Our friend Isabel Rower can’t NOT draw on things, and her favorite seems to be her hand. We’ve seen (and posted) all sorts of drawings Issy’s made on her hands. She treats them like an instant pad, always available for drawings or taking notes.
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We downloaded Quick 4 to our iphone and find that a 4-minute workout (based on high intensity interval training) allows for no excuses and won’t let us off the hook, despite the fact that we are naturally lazy dogs (exercise-wise).
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Was visionary designer Paul D’Urso’s 1980’s cyclone fence clothes closet the roots of Ikea’s recent iteration?
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Kilim rugs so popular in modern homes have their roots in nomadic tribal cultures. Here’s a bit of their story, and the strategy for their care.
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Everyone we know needs a “clear space” they can retreat to to STOP, take a break from busy life, a breath or a shift of view, even just for a few moments. Although we LOVE having a clear space right in our Laboratory —the bedroom with the pink wall is just that, no media, just…
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For the first time since 2011, people in the United States will be able to see a total eclipse of the moon, starting at about 2 a.m. Eastern time this evening (a civilized 11 pm for those on the West Coast). Unlike a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse is totally safe to watch without eye protection, and lasts for a few hours. It can be a spectacular thing to see.
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Our blogging platform won’t allow gifs to be posted on the homepage or thumbnails without messing up the code SO CLICK TO VIEW THIS WEEK’S GIF.
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When Brothers Rehan and Josh Nana wanted a “camp” to stay in when they went hunting on their family’s three-hundred acre farmland in Missouri the decided to convert an old grain silo that was already on the property into a novel, and charming, shelter.
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Just about everyone we know has on-going piles of books they are in the process of reading somewhere in their house, whether it be along side the sofa (us), the bathroom (us), or on the bed table (MANY people). The New York Times Book Reviews’ weekly column By the Book asks writers what is currently…
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We know a lot of people who are in big changes in their lives. Susan Dworski recently reminded us of a poem that contains simple wisdom about the very complex subject of becoming.
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Outerlands, a restaurant in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, is known for its menu of seasonal food, rustic dishes and the strong sense of community created by the space. There, meals are a way for people to gather together, relax, and enjoy a shared experience. Recently Williams-Sonoma Taste featured one of Outerland’s collective meals in which staff, family…
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Maria Robledo sent us this portrait of a pitcher she made recently in her new explorations working with clay. When we asked her about it, her email read like a poem:
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We generally viewed bookshelves using bricks as uprights as simple college student decor UNTIL we saw these fab shelves designed by Gionatan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino and Lomazzi for Longato in 1971. Of course the designers used just the right bricks for their striped shelving and a great deal of thought and vision, i.e. the width…
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Placing a window adjacent to the Laboratory’s window gives the illusion of a corner window and reflects the spectacular view.
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This video called Crazy furniture reminded us that EXPLODING an idea — dismantling it and reconfiguring it in various ways — can really help to refresh the creative process. And it’s an especially good practice for re-envisioning a space.
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We’ve written about the little free library movement before and continue to be delighted at where the idea is popping up. Here, a pay phone booth is repurposed as a tiny “take a book, leave a book” library in Houston, Texas, outside local coffee house Black Hole, with a laundromat next door. Perfect. It reminds us…
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Lately, we’ve been seeing some cool dresses with the distinct texture of Nature…from moon landscapes to birtch bark.
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If you are lover a books and a person who stacks them high on shelves, you know of the problem of access. Either you need to pull up step stool or wobbly chair (pain in the neck), or to have one of those stylish sliding book ladders that take up a lot of space both real and visual. We really like the idea of Karen King’s Higher Ground, a tall shelf with a built-in ladder.
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Images from Sochi’s Paralympics obliterate the usual meanings of “disabled” and send a big message about defying the limiting view, whatever it is.
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In the summer here in Harlem, there’s an old guy that’s rigged his bicycle with a little trailer in which he hauls a boom box. Around dusk, he rides around the park playing Motown hits. It has a very different effect than the usual blaring boombox, illuminating and brightening things as he glides by. He…
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