I couldn’t resist these stunning photographs – the work of photographer Michael Eastman (who’s work was featured in the Summer 2010 issue of ARTNews). This is architecture with an eerie quality – stunning spaces, strangely empty, and luminous, guaranteed to make you wish you were there: I’ve been thinking about tiled floors lately, especially cement tile, ...
I happened upon this amazing tin ceiling on a coffee run in Haiku the other day: I hadn’t realized that I was getting my coffee in the the historic Bank of Hawaii building – a hidden treasure just down the Kokomo Road from the Haiku Cannery (opposite the post-office). The building has gone through several transformations since ...
The power of paint demonstrated in Sophie Conran’s Bayswater kitchen – without that lipstick pink backdrop it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting – just another collection of eclectically cluttered open shelves and neutral colours. It’s interesting how the pink has stayed put (apparently chosen by Sophie’s daughter) while other changes have taken place – the chairs, ...
Flowers on the windowsill and summer rain outside. Doesn’t that instantly make you feel warm and safe? I live in a Mid Century house that manages to be completely devoid of window sills – well maybe there are some but they are 4″ above the floor – not much use for flowers, or anything else for ...
There’s no question nature has all the best color palettes. Well, probably nature has all the color palettes, full stop. But the acid green and yellow accents in this John Lewis of Hungerford kitchen are the exact colors of Spring here in Northern California: It may not be officially Spring yet, but it certainly feels like ...
I’ve been frying my brain all weekend working on grant applications for my favorite non-profit organization, so I can barely string two words together right now. But it hasn’t escaped my notice that Spring has been springing energetically outside my window, with pairs of birds and squirrels and blossoms everywhere. Seems as good an excuse ...
Monday of the last full week in January has been calculated (albeit dubiously and by suspect sources) to be the most depressing day of the year. While Mondays have a lot to answer for, it seems really unfair to blue to associate it so firmly with depression. Today, I’m helping blue fight black. I challenge ...