiful […]

House Beautiful: NYC

Textiles Designer’s Sophisticated, Pattern-Rich NYC Home In September of last year, designer Katie Leede, whose interiors and textiles designs are known for their globetrotting beauty, was happily settled in SoHo on a charming cobblestone street. That’s when the news came that her building had been sold, and she needed to be out—fast. “My landlord calls […]

Home Sweet Home: Pretty Spaces and Places

A whole bunch of “bright and beautiful” interior inspiration today — lovely lovely! Home of Sue De Chiara,Owner of online shop “The Zhush”.     I love these aqua blue wing chairs. photography: Krista Salmon flickr Pink Proper When a room has a ton of molding, pink may not seem like the obvious choice, but it actually […]

House Beautiful with Designer Bunny Williams

The Sumptuous Home of Bunny Williams and John Rosselli Interior Designer Bunny creates rich, inviting rooms where antiques and contemporary pieces work in harmony.    In addition to running her own business and overseeing multiple home decor collaborations, for the past 25 years she and her husband, antiques dealer John Rosselli, ran Treillage, a trendsetting […]

The Elegant Home

Elegant home, art and garden to inspire you today, enjoy.  Carolyne Roehm’s Connecticut Estate Château d’Arry (Somme) by Patrick on flickr LA Designer, Kendall Conrad’s Elegant Santa Barbara Home     Peony Beauty Photography: Aialahernando.com Grand Entryway via:onekingslane Elegant Bed Golden Swan Faucet SPICED APPLE PIE CAKE recipe: heymodestmarce.com Musée Jaquemart-André, Paris  by ancient-serpent Borest (Oise) – […]

love, rouge.

  “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”     – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines     via:lecarredebuis Maria Khoreva (@marachok on Instagram) of Vaganova Ballet Academy Frederico Garcia Lorca “It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened.”   Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography […]

House Beautiful: A Connecticut Retreat

One very specific and unusual request led founder-designer Brett Heyman of accessories brand Edie Parker to the interior designer of her six-bedroom getaway in northwestern Connecticut. “I really wanted someone who had worked in a visual team at a fashion house,” she says. Having worked at Gucci as the director of PR, she’d learned that people who […]

Interior Fabulous!

Inside a Beloved Designer’s Ravishing Home in Harlem   via:One Kings Lane In Harlem, atop an Italian Renaissance palazzo-style edifice built for the Astor family in 1901, is the apartment that Sheila Bridges calls home. While the veteran designer often creates contemporary interiors for clients, her own home reveals a devotion to classical design. “My sensibility skews […]