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Sketch42 on the Junior League House Tour, this Saturday!

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What are you doing this weekend? Cause I have some exciting news! Remember when I mentioned cleaning up because “people were coming over”? Well, those people are YOU and various other New Yorkers and ladies who lunch via The Junior League House Tour this Saturday, May 5!

Um, yea… this is crazy!

What is the Junior League and what is their house tour? The Junior League is a charity, established in 1901 and made up entirely of female volunteers, that’s goal is to improve the lives of New York women and children around our city and in the greater New York area.

Every Spring and Fall, the Junior League selects a bunch of cool apartments and houses across the city for a tour. I’m so honored to be part of the tour, its kind of prestigious and my home will be in the company of some design legends.  Past tours have featured both designers’ own residences as well as their clients, including: Geoffrey Bradfield, Paula Caravelli, Alexandra Champalimaud, Robert Couturier, Laura Day, William Diamond and Anthony Baratta, Jamie Drake, Steven Gambrel, Phillip Gorrivan, Christopher Hyland, Eric Lysdahl, Todd Merrill, Robert Passal, Campion Platt, Jennifer Post, Scott Salvator, Hunt Slonem, Sara Story, Stephanie Stokes, Alan Tanksley, Matthew White, Frank Webb, and Vicente Wolf.

What this means for you, is that you can see my apartment , along with a bunch of others, without feeling like a weirdo stalker creep! People that see the apartment in real life after seeing it on the blog say its like being on a movie set. Familiar because they’ve seen it so many times, but weird too!

Here is the schedule for the day:

  2012 Spring House Tour Schedule of Events

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Spring House Tour Kick-Off Party Hosted by Tory Burch
Tory Burch will offer all guests who attend the party 10% off all purchases that evening and 10% of the proceeds back to the New York Junior League. Tickets for the Spring House Tour will be available at the door.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm                               Kick-Off Party
Sponsored By Tory Burch
797 Madison Ave. New York, NY
Between 67th Street and 68th Street

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

10:00 am – 12:00 pm                           Guest Registration and Breakfast
The Astor House
130 East 80th Street
Between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue

10:00 am-6:00 pm                               Silent Auction

10:30 am – 4:00 pm                            Homes Open

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm                             Buffet Lunch
Sponsored by Architects & Designers Building,
GE Monogram, Miele, and Sub-Zero/Wolf
150 East 58th Street
Between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm                               Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by Newel Antiques
425 East 53rd Street
Between First Avenue and Sutton Place

2012 Spring House Tour Ticket Details

$85                                                          In advance for NYJL Volunteers
$100                                                       In advance for the general public
$125                                                                                                     At the door
$200                                                                                                                    VIP

General ticket includes: Entrance into the “Kick-Off Party” at Tory Burch, Complimentary Breakfast, Luncheon, Cocktail Reception, and Gift Bag.

VIP ticket includes: All of the above as well as, priority seating at breakfast, exclusive stop on the tour, full day transportation, and a VIP gift bag.

The last day to purchase tickets in advance is Thursday, May 3rd, 2012.

Click HERE to purchase tickets to the event!

Leftovers

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The best thing about photo shoots…. are the left over flowers. A little iPad magazine interviewed me yesterday and took a few photos in my apartment… Nothing crazy, not like the Rue shoot which took all day… At the end of the day, I went around snapping photos…

Peony season is the best, isn’t it? See that metal container they are in? Its actually a cooking utensil holder from my kitchen. I left all my vases at the bachelor pad after the photo shoot, and so I had to improvise!

Herbs I bought from the farm the other day, and I plan on planting them in a terrarium, like last here. See HERE. (Sorry, I was directing you guys to a post with defunct photos. Trying to figure out what happened!)

Lilacs in an antique sterling pitcher that I received as a wedding gift. Another improvised happy accident.

A little shot of the room, and in case you need more evidence for the glory of black doors, I’ll post more pictures of those. Also note, baby cream on table, Cookie’s art on the wall in frames looks pretty good. BUT I have a massive piece coming for over there. Also, yes, I am a chair hoarder and it has to stop. Go ahead, buy my chairs! (Also, this photo is a little weird because it was so dark when I took the shot, walls look different than normal.)

Last, Kelly Wearstler pants that I paired with my favorite shoes ever by Prada and a black leather shirt. And incidentally this outfit took me from day to night, I wore it to a Decoded party.

