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.
Fine Fine Diamonds
Ok dudes, no time for a biggo long post because K-Dawg and I are going to check out some chairs for her patio. Exhibit A:
These are advertised as "Hanry Bertoia" chairs and they're priced at $140.
Say what?
For reals. And here's the scoop: if these are actually Bertoia Diamond Lounge chairs, they be worth MAD skrilla. Like, almost a grand EACH. At least that's what DWR is listing them at. But is the price $140 for each chair, or $140 for the set of four? Dunno. And I'm not calling ahead to sound the "oh shit, maybe I underpriced these" alarm. Also, are they just knockoffs? Because, according to the interwebs, knockoff chairs are priced at $140 each. Hmmmm, very suspicious. Also, I don't know whether to expect the real deal from a seller who can't spell Harry. Seriously, man... Hanry? Were you confused as to whether it might be Henry or Harry, and just decided to split the difference?
Cross your fingers and hope that Karly is about to score the deal of the century. And don't forget to tune in next week to see what happens.
Oh, and while I'm nagging you guys, be sure to leave a comment here by next Monday for your chance to win a super rad recycled tote bag from Poketo. I already have my jealous stink eye ready for the winners.
Happy weekend!
Still Alright With White
Every once in a while I catch myself totally aware of my love for a trend. I'll be completely enraptured with a color or a style and will go ape-shit crazy hunting it down and buying it up well aware, albeit sadly, that the love affair will end in one or two short seasons. I've been pretty whack-a-doodle crazy about white walls for a while. I keep waiting for it to pass, hesitant to paint yet another room in my house white, wondering what will come next. Well, apparently next up is white. Yep, 2 years into my love affair with crisp walls, I renewed my trend-vows when I stumbled upon the interiors of Nacho Polo. That's Nacho Polo Spanish designer, not to be confused with Nacho the Polo player from Argentina, who's hotty hotness was featured in this month's Elle Decor.
Let's see if you all are still smitten with white as well:
Ok, so this may be the meeting ground for every single trend of 2009 (hello bust and metallic gold tile) but you can't fight me on the awesomeness of this space. You just can't.
I am a fan of monochromatic texture. Especially if it's white and anchored by a sexy black lamp at the end of the hallway.
There's that bust again.
Prey tell, why would you paint your walls any other color with that sort of architectural detail and groovy view?
This must be the room we were seeing at the end of the white hallway. And this is a list of things I love: those chairs, that candelabra. Lovelovelove.
For those of you who need a little more pattern mixed in with your white (I'm guilty of this a-plenty) Nacho brings stripes to the game.
And what better color to accent your large scale soft core artwork? Yep, you got it.
So, what do you say? Are you dudes still down with white?