i’m dying to show you
seriously about to die about what i saw today uptown
and this shot certainly does not do it justice…in the least (obliviously)! but i went with tony to repair one of the chests for j.a. and get a shot of them since i’m in town. and, ok, and i wanted to see the place too, i admit! but i was not prepared for its magnificence! i wish i could show you the exquisite picture i took but it just seems unethical since it’s not even really finished yet, but oh, i know you would flip! the place is a knockout in every detail, the rugs, the lighting, every surface, color, the view! it’s an absolute dream. i’m going to ask to photograph it once all my products have arrived and are in perfect order! (one more mirror to go, please god, no chips)!
there were so many exquisite things there including this throw folded over the back of sofa and it looked amazing! ( i went to the website afterward :)
it was an absolute visual feast in every way with hints of turquoise, periwinkle, silvers, black, white, blues, grays…yummmmmmmmm!
http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop
well, we’re gonna hit the town now, so, happy thanksgiving if i don’t get to tell you tomorrow! i love and am thankful for you, hope you know!
ps: found this pic on jerryandmartha.com
i’m gonna miss that little minx
leaving for the airport in a few minutes and kind of glad to get away. all morning long i could hear buzz saws next door at my old place. they chopped down the all the trees and bushes. ripped out everything I had the privilege and joy to watch grow and bloom over the past few months. it was such a dream to live there and now with the devastation it’s hard to look at. why do they do that? not to be a bummer but i just had to tell someone and i knew you’d understand! at least there’s the kitten
are you sick of me talking about him yet!?
lazing on a sunday afternoon
the best part about holiday decorating was watching the kitten play with it all
it’s the first time liz is hosting a holiday so we got the basics for the table festivities, so it will go from thanksgiving to an early christmas soiree while her parents are here.
pour moi, leaving for ny in a couple days seems incomprehensible, it’s a million miles away, (and cold) but it’s the holidays and i live and die for my family, i know you do too!
ok well i need to really focus on my website for the few hours i have while watching The Lady is Willing (Marlene Dietrich & Fred MacMurray, sounds like a bit of an odd match but maybe that’s the point) and so, off i go! hope you’re having a great sunday afternoon!
not so guilty pleasures
just had to post a shot of my new lease on life. i’m still a block from the beach but kind of forgot about it these past few weeks. today i took your advice to relax so with new cup in hand (gotta love marshall’s), hit the sand for a good 1/2 hour. now charged up and ready to hit the streets. more later!
unexpected joys of decorating
hi everyone! hope you’re kicking back to enjoy the weekend. i know i am. leaving for ny in a couple of days and trying to help lz get her house ready for the holidays before i go. i’m a little anti holiday decorations since i’ve always been around an abundance of them my whole life between mom, gram, aunts, et al, so shopping this afternoon I was surprised to find all these beautiful temptations! one of my friends asked what i would do for the holidays so tomorrow i’ll post some things i’d buy if i were decorating my own place. liz went for a sort of organic theme which i’m really liking. i’m a fool for these vintagy houses, they remind me of grandfathers’s train he’d set up each year. there were trees and houses, and i guess that little town just did it for me! come to think about it, i do love those old decorations that have gone up each year since i can remember.
ok well, i’m hoping to come and visit but the first glass of wine has been poured! xoc
comme si de rien n’eait
that’s the name of carla bruni’s new album, aka ‘as if nothing happened’ (sounds better in french)
i heard her on the today show this a.m. and her song was positively ethereal! i happened to find this pic on la la lovely and wanted to share her blog too since it is as lovely as promised. oh, and i found her thru vicki archer who did a post on fave french musique. no wonder we get lost on the web, when you look at your breadcrumbs it’s wild how far you can go in 30 seconds! ok off to work, but with a new soundtrack today!
it will never happen
i can’t get to LA this weekend for this estate sale (thanks, jane)! but it sure is making me want to get back there.
sometimes that’s all she wrote, right? well that’s it for me, i’m done for the day. all disasters were miraculously averted due to my dear friend and true angel who as usual, came to the rescue. without him my life would have been ruined today so, thanks god, and Tony! (i’ll sleep well tonite :)
ps, ladies, if you live in nyc and need something done whether it’s around the apt, a glitch in the computer matrix or just to fix your bike, Tony is your man! (sounds like my dad, a total renaissance man)
ok c’est tout. bon nuit, mes amis, sweet dreams!
i’m multi-tasking
one good thing about blogging daily (for my mom) is to see things morph. normally my pics sit in the camera or untitled folders for years, so this is forcing me to edit as i go.
spent most of the day bringing things to liz’s and took a couple quick shots. i’m still in my place till tomorrow a.m. and am milking it, i must say.
i stumbled on vintage curtains liz bought a long time ago and they’re so florida. since i’m making ‘my room’ her mom’s/guest room, they’re perfect, maybe cause they don’t fit anywhere else in the house. so it’s now or never to use these even if it’s just a tribute to the fact that they existed. anyway, they’re on the pop tip we’re playing with in her place.
tomorrow we’ll hit another room and get her thanksgiving decorama started since her parents will be here. and i’m going north, brrrrr!
looks like the bank is going to come thru on their offer to move me out, so i’m finishing up at my place. and the laptop’s still here and my printer…ok i admit it, the tv is too, and Roberta with irene dunne, ginger rogers and fred astaire is on! my little house is almost empty but it’s home to me for a few more hours. i still love it, go figure.
the bright side of life
when you start tracking your hours it’s easy to see them slip away
i spent the last bunch of them at liz’s, trying to edit, channeling jonathan adler since she got his book as a gift yesterday.
he uses pops of color and lots of sculptures
he decorates them with hats, liz decorates them with beads!
anyway, that’s some of what i did today (trying to document, mom). we’re still in really early phases and deliberate over everything since we’re both major ‘type a’ personalities and she has some major trouble spots. it’s truly a work in progress, you see it developing and get happy, then suddenly it’s tired and has to be completely undone! it’s endless and we need foliage but it’s a start. we’ve been saying that for awhile, i know…anyway my pieces for j.a. turned out to have an almost tragic ending but we’ll right all wrongs tomorrow. for now, a long day is coming to a close, tonite, i can’t wait to visit your blogs!!
my mom doesn’t know
i talked to my parents last night and was surprised when mom said she has no idea what i do in florida! it made me realize that i may blab a lot, but maybe not about what i’m actually up to with the biz. sooo, for starters, mom, these are the latest in our Helena line of lucite chairs and stools. They’re inspired Helena Rubenstein’s own collection and love of acrylic furniture (even her bed)! even tho lucite’s making a comeback, it’s been around for decades. take a look at our girl’s place in the 30′s:
and her new york apartment, shot for elle decor:
the early days in nyc, 635 Park Avenue designed by J. E. R. Carpenter. Madame Helena Rubinstein’s triplex penthouse, view of her foyer
searching around led me to some other wonderful memoirs of her life, like this portrait
and art she collected
but it always leads back to paris, doesn’t it? this was shot by Richard Avedon in her apartment on Ile St Louis in Paris, 1947
ok, i’ve gone and opened a can of it now, take a look if you dare! so…we’re officially off the topic. it’s so easy to get lost so i’ll sign off now. have a great sunday!
ps i couldn’t resist looking one more time and found this photo: F.S. Lincoln captured a quiet moment in the garden of Helena Rubenstein’s Paris penthouse for the January 1938 House & Garden. The apartment on the Ile Saint-Louis overlooks the Seine, with a distant view of Notre Dame.
she was one grande dame!
and mom, the tables were for jonathan adler, my idol, and it’s been stressful to say the least. so just wish me luck!
