Pop and Color! P Green is let loose in Miami and drums up the Meyer Brothers as E Louie finds a new high tech home in the Garment District and A Raver flies up to Vermont to tempt us with outdoor greenery that is still ahead. We like the PEEKS into people's home, but wish there were MORE PICS (no pun intended).
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- Miami Design Duo, Sunny Side Up: Doug and Gene Meyer's "hot tropical style" is put on display, showing off these designers and Miami in it's best, most visually stimulating light.
- The Borrowers - Looking High and Low: Jacqueline Heer's raw loft on 36th street gets turned into a "sleek, still hard-edged place softened by golden light" with the help of SchappacherWhite. It's a little cold, but the conviction and materials are impressive.
- Homes and Gardens, Living in Harmony: This is about JULIE MOIR MESSERVY, a garden/home designer and author of a number of popular books, including a new one called "Outside the Not So Big House" that just came out. In her words: "The big idea of the whole book is that the house is not a home without the landscape."
- Personal Shopper - New Cleaning Tools: Vacuums, gadgets and gloves for cleaning, but the Dyson is still unbeaten.
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yeah, answering the anarchist call to $5000 a METER peony sculpture fabric in the NYT today.
fun H&H tho
I just got a Dyson for my birthday (the purple one they call the animal) It is an awesome machine -with awesome power- yes -it does eat long hair rugs -but you just use a diff attachment or pull the damn thing back towards you instead of pushing forward. I did my first full vacuum last night with it(mostly wood floors and tile) - and good lord -I can't believe what it sucked up. I will say this : Final judgement -suction is as strong as my father in laws shop vac.
I am impressed!
tanya
I'd like to see a follow-up to the anarchist house in 15 years. I somehow doubt she will actually use the home equity to keep the collective going. Unless she really wants to get a job at costco when she's 70.
(and who is she sleeping with? that's my other question)
How sweet... it's now chic for a 52-year-old middle-class homeowner to get her dinner from dumpsters.
My husband has an old Gene Meyer tie that I've always loved, and I recently wondered what he was designing these days...now I know!
All in all, a great H&H.
I didn't actually have the stomach to read the anarchist house yet . . .
I am looking into getting a Dyson for spring cleaning. Is that the best vac out right now?
sam,
I think there are pitched battles over Dyson v Miele
The anarchist. My, my. Oh My.
My choice would not have been this, but to each her own. My path for a mid-life crises would have been finding a nice young man to play with. Not one to feed. And certainly not out of a dumpster. As to where she will be at 70, hmmmm, probably not on the planet.
Diversity I guess.
I thought the anarchist article would really get on my nerves (I have only just read it) but, apart from initially think that the writer was suffering from some kind of delayed catching up on lost youth that was not misspent that I have seen some coworkers in the past go through as they tried to live the life they thought they should have been living in college (phew), I could see some of her point og view. I still think it is a bit forced and that when she does shuffle off this mortal coil and her equity gets absorbed into the collective there will be ppl who will start fighting over that large amount of "cash" and what she and others are holding together will quickly unravel. Money, or rather of a lot of it tends to do that, even to anarchists I suspect.
If she lasts that long that is. I would be interested to see where she is in a few years time.
JamiePup: Good writing!