Cheers for Toast

I finally received a copy of Toast in the post from across the pond. I could literally live in the catalog pages:

Working art

While I'm on the subject, these industrial silk screens make great pieces of art:























photos courtesy of Loft3F

Action

I'd take these, too:

photo courtesy of 1st Dibbs

Industrial lighting

Sure, it's all the rage, but industrial lighting will always have a special place in my heart.

photo courtesy of Olde Good Things

Objectified

Get a whole new perspective on that potato peeler, and everything else that fills our world. If the poster isn't convincing enough, watch the documentary trailer here.

Uncommon Objects

If you were drooling over all the beautiful (and some times bizarrely so) things in the New York Times' article on An Artful Clutter and you just happen to live in Austin, TX, then you, my friend, have hit the jackpot.

Check out Don Weir's retail space at Uncommon Objects and bring home your own artful clutter (and vintage western shirts.)

Around the (tin) world

photo courtesy of the New York Times

Boy was I off when I thought a giant vintage tin globe, available in one of our favorite neighborhood shops, would be coming home with us. It was only after we found the perfect place for it in our apartment and were giddy with excitement did we realized it would never be ours. Out of the question. We have to eat! And pay the bills! (We wouldn't have been able to do either.) I guess I had forgotten to look at the price tag the first go around...

Until I can bring a giant tin globe home with me (and all sorts of other wonderful things), I'll enjoy a recent NYT slide show of An Artful Clutter. Have anatomical models ever looked so chic?

iSnap - A look at Lonny, a look at home

Of course I couldn't help but notice the chairs featured on the cover of Lonny's inaugural edition are covered in the same fabric as our pillow at home. I think we are going to get along very well...

Treasure hunt

Enjoying the warm afternoon sun and cloudless sky, I went on a treasure hunt yesterday through my neighborhood... Saw all sorts of wonderful things at my local second hand/junk-tique shops like a giant tin globe, folk art wooden horse, industrial floor lamp and mid-century bar cart. Came home with white flour sack cloth napkins (an easy way to be green) and two small footed silver-plated serving pieces (a steal, all they needed were a shine). I love mixing typically formal pieces into everyday life.

When we hit the lottery

One of our favorite little games at home is "when we hit the lottery..."* ("we" being the operative word since I don't actually buy the lottery tickets. I buy milk. And laundry detergent. The things we won't need when the husband purchases the winning ticket and we travel the world and order room service, who will, of course, bring us milk and take care of all our dirty little socks.) But anyway, in our game we plan millions of ways to spend our millions. We start with first things first - gifts to charity and family (which are not one in the same, brother, if you are reading this. And I promise the numbers are based on after-tax sums.) And then we move on. On to quitting our jobs. On to traveling to exotic destinations. On to owning a home. Two homes. Three? And then, we fill them... industrial, mid-century modern, folk, vintage, re-purposed junk. All of it. Enter 1st Dibs. Here are a few things I'm keeping an eye on until my ship comes in:

photos courtesy of 1st Dibs


More posts to come on "when I hit the lottery". Because as I mentioned before, there a million ways to spend millions.

*Author's note: although cliché (and who doesn't love a cliché every now and then), I think it is important to note (since the brother does read this), that nothing could make my life more complete, not even a million dollars. It is overflowing with love, faith, happiness. More love, faith and happiness than I could even fill these pages with.**

**So who even needs a vintage Louis Vuitton steamer trunk that would make a fantastic coffee table?! Anyway, we don't play unless the lottery is up to at least $100 million, because after taxes and giving to family and charity, who wants just one million dollars?

Another one bites the dust

photo courtesy of Garden&Gun

Magazine lovers across America are shedding a collective tear with the closure of yet another design publication. Southern Accents, a magazine that defined style in the South for over thirty years, closes its doors with the September/October issue.

In a move that makes me miss Domino more than ever, the Southern Accents website will remain alive. So you can still get your southern fix (and check out Garden&Gun while you're at it.)