tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54728538261085454532024-03-05T02:29:33.488-08:00Kitchens I Have Lovedbilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234552449023097251noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472853826108545453.post-45050545967716773672016-09-01T12:50:00.000-07:002016-09-01T12:52:47.676-07:00<h2>
Spare and Antique</h2>
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Oxymorons? I hope not because both these aesthetics are dear to my decorating sensibilities. After perusing today's post, let me know if you think both might co-exist happily.<br />
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First, the summer home of Lisa Jackson as seen in <i>Veranda. </i>Have not been able to forget these images especially when summer comes around - the whiteness, the simplicity, the beauty.<br />
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Really love the artwork in these rooms.</div>
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Note the lack of draperies below. Love that.</div>
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Beautiful home any time of the year, right? Love the circular architecture (housing the office) behind the trees. Could happily live here any season.</div>
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Now take a look at the home of antique dealer, Gloria Oviatt. I first saw this home on Joni Webb's <i>Cote de Texas </i>blog and fell in love with it too - her careful editing of antiques, her white rooms, and spare furnishings.</div>
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See, it's spare but with very carefully chosen antiques. And with shutters instead of draperies. So good.</div>
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I'll grant you that the furniture does not look quite as comfy as Jackson's but I love the room's spareness and not "overdone-ness".</div>
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Kitchen's small but oh those wooden bowls so carefully chosen, like a Nancy Braithwaite bowl.</div>
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Notice how many images of the kitchens I've included. So love her kitchen.</div>
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Next to what looks like a newer addition with more contemporary sofas but still great antiques</div>
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Spare dining area but with fewer chairs than Lisa's...</div>
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but with the same whiteness, beauty, and simplicity.</div>
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So what do you think? Do you still think "spare" and "antique" are oxymorons? Don't you think Lisa's spare home has qualities of Gloria's antique one and vice versa? Could they co-exist happily? Wait till my next post when we look at Karin Blake's homes and taste. I'll convince you.</div>
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Bet you are wondering what these disparate areas have in common. They are all places where I might (if I win the Power Ball) have one of my five houses. But they are so different, you say. Therein lies my conundrum. But, since I have not won any lotteries, I will just stay put in upstate New York and dream of other lands and other houses like the ones that follow.</div>
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A Belgium home appeared in this 1999 edition of English <i>Homes and Gardens </i>and immediately caught my attention with its clean, neutral, spare design.</div>
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"You have got to be kidding!" my family and friends cried, "this is not you." But it is - part of me loves it.</div>
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Moving along - California. (Sorry I cannot note this article's origin- tore it from its original magazine before ever thinking about blogging.) It has many common elements with the Belgian one above - a neutral palette, uncluttered-ness, serenity.</div>
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Even in October, Californians enjoy open doors. All that wonderful weather has a tiny drawback. A garden designer from California once explained to me that their gardens have to look beautiful all year long. The northeastern climes have a respite from gardening several months of the year. I have to say, by the time the leaves are collected, I'm ready for inside tasks. Still, the open doors and vineyards look beautiful to me.</div>
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But then, there's Wyeth country in Pennsylvania with all its artists and antiques - a place I love. Remember this example from one of my previous posts.</div>
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and books. Definitely need a home in Maine. What to do, what to do? If lottery winnings are not in my future, I'll just keep planning my five houses in my mind and on my blog!</div>
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The first Maine garden is one I saw in person on a <i>Garden Conservancy </i>tour several years ago. It is the garden of Roxana Robinson and she was present when we arrived holding a copy of <i>Architectural Digest. </i>Somehow she mentioned she was an author. "Oh, a garden writer," I commented. </div>
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"No, an author of books." Terribly embarrassed and a tad skeptical, I quietly toured her lovely garden much of it designed by Patrick Chasse (more about Patrick in future blog). When home, I looked on Amazon for her books, and she certainly is a "writer of books". I've read them all and even used one of her short stories when I taught a senior English class on short stories. I loved all of them and wish I could tell her how thoughtless I was and how talented she is. I digress...on to the gardens.</div>
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The logia below offered a great view of the enclosed garden and the adirondack chairs offered a view of the nearby water and wooded grounds.</div>
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What was so cool about Roxana's garden is the fact that, as the image below shows, only part of it is enclosed by fencing. The rest of her garden is free for the deer and chipmunks to roam. She said she was sick of fighting nature, in fact she even left food out for the chipmunks - just not in the fenced section. (She and the "chippies" have reached a detente I have not yet achieved.)</div>
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Another enclosed Maine garden appeared in this issue of <i>House Beautiful</i>.</div>
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I was recently on a Home and Garden Tour in Castine, Maine. One of the gardens was designed by Bruce John Riddell. I knew as soon as I stepped out of our car that it was one of his. (See my earlier post about him in) As someone once described his gardens, they seem cut out of a mountain. Then he places his stone to complement the view. Really magnificent.<br />
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He plants in masses which are so perfect with the scope of his gardens. Here it's lavender.<br />
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Here it's low blueberries.<br />
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Now back to the house part of Castine's House and Garden tour. What you're seeing below are Loi Thai's back steps leading to a small patio - I loved the use of stone on both. Yes, his home was on the tour! It was inspiring to see his work in person and so fun to actually meet the man whose work I have so admired. He is as nice as I knew he would be.<br />
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Now to the kitchen part of today's blog. If you follow Loi, which all should do, you know that his interiors are calming, white, spare and quite beautiful. Thanks to his post, here are some images of his beautiful Castine kitchen. There is nothing here to not love from the shiplap cupboards, to the soapstone sink, to the lighting fixture, to art work on the wall - all so perfect.<br />
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Even love the Tolix stool.</div>
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View of the kitchen from dining area. Don't you love the nautical touches?<br />
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View of the original fireplace, more nautical art and carefully chosen antiques. So cool, Loi, it really was such a treat to see your beautiful work in person and to talk to you, the man I've admired for so long.<br />
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Now, Loi's kitchen and all of his interior whiteness and spareness have inspired me much as Hugh Newell Jacobsen's work has done. But, and this "but" is a big part of my need for at least five houses, I also love darker kitchens and rooms - those I've blogged about in Pennsylvania, Belgium, and England. How to unite this disparate love is my conundrum which will never be resolved, which is why I blog.<br />
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See how different but also cool.<br />
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See, don't you love this one too?<br />
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One thing I am never "torn" about is my love of blueberries. A bit of an abrupt transition but, in addition to design and kitchens, I love cooking and my old <i>Gourmet </i>magazines. (My husband once told me the house would tip over with my collection of books and magazines, but it never has. Am trying to thin out, but it's so hard.) Here are some of my July issues and images.</div>
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Could you have recycled these magazines? Obviously, I never could. They helped inspire me to pick blueberries with a friend Saturday. I love blueberries and the Blueberry Farm is somewhere special. We left at 7:30 in the morning, a beautiful summer day, and picked for three hours in a field that was quiet and its bushes were laden with fat blueberries. We talked and picked and loved life. I picked 11 pounds, my friend 12 1/2 pounds. Below is my collection.</div>
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Yep, I made freezer jam and have ten bags of loose berries for recipes all winter. I feel so rich.</div>
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the first lovely Maine home as seen in <i>Veranda.</i><br />
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Don't you wish you could be sitting here right now? Despite today's chill, I'd still love it.<br />
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Iced tea on the veranda anyone?</div>
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Or, nearer the ocean, cocktails?</div>
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The image above is not from the previous<i>Veranda</i> article. Forgive my digression, but thought I'd include it here because I stumbled upon this image and the garden looks so summery. The great pot is from Lunaform, a company in Ellsworth, Maine. Doesn't it look like a stalwart guardian in this Maine garden? Owning four Lunaform products, I can attest to their beauty and strength. Our cold winters are no problem for my pots and spheres. <br />
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Love, love, love this kitchen from its copper pot to its open shelving - a spring project for me.</div>
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Many of the living room/dining room furnishings are from Restoration Hardware which also had an industrial look before they went so contemporary. Again, like the touch of pale blue here. (Maybe I do like blue.)</div>
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The family who owns this home has their main residence in California. The exterior of their Maine home echoes California ones.</div>