I am SOOOOO not a photogenic person. I HATE having my photo taken, and in my family albums, it looks like I don’t exist (I take pictures of everyone else!)… but its kind of fun to be forced to do it. And I can’t wait to have an updated headshot that isn’t from when I was 8 months pregnant! (The only benefit to that is that faces look less wrinkly at 8 months pregnant.) I also made sure to have my hair curly for these photos.

So yea, can’t wait to see em!

(Also, there is this new site called Threadflip, I’m selling some clothes and DIY’s on it…)

 

In the round.

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Ever since I sold The Shower Painting, then the painting above the striped chair a few weeks ago, my apartment has been kind of sadly art-barren. But now I am preparing for something new and exciting happening here in the next few weeks, so I need to get this place looking top notch. This round painting was something I made in August, and then recently re-worked and now it’s one of my new favorites. I love the way the round canvas looks on the wall above the Bjorn high chair and next to the black door. (The day I put my Peg Perego in storage and bought this all plastic, chic and tiny Bjorn number was a good one, I can tell you that! Would have I EVER left  that clunker in a photo? NO!!! I hated looking at it and worse-cleaning it.) I also like the way it plays with the round Hick’s pendants.

The painting is vaguely reminiscent of spin art – (Oh, how I dream of building a spin art machine big enough to make huge round canvases.) It’s a fun new edition to the household! I’m currently stretching a massive painting for the other wall in the living room, and I’ve just framed some of Cookie’s work and they look amazing. I’ll post updates as they roll in.

Why is it that I only buckle down and get things done before a photo shoot or when people are coming over? You too?

Have a great day!

(OH- and in case you were wondering, YES it is the painting in the new header!)

A new bowl.

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I bought a new bowl a few weeks ago from the 7th floor of Bergdorfs, and I thought I would share it with you, because I totally love it.


The matte black finish and simple shape are heaven to me. I love the idea of one simple piece on a dining table… Kelly Wearstler did it in her Malibu beach house and I’ve always loved it… much better than her dining table with 100 sculptures and vases on it. Although thats a fun thing to do for a photoshoot.

I originally thought I would put my black Shona sculpture on the dining table, but its so heavy and the tabletop is so delicate that it wasn’t practical. This works much better…

The bowl is by Pampaloni. Ideally this is how I would style the whole apartment. Simply.

 

Before and After: My dot fabric on awesome chairs.

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A few weeks ago I was looking at the MINTY  vintage shop ( Atlanta based antique booth started by MFAMB, Neyla and Suzie, in case you didn’t know!) and I saw these chairs…

Obviously, they were in bad condition, but I just could not get over their shape! So squirmy and cool… I didn’t like the looks of that lumpy portion under the seat, but I hoped it was just sagging upholstery… They were priced so well, I just had to have them even if they just went into storage for a while.

The day before they arrive, lo and behold, while browsing for fabric in the garment district, I see this this! Subconsciously inspired by Elizabeth Taylor’s Galliano sweater, which I had seen the day before at Christies, I impulse bought a shit ton of the fabric. Like, enough to do a whole couch in it, which I briefly considered, actually.

We had to cut off the old upholstery and strip the chairs down to their frame, which was perfect because we trimmed the flab on the underside of the chair a little. (And no, I didn’t do it myself, even though I probably could have, because sometimes its better to LSEDI -Let someone else do it- so that your house looks professional, polished and clean!!!! Knowing when not to DIY is a skill too.)

And there you have it! New FUN chairs in my living room. To make room, I moved my lucite bench against the wall and switched the black striped chair with the painting to the other side. I wanted the black dotted/striped painting to live in the same land as the polka dot chairs… The chair I found in the garbage on Third Ave moved into the dining room temporarily. Let’s see what I do with that.

The  new chairs are actually super functional there. More so than the bench, because they can actually comfortably seat people whereas the bench was more of just a perch. (And it was so expensive, it made me uncomfortable when people sat on it. DUMB.) And they are low, so they don’t completely barricade off the room from the foyer which is right behind it.

So- I’m going to be changing more things, but rolling them out slowly. And why am I doing this? Boredom/Compulsion. The chair/bench swap was rather painless and can be played around with… the chairs can always be redone for a client or something later on… but the next change I want to make is literally going to pull the entire foundation out of the house of cards that is my living room. Change it, and it all falls apart. So lets see! Im working up my courage to take the plunge!

How was your holiday everyone?!? Have any home-for-a-week before and afters to share?

OH and one more thing: I have 7 yards left of the fabric, at $20 a yard, if anyone is interested.