Showing posts with label Dog art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dog art. Show all posts

Thursday, November 05, 2015

TBT - North Carolina Beauty

This is the home of Gastonia, North Carolina designer, Nancy Taylor Lynch.  As you will see, she has a definite love of color and the home is full of a pretty mix of chintz, ginghams, dog art and antiques......so warm, colorful and charming.

The kitchen window treatments caught my eye at the time and is probably what prompted me to tear out the article, although I really loved the whole house.   Some of you may recognize the kitchen from Pinterest.  Now you know whose house it belongs to.

Enjoy and have a great day!






















Beautiful Southern Homes
Fall/Winter 2006





Monday, July 25, 2011

Suite Dreams in Shades of Blue















Image 1 Charles Faudree
Images 2 & 4 Architectural Digest,
Image 3 Better Homes and Gardens, Image 5 Southern Accents
Images 6 & 7 Elle Decor
Image 8 Suzanne Tucker




Friday, July 22, 2011

Doggie Decor....um?




















Image 1 Melanie Acevedo, Images 2 & 6 Elle Decor
Images 3 & 5 House Beautiful, Image 4 Architectural Digest
Images 7 & 8 Unknown




Thursday, July 21, 2011

Gorgeous Garret Getaways

I've had an affinity for attics since I was a little girl.......what other room in a house could be so out of the way, so invisible and yet, hold such treasures?  I spent many a day in the attics of a friend and cousins dressing up in their mother's old dresses and high heels and wrapping myself in an old mink stole with the head on one end and the tail tossed casually over my shoulder!  What a glamorous life I could lead in those attics!

Then, as a teenager, my parents bought a farmhouse and it, too, had an attic......and, once again, I was drawn to it as a complete and private getaway.  It was completely unfinished, mind you, with nothing more than a window, an old victrola and a brass bed with stairs leading down to the kitchen.  But, what a retreat to read a book in, or just to be alone and dream about it's possibilities. 

Yes, even then at 14, I was dreaming of interior decorating and even though I had completely redecorated my own bedroom in our new (old) house with blue and white striped wallpaper, floor length blue drapes that I had sewn myself, blue bedspread, painted wood floor and antique furniture with a white faux fur area rug on the floor with pictures symmetrically arranged on the walls and lamps in all the appropriate places.......I still escaped to the attic.  When I think back to that time, I had a Laura Ashley like bedroom, but it was only 1964 and I hadn't really heard about British interior designer Laura Ashley in small town Nova Scotia......we didn't really find out about her until the late 70s or early 80s.  (In fact, in 1964 Laura Ashley was still experimenting on her kitchen table with silkscreened dish towels!)  This was completely my idea of how I wanted my room to look......all that was missing was the chintz.....I hadn't discovered that yet!

So, when I came upon the rooms below, they brought back memories of good times, coziness, comfort and possibilities!  A place to dream.........!













Love the dog art theme going on in the last four rooms

All photos courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens

Friday, June 10, 2011

Loving the artful designs of Kit Kemp!

Remember the Crosby Street Hotel and dog art I mentioned a few days ago?  I thought I would share that lobby with you, along with some of Kit Kemp's other hotel rooms and her private residence in London, while it is still fresh on our minds.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Crosby Street Hotel Lobby

Crosby Street Hotel Drawing Room
   
Crosby Street Hotel Lobby

London hotel suite

London hotel suite

The Kemp's townhouse living room

The Kemp's library

The Kemp's dining room

The Kemp's master bedroom

The Kemp's kitchen

Hotel photos via Firmdale Hotels
Kemp's townhouse photos via Elle Decor


Monday, June 06, 2011

Serendipity I

Ser-en-dip-i-ty - an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident; luck; good fortune.

I'm home again from a whirlwind trip to New York city last week that was fun, exciting, informative, fast paced, entertaining and, among other things, serendipitous!

As I told you in a previous post, one of my first stopping points would be Anthropologie......and it was!  Couldn't wait to get there and see what was new!  And it was great, as always. 

I was still thinking about the display of dog art I saw there last March (2010) when I visited....all done in paper collage.  It was unforgettable and I had thought of it many times over the past year.

So, it was with great interest, and very serendipitous, when I happened upon this book, Paperwork, by Peter Clark, as it immediately took me back to last year's exhibition at Anthropologie and I wondered if it was his dog art I had seen, or if it had been done by various artists (and perhaps inspired by his work)?  I've tried researching last year's Anthropologie's display since arriving home, and I still don't know the answer to that question, but in the process, have discovered a lot of information about Peter Clark who, until last week, was a complete unknown to me.

If I may digress a moment, I need to mention that I had also hoped to visit the Crosby Street Hotel while in the city, as well.  I have been following the interior design of Tim and Kit Kemp's British hotels for several years, so when I heard they were opening their first North American hotel in NYC a couple of years ago, I had to check it out online and when I discovered their Crosby Street Hotel had a fabulous dog art theme going on in the hotel lobby, I knew I had to visit there and get some photos. 

My plan was made!  While my daughter took her two children to visit the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side, I would dash over to the Crosby Hotel.....only 11 blocks each way!....I could manage that in an hour or two....after all, when we booked the Tenement Museum the week before we left for our trip, there were only 3 tickets left.....just enough for them and I would find something else to occupy my time while they visited the tenement building.  However, while we were standing in the museum shop and at the very last minute, another ticket became available and I chose to do the tour with my family.  There was no time left to get to Crosby Street, as we had other plans and the heat in the city was unbearable.....we had to get back uptown!

Getting back to Peter Clark, in doing my research on his work last night, I discovered that the Crosby Street Hotel is decorated with his dog art!!!  And furthermore, a new art gallery opened in NYC in April and it's current (and temporary!) exhibition is Peter Clark's collaged dog art!!    It's there until the middle of June! And the gallery, http://www.r-h-g.co.uk is situated on Mott Street, directly between the Crosby Street Hotel and the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street.  Rebecca Hossack has owned an art gallery in London for over 20 years and has exhibited Peter's work there in the past - hence, Kit Kemp's (London) familiarity with his work.

So, even though I missed seeing the Crosby Street Hotel (I will yet), and missed seeing his current exhibition at this new gallery, I am elated that I found this book and learned more about Peter Clark's fabulously creative work - designed completely with recycled paper - old books, letters, maps, junk mail, stamps, and any other paper ephemera he can get his hands on.  He's an artistic genius!

I hope you enjoy his art as much as I do!  And, oh yes, I enjoyed the Tenement Tour and the extra time with my family!

Paperwork by Peter Clark

Bostonian

Brown Eyed and Handsome

Darling

Sweet Great George

Sailor Boy

King Charlie

Pug in Pink

Pride of Stride




Dog photos via Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
Book photo via Kay Furlong