East Austin Studio Tour is Here!
Last year we posted a preview of Austin's annual East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) that takes the city's best art offerings and condenses them all into one weekend of amazing creativity and fun. Thi...
Last year we posted a preview of Austin's annual East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T.) that takes the city's best art offerings and condenses them all into one weekend of amazing creativity and fun. Thi...
What do you get when you mix incredible wines, unforgettable foods and one of the most cutting edge design stores in Austin? Aviary's newest project: an in-store wine bar!...
Whether you're looking to add to your art collection, need some color inspiration or are just looking for a fun place to view art, we've got a couple of ideas......
Because we just can’t get enough of inspiring, modern homes and can’t help bragging about all the awesome architectural projects going on around Austin, we must mention that Austin has three stor...
We love getting the chance to peek at gorgeous, modern homes in person, so we're so excited to announce that tickets to AIA Austin Homes Tour 2009 are now on sale......
The 10 finalists for the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award has been announced. This prestigious Australia design award aims to assist emerging designers with establishing their careers. With 10 o...
The Station Fire in Angeles Crest has been threatening whole communities this past week, and over the weekend I happened to be at a bachelorette party with alot of people being directly affected... ...
One of our favorite pastimes is losing ourselves in the fantasy of living in a modern little prefab on a hill. Often, reality comes crashing in when we realize how expensive prefabs can be. Then w...
Julius Shulman, one of the foremost photographers of modernist architecture, passed away at his home in Los Angeles this past wednesday. As fans of modernism, architecture and photography it's hard t...
We normally bring up the Huntington Cactus Garden as inspiration but lately there's been something else attracting attention at the expansive garden. It's the largest bloom in the world and it's set ...
We've covered projects of Austin's Community Partnership for the Homeless before, as well as other activities and organizations in the affordable housing movement here in Austin. They've recently cha...
click for more picsWe were first introduced to Madison ad Grow's non toxic line of handprinted wallpapers at last year's ICFF. They were a brand new company started by two friends with backgrounds in...
Russel Wright is best known for his colorful American Modern dinnerware -- the most widely sold American ceramic dinnerware in history -- manufactured between 1939 and 1959. The simple, durable style...
We've been having a great time receiving and posting entries from all over the world and across the Southwest, but have to admit we're a bit bummed that our very own home town is not representing. Whi...
Last year you helped us give thousands of dollars to Habitat for Humanity, your non-profit of choice. This year we're asking you to help again. For three years Apartment Therapy has been teaming up wi...
A few months back, Laure shared a rumor she'd heard that CB2 would soon be opening in LA. Looks like rumor is true. Last night we hit up a movie at the Sunset Laemmle and saw this wrapped around the...
For many, the dream of actually owning a house someday is nearly impossible to achieve, due both to low incomes and expensive home prices. We've shown you some organizations around Austin working to ...
How do you know that an underground movement has gone completely mainstream? Two words: Martha Stewart. From the gal that brought the art of homekeeping out into the open, comes a crafting blog that ...
"What are you doing, you madwoman, you're wrecking my apartment!" - Hugh Grant as Alex Fletcher in Music & Lyrics Did you know that there was a report called "State of Our Unions"? We didn't! After ha...
We stopped by Henry Road's outpost in Studio City last week and found tons of great fabric, lovely little gifts, journals, soaps, allysa ettinger vases, jonathan adler salt and pepper shakers and an a...
We've been big fans of DWR for a long time (it's where we first met the ATLA team for the smallest coolest party back in 2006) but can't say that we own very much of what we love. Their Tools For Liv...
The Green Life opened last July as a smart design meets earth friendly boutique carrying all kinds of organic bedding, non toxic cleansers, and things for home and garden. This week they launched the...
We were returning Sunday morning from our weekly trip to the Hollywood Farmer's Market when my better half noticed a gent donning a large placard advertising a single-family development called The Gat...
It seems too good to be true, but we just discovered a new company that custom prints anything you design onto premium cotton or upholstery fabric. So you can start you own line of quilts, curtains, ...
Flatpak is a modern prefab system that can be customized to create a variety of homes. They work with a base 8' wall that is one story high and then build using those modular walls, eight feet at a t...