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Another <i>Veranda, </i>another Maine home, this one from one of my favorite designers, John Saladino.</div>
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It has all the glamour of a Saladino design with all of Maine's strength and rusticity.</div>
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How much do I love this kitchen...let me count the ways - the woodwork, the lighting, the stools, the Dutch door, the stove - just all of it.</div>
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The bedroom, so Saladino and so Maine.</div>
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Note that bathtub "with a view" and its near a fireplace. Perfection.</div>
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The foliage and ferns embrace the so-Maine exterior.</div>
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Perfection.</div>
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Guest quarters with a most solid and beautiful staircase.</div>
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OK, so I've gushed, but don't you think these have been some of the most "gush-able" homes? They combine so much of what I love - Maine, wonderful kitchens, strength with design, even blue maybe.<br />
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I always hope you like what I cover as much as I do myself. Someday, instead of rifling through all my magazines, I would like to make a book of these images "that I love"- not to publish, just to have for my own joy, to have all in one place - sort of like Bunny Williams' book - <i>Scrapbook. </i>Perhaps I should go to an Apple class or a library class to discover just how to do this. Any ideas?<br />
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Till next time (which I really hope will not be so long in coming - but I do have a kitchen project in the offing and some grandsons' babysitting duty. So who knows.) Be well. Be warm. And be in Maine.<br />
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Favorite Maine Garden Designer</h2>
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Bruce Riddell is the man of whom I speak, and his landscape and garden designs may be my favorites anywhere, not just in Maine. What makes his work so special is the terrain in which he works - rocks and water. Instead of seeing either element as a hindrance, he makes them his assets. Below are images from several of his designs. If you go to his website, <i>landartdesigner.com</i>, you will fall in love with his work. Guaranteed!<br />
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So what did you think? Somehow the scale of his plantings, the stone, and the sea seem to make all other landscapes seem fussy. Makes me long to be in Maine again. Perhaps this longing is why my next post will also be a Maine-r.</div>
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First gush is about the beauty of Maine as seen in the new home's view.<br />
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Next gush is about Steve's design and the shaker shingles, both so typical of Maine. Note the size of the rocks also typical of Maine but which must have been difficult during construction. More about these later.<br />
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Sneak peek of eating area and kitchen.</div>
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View of kitchen from dining table (which I love). Whale is great also.</div>
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Now we are heading up the stairs to first seating area. Love all the "Maine-abilia" - boats, whales, half-hulls, maps, books on Maine.</div>
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And now the furnishings - the icing on this wood and stone cake.</div>
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I want to give complete credit to Brooke Giannetti for images found on her blog (<i>Velvet and Linen</i>) and to her husband Steve for images found on his website (<i>gianettiarchitects.com</i>). I check in with both sites frequently because they are always an inspiration. Brooke and Steve, Maine and barns inspired this post. Thank you so much for being there.</div>
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Now, to you my patient, patient readers: you would be justified in believing I will not post again for months, but I really will. Had lots of interference earlier such as ice damns on the roof, dinner and overnight guests, babysitting duties for grandsons, a garden to whip into shape after a very hard winter, a pool to clean up, the hosting of a good friend's retirement party (meant to be outside but it poured day of the party and the next day), and garden tours to enjoy. Lots of areas to cover, but am not yet finished with barns or Maine so stay tuned.</div>
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First, this simple barn would work beautifully with Belgian furnishings and colors but it lacks a fireplace - an essential for my barn home.<br />
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Love the barn below and its New England or Pennsylvania feel - the siding speaks of New England, but the stone foundation looks like Pennsylvania. Still no requisite fireplace.</div>
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Love the barn doors in this home. Barn doors would work anywhere for me. Wish I could incorporate one into my present home, but they remain a fantasy.</div>
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Even without a fireplace, this barn wins my heart. I think it must be the landscaping and that concrete sphere that speak of spring and warmer climes.</div>
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Chose this one for its barn doors hiding the TV and for its fireplace below.</div>
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More barn doors - obviously am a real sucker for these.</div>
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Here, the beams, the stone work and the steel all speak to me.</div>
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The beams, the view, and the LaCornue make a great barnhouse kitchen. </div>
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Speaking of views, here is a barn nestled in New York's Finger Lakes area. This lake is just a few miles from the one where I live so you are in for some hometown images.</div>
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This is the wine area of New York state - hence the vineyards surrounding the barn.</div>
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Driveway approaching home.</div>
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Outside sitting area overlooking vineyard and lake. Don't you love potted boxwood just anywhere?</div>
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with a view - the kind we all relish here in the Finger Lakes. (Today, you'd only see a thawing lake and snow.)</div>
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All the above images of this property were taken from Sotheby's website and were found while researching this barn conversion. (I feel a bit like Joni Webb here.) But the images which follow were taken from <i>Martha Stewart Living </i>where I first saw this home in an October issue. I happily happened upon Sotheby's images in my search for Martha's October issue.</div>
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Tom Johnson, the designer who found and reinvented this barn.</div>
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And Tom Johnson's barn in the autumn. Sotheby's showed in the summer.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">When starting today's post, I was not aware the barn was for sale and today probably has been sold. I never would have sold it especially because it resides in a part of my hometown area, has such a great view, barn doors, and fireplace. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Mr. Johnson has perhaps moved on to a new and more exciting project. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I would like to make clear that my first eight images above were gleaned from Pinterest and I would give credit to each of the pinners if I had saved that information. Their images were used without permission but with great appreciation. What would we do without Pinterest and Tumblr?</span></div>
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I'm starting with kitchen ideas because...you know why. This room has several features I love but could never incorporate into my own home - brick and concrete walls, steel windows, industrial lighting - perfect for my loft.<br />
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Less spare than the one above, this room has great windows, brick and size. Maybe a bit too large for my loft.<br />
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The chain and hook to the left would never work in my own home, but love it here.<br />
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The brick, the chairs, the concrete and metal table, the lighting - all great.<br />
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Not too crazy about the chairs below, but am about everything else.<br />
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For the same reasons already mentioned.<br />
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The room below may be part of a restaurant and a bit too large for my loft, but has a great look.<br />
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Much homier size-wise.<br />
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Such a great room.<br />
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To my loft's living room - the one below may be one of Restoration Hardware's and would fit perfectly in my cool and funky loft.<br />
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A possible corner for my fantasy living room.<br />
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Love the colors here and the sofa would offer the requisite comfort.<br />
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Or this one.<br />
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An old abacus perfect for one of my loft's walls, maybe in its living room.<br />
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The perfect staircase for my loft.</div>
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And from the staircase, my possible office.</div>
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Or this office - maybe a bit too large.</div>
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Perfect.</div>
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Also perfect.</div>
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A great detail for my office/studio.</div>
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And to the bedroom - perfect size, perfect windows.<br />
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Love this bed frame and lamp.<br />
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Love this platform bed. Sleeping here might be best for short periods, but that would be fine and would leave time for my other five abodes.<br />
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Guest room for grandchildren, but artwork would need a change - perhaps to a pair of skis.<br />
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Another guest room for adults.<br />
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That's it - my future cool and funky loft, maybe in Charleston, maybe in Savannah. Couldn't live with this style forever, but wouldn't a month or three be fun! It was fun writing about it. Do you love concrete, metal, and steel? What would one of your five fantasy homes be?<br />
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Weather people are predicting a very cold next few days - highs of 5. Stay warm and dream of warm southern lofts.<br />
bbilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234552449023097251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472853826108545453.post-75912659480841688742015-01-15T08:26:00.001-08:002015-01-15T08:26:30.150-08:00Vervoort in the Big AppleHappy new year to all. Now that the holiday decor is all tucked away, now that all the cookies have been eaten, and now that the second batch of paperwhites is starting to bud in my dining room, spring feels in the air for me. The sun takes on a new angle at this time of year,<span style="color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> and,</span></span> in spite of our snow and cold temperatures, I can almost hear daffodils starting to move in the soil. So, to finish my Axel Vervoordt posts for <u>now</u> (new posts may reappear on my blog anytime I discover more of his work), lets finish with his design atop the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, a hotel partly owned by Robert DiNiro. It is so beautiful in Vervoordt's wabi kind of way.<br />
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The Greenwich Hotel.<br />
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Leading to bedroom area. I love the stone floor and white oak floor juxtaposition here, but then I love it all.</div>
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Detail of master bedroom mantel.</div>
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Bathroom.</div>
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Fireplace in bathroom - how luxurious.</div>
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Entering a guest bedroom from bath.</div>
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Detail of guest bedroom.</div>
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Second guest room.</div>
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Detail from second guest room.</div>
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Lower level terrace. Note the metal lighting which mimic autumn gourds.</div>
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Upper level terrace. Much of the stonework in these terraces actually were once part of the New York City landscape.</div>
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That's exactly how I feel about ending my Vervoordt posts. I don't want to leave and never tire of his "earthy tones and refined taste", but I must move on to other styles for my five fantasy houses. Before I leave Wabi though, I encourage you to check the Greenwich Hotel website. There, you can view videos of the men involved, the process itself and more views of the rooms. I tried to download it here but without success.</div>
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Today's blog covers other homes in the Vervoordt family- son Dick's home, son Boris' apartment and the Vervoordt family's chalet. As you will see, all the homes have the same Vervoordt spareness enhanced by antiquities. Enjoy.<br />
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Below is Dick Vervoordt's home, Axel and May's youngest son. The home, not far from the castle, was a property owned by the family until Dick and his wife decided to make it their own. With their two young daughters, I'll bet the senior Vervoordts delight in their proximity. As you will see, the home has the stamp of wabi sabi all over it.<br />
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Many of these first images were taken from the Belgian magazine <i>More Than Classic</i>. I am a longtime subscriber but sadly not a Belgian speaker. You're on your own with the words that follow.</div>
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Beautiful lace cap hydrangeas at back entrance - flowers speak a universal language<br />
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Love their kitchen (of course).<br />
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Interesting, how different the colors look in the above image which is from the internet. It's the same room maybe just a different time of day. Now back to <i>MTC </i>images.<br />
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Same room, slightly different perspective. Interesting faucet set-up.<br />
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Kitchen's long view.<br />
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Great table and chairs and tablescape beyond.<br />
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Long view. Love that sphere.<br />
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Different perspective.<br />
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Dick's workspace with a peek into living room. If I could read Belgian, I might know if this room doubles as a dining room. (A dining room/office/library is a useful room in any house. As my collection of books increases, I often think how handy this would be. But then, what does one do with all one's china?)<br />
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This image from <i>Veranda </i>and shows a bit more of the living room<i>.</i><br />
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Below is the upstairs bedroom and living space.<br />
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While Dick Vervoordt focuses on the real estate aspect of the Vervoordt empire, Boris focuses on design and collection of the antiques. His apartment is a bit more "funky" and contemporary than is Dick's home but still contains all the antique spareness. This <i>Secret Attic </i>article is from <i>Vogue Living</i>.</div>
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Love how the tilt of the mirror reveals other parts of the bath, and the light fixture is so cool.</div>
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And my very favorite room in Boris' apartment is the kitchen. (No surprise.) I love the black island, the wood table, and light cabinets. Not a fan of Aga stoves, but his looks great here. And the ceiling light fixture - love it all. Looks like a burl bowl (which I covet) resting on the table.</div>
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If I could choose any attic apartment/loft in which to live, this would be it. But alas, the lottery is just not cooperating.</div>
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On to the Vervoordt chalet in Switzerland. Don't know if I'd ever ski or just ogle the scenery...</div>
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So there you have it: a home in the country, an apartment in Antwerp and a chalet in Switzerland - all beautiful, all with the Vervoordt touch. Do you have a favorite? You know mine already.</div>
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My next post will sadly be the last on the Vervoorts, some of my favorite designers. Axel's books abound so his work is available to pine over anytime. Just wanted to share some of my favorites.</div>
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His castle and orangerie where his antiques are displayed and may be purchased.<br />
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Another view of castle.</div>
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View of entrance to grounds.</div>
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Sorry to be so repetitious, but the buildings and grounds are so beautiful. And we have very few moats in the US.</div>
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This image below has been everywhere on Pinterest, blogs, magazines, but is so simple and lovely that I had to include it. (Speaking of simple, Nancy Braithwaite's new book, <i>Simplicity</i>, is out now and is a stunner. Look for it and buy it if you like simplicity.) I fell in love with this room.</div>
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Perfection.</div>
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Orangerie perfection.</div>
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Perfection inside the orangerie.</div>
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Now to the George Costanza episode of today's post. At the end of September and into October, I visited Maine, one of my favorite places on earth. I was on a Wyeth quest - to see as much as was possible of the family's art and their Maine inspiration. We stayed at East Wind Inn in Tenant's Harbor, </div>
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A painting everywhere. <u>But</u> have you noticed the dark clouds rolling in to say nothing of the high swells. Do you remember the <i>Seinfeld </i>episode when George Costanza pretends to be a marine biologist. In the restaurant he is explaining how he saved a whale but prefaces his tale with, "the sea was angry that day, my friends!" Well, our sea was angry that day, my friends, with 9 foot swells. I live on a Finger Lake in New York state, which never gets 9 foot swells! For an hour, I was terrified. Black waves rolled over the ferry and as it pitched from side to side, I tried to remember if any ferries had ever been lost off the coast of Maine. People were getting seasick and were all clinging with death grips to the seats ahead. I was doing deep breathing just as in child birthing. When the ferry blessedly arrived at shore, I wanted to kiss the ground, but instead hugged the captain. I really thought I might die that afternoon.</div>
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When returning to my quiet little lakeside town, I vowed not to leave home for awhile. The leaves and laundry needed my attention, but then my daughter-in-law took a spill down her staircase and needed some help. Off I flew to Bedford. The pilot said the trip might be a little rocky till we got above the clouds, but it was absolutely nothing compared to the ferry. That's one positive result of that terrifying trip - everything else pales by comparison. Ted, Tater, was in rare form on my errand of mercy. He loves balls and is talking a blue streak.</div>
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billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234552449023097251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472853826108545453.post-63494673521783333042014-08-09T04:37:00.001-07:002014-08-09T04:45:27.038-07:00Jean-Georges and Tater<br />
It's been almost a month since my last post, and I feel like a very non-prolific blogger. How could this happen? Laziness mostly... and travel... and then catching up with household chores after travel...but mostly laziness. (This was supposed to be a post on Axel Vervoordt, but he will have to wait till next time, besides everyone knows how wonderful he is. However, to complete my design cycle, his design and my love of it will appear next post.)<br />
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Now to where I've traveled - to my grandchildren's new home. One grandson was visiting Mommy's relatives in Colorado, and one stayed at their new home with Daddy and me. Ted (Tater) and I had a very good time. We did a little light reading...<br />
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and got into cupboards Mommy never lets me get into...do I look a little guilty?<br />
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I chose a different cupboard the next day, but hey Ama lets me, and Mommy is in Colorado.<br />
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But now to a very special treat. My son asked if I had heard of Jean-Georges who opened a new restaurant nearby. Of course I had and my treat was dinner at this new nearby restaurant. Not being Ted-approved territory - he had a sitter for the evening. Everyone said I was going to love it and everyone was positively correct. On my return home, I did lots of research on Jean Georges - his restaurants, his family, his home near my son's home. Doesn't he look like such a nice man?<br />
