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Throwback Thursday: High Style on Stinson Beach
Posted August 14, 2014. Filed in Coastal Chic, Sally Sirkin Lewis
Note: I intended to post this last Thursday but lack of WiFi, and sketchy service pretty much everywhere, turned my vacation into … well, a bona fide vacation! Here’s more from Stinson Beach … Is it Thursday already? Please, say it isn’t so! That can only mean that our time in Stinson Beach is […]
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The McGuire’s in Stinson Beach
Since before I was born my family has returned time and again to our favorite California beach, our summer home away from home, Stinson Beach. My mother and father discovered it for themselves in the 1950’s on one of their romantic road trips in my father’s red Austin Healey, and it was love at first […]
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Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer
Posted August 4, 2014. Filed in Alan Wazenberg, Axel Vervoordt, Coastal Chic, Haynes Roberts, James Huniford, Michael Taylor, Miles Redd, Ralph Lauren, Vicente Wolf
For me August defines “those lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer” – a tune originally made popular by Nat King Cole. As summer’s heat intensifies and the air becomes still a languid lull sets in, where it seems all one can do is sit quietly, relax and drink in the nearest quenching facility of water. The houses […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Perry Ellis for Martex
Posted August 1, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads
It seems like I just wrote last week’s Favorite Friday Vintage Ads and here it is Friday, again – how fast this week has flown by! But I’m not complaining, as Friday’s are most welcomed and better still, I’m off to my native home, northern California, to spend a week with my family at our […]
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Throwback Thursday: Rubén de Saavedra
Rubén de Saavedra, a Spanish interior designer, hit his mark in the 1970’s, often gracing the pages of Architectural Digest. With bravado he transformed traditional rooms into theatrical stages for modern living – a look that today brings to mind the work of Kelly Wearstler and Jean-Louis Deniot. Merging contemporary and classic design with shots […]
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Hail Stephen!
Stephen Sills, that is – the classically-inspired interior designer with an American point of view. Sir Sills is the decorator’s decorator, the one that can’t be copied with any success. Have you ever tried to copy a Rothko or a Pollack? I have, with disastrous results. Yes, it’s true, be yourself. It’s your only fate. […]
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The Tempo of Gold
The work of maximalist French interior designer Jean-Louis Deniot is easy to spot: luxurious, classically-inspired modern rooms for living in the 21st-century, where strong silhouettes and bold statements are juxtaposed within a soothing envelope of gray and gold mineral tones, stone, ivory and parchment. For a glamorous flat in London Deniot punctuated coolly elegant rooms […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: Atelier Martex
Posted July 25, 2014. Filed in Favorite Vintage Ads
Ranking high among my favorite “vintage” ads from the 1980’s are the ad campaigns produced by Atelier Martex. This one features the introduction of a new bedding line named “Simply Violets” released in 1983. If I knew who directed the design of these room settings I would certainly hail their talents. They excelled at creating […]
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Throwback Thursday: William Gaylord
Posted July 24, 2014. Filed in American Chic, Classic Contemporary, The California Look, William Gaylord
Today’s Throwback Thursday post features a long-standing favorite designer of mine from the 1970’s, William Gaylord. His style defined the clean, crisp, classic and contemporary aesthetic of California design at the time, a style that would usher in a new American chic with the advent of the California Look, made popular by Michael Taylor. For […]
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Nouveau Classique
Posted July 22, 2014. Filed in Boho Chic, French Eclecticism, Haute Boheme, Pierre Passebon, The Collectors
When Florence Grinda, Director of Development of European Affairs at Sotheby’s, went looking for a new Paris pied-a-terre she called upon her longtime friend Pierre Passebon, the famous antiquaire and art collector, who has collaborated on several of his own residences with interior designer Jacques Grange. Passebon found the apartment close to the Esplanade des […]
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A Man and His Castle: Château du Champ de Bataille
Fresh off the presses is Spanish interior designer Jacques Garcia’s second monograph, Jacques Garcia: Twenty Years of Passion, featuring his beloved Château du Champ de Bataille, a 17th-century estate in Normandy. Garcia purchased the property twenty years ago, then in derelict state, and has worked tirelessly since restoring and furnishing every glorious inch to sublime delight. Four-hundred […]
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Favorite Vintage Ads Friday: J. Robert Scott
Posted July 18, 2014. Filed in Art Deco, Classic Contemporary, Sally Sirkin Lewis, The California Look
I have retained a rather large lot of “vintage” issues of Architectural Digest that dates back to the 1970’s but it appears that there were not many ads taken out by J. Robert Scott until the later 1980’s, a company who usually exclusively advertised in the Los Angeles based magazine. I use the word “vintage” […]
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