Dorothy Draper and I … How much we actually agree
Dorothy Draper – for those of you who hear about her for the first time – was one of America’s most famous interior designers. Her style? Hollywood Regency (kind of). […]
Old Tahoe – Taking a Page from the Style Guide of Yesterday’s Super Rich
Our family loves spending our summers at Lake Tahoe, a large, pristine mountain lake in Northern California. While most people are attracted to the lake and its surroundings by the area’s breathtaking beauty, […]
Book Review: The Elements of Modern Architecture
The Elements of Modern Architecture Understanding Contemporary Buildings Recently, my co-blogger Sabine made an observation that while interior design is relevant in creating spaces, it falls firmly under the umbrella […]
Style Guide: Mid-Century Modern
The mid-century modern style evolved over a 30-year “stretch from 1945 to 1975 — a period of extraordinary economic growth, which produced an appetite for progressive design in everything from […]
Style Guide: Japanese
Over the past couple of months we have written up a number of interior design style guides. The style guides focus on the most important elements of each style: their context/history, flooring, wall […]
Loving Batik
“I am a cloth maker,” Ms. Josephine Komara of Bin House quietly declares. This modest introduction belies the textile art that her company creates. Looking extremely elegant in a traditional black kebaya […]
And there be light – How a casual dinner conversation is transforming the Maasai livestyle
Light seeped in, listlessly, through a hole in the mud and daub walls of the Maasai hut. Sitting in the midst of the deep shadows that filled the hut, the […]
Scale – how to reconcile a big space with human dimensions?
When we recently walked through a stretch of forest close to the Dart River on New Zealand’s breathtakingly beautiful Southern Island, our tour guide suddenly stopped, and pointed to a […]
Colour – Tricks of the Trade (Part 2)
In the first part of this post we have looked at how colour can be used to make a room feel cosier and more intimate. We also saw how a […]
Colour – Tricks of the Trade (Part 1)
Have you ever longed to make your space appear cosier and more intimate? What about your daily agonising over that awful pipework, or the many electrical cables that so prominently […]
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