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Originally from Alsace Lorraine where he trained as a chef, he was sent to Asia furthering his skills and then moved to the US where his restaurants have become world famous.<br />
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The following images are of the Mercato, his restaurant in Shanghai.<br />
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And the following are from his Mercer Kitchen in the Mercer Hotel in NYC- definitely one of my future destinations. First image is the hotel; the following are the restaurant's images.<br />
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The following images are from the Inn at Pound Ridge, NY which was my treat. As soon as I walked in, I knew I was going to love it just as my son and daughter-in-law knew I would. We sat at the corner table to the left. The lighting and the woodwork here seem a bit like the Mercer's, but the wood is lighter and the whole restaurant reminded me a bit of the Belgian design I love and Axel Vervoordt who started it all.</div>
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This was my view throughout dinner - loved how the shaded light fixtures were mixed with the metal ones, the metal curtain rod across the entire wall, the neutral colors, the center fire place, the floor and ceiling - I was in love. It was such a treat. And do you see what I mean about its Belgian-esque feeling?</div>
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One of the smaller, private dining rooms with wood and stone walls, candles, and beautifully simple table setting.</div>
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Downstairs waiting area. The designer for the restaurant was Thomas Juul-Hansen. I haven't even mentioned the food yet - all field to table. More about that in a bit.</div>
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His ABC restaurant in Union Square, NY with that same warm wood feeling as Pound Ridge, but with more concrete, less stone.</div>
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Now to the food itself - every morsel that entered my mouth that evening was delicious from the calamari, to the halibut to the apple cobbler, and my son felt the same way about his lamb chops. And the gin and tonics were perfection.</div>
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While browsing on the internet about Jean-Georges and his restaurants, I thought I'd try to discover what his home kitchen might look like - after all remember my blog's title. I found the living room of his apartment in NYC but no kitchen info.</div>
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In his home near Pound Ridge, I had better luck.</div>
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The chef with his wife Marya and daughter Chloe in their country home.</div>
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Wouldn't you love to cook for family and friends in this kitchen? Our waiter at Pound Ridge said Jean-Georges worked in the restaurant's kitchen often and many of the staff had been invited to his home. What a nice guy!</div>
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The nice guy, himself, working in his home kitchen. Beautiful stone fireplace.</div>
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When not cooking in his country home, he keeps bees and tends a small garden.</div>
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When I returned home, thoughts of my special treat and special grandson kept resurfacing. I knew I had to own one of Jean-Georges's cookbooks and purchased this one.</div>
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When I should have been blogging, I've been perusing recipes trying to find my first Jean-Georges dinner. I'll let you know how it turns out and promise to be a more frequent blogger-buddy and to focus on Axel Vervoordt next time even though number one grandson is coming toward the end of August.</div>
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I have never been a fan of the Victorian style - too overdone, too impractical, too somehow gloomy. The homes below are done very well but .... You decide, I already have.</div>
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Especially in the kitchen. This is a great kitchen but why not just continue with the cabinet doors? Is it to soften the lack of curtains on the window? I love curtain-less windows and these look great.</div>
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What a bright mudroom or garden room! But that curtain-door, whether in a mudroom or garden room, is going to attract nothing but mud. Was it too difficult to add another great door like those on the right?</div>
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Speaking of impractical, would a paneled door really work as an island for food prep or dining? Is it just me, or is this another disaster waiting to happen? Cool idea, but good thing that container of flowers is placed squarely on a center panel.</div>
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Another thing that drives me crazy is all the fabric on outdoor furniture. Does it ever rain in these places? I know these are purported to be rain-resistent fabrics, but they never shed water completely. Someone is going to have to drag these cushions in out of the rain. And where is <u>in</u> - the kitchen, the living room, the garage? These are big cushions. I really do love the way they look but so, so impractical.</div>
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A bit more practical than the ones above because of it's partial roof, but we just had a driving rain here yesterday. I really would have hated to rush out and rescue all these cushions, wouldn't you?</div>
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I like all of these bedrooms, except the last which has no redeeming qualities at all, but do not like the unmade beds in any of them. Is this really a style the reader is supposed to emulate?? As you can tell, I am a bit anal about bed-making. I was telling a friend about my not being able to leave the house unless my bed is made, and, if for some desperate reason I had to, I'd make it before climbing into it that night, and he told me his story. He has a duvet and many pillows all arranged beautifully on his bed, and he would fluff everything when making it each morning. One evening he came home late, knew he had to leave early the next morning and would not have time for his ritual bed-making, so he slept on the floor that night rather than leave it unmade in the morning. Now, I'm not that bad, but would never leave home leaving my bedroom looking like those above. </div>
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Here's another extreme. How neat does this loft bedroom look! But, have you ever tried to make a platform bed like this one. My daughter has one, and every time I visit and make the bed, I bump my legs. It is worth it though - beds take a little effort but like the one below look beautiful when done well.</div>
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Sick of all of my negativity yet? Here's my last complaint and it could be a result of years of Catholic education. I am very uncomfortable with nude paintings in any room. Where is one to look? If you look at it to closely, you feel like a pervert. If you ignore it, the owners think you have no taste at all.</div>
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Love everything about this powder room, the overhead lights, the mirrors, the double sinks, the black countertop, the beige towels and the way they are folded, the storage bins, the neutral colors of the drawing/painting - I especially like that we are viewing its subject matter from behind. Really, I love this room, but the artwork makes me a bit uncomfortable. At least no one else would know that in the powder room.</div>
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So ends all my negativity for now. It is all just a matter of taste anyway. I can just hear my husband's comment, "Who made you the arbiter of all that is beautiful and perfect??" I do not claim perfect taste, but I do claim to know what I love when I see it. And what I do not.</div>
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I certainly hope I've offended no one with this post. Venting is actually fun sometimes and I had fun today. Next time, it's on to Axel Vervoordt whose work is always beautiful and perfect.</div>
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billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234552449023097251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472853826108545453.post-70585385222533595582014-07-01T11:30:00.000-07:002014-07-02T04:45:16.037-07:00After Too Long a HiatusBlame it on summer gardening, blame it on Vermont, blame it on Tumblr. Whatever the reason - I know this post is long overdue. Today ends my Walda Pairon series - with images of her office/storage room and her spheres, which I love and have even tried to emulate somewhat. I begin with Walda, add a few images of my own home, and end with a visit to Vermont.<br />
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Glass and stone spheres on Walda's office table. (I have to thank Greet Lefevre for many of these photos. I have saved all her photos taken at Walda's Open Days in the spring and winter and Greet graciously allowed me to use them. Thank you, my friend.)<br />
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The sphere right below the window appears to be one she made with her collection of beautiful buttons.</div>
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Even her storage room is beautiful, even if sphere-less.</div>
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And her divine fabrics just casually lying atop a table near a wooden bowl.</div>
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Stone spheres below - small and very large.</div>
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Serenity in this view of her office with great windows and glass doors.</div>
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Here, color replaces serenity. Walda does either flawlessly.</div>
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Sphere on the right appears to be one of her creations.</div>
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Outside spheres.</div>
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Moss and silver spheres.</div>
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Several of her books have examples of spheres she has made with beautiful buttons. Wish I could show them here, but fear the copyright "rules and regs".</div>
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I stumbled upon the photos below from Wim Pauwels <i>Country Homes. </i>This is a home Walda designed for a client. The kitchen includes a Moleni stove and a sweet sphere all alone on small table to the left.</div>
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In another room, the simplicity reminds me of Axel Vervoordt's work (to be the subject of future posts).</div>
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Now to my own spheres. I am no Walda Pairon only inspired by her. So think kind thoughts. Below are a group of concrete spheres I collected to quietly accent the pool. When we open the pool in the spring, and I place the spheres back in their summer home, my son always quips, "Can't forget the sphere family."</div>
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The ones on the front steps were purchased from Lunform - a shop doing great things with concrete in Ellsworth, Maine.</div>
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My Christmas sphere. Actually, I never finished the bottom because I always place it in a bowl. Took forever to do and I store it in a cooler till Christmas. I know all this effort may seem a little strange, but spheres speak to me somehow.</div>
