Showing posts with label bamboo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bamboo. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Wendy's House

My friend Wendy had already taken a classic ranch house and updated it with
some great finishes...carrera marble, subway tiles, seagrass, etc...
She's good like that...but she needed some stuff. Correction. Some tough stuff.
Wendy has three boys.

So, we started with the entry. I had an old runner in my storage unit. Of course.


I found this gorgeous dusty blue chest from Legends of Asia
and had a custom bamboo framed mirror made.


Next came this West Elm lacquer tray and these adorable
old Chinese lamps from Pewter Rabbit Antiques.


New shades and finials were a must.


Wendy had this little built-in and custom carrera table already
(I told you she was good). I just had a cushion made, found these
111 Navy chairs (made from recycled coke bottles)...


...and added a few pillows in Rose Tarlow's Medici. Easy.


The dining room. Millbrook pendants from Currey & Co. LOVE these.


Pillows in Lee Jofa's Twister and a linen bench cushion.


Limed gray oak table by Zentique.


Plus, two Eames Molded Plastic chairs in Java. Done.


Living room. New slipcover for the ottoman in Peter Dunham's Ikat in
Peacock. Trim used around the bottom was cut from the pillow fabric.
I spent awhile figuring this out. I know it looks obvious but I was briefly tortured.


 Jasper's Indian Flower.


Inlaid tray from the wonder bunnies in India via Wunderley. Of course.


Scribble bench.


Recovered in velvet from Econo Sales. $12.99/yd.
See people? I can be frugal. Not often but it happens.


Plus, Wendy's gorgeous paintings from Catherine Maize.





And it's a wrap.


Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Chalk It Up To Good Taste

I just had this little blackboard made...


using this little gold bamboo frame...


for my cutest little fancy pants client.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Ahoy.

Verdigris bamboo, pewter grasscloth, pirate and carrera marble.


Sunday, February 14, 2010

Hallway My Way


Hallway? Check.
One sunburst mirror from Carver's Guild.
One shagreen covered gilded table from Julien Chichester.
Two vintage chinoiserie silk paintings framed in bamboo.


Two vintage reverse painted chinoiserie lamps.


Two vintage Baker chairs covered in Sea Cloth for Kravet.

Monday, August 31, 2009

OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

Don't ever say that I don't do my part in fueling the economy. Don't say it. 'Cause it ain't true. Just ask big wallet honcho guy. Today's progress consists of...

On the left...an old Chinese lunch box. Actually, I don't know what the hell it is but it looks like ancient Tupperware with cool dragon hardware. This will now live between the Widdicomb chairs at the house of Silkwood. I just wish that it was insulated...then you would only have to reach down and pull out a cold one from your camouflaged Chinese woven fridge while barely moving your tush. Ancient Chinese secret, huh?


...and on the right is a Thebes stool. Egyptian Revival meets Arts and Crafts. Madeline Stuart made it lipstick sexy here...


...we might lacquer it like she did. If we do, though, this recliner is going to have a hard time keeping its Jack in the Box...if you know what I mean.


Last but not least...just as big wallet honcho guy rolled back into town...anticipating some sort of surface to put up his big tired wallet honcho feet on. We. Find. This.


A random bit of mid-century-ness. A bamboo bit of loveliness. Modern but classic. Loving. It. $250. Not to mention that it looks a lot better than I would look in the form of a coffee table. Whew.


Not that I wouldn't make a really beautiful coffee table. I just wouldn't cost $250...and I snore.