WSJ/My Favorite Room: Kathryn Ireland

Oops, uploaded out of order. This room–at La Rocca Pisana in Italy–is gorgeous! Click here for more text/pix.

WSJ/My Favorite Room: Elissa Cullman

In the most recent installment of the column, Ellie Cullman walks us through the Veterans Room in the Park Avenue Armory. Click here for more.

WSJ/My Favorite Room: Timothy Corrigan

The LA designer’s fave space? The Blue Room of the Musee Camondo in Paris! Click here to read…

WSJ/My Favorite Room: David Rockwell

Click here to read David Rockwell’s take on the Soane museum.

WSJ/My Favorite Room: Carleton Varney

Next up: Dorothy Draper’s protege! Click here to read.

Tonight! MAD Museum Panel

Please come!

Info here.

“The Home Front” at the MAD Museum

Big thanks to Rima for mentioning “The Home Front” in the New York Times. A series on American furniture design guest curated by Surface ed-in-chief (and my good friend!) Dan Rubinstein, it takes place at the MAD Museum this winter/spring. I’ll be moderating a panel on February 17 (more info here) for which I’ll be grilling BDDW’s Tyler Hays, Alissia Melka-Teichroew, and Jonah Takagi about how they’ve pulled off being an independent designer. Please come!

Accompanying the panel will be a series of posts on the same topic, to be published on FastCompany’s awesome new(ish) blog, Co.Design. Bookmark it!

 

 

A busy year of books!

Well, actually, last year (2009) was the busy year of books (writing them, that is)–this is just the year that they all came out! In addition to the Vera monograph for Abrams and Susan Seid, which just got a nice mention in the New York Times…

…I also worked on the following:

Produced the first two books in Jonathan Adler’s new decorating series for Sterling…groovy!:

Wrote the text for Picture Perfect: Designing the New American Family Home, Scott Sanders‘s book about his process of envisioning a chic and stately Northeastern manse (Pointed Leaf Press):

And contributed an essay for a monograph on Austin, Texas, architecture firm Andersson-Wise:

Phew!

Vera on the cover of New York Mag!

For the past week, I’ve been mesmerized by Anthropologie’s ooh-la-la Louisa settee, featured on the cover of New York Magazine’s always-eagerly-anticipated design issue. Finally went to look it up on Anthro’s website, only to discover: no wonder I love it…it’s based on a vintage Vera pattern! After spending the last year immersed in Vera-iana, I guess her delicious patterns have fully worked their way into my subconscious. Get the book here, or at bookstores worldwide in the fall.

The Vera book: Out now at Anthropologie!

The Vera book is out: authored and produced by Susan Seid (president of the Vera Company and current owner of the artist’s archives), text by moi, published by Abrams, and wildly supported by Anthropologie, who made it all happen. The book is a gorgeous pictorial survey of the life and work of this pioneering artist and visionary entrepreneur, who rubbed elbows with Alexander Calder, commissioned Marcel Breuer to design her home and showrooms, and made the lives of ladies in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, so much more colorful!

Click here to buy a copy, here for the Vera Company’s newsblog, and here for more Vera goodies from Anthro–from dresses to scarves to wallpaper!

And check out this amazing Vera wallpaper Anthro is producing, I could die…

Also, click here for a nice story in W blog about the Vera/Anthro collaboration…