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My "concrete family" on the kitchen's eating area window seat.</div>
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A shell sphere which only comes out in summer. I purchased this one at a favorite garden store and the stone bowl it rests in was purchased from Simon Pearce one visit.</div>
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Have made dozens of grapevine spheres. We have lots of wild grapevine in our woods unfortunately, but it works great for spheres.</div>
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A most recent rope sphere inspired by this year's visit to Simon Pearce. More about that visit below.</div>
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And my painting room - looks nothing like Walda's workrooms, but it's where I work. Wish I had some beautiful fabrics lying about.</div>
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The following are all photos from my Vermont excursion last week. Couldn't resist these families of geese out for an early morning swim.</div>
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Rapidly moving river in Middlebury.</div>
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Quintessential New England church in Middlebury.</div>
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A visit to Robert Frost's cabin in Ripton where he spent many summer days.</div>
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Frost bought the Noble farm, and two of his good friends, husband and wife, lived in the Noble farmhouse. After his own wife died, Frost spent summers in his nearby cabin. He would often return to the farmhouse for meals and the wife organized his papers.</div>
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When not writing, exploring the flora and fauna, or working on his cabin's foundation, Frost could look at the beauty of the Green Mountains from his cabin's porch.</div>
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Close by in Ripton is the home of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, an extension of Middlebury College's English department. Frost taught here many summers. All the buildings and Adirondack chairs are painted this yellow color. Below is just one of the dorms.</div>
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The next day we were less literary and visited Simon Pearce's mill in Quechee Falls, one of my favorite places. His glassware, china, flatware, woodenware and linens are all so beautiful and the tablescapes and the mill itself enhance each other. We always have lunch here where the tables are set with Simon Pearce crystal and china, and guests eat and drink from them - a very good idea that inspires purchases. I save many of my Simon Pearce catalogs from different seasons because they are so lovely. Below are images from the 2010 spring catalog.</div>
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Then finally on my last day, I bid adieu to friends and Vermont and the geese families. Goslings look bigger already, don't they?</div>
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In reading over and editing this post, the disparity between images of Walda's design and my own is huge. I know that and am showing images of my home only to note the inspiration Walda has given me and for which I am very grateful. I remain her very humble admirer.</div>
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Now to end on a more literary note, I think one of Robert Frost's poems might be appropriate. It's always been one of my favorites and reminds me of his Vermont. </div>
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If you've read my blog for long or from merely reading its name, you know I love kitchens. Couple this with my love for Walda Pairon's design and you have today's post. You have my full permission<br />
to stop reading when I arrive at the Virginia trip - never do other people's travels seem terribly interesting to anyone but themselves but I also like to use my blog as a bit of personal journal. So, feel free to tune out whenever.<br />
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The first time I saw an image of Walda's kitchen, I was hooked. She had me forever. It has so much that I love - antique pottery, beautiful table settings...<br />
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wonderful natural light from the window over the sink and a Moleni stove...<br />
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open shelving...<br />
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a sweet little table...<br />
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copper cookware and, did I mention, the Moleni stove...<br />
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antique cutting boards and stoneware ...<br />
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and it all looks great at Christmas time too. The two images below were taken by Greet Lefevre who graciously allowed me to use them and who is lucky enough to attend Walda's holiday open house.</div>
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I will get there some holiday, I will get there some holiday, I will get there some holiday. It's everything I love. Well, almost - I love my children and grandchildren too, but Walda's kitchen is a close second.</div>
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Even her utensils are wonderful. Probably helps that she is married to a 4-star chef.</div>
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The following images are taken from her website. They are not of her own kitchen, but are designs she has completed elsewhere and have a very culinary feel.</div>
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Could be a still life and bet the food was her husband's addition. (Even a Shun knife makes an appearance here - hey, I haven't worked eight years at Williams Sonoma for nothing.)</div>
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The wine collection has Walda's design touch all over it.</div>
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And the kitchen below is in an outbuilding on Walda's property. It's used for larger functions and also boasts a Moleni stove and a wonderful copper cookware collection. The arrangements on the long table are all Walda.</div>
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This last one I was just recently lucky enough to find "used" on Amazon. It is in perfect condition - can't read a word because it's all in Dutch, but I love it and feel fortunate to have found it.</div>
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We had a great time and talked continually but I'll try to heed the maxim that a "picture is worth a thousand words". I'll try. These two pillow cases were found in a Lynchburg antique shop and had to come home with me. Love white linens with pleats.</div>
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Besides linens, Walda, my children and grandchildren, I love china and setting a lovely table. This shop spoke to me, and the women who worked there were so helpful and charming - full of southern hospitality who let me take all the photos I wanted. </div>
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The shelves below are full of items from their brides' registries. What a helpful idea for the gift-givers.</div>
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Collection of Vietri I had not seen before.</div>
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White china and glassware and this old cupboard complement one another.</div>
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On the way home, our cousins explained that Thomas Jefferson had his country home nearby. Because so many visitors would come to Monticello and stay for days, Jefferson left his main home and came to this one near Lynchburg. It took him three days on horseback to reach this home-away-from-home where he knew visitors would never find him. This is a much smaller version of the real Monticello. We had very knowledgeable tour guides doubling as cousins.</div>
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Next day, before heading out to the real Monticello, we were fortified by this delicious breakfast. We all took the recipe home with us - it's a blueberry breakfast cake with sausage in the cake and warm blueberry sauce atop.</div>
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A sweet garden outside the James Madison home which most tourists visit before proceeding to Monticello.</div>
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The very modest home of James Monroe. Docent here was very informative. Do you remember what the Monroe Doctrine was? Neither did we. It told European countries to stay out of our hemisphere. Bet your glad pictures on the inside of these homes were prohibited. We're almost done.</div>
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This magnificent copper beach greeted us at the end of the house tour.</div>
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Just a small sample of his magnificent vegetable gardens.</div>
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For quite awhile, I've been saving Walda images from other blogs, from pinterest and from Walda's own website. Greet Lefevre and her <i>Belgian Pearls</i> blog have long been an inspiration to me. Because she frequently attends Walda Pairon's home during spring open-days and Christmas open-days (lucky woman!), and because she has been gracious enough to permit me, I'm including some of Greet's photos here. <br />
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So here are today's images starting with Walda's garden designed by Jacques Wirtz.<br />
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Love how the boxwood and conifers create rooms in her landscape.<br />
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Please note the potted hydrangeas on her terrace - the inspiration for my own potted hydrangeas. Also note the spheres upon the table. Will talk a bit about her spheres later.<br />
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Love how so much of her garden furniture is teak and timeless.<br />
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Moving inside now to her dining room, tablescapes, colors, and spheres. The purple inside her cupboard here reminds me of how Darryl Carter painted one of his cupboard's inside orange - both so gutsy. I painted one of mine an antique red - not nearly so gutsy.<br />
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Love the disparity between rugged table and fine crystal and silver. She is a master arranger.<br />
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I believe these images are from Greet and the objects on the table are for sale at one of Walda's open-days...<br />
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whereas this table is ready for dining. So beautiful.<br />
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Leaving the dining room now and observing her tablescapes in other rooms. Note the spherical vase here.<br />
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The sphere in the image below is one that Walda has made from buttons. These creations of hers are always incredibly beautiful and appear on many of her tablescapes. Also love that old book.<br />
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More spheres here on the left bottom table corner. They just seem to work wherever she places them.<br />
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No spheres here but lovely fabrics and colors.<br />
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Walda's tablescapes are even wonderful in one of her outside buildings. No spheres here but a great floor and pots.<br />
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To end today, I'm adding two images of my Easter table. Nothing as lovely as Walda's but it looked quite nice on a sunny Easter Sunday afternoon with Vietre pottery, Simon Pearce glassware and spring pansies.<br />
