Oct 9, 2021 | PRELUDE
Breakthrough Covid cases happen and not all of them are as pretty as “a bad cold” or this insomnia produced triptych. I am double vaxxed and will pull through. The theme in the above image is “what our home is still missing”. If you think designers’ homes are...
Mar 7, 2021 | PRELUDE
Brutal Incongruity. Who woulda thunk. She did. That genius Kelly-West-Coast-Woman follows her own path, dares her own dreams, spins her own stunts, and it works. It always always works. How she pulled the Proper Santa Monica off was going to a neutral palette and then...
Feb 2, 2021 | PRELUDE
The side-kick of hustle would be Chutzpah. The wonderful Yiddish term means “extreme self confidence or audacity”, and if I were you, and you were hiring a designer, I would look, ask and demand for one with storied, historical and deliverable Chutzpah. Every year, on...
Jul 29, 2020 | PRELUDE
An arch is an arch is an arch An arch is an arch is an arch said no one to someone in particular. And yet arches have inundated our thirsty souls and spaces with their feminine shape and mystic form. In French one would say arches inspire « le Recueil ». A gathering...
Sep 14, 2019 | PRELUDE
Kelly Wearstler has gone and done it again Kelly Wearstler has gone and done it again. The just opened Proper Hotel Santa Monica has all the markings of an instant iconic hotel. Kelly’s proficiency and fluidity in the language of texture has reached new levels. The...
Aug 20, 2019 | PRELUDE
Mouldings are a thing you know. The kind of thing that keeps me up at night. In the past week I have being putting way too many neurons into the most important detail no one ever notices in a home. To me it was a sphinxes’ riddle: how to make an original moulding so...
