Perhaps what is happening at the NYTimes is that they are feeling split between the aging baby boom generation who made the paper great, but who have moved out of the city, retired, and otherwise gone to pasture, AND the rest of us who are hardscrabbling to carve out our own distinctive lives in Gotham City.
This was a snooze for us, as H&H pitched to the older set and travelled far from New York. Readers - give us your opinion below:
TOP STORIES
- For Retirees, One Home Is Not Enough
With the housing boom lifting prices, retirees are selling one and getting two more in the sunbelt
Photo: crop of Tony Cenicola - She Smells Me, She Smells Me Not
It's been smell over color for years in the flower industry. Smell is coming back.
- Retreat or Retrench?
"Erosion slowly destroys about 1,500 American homes and the land they sit on annually" - What people are doing about it.
Photo: Douglas Healey - To Share Is Divine. But the Kitchen? A super nice little kitchen is built into the living room at Yale for Joseph H. Britton, his wife and kids
- Architect: Bogue Trondowski
- The Allure of Beaded Curtains
How can I cover a window without curtains? Try beaded curtains. With good sources.
- Personal Shopper: Make your summer rental feel like home with a few inexpensive additions: sheets, vacuum, roll-up mattress, folding crib....
CURRRENTS: Los Angeles
- Cool outdoor streetscape art:
Including this one that Blik did in Silverlake
- Elizabeth Paige Smith and her Kittypods
Photo: Steve Lacap - A funky new modernist garden at the West Hollywood home of John Chase
Photo: Scott Van Dyke - The Frame demi chaise longue by Francesco Rota for Paola Lenti and acrylic furniture deisgned by Charles Hollis Jones at the Desert Hot Springs Hotel
Photo: Cupcakes, Bennet Stein - Sprinkles Cupcakes is an attempt to create a west coat Magnolia Bakery - modernist style
re-- those metal beaded curtains
Kelly Hoppen just unveiled a furniture line in the US featuring some upholstered pieces with that same beading used as upholstery fringe, and that is now my new favorite thing. When used in moderation. ;)
I really love that kitchen, though - the one at Yale Divinity. The whole house sounds great - what a cool environment for a divinity program.
While i think the Sprinkles Cupcake store in nicely designed, how is one to lick off the icing of a fondant-dotted cupcake? No fun!
Weirdly enough, I took a writing class with someone who works for the Yale Divinity School and teaches human sexuality, and is absolutely one of the funniest people you'd ever met. She wrote something that took place in part based on her experiences at the school, and it was really fascinating.
I really liked the kitchen. Great color.
I'd love to see the Kelly Hoppen chairs--they sound cool.
WOW! I'm really coveting the modernist garden at that West Hollywood home. In the biggest way. The s*** is bananas!
RE the John Lautner motel in Desert Hot Springs. I remember when the property went on the market in the mid-300's, 5 or 6 years ago (at the beginning of Palm Springs resurgence). My ex and I knocked on one of the residents' doors and asked to take a peek. (It was used as a rental property at the time.) Even in its rundown state, it had all the great midcentury lines and cues that Lautner is known for. Such a great example of this style of architecture. It's nice to see that it's been lovingly restored and put to good use.
Is it me, or does the Desert Hot Springs Hotel look very similar (i.e., the roofline) to FLW's Taliesin West in Arizona?
Design*Sponge wrote about the KittyPods last month. NYTimes scooped again!
just wondering about the difference between east and west coast. the appeal of magnolia is homemade comfort food, sprinkles looks the complete opposite.
I like that beaded curtain stuff when it's used in a huge epic way, like at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center, in the lobby of that first ring (methinx it goes up farther, actually).
I would love to work with that stuff.
RE: Beaded Curtains - These reminded me of metal discs which can be hung as wall decor or as room dividers. I saw a pricey Italian version in a shop in Soho a couple of years ago and would like to find the manufacturer or something similar. Some of the designs were very mod. Has anyone seen these?
Liz--
Not sure it is the exact thing you describe, but I have seen something similar called "Mobileo" available (among other places) at Chiasso.
liz - i've seen stuff like that at west elm too--some were capiz shell discs, some were ceramic i think, there might have been more but i can't remember at the moment...