Welcome back, me! After a long and lovely family visit, I'm easing into the daily routine. Which means that I'm still feeling a bit lazy. I'm looking forward to catching up with y'alluns, but first I would like to thank the fabulous Collyn of ModFruGal for sharing her amazing, inspiring home while I was away. If you were a naughty imp and you missed her home tour, catch it here.
Greetings and formalities are out of the way, so let's get down to bizness -- rug cruising.
Rug? Who? Wha? Yep, it's a little hard to see past the tongue, but there's a rug in there. Somewhere. Designed by Bartoli, the Rosetum is part of Nodus Rugs' enormous, eclectic rug collection. Featuring everything from the merely mundane to the beyond bizarre, Nodus stands at the forefront of the art rug movement.
Take, for example, this twist on the traditional by design duo Studio Job.
Perished Persian's pattern is formed by tiny interlocking forms.
This one's named Eros. Since we are a familyish blog (cough), I'm not going to zoom in on that.
Nodus does feature an array of more classic forms, like these fine specimens:
But their most interesting offerings seem to fly in the face of traditional warp and weft rugs.
And then there's this dude from the ever zany Brothers Campana. Computer: zoom in.
Trend Alert: Brass Tray Table
There are very few things I remember about visits to my grandparents on my father's side of the family's house, among them: the smell of stale cigars, the sight of an impossibly tall Christmas tree that seemed to stick around all year, and this incredibly loud, incessant banging noise that can only be made when a child's hands discover the drum that was my grandparents brass tray coffee table. Granted the banging noises I remember were probably from my own fists, but somehow I'm not delighted by the sound 20-something years later.
So do you know what noise resounded in my mind (wrapped in the tinge of that yucky stale smoke smell) the entire time I flipped through this month's Elle Decor? Yep, you got it
Our cover girl, Ellen Pompeo has no idea what she's in for raising a child near that nightmarishly loud baby toy.
Perhaps she could take advice from the young couple on page 147 of the EXACT SAME ISSUE
Diego and April Uchitel have small children and they have this table which leads me to believe that they are not home much and they have a nanny. Or (cover your eyes margaret!) (I still love you!) Elle Decor hired the same stylist for both shoots.
Also, it means that this vintage table, having appeared twice in a single issue of Elle Decor, is hot hot hot.
PS Erin has one and I really hope she doesn't read this post today so she can learn first hand how fun it is when Ike takes his first lap around it.
Update and a Small Score
Last Friday I posted that Karly and I were setting off in search of treasure, more specifically to score a set of four "bertoia" chairs at a local office furniture liquidator. Within 2.2 minutes of my post, I was informed by several super sleuths that those chairs were naught but knockoffs. And they were. Have I mentioned lately that DC readers are GENIUSES? Because you are. Anyway, those suckers were priced at $140 each, which is ridic since you can buy them off the nets for that price. Lame. The same store did have a signed Saarinen side table, as well as a Saarinen conference table for the low low price of 2k (ha!), so if any of you Austin highrollers want the deets, ping me and lemme know.
The afternoon wasn't a total bust. Karly, Ike and I, did the thrift rounds and I found a black Kartell Componibili storage tower for $9.99.
I want to put Ike's toys in it, but not before it gets hosed out and scrubbed down. It be kind of filthy. And a wee bit scuffed. But I still like it. I'm thinking about removing the casters, though. Also, I promise it will not be forced to hold that ugly plant pot for longer than absolutely necessary.
Here are some pretty pictures of other Componibili units I scavenged from around the interwebs:
Dangalang, now I wish mine were white. Oh well.
Lovely readers, I am going to be out of town for the next week, visiting family and watching my baby brother graduate from college. But never fear, we have a big week planned for you. First, don't forget that you can still leave a comment for the Poketo giveaway until 5pm today. Second, Collyn of ModFruGal will be here on Wednesday to regale you with a tour of her AMAZING home in Nashvegas. Just thinking about it is making me drool all over the keyboard. Do. not. miss this tour. And last but not least, I have a fabulous Ask Sanders post ready for you to peruse next Monday.
Didn't I say it would be awesome?
Have a great week, and I'll see you when I get home!