When in LA: The Eveleigh
I’ve never even been to the new restaurant The Eveleigh in LA, but I’m posting it anyway solely based on the design and the logo.
Depending on the weather, or more likely, your mood (because let’s not kid ourselves, it’s really rarely cold enough to need to be inside in LA), you can choose from an open air dining area with rustic wood floors, striped button-tufted banquettes, and a canvas tented top and sides, or a homey inside room with a brick fireplace, leather arm chairs, and wood beam ceilings.
Both options are alluring, and the food is described as “21st century LA comfort food.” Hilarious in it’s meaninglessness, and yet nonetheless appealing.
Katie Ermilio
Cream and Christmas
Style Crush: Billy Reid
Billy Reid, winner of the 2010 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award, has an aesthetic at once so warm, authentic, classic, tailored, and rustic that I wish I could bottle it.
His clothes are so well-designed that they don’t seem new– they’re just so right that you assume they must be vintage classics from another era. It’s just as if they always were, they’ve always existed, and you just happened to find them now. It’s like when you can say about a decorator that their houses don’t seem “decorated”– it means they feel lived in, that they tell a story and have a past, and that someone didn’t just come in and buy everything at once– and it’s a feat to accomplish.
That’s they way both his clothes and his interior spaces feel. Nothing strikes the eye as trying too hard, they’re just perfectly executed classics with personality. They’re inspired by a rich history, but not stuck in the past.
And to make you love him even more, he lives and works in Florence, Alabama, where he also opened his flagship store (he’s a native Southerner– born in Amite, LA). Above and in the gallery, images from his Florence store, as well as the Bond St. store, his office/design space in Florence, and his wares.
Photos from Robbie Caponetto, nyt, selectism.
LustList: Kilim Pillows
Just discovered these gorgeous antique wool kilim-covered pillows via poppytalk, and now I’ve got the major wantsies. Sukan, the etsy shop, is like a treasure trove, and the wares are totally affordable (considering what they are).
Marc Jacobs (before & after)
I’ve had a bunch of images of Marc Jacob’s apartment saved for a while, and when I went to create this post, I realized that they didn’t all look like they came from the same apartment… and then I realized that the shots that show Marc himself showed two very different Marcs. Interestingly, they are of his first and second Paris apartments, before and after his transformation into a tan, fit, and meticulously groomed version of himself. Here, his first apartment.
Had you forgotten that he used to look like this?? I had! He looks like a baby! Would you ever see him in this outfit or with hair like this today? Never! Pretty crazy transformation.
Click through for shots from his current Paris apartment. Apparently after the personal-image transformation he also went on an absolute contemporary-art-buying bender, as his previous apartment had almost none and his current apartment his practically overflowing with Ruschas, Currins, etc.
The man as he is today. Yes, that’s an Ed Ruscha painting behind him. Pretty intense image, no? Shot for W Magazine.
I like the two shots above, they look homey and warm, but other than that, I like the old apartment better… for example, I like the room below about 0%.
??? Is this even in the same apartment? Where is all the Parisian architectural charm???
Same question here… why is this so not charming and very, like, Hyatt Regency Chicago? (Although I will point out that Richard Prince above the bed. Having a Richard Prince above your bed is kind of, um, absurd. Those things hang in museums. And apparently over Marc Jacob’s bed.
Conclusion: he drastically improved his own appearance and his art collection, but somehow took a downgrade in the taste in interiors department. Do you agree?
Tastemakers >> Badgley Mischka
[original Elle Decor article online here]
Sugarbird Sweets (and Teas)
