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A Novel Idea
I know how to design a bookcase, I know how to buy the books, I know how to read the books…. BUT I sure as hell don’t know how to style them! I had a novel idea, that apparently everyone already knows...
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Look what came in the mail:
My penguin book cloth covered classics. Im getting the whole collection! Read the interview with designer Coralie Bickford-Smith at Design Sponge.
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The importance of being Ernest.
Hemingway, of course. He has been on my mind quite a lot lately. First, I stumbled into the Hemingway African Art Gallery a few days ago, where I met the owner, who used to be partners with Gregory AKA...
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Books & Rooms.
I was perusing Kelly Wearstler’s blog the other day when I came across these images of some books that KW found at a bookstore. You see, when KDubs shops for books, she manages to find the chicest...
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From my library…
I was in my library the other day organizing my books… and tweeting and instagraming a ton of pictures… there was just something about these two piles that made me post them. One is a stack of...
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Book Review: The Happiness Project.
I got a large response from my post last week about being stressed... many empathized, while others criticized me for not using the “work” that was making me stressed as fuel for the blog… As in, Waaa...
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Book Review: Tomboy Style
There are a shit-ton of blogs dedicated to girliness. Glitter, pink, gold, manicure photos… are abundantly everywhere, and my lack of interest in them could be what makes me feel so disconnected from...
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Design Heaven // The Library.
Screw kindles, I still like my books where I can see them, color coded on my bookshelf! (Jk Jk, I haven’t color coded since 2008.) This new book, The Library: A World History, by Dr James Campbell, an...
View Article#Absurdistsummer | Tear Out Print Book!
Woohoo! I’ve been wanting to do a “book” of some sort for a while now. At a certain point, it’s just what one does, isn’t it? This is a book, in which all the pages TEAR OUT, for framing! Just a fun...
View ArticleSir | Mario Testino
“The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man’s...
View ArticleBOOKS | P Magazine.
The second annual art Magazine/Book P MAGAZINE is now available online to buy. P MAGAZINE is an aesthetic object-book designed as a collector’s limited edition founded and created by Face, Mariana...
View ArticleBunny Williams | On Garden Style + Giveaway
This weekend I received not one, but two copies of the re-release of legendary Bunny Williams’ 1998 book On Garden Style. One for me, and one for one of you! Bunny Williams is nothing short of a giant...
View ArticleJustina Blakeney | The New Bohemians.
Yesterday Justina Blakeney, the woman behind such genius as a “Face the Foliage” and the awesome blog The Jungalow, released her first book: The New Bohemians. It’s spectacular. The photography is by...
View ArticleKILL CITY| THE SQUATTERS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE.
After being kicked out of her apartment in Brooklyn in 1992, and unable to afford rent anywhere near her school, art student Ash Thayer became a squatter. In the ‘90s, NYC’s Lower East Side was full of...
View ArticleOn Kim Kardashian’s Selfish.
If you would have told me a year ago that I would be on the internet highly recommending Kim Kardashian’s book of selfies, I would have laughed. I just texted someone that I was writing a blog post...
View ArticleBOOKS | Warhol’s Polaroids 1958 -1987
I’ve probably blogged about Warhol’s polaroids a million times now, but I don’t care! The polaroid format that Warhol made famous is today being mimicked by Instagram- people are even calling Andy...
View ArticleBOOKS | Ryan McGinley’s ‘Way Far’
Ryan McGinley’s new book with Rizzoli “Way Far” drops today. McGinley shot to photographic fame in his early 20’s with his photos of America’s disenchanted youth culture, i.e. his friends, and has...
View ArticleGIFTS | BOOKS FOR DESIGN LOVERS.
Hey now! I’m just getting back from a long weekend getaway sans kiddies – Oh man, did I need that! I love my kids, obviously, but to be able to wake up at my leisure, wow. I’ll share a photo journal...
View ArticleArtist Joe Dance at Home.
What a treat. Welcome to the home of Joe Dance. Joe is an artist who moved from West Virginia with his wife Beverly 40 years ago to pursue his dream of being an artist living in NYC. Joe managed Ann...
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