NY Mag Design Issue

Some good stuff in New York magazine’s “Design Liberation” issue, including this apartment with nice shelving and amazing pink walls.

Lonelyville

Coffee shop not far from my new apartment.  Love the thermoses lined up on the shelves.  Not to mention lemonade.

Divide This!

So I’ve moved and unpacked 80% of my stuff but I’m currently dealing with some major indecision.  I have two of these mandarin rolling shelving units from CB2 (above left) and currently have both of them (rather effectively) acting as sort-of room dividers.  But something feels wrong.  I really liked having both of them next [...]

Moving

In the midst of packing/moving insanity.  Please stay tuned.

Love Shelves

Last night I saw Love Songs, the new “musical” by writer-director Christophe Honoré. The songs are a little awkward, but it has all the great ingredients of French cinema that I enjoy so much: the brusque attitude, ménage à trois, death and melancholy, attractive players, fluid sexuality, way open family conversations, Paris and…shelves galore!
The [...]

Welcome

I love shelves.
The shelving that people choose and the way they arrange things on their shelves reveals a lot. Some like to have all their books in alphabetical order, never to be disturbed again. Others have shelves that are works-in-progress, the objects moving around so much they never have a chance to get [...]