November 2010
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"Andrew Mason, Groupon’s chief executive, declined... →
Lets discuss building miniature dollhouses, Andrew Mason.
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1950s Tin Dollhouse Exterior
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Menu designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh &...
Willow Tea Room
Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms
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The Peacock Room, ca. 1876-77
From the London home of Frederick R. Leyland, now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian.
Designed by Thomas Jeckyll and painted by James McNeill Whistler
This room has a pretty colorful story behind it - see the two peacocks? They’re supposed to represent the artist and the patron, one holding a paintbrush and the other a bag of money, fighting. That pretty much sums it up,...
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Instagram...
…is fun for taking pictures of the Painted Lady
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Here is a beaded suede fringe curtain I made and some bedding I’m working on for the painted lady dollhouse. Curtains are only beaded at the bottom because I’m lazy or minimalist, you decide. I may suck it up and replace with fully beaded strings, but don’t hold me to it.
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Looks like somebody (the dollhouse) is getting...
I’m not sure how big these actually are but that’s okay, it’ll just look like the dollhouse has a big a$$ piece of Jonathan Adler. I’m leaning toward the white porcelain poodle.
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Ebb and flow...
catalogliving:
Gary and Elaine ran down to the water, giggling like children in anticipation of the first dresser of the season washing ashore.
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I like sexy rooms, and I don’t think all-beige is very sexy.
– Billy Baldwin
So I just learned that “greige” is a legitimate term, and not just a word people invented to make fun of the popularity of rooms in various shades of neutral overload. Greige. I’m sure a little of it goes a long way, and to echo Mr. Baldwin, I don’t think...
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Story Time
Vitruvius on beauty vs. brains:
From the introduction to Book II of Vitruvius’ Ten Books on Architecture
1. Dinocrates, an architect who was full of confidence in his own ideas and skill, set out from Macedonia, in the reign of Alexander, to go to the army, being eager to win the approbation of the king. He took with him from his country letters from relatives and friends to the principal...
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