ich liebe dich*

my dear friend c has nominated this blog for a Liebster Award (thanks c!) i have known c for more years then i can count on fingers and toes. she is my rock. her blog inspires me to think carefully about the way we live, and more often than not teaches me something new. you can visit her here at retrench: poor cate's guide to frugal living.

bunklelife

jan and i have known each other a very long time... she has a cute house in north vancouver she is working on, always guides me towards what i should be listening to. and her cats crack me up. (i love you jan!)

rebbermade

rebecca is a long-time blogging friend. our time together stays in my mind and i know we will meet again someday soon. she is a talented artist, resourceful,and lives in beautiful corvallis OR with her beautiful family.

chasing bluebirds

leslie lives "just down the road" from me in long beach in an amazing mcm cliff may. with two beautiful daughters. they have a great cabin in the woods. and they travel. a lot. what's not to love?!

petite gourmand

this blog brings back many TO memories. she is a photo stylist with a great eye. i always enjoy her take on mommyhood and hearing where she has been for dinner :)

karkovski

kristina's blog is one of the first i ever followed. it has been exciting to watch her art evolve, and her kids grow up.


that's my 5. but i'm adding a 6th and wishful thinking...


sprawl: life in the san fernando valley

i realize that this blog might be defunct - but i am hoping to inspire my neighbors to resurrect it. i love what they have put up so far. and keep checking my feed for new inspiration from their garden/kitchen/bar...

*the only german i know btw. i learned it in a bar in dusseldorf in high school ;)

desert utopia

steve mcqueen's alexander

at home in palm springs...







a few of our neighbors still have original mosaic fireplaces. gorgeous. and we had the pegboard cabinets when we moved in here. unfortunately they couldn't be restored due to years of neglect.

found at life via making it lovely

this is it

the home of borge mogensen



spotted on pinterest



found here



pretty much my dream home. what we have tried to create.



our blue.



we had a curator from germany over this week. i was madly running around in preparation wanting everything to be just so for his arrival.

he walked in the door and immediately said "ahhhh. scandinavian!" we are doing something right.

made in L.A.

image via LA Times

Love this time lapse video of the move of the Eames' living room from their Pacific Palisades home (cum historic landmark) to LACMA as part of the exhibition California Design, 1930-1965: Living In a Modern Way, which is part of the larger Getty initiated exhibition Pacific Standard Time. (The Times did a great series on the Eames House and move over the weekend. Swoon.)

D could tell you a lot more (he's been installing work at the Getty), but as I get it, Pacific Standard Time chronicles the history of art and design in L.A. from 1945-1980. Venues throughout SoCal are participating. (We already took in the Beatrice Wood exhibition at SMMOA - so good.) The Getty will have two of my favourite pictures on display: David Hockney's A Bigger Splash, and Ed Ruscha's Standard Station as part of their exhibition Crosscurrents. (I'm told side by side even!)

The A&D is also going to have an Eames exhibition: Eames : The Guest-Host Relationship

So much good stuff to see this fall!

As I've said before, the Eames House holds my ideal aesthetic.

The most beautiful homes I've been in are those that tell stories.

{p.s. Do you know the book The House of Life? It is such a beautiful chronicle of such stories. A beloved gift from someone who lived with many stories.}

open open house

a visit to pierre koenig's Scott House

amazing vistas. and a perfect example of socal architecture. the indoor-outdoor connections blew my mind.








a few more pictures here.

listed with valley modern.

looking for some colour

we need some colour on the wall of our bedroom patio...

we are looking at a diy project with the girls this weekend. i think something like these would look very pretty hanging on the wall - and would make good use of our large stick collection.


by artist ginette lapalme originally spotted on poppytalk and living on my pinterest for a while now.

design inspiration

@dwell on design.


heath (these are going to look gorgeous on robyn and joe's house!)


locally designed moroccan-made cement tiles from Kismet


poolside inspiration by Form LA


Charley Harper


Alexander Girard


emeco and coke


chicken tractor by 100xbetter


the battery on my camera died so i didn't any more pictures.... but we did pick up goodies from wallter and fleet objects.

shelved

we are looking to reconfigure our "tv" room and thinking about additional shelving. the hiccup. our tv. we don't watch much. d thinks we should move it into the office and just have bookshelves. (we own a small library of books - housed throughout our home which we could consolidate.) but i like it near the kitchen (as it is now).  when it is on it keeps everyone in the "heart" of the house.

most of the inspiration sheets i've collected don't include a tv.

like this...



atlas industries


dilemma.

(lot's more inspiration collected at pinterest.)


{more backyard soon. the sun is hiding behind the clouds today so my pics all look too grey.}

inspiration on our bookshelf.

Artists' Studios by M.J. Long



Vera by Susan Seid, Jen Renzi and The Vera Company


Undecorate by Christiane Lemieux

this book

a current obsession.

the latest issue of Dwell - with an article on J.B. Blunk - didn't help it any. (Those who know me know how I feel about a man with a chainsaw.)




order it here.

hey d...

perhaps you could build one of these...





oh that barbara bestor. that domino 2006 issue has a permanent spot on my bedside table.

adobe oven

we ate outdoors tonight for the first time in a long time. as things started to cool down I started thinking of the fabulous outdoor fireplaces at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs:


via Ace

and how lovely it would be to be sitting by one as the sun set. in our own backyard.

I think we will adapt their design with that (with instructions) found on Sunset:


via Sunset

I'm imagining pizza dinner and gazing at the stars by the fire.


will let you know how it goes...

ahhh summer nights!

I've said it before

i ::heart:: barbara bestor

from today's LA Times Magazine