LONNY MAG: june/july edition

The new Lonny Mag came out yesterday and it is just as beautiful as ever. If you are not familiar with Lonny then welcome to the future of magazines. It is an online magazine that comes out every two months. You literally flip the pages and are able to click on any picture to take you to its corresponding link online. I love looking for new shopping sites.

Remember my post about Rubie Green? Well, the founder of Rubie Green, Michelle Adams,  also created Lonny + photographer Patrick Cline. Together, their design sense is amazing and their photo styling is breathtaking. I obsess over every house/room they feature. In this mag, my favorite is Manhattan's couple Ethan Feirstein and Ari Heckman's bathroom. They painted it a glossy black temporarily, but fell in love with it - and so have I.  Here are some pictures of the New York men's club inspired bathroom:

[love the extendable shaving mirror & white flower - great contrast against the black]

"The glossy black walls really make the cleanness of the subway-tile shower and hexagonal white tile floors explode." - Feirstein [taken from bottom right excerpt]

Lonny features lots of designers - upcoming and established - and I love to read about their design aesthetics and style. I created a collage of some of my favorite quotes from this issue and I must say, I share a lot of the same opinions! Hope you love it as much as I do - enjoy! 

 

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PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHY

I just ordered this book and this one. Neither have come in yet, but they will immediately be on display in the den. I am trying to stay up on the trends in the design world and keep all forms of inspiration around me. Lately I have been drawn to a lot of "poster-style" block prints and layered screen prints. Here are some of my recent favs:

[all images Right Brain Terrain]

I have been trying to collect inspiration for an array of framed photography and prints in Melrose. I like a mix of beautiful photography, black and white high contrast pictures, and art prints. Rather than hanging the frames on the wall in a collage, I have been drawn to staggering the frames on shelves. Here are some inspiration images:

 

[aubrey road]

[greige]

[automatism]

But, of course I am still a fan of a hanging collage:

[morten holtum via automatism]

[automatism]

[scanned from house beautiful]

[elements of style]

I love all combinations: black frames, gold frames, white frames, matt, no matt, round, square, rectangle, big, small - everything! I even like how this last picture is not symmetrical. I am thinking a photo "shelf" above my desk in the guest bedroom and a photo "collage" above Brandon's desk in the study...but we shall see!

STRAW HATS

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Man, (insert magnificent idea you haven't seen before) would be so cool - I am going to do that!" and then you turn around and find that same idea in every magazine and posted on every design blog? It's not that you think, "Hey, I thought of that first," but you realize that idea just happened to become a fast growing trend so it must have not been that "original", or "unique."

Well, that same thing happened with this trend:

[country living magazine via blueprint bliss]

[top right: martha stewart via the city stage]

[everything fabulous]

[lime in the coconut via 6th street design school]

[beach bungalow via pink wallpaper]

I am looking for several old and floppy straw beach hats to display above the "new" to us buffet in the dining room. If you find any, let me know!

EMILIE FRIDAY: calligrapher

I discovered this calligrapher the other day and I love her work. She designs logos, address blocks, stamps, invitations - and they are all beautiful! I love her style - and it slightly resembles a style that I have been working towards. She also has an etsy shop and sells calligraphy supplies.  I really want to purchase her Spencerian Textbook Kit (intermediate) - and I just might - that comes with a book, nibs, holder, ank ink. Such a deal!

Here are some of my favories of Emilie's work:

I have been trying to perfect my own calligraphy style(s) for awhile now and I have been saving any form of inspiration I can find. I have pages and pages of cutouts in my inspiration book of samples from different artists. I have always loved to handwrite and doodle, so I took a copperplate calligraphy class a few months ago. I really enjoyed learning the basic forms, how to hold the pen, replace tips, etc. Since then, I have been working on writing a wedding invitation for a friend and designing a personal stamp to use on my design work. I will be sure to share the final results of both. For a staff picture at work we had to display an "item" that represents you - I chose my calligraphy letters in my inspiration book:

BEACH PHOTOS

I am headed to the beach tomorrow for a friend's wedding and I just can't wait - the sandy white beaches of Destin, the glimmering sun, Crab Island, delicious seafood...and soon, oil lurking the shore while the smell of exhaust fills the air. Boo! I am glad to get this beach trip in before the oil hits the panhandle.

At least I have these photos to keep my spirits up.

Wouldn't this photo make a cute painting? [deliciously organized]

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Ahhh to be basking in the sun like this ... [photographer Petra Van Raaij via dress, design, & decor]

Love the colors in this photo - and, don't be fooled---that is me ;) [unknown]

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