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As I said above, I leave tomorrow for a few days in Virginia where it is supposed to be beautiful at this time of year. So next post, you may be subjected to another interruption of my Walda schedule and more of my bad photos. Keep the faith there will be lots more wonderful Walda to come - eventually.<br />
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I know, I know, I promised more of Walda Pairon's work, and more of her beautiful design is definitely coming - only next time. Today, I feel the need to post about one of the highlights of my southern sojourn last week. Visiting good friends and relatives in South Carolina and Florida is always a delight especially after our long and very cold winter, but a restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida captured my heart.<br />
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St. Augustine, the oldest city in the U.S., was rather disappointing. So much of it seemed very commercial and not great commercial. Suffice it to say, the only reason I would visit the city again is to dine at the Ice Plant. We asked a waiter at lunch what a really good restaurant for dinner would be. He mentioned the Ice Plant first with no hesitation at all; we took him at his word and mentally thanked him over and over that night at dinner.<br />
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What follows is a history of the Ice Plant restaurant, images gleaned from Google Images, a video from Youtube and a recipe for the Brooklynite.<br />
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Below is the entrance to the restaurant where we gave our name but no reservations are taken.<br />
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Up the stairs with metal banister...<br />
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and an identical bar in their overflow room which offers more moveable table arrangements and a space for cocktail classes.</div>
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Cocktails are one of their specialties and are such a bright contrast in the industrial space.</div>
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Cocktails are made with only the freshest ingredients and special ice shapes.</div>
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Note the very large cubes below.</div>
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The table to the extreme right was ours. Can't really see the table, but hope you get the idea.<br />
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And this was our Brooklynite, recommended to us by our hotel's deskman. He was right - we loved it and had another. We asked our very efficient waitress if they ever shared recipes.<br />
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This is what she brought to us. Had to order the Angostura bitters from Amazon which arrived yesterday and I can't wait to serve a Brooklynite to future guests.<br />
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Our appetizer - the pickled vegetable platter with cheese. Tasted great with the Brooklynite.<br />
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This was our entree which we wanted to share. The chef asked to bring it to us whole so we could see how beautiful it was before division.<br />
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We also shared dessert - a chocolate creme brulee with graham crackers and marshmallows. One of the most delicious s'more I ever had.<br />
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Vintage sink in rest room which I only add because it was so cool.</div>
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And lastly, the video. Hope you can see just how special this restaurant is. I leave you with these words, if ever in St. Augustine, treat yourself at the Ice Plant. I will. And next post, there really will be more Walda.</div>
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Of course people knew of Walda Pairon before I did, but when I found her, it was like finding Hugh Newell Jacobesen, Nancy Braithwaite, or John Saladino. I was moving from an antique colonial style to a more serene colonial to a more sophisticated colonial to this wonderful Belgian style that somehow combined all previous favorites. Walda Pairon's style spoke to me. What follows are my first glimpses of her style.<br />
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First from 1991.<br />
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Many of the images from <i>Vogue Decoration </i>concentrate on her floral arrangements which seemed so natural and garden-esque to me. </div>
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It's interesting that Walda, like Gerry Nelissin, sold many antique pieces from her own home collection. I believe you will note the changes.</div>
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She emphasizes gardens, floral still lives and hired Jaques Wirtz to help design her garden in Kalmthout.</div>
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An outdoor table set for the celebration of her youngest son, Axel. Two solid silver antique candelabras flank the table outside and then flank a table inside in a living room corner</div>
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Colocynths and lemons arrangement in the little veranda.</div>
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In this glimpse of her kitchen, notice the bread on the chandelier.</div>
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I really love her stock room which may double as a mud room.</div>
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Walda's first husband was tragically killed in an auto accident. She eventually marries Roger Souvereyns, seen here, a four-star chef whose restaurant Walda helped decorate.</div>
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The whole family, as well as the garden in which they sit, is so chic. And she has a Lutyens teak bench tucked in the greenery!</div>
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Onto 1995 and an interesting story about how the following magazine came into my possession. My second son was in college and his then girl friend was spending several months in France. He felt it necessary to call her frequently before the advent of cell phones. When we received a bill of over $500 for one month, my husband and I could have strangled him. Much was forgiven when she returned with this magazine for me featuring an article on Walda Pairon. My son, on the other hand, was not forgiven and still had to work off his $500 debt that summer.</div>
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Again, she is as chic as her gardens and design.</div>
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View of the house she chose to paint an ocher color similar to houses seen in France, a country she frequented often on antique-buying trips. The twig chair was probably more for effect than comfort. Isn't the autumn leaf-covered table dynamite??</div>
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Walda frequently uses bright colors as seen in the "salon's" sofa.</div>
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I tried to imitate her bowl of oranges and dried lemons...</div>
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When making our gardens, this magazine was one of our real inspirations. I saved them all but now only buy them intermittently. Still, seeing an issue brings back wonderful memories like wonderful magazines do. I was thrilled when it featured Walda's garden.</div>
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How beautiful are her potted plants and statuary on this terrace? She has three terraces.</div>
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Again that chair is beautiful to look at as is her potted hydrangea next to it. She inspired me to pot two hydrangeas on either side of our teak benches. (During the fall, I remove the hydrangeas from their clay pots, place then in plastic ones, and heal them into the compost pile with leaf debris all around them. So far they have emerged happily healthy for another summer in their clay pots.)</div>
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Walda seems all about structure in her garden and terrace with little color. She doesn't "like using bedding plants or bulbs in (her) containers because they look so artificial and out of place."</div>
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Last post I wrote about how Gerry Nelissen's design led me to a Belgian love affair, but perhaps you were confused because Gerry is Dutch. (Perhaps this fact explains why Greet Lefevre had not known of her when I asked if she knew Gerry's work.) Despite my national mix up, Gerry's design did lead me to seek out other work like hers. This circuitous route eventually led me to the many Belgian designers who will be my subject for many future posts. But, not today. Today we are still in Holland (it's close to Belgium) discussing Marcel Wolterinck's work and his connection to Gerry Nelissen and Piet Boon - all Dutch (not Belgian). Hope this clarifies last post's misstep.<br />
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Marcel Wolterinck began his career as a floral and garden designer, later branching out into interior design. I think his ardent love of gardens will be evident as we examine his home in Laren, an area known as "the garden of Amsterdam". <i>Elle Decor's </i>cover looks a bit dog-eared below because of my constant perusals.<br />
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Conservatory whose burlap draperies inspired my own shower curtain, dining table cloth, Christmas tree skirt and more.<br />
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Below Wolterinck limited himself to only three foliage plants - the "plane trees allow for filtered light..., Virginia creeper climbs the stone wall and turn into scarlet draperies in the autumn.... Big pots of Hosta sieboldiana 'Variegata' complete the short plant list." He chose the variegated hosta because the pale gold edge matched the Dolomite sand on the ground. Woterinck refers to this section of his garden as the French garden.<br />
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In this exterior view, his conservatory is seen from the water garden.<br />
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View of the English garden with its very English teak chairs.<br />
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In the kitchen garden resides a dining table with legs of reclaimed wood and top of lead. (Eat your heart out, Restoration Hardware.) Marcel says lead in the garden is "indestructible and yet of the softest gray". The balcony wall above is also topped with lead.<br />
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Now to the inside starting with his kitchen of course. When we visit Walda Pairon's kitchen soon, Wolterinck's should ring a bell.<br />
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The article calls the room below the "smoking room", but it looks like a library to me. Love all the green out the windows, perhaps because I've been viewing icy white out my windows for weeks and weeks.<br />
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The sitting room.<br />
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Bedroom which is described on the bathroom image below it.<br />
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His painted tub reminds me a bit of a Nancy Braithwaite bedroom and my own mudroom.<br />
