indigo spring preview

Went to the Indigo Spring 2012 Preview on Thursday — always a treat! The theme for this year is a trip to Greece, as Heather Reisman said in her introduction to the collection, and that was evident in all the lovely aqua and sky-blue hues everywhere.

Makes one long for bare-skin, feet-in-the-sand days!



P.S. I'm lusting after that gorgeous piece of driftwood in the bottom pic (I won't even get into how much I want the journals in the same pic — I have so many journals, I've put a moratorium on any more journal buying!)

great book design: we, the drowned by carsten jensen

Book: We, The Drowned
Author: Carsten Jensen
Design: Lisa Diercks
Publisher: Thomas Allen & Son

schoolhouse appeal: neutral accessories

These accessories from Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co. are so appealing with their raw, organic-looking tones and natural, sometimes unrefined textures.

The company has showrooms in Portland, Ore., and New York City but, unfortunately, only ships within the continental United States. Got any friends there?








Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co.

anthropologie wall mural

A lovely vista awaits whenever you walk into a room with this gorgeous mural.

Who knows what flights of fancy or pleasant reveries it might inspire?




Anthropologie

library lust: downton abbey

Who wouldn't want a library like the one in Downton Abbey?

And what about that couch? Isn't it something?



Downtown Abbey

lori ellison drawings

I came across these drawings recently and fell in love with them.

They're done by Brooklyn-based artist Lori Ellison on notebook paper, so they're quite intimate in scale. The patterns are also small-scale and intimate and almost hypnotic in their repetitiveness. In the notes for a current exhibit (see below), Ellison says that she is interested in "Proportion based on the lyric, not the epic — that is where the juice lives…. Art that
is the size and resonance of a haiku, quiet and solid as the ground beneath one's fee…. A discreet art, valiantly purified of
the whole hodgepodge of artist's tricks and tics."

If you happen to be in New York between now and Feb. 11, you can catch Ellison's work at the McKenzie Fine Art gallery. Her work is also in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, but is, unfortunately, not currently on display.



Lori Ellison

tory burch bracelet

I really don't need very much more than I already have, if anything at all, if I'm being honest. But, of course, pretty little
things catch my eye from time to time, and I can't help but think, I'd like to have that!

This Tory Burch woven rope bracelet is one of those things; I show it here in orange, but it also come in navy (love!),
pink and yellow.

So pretty, so effortless.


toryburch.com