Entries Tagged as 'Design'

Super, Pretty, Funny {No. 27}

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03.5.13

TOO BUSY. Too busy for blogging this week. But as I see it, that is a good thing. It has been sunny in Brussels and everyone is just plain happy when the sun is shining here.

I’m also currently distracted by the prospect of our office move. We switch desks in our office every six months and today is the big day. We wander around the office looking for our new homes, sifting through the last year’s worth of stuff we have stacked on our desks (honestly, where does all this come from?), chatting with our new neighbors and, quite simply put, it is hilarious. Its like the last day of school when you cleaned out your locker. But without the yearbook signing.

While I am busy organising my life again, here are some weekend links.

xx Jess

Super

A new album from She & Him!
Totally want to read Ransom Riggs now.
New blog crush.
Latte art.
The ballet beautiful workouts.
Vifizy. Such a cool way to visualize your CV.
San Francisco street name history

Pretty

Obsessed with the Domaine website (gorgeous homes)
Talking Gatsby movie set & costume design
Claire Vivier
What it takes to put together a fabulous photo shoot

Funny

This NYTimes article on the hipster movement in Brooklyn
Gizoogle – honestly, how did they do this??

Image via Mate Vintage

Desk Envy

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14.3.13

There is something about a well-designed desk that makes you want to sit down, smile and get to work. I’m a firm believer in decorating your work space so it reflects your personality and makes it feel like its yours (mine is covered in postcards I’ve gathered on travels, a creative New Yorker cover or two, fun images and funny little notes from co-workers).

I have always loved Vanity Fair’s recurring feature profiling the desks of the creative and famous (Oprah, Lorne Michaels and Aaron Sorkin are three particular favorites…)

This month, the magazine turned the camera inwards and shot a series of their staffers’ desks. Let’s just say I have desk envy.

1. Senior Photography Producer Kathryn Macleod’s desk // 2. Fashion and Style Director Jessica Diehl’s office // 3. Deputy Digital Director Sarah Ball’s desk

Yes, please. We highly approve.

To further feed my desk envy, I’m adding Heather Clawson’s Habitually Chic: Creativity at Work to my coffee-table book wish list. A NY based decorator and photographer, Heather has the best eye for interior design (a glimpse into her NY apartment here). I only warn you that clicking on her blog will lead to hours of happy browsing. So make sure you have carved out the time to stare at her lovely shots, like the one of Jenna Lyons’ office below.

Moving to Tangier

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11.3.13

At least, I wish I was. This TMagazine piece on gardener Madison Cox’s house had my mother and I day-dreaming for a while this morning.

I’ve preached before about how wonderful I think The New York Times is, but this is exactly what it does so well.

The article hints to how much you do not know about a place: “sunny, stormy and fog-drenched Tangier…”, “a magnet for diplomats, painters, traders, writers, dreamers, stoners, smugglers and spies”, “home to an eccentric assortment of creative residents and travelers including Eugène Delacroix, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles, Barbara Hutton, Cecil Beaton, William S. Burroughs, Patricia Highsmith and Yves Saint Laurent.”

It gives you insight into a craft: “Interior designers and architects’ own homes belie talent, confidence, taste and aspirations.” “A little more than half of Cliff House’s plantings were found locally: the rest are specimens grown from seeds, cuttings, bulbs and rhizomes he has carried back from trips to Myanmar, Bahrain, India, Sicily, Madeira and California.”

And then it stuns you with photography and has you considering a move to Morocco.