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Sadly, this home in Laren is now sold. I could have been happy there for years, but his design moves to a more modern, spare style. After seeing this article, I purchased two of Marcel Wolterinck's books, and would love to scan pictures from them but fear copyright infringement; the following images are from his website and should illustrate how his design becomes more spare, more modern and clean, more sophisticated - almost Liaigre-esque. First, the entrance to his showroom.<br />
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Gone are his days of checkered bathtubs and burlap draperies.<br />
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Now let's take a look at a more current project he worked on with Gerry Nelissen, and Piet Boon which combines all their talents. (I know I have not yet discussed Piet Boon - still looking for my article on his home.) In this project, Gerry and Marcel's design and garden skills combine with Piet's architectural ones in renovating a building in the rural village of Newer Ter Aa. The outside of the renovation almost looks like the entrance to Wolterinck's showroom.<br />
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Light-filled entrance. Piet Boon is well known for his love of light,<br />
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The rooms below definitely feel more Nelissen-esque, but the light is all Boon.<br />
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Again lots of architectural light even in laundry room.</div>
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Sunroom via Wolterinck I'll bet. Love that table.<br />
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First floor bath.<br />
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Stairs to second floor looking up...<br />
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Second floor bath with double sinks.<br />
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Lots of light but I miss Gerry's collections, and Marcel's plants.<br />
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and looking very Wolterinck to me.<br />
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Bridge to guest house.<br />
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And lastly, views of gardens surrounding the renovations, starting with roses climbing the bike garage.<br />
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View toward the renovation from bike garage.<br />
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Views from guest house across the river to main house.<br />
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Whew, this was a long post. I wanted to clarify the direction my design interests were heading, and these two Dutch designers and architect led the way. Next time, more on Piet Boon if that article rears its head. Then definitely onto Belgium.<br />
Stay warm,<br />
bbilliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02234552449023097251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5472853826108545453.post-51138631790031746852014-02-18T15:18:00.000-08:002014-02-21T08:27:29.446-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>My </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Belgian Love Affair</b></span><br />
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Almost sounds like a movie, but, no, it's a style and design that began to pique my interest about 18 years ago. While my interest in early American and English styles waned (but was never completely abandoned), I began to study a new look. Gerry Nelissen's home was love at first sight.<br />
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The January-February 2001 issue of <i>Veranda </i>ignited my new interest with the following article.<br />
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Nelissen built a house in Winssen, a village southeast of Amsterdam, and she built it atop the foundation of an abandoned farmstead. This melding of the new with the old really appealed to me.</div>
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As did her neutral colors...</div>
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her collections...</div>
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and her simplicity.</div>
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Always loving kitchens, Gerry's spoke to me. So many treasured items arranged so well could always be sold to a client. Note the tile on the kitchen floor - from the floor of an old church.</div>
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Her kitchen looks so fresh with her collections so neatly arranged.</div>
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Never a fan of primary colors, these neutrals really appealed to me.</div>
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Nelissen collaborated with Marcel Wolterinck (the very subject of my next post) on the garden.</div>
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The next group of images is of the same house and designer but was one of my tear-outs so I cannot give credit to the publication. See if you can see the changes which occur. (Note the article reads that "you can visit". I wish I knew how.)</div>
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First glimpse of her patio/terrace.</div>
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OK, did you notice the dining room chairs are all black in the second article, the black cupboards in the dining room are now stained, and the kitchen shelves are no longer white? Perhaps the designer sold the earlier pieces. While I know Amsterdam and Winssen are Dutch and not Belgian, Gerry's home here has what today we call the Belgian look. Belgian or Dutch, it was the start of my love affair.</div>
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To end, I thought I'd add several images from one of my February <i>Gourmets. </i>Not Dutch or Belgian but still a delight and sort of warm and cozy.</div>
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Simple table settings.</div>
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And warm candle light.</div>
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It has been a brutal last few days in upstate New York - temperatures below freezing, power outages, schools closing, pipes freezing. But this Wednesday morning, the morning after 12 inches of fluffy snow fell, I came downstairs to discover a winter wonderland. I couldn't stop taking photos with my iphone and thought I'd post a few of them.<br />
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This shot faces north into our woods with sun coming from the east. A dogwood stands in foreground.<br />
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Easterly view toward the sun and winter's redbud tree.</div>
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More southeast toward our potting shed and still the rising sun.</div>
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Southern shot from our kitchen window overlooking the white lilac.</div>
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Back porch's view south. I actually stepped outside for a moment to take this and almost gasped with the cold.</div>
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And in the dining room which also faces east, I loved the bright sunlight cast on the wall.</div>
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I'm really proud of my paperwhites. Every year I order about twenty-five bulbs; the first group bloomed right on schedule for Christmas, and the second group bravely blooms right now.</div>
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Lastly, this glimpse into our kitchen with sun shining on my copper jam pot.</div>
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That's enough of that - was just such a beautiful morning I couldn't resist saving it and sharing it.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>In my last post on the art of refining, Christian Liaigre chairs and daybeds were featured in a Connecticut home. After discovering his furniture design there, I purchased his book, read it like a Bible and tried to ferret out any articles on his work. What follows are some of my discoveries, discoveries about Liaigre's work, the very embodiment of refined taste.<br />
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This is the book I purchased and the one I still study today. I'd love to scan images from it, but the copyright warning seemed serious and severe, so just know it's wonderful and if you do not own it, you should.<br />
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Now to images scanned from magazines which seem less seriously illegal but still beautiful. Having said that, the first and second group of images fell victim to my tear-outs and because of my negligence in notating tear-outs I cannot give credit to the publication. (Please come visit me, if I end up in prison.) The following images are of his Paris house from an unknown magazine.<br />
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The article mentioned that Liaigre sometimes liked to paint color directly on the wall instead of framed art as he did below.<br />
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From his third floor bedroom, his skylit dressing room is seen.<br />
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Now to his home on the Ile de Re.<br />
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Over sized mirror resides on the floor of Liaigre's bedroom and a beautiful luggage rack with linen straps.</div>
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Guest room.<br />
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The following images are from <i>Elle Decor's </i>December 2013 issue and are of his home now on St. Bart's island (finally I know a source). Still with his touches of red.<br />
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As you know, I love shutters almost anywhere. Love them here in Liaigre's St. Bart's bath.</div>
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Interesting fact about this home. Though it is very hot in St. Bart's, Liaigre refused to air condition the house. He prefers open shutters and island breezes which sound wonderful while posting from my northeast tundra.</div>
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And finally some images gleaned from Pinterest. I'm not a fan of red so the lack of it in these rooms seems fine, but will bow always to Liaigre's expertise.</div>
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The beams in this library remind me of a home he designed in Bavaria, one of my favorities from his book. (Note to copyright authorities: this image is <b><u>not</u></b> from the book.)</div>
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One of his sofas with a great mirror.</div>
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This Soho room found on Pinterest <i>is</i> from his book and was featured on Mark Sikes's blog.</div>
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So what do you think? Do you like Liaigre's refinement? Or do you adore it?</div>
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As promised, this post will be about one of my Great Design Changes, making me think back again to the Great Vowel Change once discussed years ago in my History of English Language course. It always sort of made me snicker when the professor spoke so excitedly about something not many students found significant at all. So, if you snicker as you read about this influence that I found very significant, I will understand. Snicker away! My professor would probably think it pay-back.<br />
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Just to refresh your memories, below are a few images of a style I once loved earlier - taken from my early posts. The first image is of bedrooms from Andrew and Betsy Wyeth's restored mill in Brandywine, PA. (I can't figure out how to tag my posts, so I just "captioned" their dates for your reference.)<br />
