Hooked On These!

In the wake of Leann from Eclectic Detective's recent inspiring post on design for the disabled, I came across a particular link that has been bookmarked in my favorites for awhile. It got lost in the mess and I really want to share it with all of you.

One of my favorite stores, moss, has partnered with the Creative Growth Art Center in L.A. The center serves adult artists who are severely handicapped in some way and provides services such as art programs and counseling. They are producing these beautiful limited edition rugs which are hooked by hand. Part of the proceeds from each sale will go to the center. This is really an inspiring project and I have enjoyed looking at the beautiful results. A variety of different designers have contributed so each piece has a different feel. While prices are likely out of range for most, I just wanted to call attention to this impressive collaboration.

The poet's darling

I keep looking for signs of spring...and have to settle for these lovely creations from Nymphenburg, first created for the sumptuous table of a Bavarian monarch in 1765:





Not bad, right?
Get your little slice of spring from Moss. Just avert your eyes from the price.

It's a Forest Out There

A few weeks ago, I posted about what is in my opinion the ne plus ultra of coats, from last fall's Tuleh collection:

And I wanted to re-introduce that coat to you in plate form. I've been crazy about these plates ever since I saw them on the Moss website, so I'm excited to finally profess my love here.


Gorgeous, right? This series is produced by Dibbern. Find them now at Rose and Radish.
Another variation on the theme comes from those Love is Blind curtains I posted about recently.

Yum.

Shoot 'em up

Have you always felt like you needed a little bit more gangsta in your bedroom?
Enter Philippe Starck, design genius extraordinaire:

His Bedside Gun table lamp is now out of production, so get it at Moss while you still can!
Personally, I love this lamp. It's fun and unexpected...perfect for adding a little pizzazz to a more classic interior.
I'm sure Bonnie and Clyde would approve.

I Heart New York, enfin

Even more and more things I love about New York:

JOHN DERIAN. John Derian, John Derian, John Derian. More on this later.

Pylones! This awesome French chain is like Alessi on crack. I was so excited when I walked past their Soho location - I found this shop in Avignon when I was there last summer and didn't think they had any locations outside of France.
Below: Pylones superhero salad servers on top, Alessi corkscrews on bottom:



MOSS - The high altar of design. I swear I check their website everyday, and their New York store is a must visit. This trip I was only able to look in the window (it was closed), for which my wallet thanks me. Not that I could afford anything in there! The last time I was there in August, my mom and I sighed over a spectacularly lacy white iron garden bench by Tord Boontje that was about $40,000...like this more wallet-friendly curtain on steroids.


Magnolia Bakery cupcakes. I was so ready to proclaim them overrated. Too bad! At 10:30 on a Saturday night, the line was out the door...and they really were that great. Although I would draw the line at taking a dozen ecstatic photos of my treats like the people ahead of me were doing. (the photo's not mine, I promise - courtesy of About.com!).

Biography Bookshop. So it doesn't have the musty, cozy ambiance of bookshops I found wandering around Bloomsbury in London. All of the books I found were pretty new editions. But I found lots of great deals on "name-brand books" - Simon Doonan's OOP autobiography, still wrapped in plastic, and Evelyne Lever's bio of Madame de Pompadour (Nancy Mitford's version will always have a soft spot in my heart, but I'll give this one a chance) being two such examples. And it's kitty-corner from Magnolia.

Feeling the rumblings of the subway beneath me at Angelika as I watched a wonderful French film, Fauteuils d'orchestre...like an earthquake moving to the surface.

My brunch at tiny East Village eatery Prune, the best meal I've ever waited 1.5 hours for. The eggs benedict and hot chocolate were fantastic.


Glitter and Doom, which just closed at the Met today. It was an amazing, amazing show of Verist portraiture during the short-lived, decadent, and utterly corrupt Weimar republic. Otherwise known as the roaring twenties in Germany. I would exhort you to go, go, go but, uh, it closed today - so sorry!


This room. I usually spend most of my time in the 19th century rooms at the Met, but they were mostly being renovated and I decided to switch it up and spend the afternoon in the American wing - boy am I glad that I did! Maybe I love the wallpaper so much because I picked out something very similar for my very first decorating project - my dollhouse!

Coming home to find my March Domino smiling up at me from the table outside my door.
I'm going to read it right now.