Chill…

photography by jackie meiring

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Check-In at the Office…

….Private Office in Auckland…a collaboration between Penny Hay, Interior Architect and Fearon Hay Architects…open, clean lines, and personality.  Forget the check-in…I’m finding a seat and working all day.

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Casa Sculpture

Villa 1095 in Vale Do Lobo, southern Portugal…a unique piece of archi-sculpture, by Arqui+Architects.  The Villa is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wrights’s Fallingwater and Philip Johnson’s Glass House…a trophy house.  Enjoy the tour.

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Lenny Kravitz: Rock Star Designer

Oh, Lenny Kravitz, you are more than a Hollywood triple threat…musician, actor, interior designer, and fashion designer…not to mention heart throb.  Lenny began his New York City-based interior design company in 2003, but now he wants to expand Kravitz Design into an empire including furniture, bedding and clothing lines.  “The plan is to make it a lifestyle brand, (that is) my dream for this company. In the same way you would see Ralph Lauren or Giorgio Armani.”  Lenny, I’ll be inviting you into my home…

…gorgeous interiors…

…furniture designer…mademoiselle chairs for kartell…

…three dimensional tiles…

…wallpaper for Flavor Paper…

…shoes for Tom’s…

…music for you and for me…

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Photographer David Prince

Have you ever wanted to jump into a photograph?  The stunning work of photographer David Prince elicits the response, “let me in…”

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Choices, Choices…

…window seat…exterior or interior?

inspired by one of my favorite blogs, La Boheme

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Scorching…

…it is nearly 100 degrees in Chicago…so very hot…scorching, as a matter of fact.

“[s]corched matchstick [s]ugar pine” table by Los Angeles based company, td[s]

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Happy Fourth of July

In celebration of Independence Day, Niche Modern is having a 20% off sale. To sign up and receive your coupon click here. Sale runs through Sunday night (7/8/12). Enjoy!

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Lovely Buddha

Lovely Buddha…always brings a sense of serenity and integrity into a space…

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Time Out…

…I know just the place…a welcome sanctuary overlooking the Olympic Mountains and the Puget Sound…

Case Inlet Residence/MW Works Architecture

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Choices, Choices…

…green bath or petal bath…which would you choose?

Boor Bridges Architects, San Francisco

Ashoka Canggu/Mencke & Vadnby and Peter Sand

inspired by the fabulous LaBoheme

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Minibar for The Mind by The School of Life

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Smart Design Studio

Smart?  I would say brilliant.  Enjoy a sampling of stunning interior design projects by Australian firm, Smart Design Studio…kudos for the on-the-mark floral choices…a tiny detail, but so important, yes?

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Oh Mann2…

I posted earlier about cool and edgy Chicago designer, Kara Mann…I thought, perhaps, you would like to see more…

…may I say, oh mann…you are one hip Chicagoan…

Lake Forest Showhouse

Ocean Front Villa

Desert Retreat

Michigan Avenue Residence

Lake Forest Estate

Lakeview Residence

Lake Shore Estate

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Creative Flow…

Can you feel your creative juices flowing?  The Artist’s Studio by Olson Kundig Architects was created out of a former warehouse located in Seattle, Washington…

…a skylight tops the stairwell to bring daylight into the studio and down to the entrance…

…sliding and pivoting 9’x9’ wall panels run adjacent to the large, central wood beam and allow the 3,750 square-foot space to be reconfigured as needed…

…Santa baby, if I cannot have the studio, may I have the FAB table…btw, are these the same wheels used on the Rolling Huts?…

…let’s go back in…and get our hands dirty…

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