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LustList >> Calligraphy Return Address Stamp
Love these custom calligraphy return address stamps from Primele…
Available here.
Via SwissMiss.
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Designy Gadgets >> Little Horn Speakers
For the designy music lover, these “Little Horn” speakers by Specimen Products might be the perfect present. And, they’re actually not so little– they’re three feet tall, making them, according to Specimen, the ideal height for projecting sound when placed on the ground.
And, you can totally custom color them.
via Cool Hunting
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LustList >> Clare Vivier bags
As my dear friend Kristin put it perfectly, it’s really difficult to find a bag in a gorgeous leather that’s not barraged by logos. I would add to that, and also doesn’t have obnoxious hardware everywhere or other details you’ll be sick of in approx. 3 months. I’m after bags that’ll last and that I’ll still like ten years from now and will ideally only get better as they age.
Clare Vivier bags get it just right, especially the perfectly simple one above in that amazing leather. Immediately on the LustList.
Clare Vivier bags here.
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LustList >> Limited Edition SS '10 Bensimons
I have a bit of an obsession with Bensimon tennis shoes. I think they’re fantastic with just about everything, and even though I already have three pairs, (there’s a really good justification I promise), I’m pretty sure I really need these SS ’10 limited editions. They’ve never done this natural linen color with the darker piping, and I’m mad for it!!
Sadly, the site where I found them is sold out of my size (37), so if anyone knows another place to find them… well, my birthday is on Tuesday. Just sayin.
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LustList >> Outdoor Showers and Baths
I’ve always loved outdoor showers, and seeing this article in Travel + Leisure about the “world’s sexiest hotel showers” has had me thinking about them recently. Out of the fifteen showers T+L selected, only a few were outdoors! I couldn’t believe it. I think an outdoor shower is one of the best bathroom-upgrades a house or hotel room could have… There’s just not much better than taking a shower under the blue sky (or stars) with a breeze grazing your skin.
At top, the Sossuvlei Desert Lodge in Namibia. Above, Cocoa Island, Maldives.
The article reminded me of a hotel I stayed at in Merida, Mexico, in the Yucatan, called Rosas y Xocolate on a work trip in the fall. My absolute favorite thing about my room was the giant outdoor stone bathtub seperated from the rest of the bathroom by only a large glass door. The image below is from another room in the hotel, but shows the concept. The outdoor space around the bathtub is actually quite large, so you didn’t feel too closed in.
Another hotel we stayed at in the Yucatan, Hacienda San Jose, also had outdoor bath tubs, but with a much different feel. While Rosas y Xocolate is urban, hip, and modern, Hacienda San Jose is jungle-y, exotic, and ancient feeling.
Click through for seven more outdoor showers…
The following images are from Remodelista…
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LustList >> Chalk Paint Walls
I love chalk paint walls. Beyond their practical use, I love two very specific things about them.
I love a highly pigmented matte paint, and chalkboard paint has exactly that quality.
Secondly, I love handwriting, so the fact that having a chalkboard adds handwriting as a major component to a room is pretty cool.
Don’t you love it when you walk into a restaurant and the menu is written on a chalkboard? That always seems like a signal to me that I’m going to like what’s about to happen. It just makes the whole experience feel a little more intimate and personal.
Above, in a modern setting, it looks perfectly clean and contemporary, while below, in a more bohemian room, when covered in tear sheets and lots of eraser marks, it looks casual and artsy. (Also, brilliant way to allow kids to write on the wall. Oh, and I love the shelf that goes above the door in the photo above.)
I think it actually gets even more appealing after lots of erasing has occurred and it has those milky swaths and swirls criss-crossing it, but it can also have a really graphic quality if kept clean and dark like the image below.
Click the jump for more…
This person takes the practical usage very seriously.
I think these two are actually paintings, but I kind of like the idea of hanging a giant chalk paint-covered canvas or board on your wall, as though it’s art, and then people can write and draw on it and it would continuously change.
It could even take on a very Cy Twombly-esque appearance, like this one below…
Chalk paint available here, or here’s a spray-paint version (never tried this), and you can use these to get any color you want.
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LustList Overload >> Paris Apartment
This Paris apartment has so many things on my LustList in one place, I’m dying! Though it’s not 100% my style, it’s freakish how many of their pieces are things I have either been collecting or am dying to have some day… I’m feeling like I’m design-soul mates with this couple.
Or at least now I know who my competitors are on ebay when I search for these things!!
A collection of portraits, chevron-patterned wood floors, a Saarinen tulip table with a marble top…
A Chesterfield sofa, built-in bookshelves…
Old leather chairs, old maps as art (look over the bed)…
(here’s a better shot of the map– it’s an old plan of Paris), salvaged industrial lighting and seating (see welder’s stool below, science lab lamp above, heat lamp below)…
… and even old luggage and trunks and wine crates.
I couldn’t believe it! Each picture I got to, I was like, “no way is that a ____ in that photo.” It just kept getting better. And that’s not even mentioning the fireplaces, huge windows, amazing molding, or the fact that it’s in Paris… because who doesn’t want all those things??
See more photos and the interview with the couple, Gabriel and Olivie Wick, here.
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LustList >> The Ultimate Guest Book
Just stumbled upon this portable photo booth below, and I’m pretty sure I’d like not only to have it come to every party I ever throw, but actually, I’d like to just buy one for my house. Wouldn’t that be fun?? And when you have people over they could go in and take pics? Who doesn’t love a photobooth?
As the author of the book at top says, “I have never met anyone who didn’t have a fond memory of moments spent in that little house”
It would be super cool to just have an actual real old one with black and white film, but this company is so clever– the photos automatically upload to an online gallery, so your guests could take their printed ones home, but you’d have a record of all of them– it would be like the best version of a guest book for a house ever. You’d have so many fun memories!!
Unfortunately, the company is based in Australia, and the photos are 11MP (!), so I’m guessing the whole contraption is pret-ty, pret-ty spendy. But if anyone ever wants to get me a really awesome gift, a photobooth is definitely on my LustList. Just sayin.
PS- If you love photobooths (does anyone not??), and you live in New York, you’ll want to check out this guide to photobooths in the city.
American Photobooth by Nakki Goranan, which is made up of photostrips she found scouring flea markets and the internet. (Also on my LustList, so if you need a small gift for me, this might be more attainable.)
Fourth, one of Amelie Poulain’s photobooth messages from the movie Amelie, which you should defffinitely see if you haven’t.
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BlingLust >> St. Kilda Jewelry
Loving the jewelry by St. Kilda…
Doesn’t it look like the diamonds are foil-backed like antique jewelry? They have that antique-y silvery glimmer to them.. not quite as clear as new diamonds. I love that.
Some of the pieces they sell, like the earrings above, are actual antiques. You can really see the silvery look to the little diamonds on those.
Black diamonds!
St. Kilda collection here.
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LustList >> Bar Carts Pt. II
More bar cart and tray eye candy…
Above, an image from Tiffany Table Settings. Bonus points for the fact that it’s in front of a bookshelf with art hung over it! It’s a triple-point lustlist item.
Eddie Ross
Scot Meacham Wood’s apartment (aka tartanscot)
See the bar tray, right in the middle of the arrangement? Also, look closely– that is a mirror behind the sofa (I thought at first that somehow there was another room back there!), and that is a trompe l’oeil curtain swagged over it. Clever.
by Richard Lowell Neas, via Peak of Chic
