I love the word juxtaposition, don’t you? Any word with both a letter J and a letter X in it –is okay in my book. But beyond just how cool the word sounds and looks- mostly, I love what it means.
jux·ta·po·si·tion
(noun)–an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, [...]
Okay, you have to give it up for Canada. They won the Gold Medal in Men’s Hockey fair and square. The Olympic host team playing a national past time…winning in an “edge of your seat sudden death” overtime…well, it has all of the making of a feel good movie.
Exciting, inspiring, warm and fuzzy and- oh… [...]
Well if you are perusing the streets of NYC- the answer might be just be “I see a blue chair looking at me!”–thanks to the color-loving, design savvy crew at House Beautiful magazine.
In celebration of America’s love affair with the color Blue, the mag and some of our favorite furniture companies have teamed up to [...]
We are “tres Enthousiaste” to let you know that LIFC will have our very own roving reporter at this years Maison & Objet!
The astoundingly beautiful Katherine is en route to the City of Lights- with her Chanel flats packed and her trusty digital camera charged and ready to go.
eat your heart out Audrey Tautou
As she [...]
Day 1 of a 3 day photo series. Starting with a glimpse of the new textile collections for Dedar and Creations Metaphores. Both reveal a 2010 trend for large scale prints, bold color pairings, denim blue, and neutrals that shimmer shimmer shimmer.
First I started off at the Dedar Showroom located at 20 Rue Bonaparte, just [...]
Day 1 of a 3 day photo series. Starting with a glimpse of the new textile collections for Dedar and Creations Metaphores. Both reveal a 2010 trend for large scale prints, bold color pairings, denim blue, and neutrals that shimmer shimmer shimmer.
I found myself smack dab in the middle of Deco Off, a first ever [...]
I just read that something like 20% of Americans say that they suffer from feelings of depression during the winter months.
If you polled my own family that figure would probably shoot up to around 75%- cause I’m sure that not a day goes by from January to March that you won’t catch someone in my [...]
If you’ve been tuned in here or on our Facebook fans page you know that I had a blast sharing my New Year’s resolution to ‘Learn More‘ as one of the experts participating in Ten Design Days hosted by Sonu Mathew of Living In Color With Sonu and Kathy Barlow of HomeWorkshop.
With a resolution like [...]
For as long as I can remember I have been an editorial junkie. In high school I religiously studied each and every issue of Seventeen magazine as if they were the scriptures themselves. When I went off to college my Mother’s back issues of House and Garden and House Beautiful went off with me.
Long before [...]
1. People that work at cool museums tend to be cool themselves. A few weeks back the folks from The Cooper Hewitt Museum sent fellow LIFC blogger and my favorite city cohort, April an invitation to attend Elle Decor’s 2nd Annual Women In Design Event- which the museum was co-hosting.
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum [...]
