For those of you who did not make it to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, here are some photos of our booth. All in all, it was a good four days. That’s Franklin on the right building a Herbert Chair as part of our display.
Here, have a brochure:
Yes, I decorate my apartment with Etsy prints of anthropomorphized animals.
From travel blog Thisthereandthat.blogspot.com, a bark cloth from Fiji.
I spend a lot of time wandering the internet. It usually starts while I am on the phone and need something to do with my eyes and hands while my ears and mouth are engaged. This often leads to several minutes of extatic rooting around, collecting images in a folder named ”ideas”, collecting sites in my list of favorites.
The other day, attracted by some colorful images in a Design Observer post I came upon Sheaff Ephemera. This little web museum displays a selection of vintage and antique printed matter collected over four decades by graphic designer Richard Sheaff. They are arranged by genre, or theme, each grouping prefaced by an blurb or essay that leads the visitor by the hand down the path of wonderment. Of the section entitled “People holding Fish” Sheaff says “It seems to me that they reveal something about character . . . of the holder, not the fish.”
The Maupin-Tonchi Residence, a Selldorf Architects interiors project, was featured in Spanish Architectural Digest’s April ‘09 issue. The text was written by Christina Giminez. The interiors were photographed by Manolo Yllera in zen-like silence. He used a digital camera and took long exposures, during which everyone stood still and held their breath. Can you tell that the rooms are illuminated only by natural light from the windows? No additional strobes or floodlights were brought in. Beautiful.
The Vica Herbert Chair in cream leather, and the Vica custom sectional sofa in dark purple velvet.
A Vica Dining Table with a back painted glass top and darkened brass base.
A new spread on this apartment has just come out in the June ‘09 issue of German Architectural Digest! The text was written by Margit J. Mayer. And the apartment was photographed by Todd Selby to the beat of Daft Punk from his assistant’s ipod.
The Vica Herbert Chair in cream leather, and the Vica custom sectional sofa in dark purple velvet.
BTW, Todd Selby has a very addictive blog of portraits and interiors, which he describes (on the blog) as “interesting people in their creative spaces”. I love to see what people collect, and to see people in their homes among all the clutter and trappings of daily life. www.theselby.com
Selldorf Architects Interior, photographed by Patrick Mulligan