Layered Mirrors

The look of layered mirrors.

Image: JJJJound

Merry Christmas!

Image: Racey Tay

Great Gifting

Packaging matters, right? Taking the unexpected or giving a little extra is certainly noticed. Here are a few favorites from the season.

Wreaths Galore

Images: Southern Living

Ornament Chandelier

Is this fabulous or is it fabulous? A red ornament chandelier was created for this festive party and you know, I bet it's not too hard to make!

Images: Roland Bello via escapade

Gift List from ABC Carpet & Home

Gift list from ABC Carpet & Home.

Classic Christmas in South Carolina

Steve and Marianne Harrison, owners of Beaufort’s magical Rhett House Inn, built a traditional cottage as their own modern retreat. They've created a very simple and classic Christmas decor that would charm anyone.

Images: Lucas Allen

The Work of Wayne Pate

The talented Mr. Wayne Pate of Brooklyn creates wonderful and whimsical illustrations, prints, paper collages and lithographs among other things. Here's a sample of his work.

Classic Movie Posters

Redford Films is the go-to for classic movie posters. Big, graphic and full of color, they always add a bit of fun to a room. Here are just a few of their affordable selections.

Wrapping Paper by Placed

Placed, out of the UK, offers sweet wrapping paper and cards.

Framed Intaglios

An intaglio is a figure or design carved into stone or a hard material. "Intaglios, cameos, and medals were popular among collectors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Skilled engravers copied such artefacts from the classical world, reproductions were made in paste and glass, and collectors bought them not only for display, but to study classical Greece and Rome. Additionally new medals and intaglios were as popular with collectors, who bought them to commemorate, and to show an affinity with the contemporary events and personalities depicted in them: battles, parliamentary acts, political campaigns, and philosophers, statesmen, soldiers, sailors, poets, writers."(from the UCL Bentham Project)

Sources :Jon Freeman's Tiberian Design, Things That Inspire, CSM Art & Frame, Ancient Resource, Edgar L. Owen, Brownwigg, Christie's, St. Martin's Gallery

Stocking Stuffers

Goodies for all.

Pencil Tips

Zen Blocks
Vintage Portuguese Playing Cards
Swigg Ricky Rhino

Standard Jump Rope

Buenos Aires Oasis

Argentinean materials, a roiling economy, and a pinch of personal tumult served as the recipe for furniture designer Alejandro Sticotti’s Buenos Aires oasis.

Images: Crisobal Palma, Dwell