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Salvador Dali would like to wish you happy weekend.
I'm planning to do something zany and totally out of character -- like laundry.
Or maybe like adopting a baby anteater.
They are about the same level of likelihood.
Have a good one!
[Swedish Home, Laughing Squid]
Y'all, I don't know what's wrong with me. In the last week I have stopped and started posts on art, posts on architecture, and a GIANT post on couches (which I will finish, and it will change the face of the earth -- trust). But every time I near completion, I just get glazy eyed and tired and bored with myself. Summer has reduced me into a sensory cellular mass, an oozing ball of goo goo ga ga, "look I see pretty colors." Pathetic. But I'm rolling with it.
My new summer place. You know they serve Pimm's Cups with a splash of sassy there.
I am always a sucker for vintage glass wares.
Words cannot express my utter and complete obsession with this lake house.
Don't forget to look at the curtains...
I am very interested in that tray table and patterned book. Can you tell I've been trained to look at the corners of images?
I'm sorry my summer brain is not capable of anything witty or pithy or even grammatically correct. I can feel your laser like disappointment searing my already guilty conscience. Please don't beat me.
I promise next week will be better. I think.
[AD Russia, Elle France, Kay Douglas via MFAMB, Interior Design, via The Zhush]
It's official. I can completely and totally stop perusing the internet for any more art or design. It's all over. My mind has been blown and there's no topping it or going back.
Are you sitting down? Seriously. Get ready for me to tell you what's happening here:
So, here's the deal: Cuban photographer Abelardo Morell creates these images ON WALLS via a little process you may have heard of called camera obscura. Ok ok, backing up: Morell blacks out the windows of rooms then cuts a small hole in the fabric he's used to shut out all the light. That pinhole is used to expose the window's view onto the opposing wall. He then takes a picture of the projection using a large format camera. The film often takes up to 10 hours to expose. Yeah. It's bananas. I don't even know if people say that anymore but I feel it's appropriate here.
Ok. So I might maybe not shut down the blog tomorrow, but it's going to be a long long time before I stumble upon something this mind-blowingly good again.
UM, PS. How amazing are the views from each of those rooms, by the way?