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LustList: Tod’s
(bonus points for the red being in patent.)
From Tod’s.
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LustList >> Art Over Bookshelves
At top by Jan Showers.
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For the Library >> Take Ivy
I’ve come to realize I like most fashions inspired by a uniform, whether jobs or sports– nautical, tennis, cricket, nautical, aviation, military, etc.– and the Ivy look depicted in this monograph really is a kind of uniform. A prep uniform. Key pieces, fabrics, patterns, and combinations, just tweaked slightly over the years.
On top of being full of great photos, this book has a really interesting story. Here it is, according to The Pursuit Aesthetic:
“Described by The New York Times as, “a treasure of fashion insiders,” Take Ivy was originally published in Japan in 1965, setting off an explosion of American-influenced “Ivy Style” fashion among students in the trendy Ginza shopping district of Tokyo. The product of four sartorial style enthusiasts, Take Ivy is a collection of candid photographs shot on the campuses of America’s elite, Ivy League universities.
The series focuses on men and their clothes, perfectly encapsulating the unique academic fashion of the era. Whether lounging in the quad, studying in the library, riding bikes, in class, or at the boathouse, the subjects of Take Ivy are impeccably and distinctively dressed in the finest American-made garments of the time.
Take Ivy is now considered a definitive document of this particular style, and rare original copies are highly sought after by “trad” devotees worldwide. A small-run reprint came out in Japan in 2006 and sold out almost immediately. Now, for the first time ever, powerHouse is reviving this classic tome with an all-new English translation. Ivy style has never been more popular, in Japan or stateside, proving its timeless and transcendent appeal. Take Ivy has survived the decades and is an essential object for anyone interested in the history or future of fashion.”
I think the Japanese-American fashion angle is fascinating, and The Trad adds this:
“It’s no secret that some Japanese are obsessed with the Ivy look. The word “Trad” has it’s origins in Japan and I for one think the Japanese have taken care of the style far better than we ever could have hoped. Hardly surprising in a culture where Tradition rules, the Morning Coat is still worn and life is lived and appreciated for small moments.”
Take Ivy will be available in August and pre-orders are available on Amazon now.
via The Pursuit Aesthetic
and The Trad
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I Love Maps >> Vintage Classroom Maps
I really love maps, of all kinds, practical maps on road trips, treasure maps, historical maps, fictional maps in books like The Hobbit, etc., and this type, from Style de Vie at the LA Mart, recently caught my eye.
Style de Vie has a collection of old French classroom maps, the kind that look like they are printed on thick, waxy canvas and could be pulled down from a roll-up mechanism. The ones they have are from French colonial days, so the colors have aged and have this appealing nostalgic tone to them, as if they are lit with pink bulbs.
The font, outdated borders, total lack of topographical detail (sometimes historical maps have so many lines, and these are pleasingly simplistic and solid-colored), and French country names add extra appeal.
The Style de Vie ones, which are framed really nicely, are out of my price range, but I’ve added them to my LustList and am going to be on the lookout for them at fleamarkets… if you come across any, let me know!
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LustList >> Nixon Watches
Nixon watches, here.
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LustList >> Wrapped Up in a Book(shelf) – Pt. II
Part I here.
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Cosmic Overlap
I really liked the light fixture in Gjeline (next post), and was wondering who might sell something like that and oddly enough I came home to an email from Diane telling me to check out this dealer, Obsolete, in Venice– WHERE I WAS TODAY. Gjeline is in Abbot Kinney, which is in Venice. Weird, right?? So that was the first coincidence.
Then, I went on their website, and lo and behold, under their lighting section, there is a fixture so similar to the one from Gjeline!
Ok, so it’s a dealer in the same place as the restaurant I liked, with the same kind of fixture that I saw there… I’m thinking this is more than coincidence… Maybe that’s where Gjeline got theirs? And actually, they might have gotten like all their tables and chairs from this place, all of Obsolete’s stuff looks reminiscent of the restaurant.
But the crazy coincidence is that Diane, who is in Atlanta, and didn’t know I was going to be in Venice or that I would really like this industrial fixture (and the whole look of the restaurant), told me to check them out.
