In a busy week, you may find it hard to get to H&H until the weekend. Not to worry, this week's edition is a gentle and romantic introductio to the new season that is waking us all up. It makes great weekend reading, but you may wish you had the print version.
•A Studio That Refuses to Think Small: Perfect for our contest this month (methinks someone at the Times has caught the small is cool bug), Giuseppe Pica's 300 s/f apartment is a work of art and the story is great too.
- Starting Over in a Caliph's Castle: Rumor has it that Mitchell Owens took over a year to track this story down, but we're glad he did. Tahir Shah's home in Casablanca is a lovely respite from the city. When do WE get to move to the country?
- Lee Day and Ursula Endlicher's apartment by nArchitects has a beauty shot in Currents.
- Lost Found Art in Stanford, CT - a source for artwork made from vintage collectibles. Odd but cool resource.
- Our friend Jim is in the Paper! Jim's Garbage Scout hits the big time!
- Marianne Rohrlich tracks down Spring Linens and we like these from Marimekko that are sold at Crate & Barrel.
- Q. I have a back porch to furnish on a tight budget. Where to begin? Outdoor sources from Mitchell Owens.
- Shrubs, With Tenderness and Chainsaw: "These chilly spring days are perfect for planting" [obviously we're talking about last week] says Anne Raver in a great season opener.
- A Feminine Mystique All Her Own: At home with Phyllis Schlafly
That should be StaMford, CT, not Stanford.
I know because I spent a year doing the reverse commute out there for work... Makes me angry just thinking about it..
[Actually, it's not really that bad]
One thing I re-discovered this week is that the same pix are not in both the online and paper editions of H&H. I read "The Studio That Refuses to Think Small," online before I got the paper and found myself wishing there were some additional pix. Then, there they were in the paper version. And of course, sometimes there's little videos online.
I love the concept behind Lost Found Art, and their Web site has some wonderful photos, but I can't help thinking, "Save yourself the dough and buy your own industrial pulleys, gears, ice tongs, and microphones through eBay!"
Of course, as the eBay Scavenger, I'm biased. But they *are* charging $1250 for a collection of 6 pulleys.
--Molly S.
It's nice to see that Phyllis Schlafly's taste is as bad as her politics
Outdoor sources from Mitchell Owens.
There is way cheap new outdoor furniture at Ikea. I got a circular last Sunday. It all looks really nice.
Omigawd! all that red floral! And why is she dressed like that? Calling Stacy and Clinton. Calling Stacy and Clinton. Emergency. See the lady in the red floral garbage can. May have mugged a Catholic schoolgirl.
I think for an 81 yo lady she's quite bright and reasonable. Her political views has nothing to do with her aesthetic tastes or her social style; I had a clients who fit "limousine liberal" label to a t and who were quite repellent to deal with socially.
Besides, I find her politics and her position on many issues, described in the article, coinsiding with mine.
So call me biased: I like the dialog of the blossoming sofa's arms and the mid-century modern chairs: continuity of tradition, expressed in different language rather than senseless innovation for innovation sake.
Does anybody know the dates of the issues of Int. Design and Vogue that featured the Sutton Place penthouse that inspired Giusseppe PICA for his studio that refuses to think small?
Thx
Jim the Garbage Scout is my new hero.
Tahir Shah's home is so ridiculously cool to me. [Note to self: Pick up the Caliph book and the AT book on this week's bookstore run.]