July 2010
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“Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull...”
– Dorothy Draper, In the Pink
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“You don’t have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common...”
– Dorothy Draper
Much respect for creating my favorite doorway EVER, and for the record, I completely agree with this quote, but I think shit like this is why Frank Lloyd Wright called her an “Inferior Desecrator”.
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New York Post: $995 gets suite life with Eloise →
By JENNIFER GOULD KEIL 7:48 AM, July 29, 2010
“Break out the champagne — better make that chocolate milk — because the most famous resident of The Plaza hotel is back home today.
The Eloise Suite is open for business, and for a mere $995 your kid can spend a night there.
Or make that $2,045 a night if you add an adjoining suite for Mom and Dad.
The hot-pink and black ...
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“There are two ways of spreading light — to be the candle or the mirror...”
– Edith Wharton
PRO TIP: A third way of spreading light would be to Recommend Me for Tumblr Tuesday today!
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Before & After: Dollhouse Table Redone
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The Peasant Dollhouse
Below are twelve pictures of my new(-to-me) vintage 3/4 scale dollhouse, circa 1967. This house was imported from West Germany by FAO Schwarz and featured for many years in the catalog, starting in around 1958. It was obtained (as well as furniture by Dora Kuhn) by me from a friend of my grandmother’s. I haven’t been able to find too much online about the house, but from what I have...
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18thCentury Tumblr makes a very good point:
18thcentury:
Tea Canister, 1765, Wedgewood (via)
A dear friend and I went to a local art museum a few months ago. While looking at the museum’s vast collection of 18th Century Meissen Porcelain, I noticed that she had a wide smile on her face. When I asked her what was funny, she said that she was just thinking about how the porcelain was decorated in the fashions of the time; and if we still...
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Shack Attack
Hey so remember that Victorian gingerbread style mini cottage in the Catskills featured in the New York Times last week? Everyone went ape shit over it all over the internet? I think I want to attempt something like that with this clapboard shed in the backyard of my country house. But not until I finish my dollhouse. By then I might be more prepared to go larger scale (while still on a pretty...
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Eloise at Conde... →
swandiamondrose:
“I am Eloise. I am twenty-three.
I am an intern. I work at a magazine.”
This is not design related but it is a must-read for all fans of Eloise
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John Baldessari “The Cremation Project” →
Not mentioned below in original post, my favorite part of this project is how he baked some of the ashes into cookies and served them.
John Baldessari, Cremation Project, Corpus Wafers (With Text, Recipe and Documentation), 1970, Jar of cookies; original affidavit of publication; recipe for making cookies; public newspaper announcement containing a notice of cremation of his early works...
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