spring color III (john robshaw for duralee)

john robshaw with alissa from "the goods" and myself

snagged from duralee's facebook page...

spring color II (more westweek picks)

more color and pattern picks from our westweek adventure (pardon the blurry iphone pix. i tried):

we were blown away by this watercolor stripe from harlequin, available through nancy corzine.

comes in a fabric as well.

we also loved this print on dupioni, again from harlequin, available through nancy corzine.

chic chinoiserie print, dara, from manuel canovas. crap blurry iphone photo, i know

a detail from the canovas website, so you can actually see how pretty is is. 

christian lacroix for designers guild at osborne & little. how pretty would this be in a ladies dressing room, or even a sophisticated nursery for a little girl?

here is is from the designer's guild website, so you can see how beautiful it is in its entirety. this is the sort of fabric you can't just see a swatch of, you need to see it on a wing. 

another favorite was this inkblot ikat, again by christian lacroix for designers guild at osborne & little. 

so painterly pretty, yet modern and edgy. loves it, i does.

more to come kids!

spring color! (quadrille)

this display of new outdoor fabrics certainly caught my eye at quadrille during westweek:

and i wanted to shove all these little cut up swatches into my bag and have them all sewn together- would a quadrille patchwork blazer be too much? will someone go back with me to the showroom to create a distraction while i clean off the sample table? ;-)

i dunno what it is, but i LIKE it (westweek pick from espasso)

it's billed as a "coat hanger", but it's really just a phenomenal piece of large scale sculpture (which would look TERRIFIC in my entry btw- i have the height!). currently on display in the espasso showroom, "mandacaru" was designed by carlos motta, a brazilian designer who has designed many other chic (and slightly more functional) furniture pieces for the espasso line. there is a floorlamp by motta in a similar vein that i am currently jonesing for as well.

i think it might be my favorite thing on display at the PDC during westweek. crazy cool, and i was told it might soon be auctioned at phillips-de pury so i better start saving my sheckels!

how do i feel about blogs copying other blogs? (w/ fort street studio)

sometimes, i LIKE it!

my new bff, tula, of whorange, looking ever so adorbs in front of a beautiful fort street studio rug.

me, blatantly copying, two days later.

thanks to vinh deep of fort street studio, makers of exquisite rugs, for playing along with me. btw, LOVE the two colorful abstract watercolor-esque rugs, tula & i posed in front of, but the rug below was the number that got me all hot 'n bothered. i fell for its totally modern in your face pattern, but it's so reminiscent of traditional rug patterns, i can totally see it working with antiques and transitional pieces as well as more modern pieces. try not to freak out about the intense, near op art effect of the overall pattern, because remember, when in a room, rugs have furniture over two thirds of the exposed area so the intensity would be dialed way back. i mean a big, traditional chesterfield and some club chairs on top- too chic!

more westweek market pics to come!