Starting a decorating project, like those doing the LA Spring Cure O8, we look for design inspiration everywhere: the silhouette of an outfit, a pattern in a piece of fabric, a sprinkling of flowers across a lawn, and the colors in a box of cookies. Especially if those cookies are French-style macaroons...
Inspiration: Macaroons
These delicate meringue sandwich cookies are more than just a delightful confection to eat, they can also, with their bright jewel box colors -- citrus green, hot pink, canary yellow -- be the starting point for a room's palette.
At Paulette, a macaroon-only bakery in Beverly Hills, their outline is stenciled all over the windows and recently, into a custom-made modern white bench
For Sofia Coppola, macaroons, from Paris Bakery Laudree, were the centerpiece of her style tray for Marie Antoinette
These color palettes from ColourLovers suggest some ways to combine their light frothy colors...
...which are echoed in these three sofas, from Designer's Guild that have us salivating.
In the meantime, we'll have to content ourselves with a box of cookies.
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[First photo, courtesy yuichi sakuraba; photos from Marie Antoinette via Columbia Pictures]
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mmmm. My boss got us green pistachio ones yesterday for St. Patrick's day.
view Laura's profile
i think it's macarons for the French-style. macaroons are the coconut cookies.
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I love the bright colors.
N.
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Lady J is correct.
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Giant macaroons in Biarritz:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/art_chel/1457815167/
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and art's photo confirms it. ;)
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The shop in Paris ( and Geneva ) is called Ladurée http://www.laduree.fr/, another good adress in Switzerland is Sprüngli in Zurich (they call them "Luxemburgerli")
http://www.spruengli.ch/Shop/luxemburgerli.php?part=zanox&zanpid=1087281405559314432
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