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Light on apartment but heavy on therapy is
Sandy Lerner's rustic cabin. As much as we love our urban nests, it's refreshing (or agonizing, depending on your position) to hear about life beyond the city walls.
Our secret fascination (okay,
my secret fascination), with both hippies and the Upper East side drew me down the rabbit hole here. The
story on Erica Wilson and Vladimir Kagan led to -- where else? -- cool modern furniture and, well, downright
adorable needlework.
Wall treatment Q&A for those with a fear of commitment, and for Proust.
This story just made it onto our radar, but only because the H&H people have been a little stingy today, and because Maxwell's in Paris. I think I see him waaay in the background.
Spotted in Currents and Personal Shopper
Voyage, a new chandelier installed in the departure hall of Kennedy Airport's Terminal 4 last week.
Barbara Barry's new collection for HBF, introduced last week at Neocon.
"Touch Me: Design and Sensation," an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London through Aug. 29.
An orange and pink organdy tablecloth in a floral pattern is 120 inches round and fits a 60-inch round table; $120 at Roberta Freymann, 153 East 70th Street (Third Avenue) or (212) 585-3767.
An orange umbrella (70 inches in diameter) from Thailand is made of wax-coated fabric on a bamboo pole. Also in green, fuchsia, turquoise or red; $135 at Roberta Freymann.
Bamboo folding chairs are $75 each at CITE, 120 Wooster Street (Prince Street) or (212) 431-7272.
The Birz Lamp by Carlos Forcolini and Giancarlo Fassina for Luceplan is made of silicone and comes in orange or acid green; $78 at the MoMA Design Store, www.momastore.org.
A floral floor cushion (21 inches square) is $40 at www.anthropologie.com or (800) 309-2500.
Leaf-shape ceramic plates and bowls come in shades of green. A 17-inch serving plate is $85; a 12-inch dinner plate is $38 and an 8-inch bowl is $38. At Homenature, 6 Main Street, Southampton, N.Y., or (631) 287-6277.
A floral floor cushion (21 inches square) is $40 at www.anthropologie.com or (800) 309-2500.
Sandy Lerner is my new idol. What a fascinating woman. How refreshing to read about a (former) business executive who is interested in community building, family farms, Jane Austen and Jousting. The perfect antidote to the Kozlowski-Scrushy-Grasso types and their reckless greed.
OK, case in point on remarks from the interiors magazine thread on magazines covering the same places: Dwell also has an article this month on Erica Wilson and Vladimir Kagan.
I'm not so sure that typing and working on cars justifies humanity's purpose on this earth(I'd like to think that it's ultimately a bit more exalted or I have nothing more to aspire to, since I type 80 wpm and can do my own car maintenance, courtesy of a college boyfriend) but the Sandy Lerner article was fairly interesting, despite that weird last quote. (So can we start eating the homeless and the unproductive?)
I just wonder who lives in the her huge house--anyone, or is it just empty?
It's been so dull lately, I had to give it good marks today - a solid "B"
Fiona, I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Sandy Lerner's last quote totally bizarre. Her 9 cats must be some fast typists/mechanics to have lasted so long.
Gee -- Is there another furniture designer besides The Great Genius (also known as Vladimir Kagan)? I'm sure this must be the third or fourth article I've read about him (and of course his lovely and equally endowed wife) in the NYTimes within the last year. He's not just kidding when he says he knows marketing.
ICC, there was also a profile of Vlad K. in Dwell this month. There's some kind of publicity machine in motion!