Please excuse my absence! I'm cobbling together a whole new site launching very soon.
Before I get into the trials and tribulations of a recent cross-country move from NYC to LA, I must point out that I love, want, and NEED a Macramé Palapa Chair from Pacific Wonderland to usher in West Coast living. They're available at Kneeland Mercado Co should you want to infuse your own home with Cali style.
Whatever happened to '80s Brit band YAZ (also known as Yazoo)? They're the synth-ier, slightly happier precursor to The xx and they're my inspiration this week. Behold them in all their asymmetrical, Bowie-mulleted, neon-goth electro glory...
"Don't let it get you down. After all, no matter how you feel, you have to live with people. You have to live with yourself, too!"
I came across Emily Miranda's jewelry line via Grey Area, a NYC showroom with a fantastic webshop. Cobbling together works fit for a more regal Little Mermaid, her latest collection is all about seafaring accessory GOLD.
I can't decide if I want to live in or avoid the worlds depicted in German artist Till Gerhard's paintings. Lush, haunting, enigmatic, and menacing, they could be pleasant dreams or subtle nightmares. Either way, they're riveting.
Food, fashion, cats, and literature--these are some of my greatest loves in life. Swirl them together and you have Eatable of Many Orders, a Japanese fashion label that takes its name from Kenji Miyazawa's short story, "Restaurant of Many Orders" about a cat who seeks vengeance on hunters. Wishing to inspire buyers to dig deeper and question the provenance of the clothing, Eatable of Many Orders presents their collection as you would food and its list of ingredients. They state that they would like to introduce products in such a way as to provoke the question, "What's in it?" Colorful, ladylike, well-crafted, and interesting, even their accessories leave you wanting to know more.
Artisanal Ansatz is a French design duo interested in surrealism and ballpoint pens. They painstakingly recreate graphic paper grids that are adorned with simple-lined images of everyone from Woody Allen and Rene Magritte to David Bowie and Serge Gainsbourg. (And one cannot forget Snoop!) Get 'em in their online shop or over at Colette.
Loving Grace Lee's colorfully minimal illustrations of everything from Tokyo bar fronts and travel essentials to mini prawns and her own hodgepodge workspace.
Scenes from my work days (and lazy days) in this early summer twilight...
Errant clouds often give way to Oscar Peterson sounds while golden sunsets pair nicely with balcony rosé and the latest issue of Lula. It's easy to write sweet nothings and/or impassioned scribblings in a faded Shakespeare notebook with a pencil that smells of 1960s Beverly Hills pink. And though I can't seem to shake the afternoon coffee, it's no bother when cooled by a side of green apples slathered in whipped peanut butter from Canada. Summer reading? The Paris Review with a dash of mini Tolstoy.
