Remains

Remains Lighting is a great source for both new and antique lighting and found architectural object. Here are some of my favorite items from their recent acquisitions:

  

A.P.C. + Anthropologie

What do you get when you mix A.P.C. + Anthropologie?

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Anthropologie teamed up with the minimal French fashion house A.P.C. to create one of a kind hand-made quilts. They are made up of scraps from A.P.C.'s shirting fabrics and 

Anthropologie's hothouse quilts. No two are exactly alike.

Let's Party

20x200 is a great place to buy inexpensive art. I love the photojournalistic style of this piece by

Jessica Craig-Martin titled Let's Party:

A statement from the artist about her work:

"I first started to take party pictures for a very wealthy New York businessman who wanted a record of his jovial and vulgar drunken office parties. From this work I was hired by Anna Wintour to cover the New York party scene for Vogue. I feel that a well examined detail can tell the whole story better than a pulled back, general shot of a scene. The angle of a shot can convey the particular combination of levity and anxiety one can feel in social situations. My art dealer once called it my "drunken lens." The photographs that work best for me have a sense of human fragility. Unrealized dreams; our perverse optimism as we swim upstream like salmon in order to mate, find love, security, money, power, to retain youth against all odds and evidence. One is never so naked as when dressed for a party. Why do we leave the house, over and over again, only to feel the glamour we anticipate evaporate as we approach it? I came to fashion photography only through this personal work: It has never been an ambition or a particular interest of mine. It can be very enjoyable when one is offered the freedom to really go mad creatively in these contrived situations. I believe I am basically hired to bring that sense of louche spontaneity to a shoot that I find out in the real world. However, no image I create for fashion can ever be as satisfying as finding a real moment that encapsulates my ideas of what makes a good photograph. The found moments, not the manufactured ones, are the gold." 

The Black Kitchen

I have been working on a lot of white kitchens for clients lately.  While they are always sophisticated,  classic and timeless, there is something so chic about a black kitchen:

Gwyneth Paltrow's Kitchen House Beautiful

Image from Lonny

Image from Elle Decor

Unknow Source

 Image from Domicillum Decoratus

The Hand and Bamboo Door Handle

I adore these Hand and Bamboo Door Handle from the British company Soane. They would be brilliant on the doors of a study:

Papabubble

What could be better that a store that mixes my kids passion with mine?

I can't wait to take my girls to Papabubble when I am in NYC in November. This hip candy store on Broome Street is designed like a science laboratory, complete with Erlenmeyer flasks filled with colored liquids used to make their hard candies. Everything is handmade right in the shop, so if you are lucky you can actually witness the candy making right before your eyes.

Photos for Remodelista by Seth Smoot

Happy Halloween

Amangiri

A friend of mine just came back from the Amangiri  resort in Southern Utah.  Having posted on the Navajo trend this season I thought this would be a very fitting follow up.  I hope to make it out there at some point, it looks unbelievable!

“Every surface of Amangiri – the second North American property from the luxury hotel group Amanresorts – seems to suggest not only an aesthetic but a meditative state of mind.  Encircled by dramatic, sun-colored rock formations, the compound is set on 600 acres of southern Utah wilderness alongside eroded hoodoos and 5,000-year-old petroglyphs.  Its polished, low-slung buildings, dyed up to 10 times to match the nuances of the landscape, house 34 streamlined suites with timber-and-rawhide furniture and smooth concrete walls that frame surreal sweeps of sculpted sandstone…  It’s an instant classic for the less-is-more crowd.”

Travel+Leisure’s The World’s Greatest Hotels Resorts + Spas (Book), USA