What's Black, White and Yellow All Over?

 Well hello there sexy Design Crisis patrons, my name is Jennifer Perkins and I’ll be your guest host for the day. Typically you can find me blathering on over at Naughty Secretary Club, but today I thought I would stop by and try to amaze and excite you with my current favorite interior color combination black, white and yellow. I love it so much that I had to split the post between Design Crisis and Naughty Secretary Club as to not hit the “oh my Gawd that is an obnoxious amount of pictures” limit on either blog. So if this post tickles your taste buds cruise it on over to my site for a little more. First let me preface this with the fact that I love vintage home decorating books. A stroll through memory lane in a few vintage design books is a real eye opener as to where some designers got their inspiration.

Take for instance fashion maven and design whiz Kelly Wearstler. She is not immune to the black, white and yellow bug from the looks of these pictures from the Viceroy Palm Springs Hotel.

Perhaps like myself Kelly owns a complete set of The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement and refers to the scrumptious pictures often for a little inspiration. I know I do!

I like to think that the adjoining bathroom at The Viceroy looks something like this.

Spill a little of your 40 out for your dead design homies. Domino Magazine featured many a black, white and yellow room before their untimely demise.

More vintage goodness to further prove my what comes around goes around point.

Um ya rad wallpaper ahoy maties. The squared off window treatment curls my toes too. Reminds me of the curtains in my daughters room.

No home is complete without a jungle room. Seriously I have one, I just call it my Florida Room.

While searching Flickr I stumbled upon a few black, white and yellow rooms. Well ok this one does not have any white. The stark contrast of the yellow bed against the black wall makes damn sure that no matter how drunk you are when you stumble into your room at night you will not miss the bed when you pass out.

I want to roll out of that bed and have breakfast in this room, again from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement

After breakfast I retire to my study to do a little blogging and see whats happening on Twitter and Perez Hilton.

Last, but not least, I want to give a big black, white and yellow to shout out to Erin and her new Le Bebe. We miss you, hurry back!

Fauxhemian: The Most Annoying Thing I've Ever Seen

I don't care what it takes I am going to make sure my house is quainter, more charming and more idealistic than anyone else's.  Even if it kills me.

From the LA Times: Visitors announce their arrival by striking a mallet on two bronze disks, suspended from the twining branches of the coral tree. Tim made one from the base of a salvaged clothing store fixture; the other is a recycled cymbal. He prefers their music to a regular doorbell. “One has a very resonant sound, and it goes on for 15 minutes,” he says. “The other makes a beautiful, contrasting sound.

Gag me.

In other news, today is our Friday and tomorrow is our Thursday.  The lovely Jen Perkins will be guest blogging her heart out with colorful interiors that are not to be missed.  Much prettier than that gross chime, so, do yourselves a favor and stop back by, you can just walk right in, we don't have a pretentious fauxhemian doorbell set up or anything.

PS. Faux + Bohemian = Fauxhemian.

Fauxest

Last time I was in Albuquerque I drove past a lawn that was landscaped entirely in fake plants.  As in: little plastic indoor-sized plants and flowers stuck in the dirt with no rocks or grass (real or fake) in sight.  It was easily the most hideous yard I ever done did see and thinking of it still sends shivers down my spine.  While working overtime to maintain control of my gag reflex I begged the universe at large to please keep such monstrosities out of my sight.  The universe challenged my resolve by presenting me with this:

A bedroom designed by Marjorie Skouras.  I struggled, I fought, I really really wanted to hate it, but, well, aside from the real flowers, I pretty much love it.  It's ridiculous, totally impractical, and those greens are gross together but I can't help but revel in the fantasy of waking up there every morning.  What's a fake branch in the eye every now and then if the trade off is the opportunity to live in an unliving, unbreathing fauxest (fake + forest, huzzah!)

This got my wheels turning so I decided to web sleuth more rooms with fake wilderness.  I have to admit, I didn't find much - go figure - but I was very picky.  The trees (trees only) had to be HUGE and no wallpaper murals allowed.  3D only thankyouverymuch.

HG&P interiors tempted my tummy with this lovely, albeit temporary, event installation with monolithic trees

Here's another view incase one wasn't enough to satisfy your "wedding party I could have had" fantasies. 

Unfortunately, this is the only other example I was able to find.  Here's hoping (fingers crossed extra hard) that the trees in TWBA's offices are fake.  If not, I'm going to let the mossy abstractions on the walls count.  Plus, that grassy shag rug really drives the fauxest vision home.  Let's take another look:

Klein Dytham Architecture converted an old bowling alley into what might be the only office I'd ever be willing to work in.  Ok, it's good, but not that good.