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I just saw this apartment in Brazil designed by Studio Guilherme Torres on the Contemporist.  All the main pieces of furniture such as tables, sideboards and sofa were designed by the architect. I find the palette  and almost all those pieces to be magically beautiful. Pastels are so huge for spring, and the first image is just tantalizing, isn’t it? When you use these pastels, jewel tones and even neons, a sweet dash of primary color makes the whole combo sing. That wall sculpture makes it, doesn’t it?

The only things Im not loving are the pillows and the fabric covered ottoman.

The super gigantic long chesterfield? The asymmetrical robin’s egg table? The simple primary hued wall art? The little mushroom tables? The lone black chair? Yes.

You ottoman, not so much.

While I don’t live in a home this spare, and I doubt I ever could, I just love the idea of every single piece of furniture being a work of sculpture.

Thoughts?

When you put something into the universe, you never really know where those ideas are going, who sees them and what happens afterward.(Unless they come back and tell you, hey I saw this on your blog and it made me do X,Y &Z. Which is GREATLY appreciated btw.) Apparently, the image of my black and white striped chair inspired a graphic designer to make this print!

Cute, huh? Her etsy shop, Third Floor Design, makes adorable brightly hued prints of both classic and traditional chairs, vespas, horned animals and more… Adorable.

Do you think the dude who sold me that chair on Ebay had any idea what would become of it? Ha!

Did any of you catch a glimpse of this wallpaper yesterday on One Kings Lane’s ‘High Altitude’ sale? I‘m usually not head over heels in love with anything on any flash site. BUT THIS WALLPAPER!!!!!! This is everything.

Of course I had to google “arrow wallpaper” 10 times before I found this… Its by Cavern, and the pattern is called Tapestry.

This is why I need a country house. So I can take this wallpaper, put it in a kids room behind two twin beds in red leather, with triangular tops al la KW, one crazy  swingy sconce and a sisal and you are good to go. Screw the kids, I want it for myself now too.

Seriously, where could I put this!?!?

(Photo via Country Living)

This is the perfect way to deal with people who love neutrals. Instead of just letting the beige pile on the taupe until you’re blah-ed into oblivion, a nice healthy dose of black acts like an exclamation point and pulls everything into focus. It makes your eye dart around the room, in a good way, but still feels balanced. It’s restful, yet exciting.

Beige and black bedroom, featured in House and Home, by designer Nam Dang Mitchell

I love everything about this bedroom, ESPECIALLY and always the Serge Mouille sconce. Sure you are paying 5K for a wall light, but dare I say thats not so bad, and would probably be cheaper than the art that this designer would pick for this room?

I also LOVE the single pillow on the bed. Love. So unfussy. No crap to throw on the floor at night. And the Hermes blanket too. Love.

The room is by Calgary based designer Nam Dang Mitchell, who is getting much love on the web lately since being featured in House & Home magazine. I think her rooms are polished, cool, yet comfortable…and not overdone. She’s an up and coming star for sure.

We bloggers like to put things side by side. Its something we do. As people interested in visual things, holding one thing up to another is something that is fun for our little brains to do. I personally LOVE room to outfit posts, especially when they work well, although I know some of you are sick of them… I like them because, when they work, its like KABAM. Art, fashion, design, COLLIDING in my head and making a wonderful mishmash of pretty. Somehow, it also teaches me things. I don’t know what exactly… but maybe it somehow helps me refine my aesthetic by training my eye to know EXACTLY what I like and don’t like? Or shows me exactly how to crossover the aesthetic I like in one discipline to another?  I don’t know… Im rambling.

Anyway, when Helen Frankenthaler passed a few weeks ago, I started seeing more of her work around town, including some of her woodcut prints… Anyway, I saw one that I really liked and that looked very familiar. Below, Top left:

Helen Frankenthaler
Tales of Genji IV, 1998
Collage
47″ x 42″
Edition of 30, 12 Artist Proofs

Is the print, top left, not  a DEAD RINGER for Kelly Wearstler’s Bengal Bazaar fabric in apricot?

I love both the fabric and the print, and I just thought it would be interesting to show them to you this way…

And for those of you interested, you can order pillows in this fabric and others at Plum Cushion on Etsy.  The ones I have in my living room in the gray color way are from her.

Thoughts?