Patience

I bought a Paul McCobb stool by Calvin on ebay. For $200.

Then I stashed it in a closet. For 6 years.

Last year I pulled it out and had it reupholstered

with Dedar's cotton/linen/silk charcoal ikat.

Then I started looking for it's twin. They were out there but

they were no longer $200. Not even close. I finally found

one, though...from the adorable Nathan Turner.

Via One King's Lane.

It arrived on a giant truck.

The movers brought it in. White glove. Which was hilarious.

A little more ikat and a little more time and it will look just like this.

And finish this.

Lesson? Patience is a virtue. No, patience is bloody expensive.

A Little Thing

Sometimes it's the little things that do it for me.

This Paul McCobb brass stool by the Calvin Company did just that...

I had the brass x-base replated and the cushion reupholstered in

Dedar's silk ikat in charcoal.

Disclaimer: If it's little it better be good.

Straight Eye...

Bedroom project done!

Thom Filicia's Marshall Street Bed by Vanguard in gray looks absolutely

divine. My client might be turning 70 but the only mumu that he is interested in is his

headboard. It is upholstered in Holly Hunt's pewter cowhide. Moo. Moo.

Vintage side tables by Michael Taylor for Baker came from my storage unit.

The Robsjohn Gibbings slipper chair was refinished and redressed in

Larsen's butterscotch velvet to match the custom coverlet.

Lucite table and 19th Century Japanese screen are mouth watering.

The bolsters made from Dedar's silk Bukara ikat kill me, though.

Especially that one by the headboard with those silk tassels from Lee Jofa.

The kitschy lamps from Hawaii might not be my thing but for a guy

who spends a 1/3 of the year there and 2/3 of the year in rainy Oregon...

well, who can blame him.

We all get a little sun deprived here...maybe he is onto something.

Mad Cow

I am working on a bedroom for one of my favorite clients.

Marshall Street Bed in Geneva Gray by Thom Filicia for Vanguard. We got a little crazy and decided to upholster the headboard in Holly Hunt's Smooth & Silky Pewter cowhide.

Old school pillow tuck coverlet in Larsen's Soiree Velvet in Butterscotch plus one long bolster in Dedar's Silk Ikat Bukara.

Maybe a few square shams for height. In platinum satin. Quilted. It's gonna be hot.