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The next from am interior of another PA home - this time combining antiques with rooms so spare that walls have no foot molding. And all is in the frame of the original stone house in PA.</div>
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Bedroom from this same home. Looking at these images again, I still love this style especially in the winter.</div>
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Then in 1987, I discovered Hugh Newell Jacobsen and fell in love with his white, spare interiors in old Nantucket structures. He definitely triggered a change in my style.</div>
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Especially love it in the summer.</div>
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But, a home in this 1996 issue of <i>House and Garden</i> really caught my attention and triggered another real change in my design style. </div>
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You see, this old, restored house in Connecticut has the antique-iness of the Pennsylvania homes, the spareness of Jacobsen, but is filled with very carefully chosen collections and antiques - all refined, all with things "taken away". It really spoke to me and fostered another grand purge in my own home - my husband called it purging, I called it refining.</div>
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I love the Liaigre daybeds in the living room below, but I really have never understood their function. When entertaining, do guests perch on the day beds, or lay on them? Either way seems awkward, but they sure look great. (Am I being too much of a decor Philistine here?) </div>
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The fabric in the whole house was very carefully chosen and is so very beautiful.</div>
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Every object is also carefully chosen. "Even refrigerator shelves are impeccable, with bottles, cheeses and chocolates all in the same neutral palette. And in the kitchen cabinets, plastic freezer bags are taken out of their original boxes, and rolled up neatly in white baskets." I so admire this dedication to refinement and am still working on mine. Sadly, my refrigerator does not contain a neutral palette yet.</div>
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The antique table paired with Christian Liaigre chairs reminds me a bit of the Nantucket dining room from above. This image triggered my interest in Liaigre - more about this designer in a future post.</div>
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Note below that the sponge, slippers and cologne are all the same tone. The vessels on the vanity are the same tone as the bowl on the floor. The soapstone vanity matches the counters in the kitchen. Such attention to detail is so cool!</div>
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Owners removed all of foundation plantings to reveal the purity of the house's exterior.</div>
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The home was covered the next year in <i>Marie Claire.</i> Since I do not speak French, I was glad to know the details from <i>House and Garden.</i></div>
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I looked up most of what the text reads. "A Tribute to Refinement. In this antique Connecticut farmhouse, great attention is given to objects by two American women resulting in quiet perfection and comfort through their hard work." Something like that. By the by, the owners and refiners of this home are Barbara Dente and Donna Cristina.</div>
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Same dining room image but with a glimpse of their china and even more crystal candle holders.</div>
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Better views of the kitchen which of course if love. They have a Viking stove, I have a Viking. Made me feel like a kindred spirit with these women in a tiny way.</div>
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Another great view of the daybeds. For years, I have been trying to figure out the rods in the windows. Do you suppose they are a refined lock for the windows instead of brass latches? </div>
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So there you have it - a home that was a real wake-up call to my decorating sensibilities and still is. Could I change my own home to match this beauty? Perhaps, if I won the lottery. Till that time and the era of my five houses, I will continue to use this home's inspiration to refine the one home that I love - mine.</div>
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Originally, I planned to scan images of my "great design change", but then all my past Christmas issues reared their lovely heads. You do know that I have saved past favorite magazines in monthly order, and bring them out and peruse them as the seasons and months change. Well, it's Christmas season and my "great design change" will just have to wait till the new year. Hope you enjoy the following favorites apropos of the season.<br />
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The pine and poplar woodwork from above reminds me of the following kitchen from 1974 in</div>
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Onto 1999 and Martha in Maine. Not much kitchen here, but lots of Christmas cheer. I love every image I've seen of her house on Mt. Dessert Island once owned by Edsel Ford. And I love Maine.</div>
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Great wreath and entry. Also love her red spode.</div>
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Martha's wonderful old transferware.</div>
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A much cleaner look appeared in <i>Elle Decor's </i>Christmas issue with Tricia Foley's Long Island home. 2002</div>
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So calming after Martha's color and warmth. Article explained the coffee table below is a recycled coffin cart.</div>
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Tricia Foley's home reminds me so much of one of Hugh Newell Jacobsen's design on Nantucket.</div>
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With her bedside branches here and tulips on dining table, seems like <i>Elle Decor</i> wanted a break from all that Christmas color.</div>
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But we are right back into that color with an issue of <i>Sphere's Cuisine </i>and a favorite Nantucket home from 1978.</div>
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First a bit of Nantucket seasonal and nautical flavor.</div>
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Now to the Maddens' home, guests and cuisine. (They have since moved from Nantucket to Cape Cod and I posted images from both homes in my July 20, 2012 post.)</div>
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Appetizers and needlepoint. Erica Wilson is one of the guests.</div>
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Love all her Canton ware.</div>
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And New England holiday fare.</div>
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Guests and hosts at the table with antique Canton and a corner cupboard to die for.</div>
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Then in 1991, <i>Gourmet </i>published this sweet Nantucket dining area.</div>
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I was so inspired by the fish on this little tree that I did the same thing in our kitchen's eating area.</div>
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Can you tell how much I wish these magazines were still being published, how much I miss them? Do love many <i>Veranda's </i>and the new <i>Milieu, </i>but am so glad I saved so many of my old favorites too.</div>
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By the by, do you remember after my last post on Nancy Braithwaite, I expressed a wish that she would write a book on her own design?? Well, she is going to in late 2014 and may entitle it <i>Simplicity. </i>Can't wait, if I could preorder it now I would - just a little heads-up for others who love her work.</div>
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Last post, I promised to continue with more on my favorite southern designers, but have decided to wait till spring to continue. I most likely will travel south this spring which always inspires my southern design love. But most importantly, my path has strayed from the chronological journey of my design aesthetic.<br />
Somewhere chronology got lost in the shuffle. Next post and for many more that path will continue, but today I need your opinion on a very tiny decision but one that is important to me. It's time to change my pinterest image for the winter season. This same image will also be the desktop for my imac, iphone and ipad for several months - kind of makes me feel all connected and organized. What follows are images I saved in a "desktop" folder long before I ever heard of pinterest. (If I miss crediting original owners, my apologies.) See which you like best.<br />
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Last year's which I really like. Not too Christmas-y and sort of Zen-esque.<br />
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Along the same idea, but maybe too busy.<br />
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Speaks to where I live and how beautiful winter can be.</div>
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Not forgetting the fauna in all this winter flora.<br />
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Too Christmas-y maybe? Remember this image will appear for several months.<br />
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Some lingering apples in my upstate New York.</div>
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A more zen feeling again.<br />
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Still love an antique feel, but would it work till March?<br />
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Warm and cozy, but too Christmas-y for January and February?<br />
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Really Christmas-y, but I love the toile garland.<br />
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A much more quiet and neutral Christmas feel.<br />
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Love the vessel here, but too Christmas-y. Right?<br />
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Since my blog focuses a lot on kitchens and food, thought the following might work for my pinterest winter image.<br />
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Love pomegranates and this one is beautiful.<br />
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The following images are places I love even in the winter.<br />
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The last group are more unniversal winter images, but all remind me of winter at home.</div>
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A kind of quiet, Wyeth feel.</div>
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Could be the barn just down the road.</div>
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Beautiful winter, anywhere.</div>
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And last.</div>
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So what do you think? The images really do reflect a journey through antiques to warm and cozy to neutrals to spare to food-iness to New England - a journey I seem to be following if somewhat haphazardly. I would love to know your favorite image. Sometimes it's just fun to make a small decision. Such is this one. </div>
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Next time a designer that changed my aesthetic as much as Hugh Newell Jacobsen did and <i><b>my</b></i> image decision-</div>
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