Tastemakers >> Jerry Zipkin
1972. Zebra rug, dark lacquered walls and ceiling, loads of art on the wall. A fixture in his day who hung out with the likes of Nan Kempner, Nancy Reagan, and Bill Blass. The man had style.
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Random Acts of Creativity
Real Books
January 23, 2012Loving this random act of creativity. Last year, husband and wife design duo Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp and Sean Ohlenkamp undertook a project to reorganize their bookshelves by color (something I myself do...
Random Acts of Creativity
A Murmuration of Starlings
November 7, 2011Remember this post about posters of collective nouns? At the time, the phrase “a murmuration of starlings,” was one of my favorites, and I liked the accompanying poster as well. And then today,...
Random Acts of Creativity
The Patient Gardener
October 26, 2011My time to work on Wonderlust has been incredibly pressed recently as things with Cultivate are taking off (very exciting, but very busy!), but I had to share this with you, it’s one of the most...
Graphic Fix
Word as Image
October 17, 2011A delightful, thought-provoking project by designer Ji Lee– a new book called Word as Image. In his words: “When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our...
Masters and Their Crafts
Roost + Cultivate Wines
October 10, 2011I love photography like the above… that dinner table in candle light… I have an obsession with shots like that. So it’s particularly awesome when those shots also include your wines!!...
Masters and Their Crafts
My New Roots
September 27, 2011I have a new obsession: this food and nutrition blog called My New Roots. It’s been around for a while, but I just discovered it, and I’ve been staying up at night reading it. Seriously. In...
Style Files
RRL’s Vintage-y Lookbook
September 26, 2011As Miss Moss said, there have been an influx (onslaught?) of vintage-inspired lookbooks recently, but as Ralph Lauren tends to do, they really nailed the details on making the style of this lookbook for...
Arts Visuels
Sketchtravel
September 22, 2011What a wonderful, brilliant, cool concept! Sketchtravel is a project that has taken one sketchbook around the world to 60 different famous illustrators, with the end foal of giving money to charity. Each...
Arts Visuels
Yvette Van Boven’s Recipe Illustrations
September 21, 2011If I knew how to draw and stuff, I would make these for all my friends and family for Christmas. How sweet would that be? Ask them their favorite go-to recipe, illustrate it for them, and frame it! Voila!...
Interiors
Modern Cottage
September 19, 2011Loving this modern cottage in the woods of Ontario. I’m all for cozy, traditional cottages, but how wonderful to have these giant windows so that during your trip to the woods, you get to see the...
Style Files
Fall Style & Wardrobe Lustlist
September 16, 2011Ah I love fashion week season. So much street style inspiration floating around!! Above were some of my favorite shots from the last week, including, of course, perennial favorites Emmanuelle Alt and...
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Recently On…
September 14, 2011Recent eye candy favorites posted to the tumblr page. (If you were wondering, is not a real tumblr, but since it’s an image-only page, it was the easiest way to name it after we had to change it...
Arts Visuels
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields
September 13, 2011I am completely taken with these Lightning Series photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto that I understand absolutely nothing about. I think that’s part of why I’m taken with them. The combination...
Interiors
Mykonos Villa Crew
September 12, 2011Today I’m daydreaming of… Greece. I came across the exterior of this house and a couple of interior shots a while ago, and posted them here, and I recently discovered lots more photos, and...
Graphic Fix
Art of the Menu
September 8, 2011I’m excited about this new site, Art of the Menu, which is compiling menu designs! How fun! I’m still in love with Cynthia Warren’s menus, which I emailed them to submit to the...
Interiors
Johanna Ekmark
September 8, 2011Fell in love with this peak at a Scandinavian summer house shot by Johanna Ekmark. From what I hear, Scandinavians are big on having simple little weekend/summer getaway cottages. I’m a fan of that...
Destinations
Canopy & Stars
September 7, 2011This site is so much fun to browse. Talk about wanderlust. Alistair Sawday, author of the Special Places to Stay travel guides, has a new site called Canopy & Stars that features very off-the-beaten-path,...
Arts Visuels
Street Art Round-Up
September 6, 2011Awesome round-up by Street Art Utopia of the 106 best street art photos of 2010. (106… guess they just couldn’t stop at 100?) Check out the gallery for more, these were my favorites out of...
