If you are over 21 & have had your first home away from home, you’ve spent entirely too much time (but arguably not that much money) in the maze-like monstrosity that is Ikea. Now that it’s 2010, I invite you to try their Japanese fraternal twin: MUJI. I had never even heard of MUJI until [...]
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I-K-E-A in Japanese Spells MUJI
Posted in design, shopping, tagged japan, minimalism, muji, new york on March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Wood and Glass and Love
Posted in art, creativity, design, no but seriously, tagged Anthropologie, Art Nouveau, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Clydesdale Bank, Frank Lloyd Wright, Furniture, Wallpaper on February 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The older I get, the more acute my taste and appreciation for gorgeous furniture develops. Really, it has its base in my life long habit of fantasizing about my grown-up home. But more so now, I can actually start to think of these things in more practical terms, as my age (my age, not my [...]
i think fixies are impractical
Posted in design, no but seriously, shopping, tagged alternative transportation, bicycles, fixies, republic bike on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HOWEVER a fixie that can be converted to a single speed with a simple flip of the back wheel is a wonderful idea. republic bike is a wonderfully colorful company that custom makes bicycles fitting the prior description according to your very own chromatic preferences. they come in three sizes (although those of us under [...]
Droog Design
Posted in art, design, tagged art, Artkrush, design, Droog, Furniture on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll admit that I have yet spent the due amount of time pursuing the droog design website, but I must say I am very very curious. Droog, which means “dry” in Dutch, lends this brand the dada-esque opportunity to serve as a resource for both functional pieces and witty art gallery material. Their most recent [...]
adventures with legos
Posted in design, tagged christoph niemann, legos, new york, the new york times on February 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
christoph niemann loves legos. so do we, really. see more, here. [ stefanie ]
shanks a lot
Posted in design, food, shopping, tagged chicago, Etsy, foodies, greeting cards, letterform on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the holidays may be over, but card-giving season never ends. we found letterform, a chicago-based graphic design firm, and then we found their foodie greeting cards. so, damn, witty. and cute, and quirky, and the perfect piece of paper to give to all your foodie (or non-foodie, but funny) friends. [ [...]
the red balloon was my favorite childhood story
Posted in art, design, music, photography, tagged beach house, florence tetier, illustration, johann besse on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
florence and johann are from switzerland. she is an illustrator and graphic designer, and he is a photographer. put on some beach house, and take a gander. sigh. [ stefanie ]
joyeux thanksgiving
Posted in design, fashion, tagged anna wintour, carine roitfeld, fashionista, french vogue, gossip, marc jacobs, texas, the bible, vogue on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
we usually try to keep our fashion obsession from turning gossip-y. that is, we don’t care who a particular model is dating or whether or not marc jacobs is having his holiday party this year and if there is a rumor that anna wintour will no longer be editor-in-chief of american vogue soon, we don’t [...]
karl lagerfeld is crazy
Posted in art, design, fashion, tagged chanel, colette, free free free, hong kong, karl lagerfeld, london, moscow, new york, new york magazine, paris, performance art, the gap, tokyo, wallpaper magazine, zaha hadid on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
as residents of virginia, philly, and virginia, we are always bitter when super things happen in new york and we can’t make it to the city in time to attend. i.e. it really sucked when, after spending quality time with the original paris-based colette, we didn’t have a chance to see the gap + colette [...]
