Color Inspiration: Ochre

1. Yellow Ochre by The Art House Studio

2.,3.,5. via Handcrafted in Virginia

4. Ochre Tassle Scarf at Union Made Goods

Artshot: Mimi Vang Olsen, West Village

Whether you've seen her cards and calenders in stores or you've passed by her neighborhood fixture of a studio on Hudson in the West Village- you've probably contemplated having your pets portrait done by Mimi Vang Olsen. Her style is based on itinerate american folk paintings of the 19th century and she, after years of doing this work, is a master. Remarkably detailed with lyrical forms and patterns, her custom pet portraits are truly making the trip to her studio to see- not to mention, she's very charming!

 

Where: 545 Hudson Street, West Village

Who: Mimi Vang Olsen

What: Custom Pet Portait Artist

Use The Black, Fifth Avenue: Greenwich Village

Create a wonderful home in this sizeable one bedroom on Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. You're right there...walk to Chelsea, West Village, Union Square, Flatiron! There is closet space like you wouldn't believe and the doorman are great here! Use the black accents in the kitchen and in the windows to create that chic little place your aching to come home to every night, here's a few inspiratioins:

Eva and Gentry Dayton's Brooklyn apartment via Remodelista {1}

 The brilliant Ted Muehling {1}

Remodelista {2}

 Muehling {2}

Location: Greenwich Village

Ammenities: Elevator, Laundry in Building

Special Features: Lovely Views, Marble Kitchen and Bath, Incredible Location
 Rent: 3,800.00/ mo.
Contact: George Case at Citi Habitats, 773.983.0513
gcase@citi-habitats.com
Rented

Rainy Landscape

 I hope this post finds you all well and relatively unscathed by Sandy....it's been a long week. I had taken the shots of a raindrops on the wrapping on a cardboard box a while back in Gramercy...they seem somehow appropriate now, as does the artwork of Melanie Comber. Ms. Comber's oil and pigment on canvases at Fine Art Society reference everything from daguerreotypes to lunar landings, snowy landscapes to viruses under a microscope. They are as foreign as they are familiar, as beautiful as they are inexplicably unsettling. It's been a strange week, so forgive (and enjoy) the stream-of- conscious imagery.

1. -minus- album artwork for Arctic Exhibition via Yahoo! Music UK and Ireland

2. Melanie Comber, No Man's Land

3.,5. Plastic Wrapped Cardboard, Gramercy Park

4. Jonnyphoto, Forgotten Moon

6. Melanie Comber, 123

7.  From Australia's First Arctic Expedition, Skeleton of a sea elephant and Harold Hamilton

Artshot: Chris Mooney

 Check out my friend, Chris Mooney's Flickr page- I'm a big fan of his work and his New York are particularly beautiful with a haunting quality that only Chris can capture.

Shiny and New

1., 3., 5., 7. Matthew Tischler

2., 4., 6. E15

Cheap, Chic, Rural: IKEA

I'm always amazed by IKEA and love heading down to Red Hook to see what they have every now and then. It's like Uniqlo or the Gap- pick up well designed basics, mix it with vintage and pricier standouts and you have someting amzing that isn't going to break the bank. Inspired by some whispy florals in tin buckets in Chelsea and by IKEA's PS Collection, take a look:

1.Ektorp sofa via Home Shopping Spy  2. PS Sinka via exponent inspira 

3. $99.99 Pendant Lamps via Remodelista 4. Bemz slipcovers

Artshot: Edgar Honetschlager

1.,4. My pictures of the seats on the 1train

2. Edgar Honetschlager, David

3. Edgar Honetschlager, David Hockney

5. Edgar Honetschlager, Christian Fennesz

6. Edgar Honetschlager, Derek Jarman

Memphis in NYC: A Look Around Town

If you're out and about, you'll find the influences and remanents of Post Modernism and Memphis all over. In NY, the architecture is scarce, but product and graphic design still owes a great deal to the 80's fun and design for design's sake. I have to say, in a city of cement and limestone, the colorful geometrics make smile. 

1. The Standard, NYC

2. George Sowden Clocks for Memphis Milano

3. Lacoste Sheets, Macy's Herald Square Window

4.,6. Forrest Myers, The Wall, 1973,  Broadway and Houston, NYC.

5., 10. Nathalie du Pasquier, Objects for the Electronics Age

7. Peter Shire table via Manishtama

8. Scholastic Building on Broadway, NYC

9. Ingas Sempe for Ligne Roset in the Soho showroom

11. Houston and Wooster, NYC....I wish they'd try to keep this up! Great building.