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Three Pots of Inspiration: Friends Edition
What kind of art/architecture/design/etc. are inspiring some friends these days? Kaity Lucas, Avery Warkentin, and I share our rich, at-the-moment loves…
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Kelsey Rose
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Kait Lucas
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Avery Warkentin
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Living in a French sea village of 6,000 inhabitants
Experiencing the charming Basque Country as a big-city American.
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Kelsey Rose
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Three Pots of Inspiration: pretty clothes, Viennese villas, and donkey-shaped doorknobs.
Europeans open doors more creatively than the rest of us plebeians.
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Kelsey Rose
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ONE PIECE: Interviewing creatives about their favorite art, clothing, decor, and reads (vol. 2)
❥ Interviewing Leonora Epstein and Preston Alba, who are Los Angeles-based producers and critics of design. Plus, notes on Italian designer Carlo…
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Kelsey Rose
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Design era reincarnation, toy parades, and the photographic genius.
A mixture of: living during the Art Deco era in a past life, the current Los Angeles fires, the most delightful toy film you'll ever see, and rethinking…
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Kelsey Rose
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A Hodgepodge: hats with a historical lens, Jackie Kennedy as a lipstick, and swirled furniture goodness
❥ A look at some of this month's thrilling discoveries.
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Kelsey Rose
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Three Pots of Inspiration: MoMA's 1950 "What is Modern Design?" as a dream gift guide, and bathtubs as couches.
The mind of a visual thinker (hi!) is PACKED with photographs, colors, textures, and various oddities—both real and imagined. It’s the start of…
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Kelsey Rose
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ONE PIECE: Interviewing creatives about their favorite art, clothing, decor, and reads
❥ Interviewing the outstanding Sarah Reeder and Bridget Bartal, who are deeply rooted in art and design scholarship and appraisal, about their…
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Kelsey Rose
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A first date at Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye outside of Paris
A divine/magnifique/charmant spot for a first date, I'd say!
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Kelsey Rose
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Honeymooning in VENICE!
Ciao punctuations, lots of boating, and the art of turning a dead-end into a piece of magic. We visited the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, steered a boat…
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Kelsey Rose
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A Hodgepodge: Robert Motherwell's painting studio, a Milanese cove of Modernisme meets Modernism, and other visual spots
It’s the perfect time for another Hodgepodge writing, touching on: modern artists and their studios, Villa Borsani in Italy, and little spots of visuals…
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Kelsey Rose
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BOOK CLUB vol. 7: the home of Surrealist photographer Lee Miller and her artist husband, Sir Roland Penrose
It’s no shock for me to write that I am a tad bit obsessed with the portrait/fashion/war/Surrealist photographer Lee Miller. While poking around for…
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