A Glamorous Parisian flat

You may have seen this amazing Parisian apartment featured in Elle Decor in the November issue.  If you saw the magazine you probably bought it just to see more of this amazing flat.  My husband who never buys design magazines bought it for me in his latest trip overseas.  It pays off to have a man who knows your style and likes.  The designers to praise behind this creation are Kelli Wilde and Laurent Champeau who previously worked for Tino Zervudachi.  Restoring a lot of the original ornamented walls and ceiling the designers reconfigured the layout for a better flow.  The mixture of classic furniture and modern art is a perfection of sorts.  Enjoy!

Photos via Elle Decor

Thom Filicia Easy American Elegance

Thom Filicia does know how to make a house feel like home.  This country home in Connecticut can convert any city lover into a country aficionado.  If you don't believe me take a look for yourself at this cozy and elegant abode he designed for a young family.  Besides the typical warm feeling of the country side it's almost hard to tell that all these level of sophisticated American style is in the countryside.  Enjoy!

Avery home should have: Art

Smart composition in this room the horse leg bench makes reference to the indigenous photograph.  Elle Decor San Francisco Showhouse

Sometimes art can make a room while many times it can also make a whole house.  I can't picture a home without it nor would I live in one without.  We all know art implies many things from an elaborate sculpture to a simple figurine.  But, in this case I'm referring to art wall.  The one that is very personal and many times tells a story behind the artists creation or its discovery.  My Yaacov Agam painting that I found at The New York Antique Garage which my husband and I framed using the shell from another painting just the night before the photo shoot of our home.  That is a story that will always be linked to that painting and to my last minute anticipation.  Art can be anything many people say but, I think otherwise.  Art could certainly make a room but can also break it.  The art that we select for our homes should bring with it the final note to the ambiance of the space, it should complete the room's vision as it shows in each of these images.  In other words, it should become part of a new story: your home.   For affordable and good art I have posted here and here.  Enjoy!

In this hallway? the art seems to stand out against the white wall and white frames.

 Nicole Hanley Mellon home

Harmony seems to be the preferred choice over symmetry in many art wall composition.  As in this picture above six painting frame the windows, three on each side but none are of equal size or or equal high.

This vignette in Francisco Costa house.  The color scheme is very soothing and seductive but the dynamic photograph of a horse injects interest. 

A Francis Bacon.

I dream of owning a Jean-Michel Basquiat one day.

I absolutely adore this bedroom.  I really want an over sized art over my bed.

Eliott Puckette

The chicest: Stripes

Nina Garcia home

I'm back at it!  It's double-checked that I can't get tired at wearing them, painting them and/or looking at them, stripes that is!  Have I ever posted about how chic and prominent they are?  Probably a million times by now… and I know there is still more to come because stripes is for sure the chicest of the classics.  Enjoy!

Dolce and Gabbana Spring 2013

Richard Mishaan's Colombian home.

Jonathan Saunders Spring 2013

Elle Decor

Tommy Ton photo

French Elle Decoration

Ordered section by Lee Clarke

The Greenbier Hotel

Tommy Ton

Keith McNally's Martha's Vyneyard home

Celine racer stripe luggage tote

Elle Italy

The amazing Jim Lambie taped floor,

Black Bathrooms

Beauty is what beauty does! Meaning, in this case, that not all bathrooms need to be white in order to be beautiful.  When dark, good and exotic materials are utilized and mixed with brass, light washed wood and a lot or just enough mirror the opulence of a dark bathroom is not only unique and normally unexpected but, it's also seductive.   I'm in love with the Chinoiserie vanities of the bathroom above.  I also love the rustic unpolished floor and the detail of the different colore and size marble in the shower below.  It's a total dream, isn't it?  The bathroom, first and second images, belong to Kim Herbert, Harper's Bazzaar uk editor via Elle Decor.  Enjoy!

 Mixed with golden details is pure richness.

bathroom above by Ilse Crawford

images from Miles Redd, House Beautiful.