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A Look Inside The 21c Museum Hotel

The 21c Museum Hotel calls Louisville, Kentucky home. Normally when you think high end hotels decked out with amazing artwork, we aren't usually thinking Kentucky—but maybe we should be. The...

Magritte's Depictions of Home

The rooms found in the paintings of Surrealist Rene Magritte are open to the blue sky, have locomotives in the living room, and play with scale to a level of absurdity. Yet, the rooms still have a f...

Look! Rothko-esque Landscapes

We've been spending a lot of time way out in the country lately. Early in the morning, the views from our house look like a Mark Rothko painting. The grasses are still covered with dew and the sun h...

Close-Up: David's Artful Detail

Quick, before Art, Craft, and Collection Month is over, we just had to unearth David's Andersonville Apartment from the house tour archives. This tour revealed David's extensive art collection, but ...

The Most Common Artwork

Lately, it may seem the Keep Calm poster is the most common artwork in people's homes. But there's one other piece we've spotted so often, across many ages, locations, and eras......

How-to: Clean a Painting
...with a Loaf of Bread?

When researching how to clean watercolor or oil paintings yourself at home, we were surprised to find this method that involves a loaf of bread......

Homes with Iconic Art

Okay, we're dreaming a bit with this post. But, as we wrap up Arts, Crafts and Collections Month here at Apartment Therapy, let's take a look at homes bestowed with iconic art. Just for the fun of i...

Gallery: Nathan Baker's Rupture Series

These photographs are as much like my life (okay, more like my life) as any of the ship-shape homes we aspire to here on Apartment Therapy. Sometimes, these things just happen. Chicago photographer ...

What Collections Have You Let Go Of?

Through the years we've collected many things. Movie ticket stubs, foreign sand (don't ask), cameras, lamps (lots and lots of lamps), crazy socks and vintage photographs, artwork and hotwheels. But...

Shelving With A Surprise!

We spotted this great shelving surprise and just fell in love with the idea. For spaces with high ceilings, or for in a location where you spend your time looking up (in bed or a great reading nook)...

This Weekend: Have A Self Portrait Party

Often times we take the artwork in our homes too seriously. Plus, not many of us that think we could make something for display, but our friends over at Croqzine have us thinking differently with an...

Inexpensive Industrial Lighting and Artwork Display

Painting by muralist and illustrator Scribe. Hanging artwork can be expensive. Frames, glass, matting.... the whole thing can turn into a great investment. But what happens when you have a small ...

Minimalist Motivational Posters

The Midwest Visual Agency combines motivation, Swiss typography, and mixtape rap in these calmly cool posters that also come in cubicle dimensions. Successories, meet the stepchildren....

Look! Our Very Own Michele Bosak

We love it when our blogging minds are on the same track. As we were wondering how we should post about our recent craft fair buy, Heather went ahead and introduced you to the artist. Now all we hav...

At On: Inherited & Modern Artwork

Upon moving into our home, my Husband's Grandparents gave us these prints that had adorned their walls for years. My Grandparents had the same exact ones so they were welcomed into our home with a w...

He Who Sins Wins from Keep Calm

A new and rather more lusty sentiment from the folks at the Keep Calm Gallery. ...

RianRae Eclectic Online Shop

We recently caught up with Jeni Crawford, owner of RianRae, an online storefront with an ever-changing French flea market/Anthropologie vibe by way of Wausau, WI. The spectrum is broad, from big-tic...

Inspiration: Plastic Bag Art

AT’s Green Month has us doing more than just looking for recycled stuff. It’s rethinking what and how we consume and how we can reconsume and reconsider. Example: plastic bags. ...

Sean Tubridy Prints

Prints by Mpls-based Sean Tubridy make us long for the aimless summer nights of our childhood, and the imagined comforts of mid-century life. ...

Door Plates by Blomus

The language of the stick figure is international. Graphic and informative, these types of signs are all over public spaces. This set from Blomus has a European (specifically German) slant but that ...

Souvenir-Inspired Housewares

It's a staycation summer. More of us are staying home to save gas, cash, energy, resources - or just to purge those closets and see an afternoon movie. Wherever summer finds you, stop by the Souvenir...

De-Junked Turns Stuff Into Art

De-junked makes affordable art out of your junk drawer, vacation ephemera or anything else you can't get rid of but don't quite know what to do with. Best of all, you're not even beholden to buy it. ...

How To: "Frame" Odd Shaped Artwork

With events like Renegade Craft Fair and websites like Etsy it's easy to end up with oddly shaped art or more pieces than we have walls. How does one display those odd sized prints that might not...

Flickr Finds: Oltremare's Collages

Oltremare is a member of the Spring Cure. We've seen a little bit of her dining room, but we got really excited when we started to see her artwork popping up in Flickr. She's been using collages to ...

How To: Hang Artwork in Clusters

This is the home of Liza Giles, a stylist for Designers Guild. We love the style - but what really jumped out at us when we saw all the images together on decor8 was the way Giles hung the artwork - b...

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