Lots of cool stuff in their inventory…
Like this staircase architectural model. I have an absolute thing for these. I love them. They are on the lustlist.
These two above are from France, early 20th c.
This one is an architect’s model for a complicated top to a building. Also France, early 20th c.
Cool desk lamp! Like the caged bulb. America, 1940s.
Italy, 1930-1940s.
I love this!! It’s a collection of 28 horns for sale. As a set. Brilliant. Italy, circa 1890-1910. Wouldn’t this be cool displayed on a wall of a restaurant?
And one last item of interest, an American military daypack from the 1930s. Simple perfection as far as these kind of backpacks go– a totally worn canvas with leather details and olive green straps.
More from Obsolete, here.
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Loving the work of…
In the kitchen?
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LustList: A Fireplace in the Kitchen
With most of the country snowed in, wintry rooms have been on my mind, and it’s brought to mind one of the things on my life LustList: having a fireplace in the kitchen.
It seems like a no-brainer, why wouldn’t you want a fireplace in your kitchen, but apparently it’s pretty rare. In all the images of kitchens I have saved on my computer (572 of them), there are only THREE with fireplaces (I save them when I find them)!
My sister actually has a fireplace in her kitchen, and I think it’s so wonderful on a cold night, when it gets dark early, to be in there cooking and hanging out with the wood crackling in the background.
Love the rustic-meets-old-money feeling of this kitchen… it’s actual form is pretty basic and definitely wasn’t laid out by a “kitchen designer”– it’s a big rectangle with no island, it’s not tricked out with built-in cabinets or a fancy sink, but it’s packed with copper pots, subtly dressed up with a big oil painting in a gold frame, and finished off with a La Cornue range.
Doesn’t it feel like it’s in a house in the English countryside where you actually might cook something you’d literally hunted and gathered on the property that day? While wearing your Barbour coat and wellies? (Although I do have one major gripe with it. Click the jump if you want to hear it, or don’t if you’d rather just appreciate it for what it is.)
Kitchen at top from Domino Magazine (also love the painted wood floor in that one), unfortunately don’t have the origin of these other two… I’ve had them in a folder forever!
Ok wwhhyyy did they paint the ceiling in between the beams bright white??? Why? And why the pin lights in the ceiling?
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LustList >> Wrapped Up in a Book(shelf)
I sat next to Rebecca Orlov, a contributor for Apartment Therapy LA, at an event at the Pacific Design Center last year, and she told me something fascinating. She said that two of the most searched terms on Apartment Therapy are “mirrored bedside tables” and “windowseat.”
Apparently, those two things strike a chord with a lot of people. Have you noticed how some things just do that? Like certain antique cars– there seem to be certain elements of design that just universally resonate with people.
And then we have the things that just totally resonate with ourselves. For me, Vespas and Mini Coopers. They are the perfection of transportation. My list could go on and on, there are certain things I obsess over like that, that I think are perfection in their respective category. I guess that’s a lot of what this blog is about.
But anyway, one of those things for me are built-in bookshelves that wrap over doorways, sofas, windows, you name it. If it’s a bookshelf, and it wraps up and over something, I like it. No, I love it.
I am in love with this bedroom. I don’t know that I’d ever do my own bedroom so feminine, but I die over the wrap-around bookshelves. Duh, I know, but these are really awesome: they wrap around a corner. And a window, and a door. In fact they just envelope this whole bedroom. Imagine how basic this bedroom would have been without them– just a little box. And I love how that one wall just gets a teeny bit at the top and how the books are stacked clear up to the beams. Love the deep salmon color, the oil painting, the plain vintage-looking linens, and the toile screen.
They wrap over a windowseat, that’s extra points.
Moral of the story, if you’re going to build in bookshelves, build them up and over something. Anything. Snug a sofa in underneath them, take them up and over a doorway, whatever. It will make the room ten times cozier.
Update: See Part II of this post here.
Top image from Atlanta Homes Magazine, 2nd is FPN via Cup of Joe, 5th is Charles Faudree, 6th is from Skona Hem via Desire to Inspire. Others are old scans and I don’t remember where they’re from!
