By Nicole Cohen, on September 3rd, 2010
By Nicole Cohen, on September 2nd, 2010
My husbands grandmother (not to be confused with my grandmother that I write about all the time) passed away last night. She was 97 and lived with such vitality and grace until the end.I feel uncomfortable writing about such personal things on the blog, but I just wanted to explain my absence and recognize what an amazing, vivacious woman she was. She was still entertaining this past sunday for over 50 of her kids, grands and great grands… We are really going to miss her.
By Nicole Cohen, on September 1st, 2010
By Nicole Cohen, on September 1st, 2010

Via Belle Maison
Blount Design
I love the first room. LOVE.
By Nicole Cohen, on August 31st, 2010
On windows… 

On mirrors… 
Up stairwells…
In groups…
On bookcases…

In bathrooms…


How do you like it?
1,2,3 Eric Cohler 4, Elle Decor5, Robert Passal via Thirteen and South.
6, Nathan Kirkman via Mochatini 7, Traditional Home8, 9, Domino
10, The Selby11, Via Jordan Guide
By Nicole Cohen, on August 31st, 2010
The apartment of Reed Krakoff, CEO of Coach. The man and his interior designer wife collect art and design. Some people loved, some people hated it.
I could do without the sheep, but I DO love that Alexander Liberman’s dot painting and the Garouste & Bonetti’s console and chairs.
See more of the house HERE.
Thoughts?
By Nicole Cohen, on August 31st, 2010
1. Women shave their faces instead of exfoliating with a loofa.
2. Men pound a few back right after getting into car accidents.
3. Women have nephews they dont acknoledge.
4. Others get gag orders on people who talk about them.
5. It’s normal to have 2 sex tapes on the market in one year and then call yourself a “Born again virgin”.
6. Most people have anger management problems.
7. Dogs wear leopard.
8. People with learning disabilities should be given homework help in law school.
9. The children are all stars.
10. Women have relationships with men that “protect” them and then lie about it.
11. Women is pronounced WOMAN.
12. When a woman is invited to a charity event, she assumes she is presenting.
13. Stripping is super respectable.
14. Only hired help will reassure you when you are down.
15. If you take a woman to a fertility doctor, she owes you her child.
16. Husbands dont tell their wives when they have no money.
17. Yawning will help you get into a car accident.
18. Private sex tapes are shot by third parties
19.????
That picture up there means that Kim G gets invited to the reunion. GAH!
Thoughts? I think they kept too many secrets from us! I barely knew what was flying….
By Nicole Cohen, on August 30th, 2010
Number 1:
This one may be sold already. 72″ x 41″ – its un-stretched for easy shipping…

Number 2:
72″ x 40″ Also un-stretched.
Number 3:
48″ x 48″ This one is stretched. I see it over a chocolate brown sofa in a den or even just on its own. 

Contact me if you are interested in buying. Sketch42blog@gmail.com.
By Nicole Cohen, on August 30th, 2010
I know everyone is going to be writing about this, but hey, what else was happening in the design world this weekend?
Emily, (HGTV’s new Design Star-duh) turned this LA living room from this:
Into this:
Via the most convoluted process possible that involved moving couches, coffee tables, a look revolving around FDR, repainting bookcases multiple times and chairs that moved through every room in the house. In other words, kinda what normal people do but over months and even years.
In general, the show is chock full of VERY GOOD INFORMATION! Emily is super quirky, has no idea who the drummer of The Beatles is and she can decorate. I like.
So far, the most interesting show I have ever seen on HGTV.
By Nicole Cohen, on August 29th, 2010
I thought these two photos were just beautiful.

From Here and There.