architecture

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…

Apr 22 •

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Living in a French sea village of 6,000 inhabitants

Experiencing the charming Basque Country as a big-city American.

Mar 10 •

Three Pots of Inspiration: pretty clothes, Viennese villas, and donkey-shaped doorknobs.

Europeans open doors more creatively than the rest of us plebeians.

Feb 3 •

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…

Jan 18 •

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…

Jan 13 •

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.

Dec 14, 2024 •

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…

Dec 2, 2024 •

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…

Nov 25, 2024 •

A first date at Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye outside of Paris

A divine/magnifique/charmant spot for a first date, I'd say!

Nov 9, 2024 •

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…

Oct 16, 2024 •

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…

Sep 15, 2024 •

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…

Aug 8, 2024 •

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