Feathering the Nest

Now, you know I don’t flood the blog with sale notifications, but this one is too good not to mention.  Today One King’s Lane features D. Bryant Archie’s gorgeous textiles, beginning at 11 am ET. D.’s line marries her two passions: indigenous cultures and handwoven textiles.  The result is at once modern and classic, with a [...]

{Rue Issue 3, p.108. I will now dream of those pendants.} So I wasn’t entirely honest in yesterday’s Rue post.  I withheld one of my very favorite parts of the issue, but only to give it it’s proper due with a post of it’s own. Run, don’t walk, over to see Nicole Cohen of Sketch42′s [...]

{I found this envelope in my grandmother’s scrapbook.  Wouldn’t it be striking scanned and printed in large format?} We’re knee-deep in the planning stages of decorating a long, bowling aisle room at the front of our house. For those of you following the art search, we’ve already considered fiery hues, b+w landscapes and abstracts, and [...]

Our quest for drawing room art continues (see editions 1 and 2). This installment features black and white portraits. I doubt we’ll go in this direction in the end, partly because we use them a lot elsewhere in the house and partly because I’m looking for more movement and color in this particular room. Still, [...]