was a WOMAN.
Erwin Blumenfeld, Lisette behind fluted Glass, 1943.
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25 May 2013
23 May 2013
20 May 2013
SISTERS
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Berry & Marisa Berenson in St. Tropez from the pages of 60's Vogue
Born "Berinthia" in 1948, perished on American Airlines Flight 11, September 11, 2001
photographer, model, actress, wife & mother
Marisa Berenson photographed by Berry Berenson, 1970.
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15 May 2013
Sister Parish favorites
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One of my favorite Sister Parish rooms ever was in her apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue created in the 70's. The living room was a perfect square and within it-there was a room where style was paramount-but pretension banished-and that is a fine balance, and an art. It's what makes names like Sister Parish and Albert Hadley synonymous with the best of taste in the American design vernacular: Classic, Stylish, American Chic. Mixing the beauty of American craft and handwork-quilts & baskets with french antiques-silver tea papers with parsons style tables, staid Victoriana with neat sweet printed fabrics. I still can not find a thing tired or dated with their rooms. These rooms make me happy.
Now back to this favorite room. As with much of the work labelled Parish Hadley-Sister Parish's early living
room incarnation in the early 1970's was a collaborative effort. It is in a word- Timeless. As with her clients, I suppose she got restless for change and later reworked the room more formally. Its 70's Life is the one to study. With its deep brown walls and pink curtains on white wood rods, the room is filled with places to coze, or to sit back with a good book. Its what surrounds the room's contents-the backdrop-along with the room's layers- that work together so seamlessly together. Beauty, smarts & function (which mostly for me means Comfort) especially in this room.
Hadley recalls: "I gave her high-gloss aubergine vinyl walls, polished aluminum Levelor blinds, a silver tea-paper ceiling that quickly tarnished to gold, plaster lamps, an abstract painting by Anthony Tortora, an entire wall of mirror, and billowy unlined pink taffeta curtains that she really wasn't ready for. Over the floor-bleached almost white- I put a dhurrie rug... But the rest was all Sis-the enveloping sofas, the chaise longue... the masses of soft downy pillows everywhere."
Even more simple as fabrics go is Sister Parish's BURMA. I love this fabric.
Sister Parish's Oldwick Green fabric holds the year round promise of Summer days-cool Summer days-preferably.
Sister Parish Design is making must have bags, and laminated home accessories with their fabrics & Oldwick Green looks great on tray. I happen to love their trays-and luckily for Us-Sister Parish's team has provided a extra large Oldwick Green serving tray, measuring 22 x 17. Serve up breakfast-lunch-or drinks, lemonade or juleps & mint, lots of mint.
to be able to serve up the drink of your choice on this tray in no time-Leave a comment here, Follow along with little augury on Facebook-or Follow along at Pinterest- or all 3 with 3 chances to win!
I'll have a winner next week-announced here and selected by the list randomizer at random.org.
I'll be monitoring your progress- here there-and everywhere. Good Luck!
SISTER PARISH is on FACEBOOK & PINTEREST too!
thanks to Sister Parish for the beautiful tray!
LINKS:
Sister Parish Shops- the goods
Sister Parish Design-what's new, their fabrics and papers, and a beautiful archive of Sister's famous and fabulous rooms.
my post about the book-SISTER PARISH, The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer, here
here's a great post of the apartment by The Devoted Classicist, John Tackett.
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One of my favorite Sister Parish rooms ever was in her apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue created in the 70's. The living room was a perfect square and within it-there was a room where style was paramount-but pretension banished-and that is a fine balance, and an art. It's what makes names like Sister Parish and Albert Hadley synonymous with the best of taste in the American design vernacular: Classic, Stylish, American Chic. Mixing the beauty of American craft and handwork-quilts & baskets with french antiques-silver tea papers with parsons style tables, staid Victoriana with neat sweet printed fabrics. I still can not find a thing tired or dated with their rooms. These rooms make me happy.
Now back to this favorite room. As with much of the work labelled Parish Hadley-Sister Parish's early living
room incarnation in the early 1970's was a collaborative effort. It is in a word- Timeless. As with her clients, I suppose she got restless for change and later reworked the room more formally. Its 70's Life is the one to study. With its deep brown walls and pink curtains on white wood rods, the room is filled with places to coze, or to sit back with a good book. Its what surrounds the room's contents-the backdrop-along with the room's layers- that work together so seamlessly together. Beauty, smarts & function (which mostly for me means Comfort) especially in this room.
the room
photograph from Sister Parish Design here
photograph from Sister Parish Design here
Hadley recalls: "I gave her high-gloss aubergine vinyl walls, polished aluminum Levelor blinds, a silver tea-paper ceiling that quickly tarnished to gold, plaster lamps, an abstract painting by Anthony Tortora, an entire wall of mirror, and billowy unlined pink taffeta curtains that she really wasn't ready for. Over the floor-bleached almost white- I put a dhurrie rug... But the rest was all Sis-the enveloping sofas, the chaise longue... the masses of soft downy pillows everywhere."
The fabric used at the windows in the apartment is the newest fabric being made at Sister Parish Design called POCANTICO. In Linen, it comes in fresh colors-Blue, Parma (as in violet), Fern, and Chile. The fabric makes an impact with a diamond pattern within another, and both are composed of small crosshatches.In its totality, Pocantico makes for a graphically strong statement. While simple-there is complexity-I think that's what made Sister Parish's rooms so unique.
At first glance, we may see her smart rooms-light-comfort-tradition-but
on closer examination-we see a panoply of small
prints-floral-quilts-trims-along with petite tables-in patinas of all
sorts. The room below is a prime example of Sister Parish MIX and smarts.
Even more simple as fabrics go is Sister Parish's BURMA. I love this fabric.
& it's not just because piglet, Pumba, is so adorable perched on their dog bed.
Pumba's pic from Sister Parish's Facebook page here
Sister Parish's Oldwick Green fabric holds the year round promise of Summer days-cool Summer days-preferably.
Sister Parish Design is making must have bags, and laminated home accessories with their fabrics & Oldwick Green looks great on tray. I happen to love their trays-and luckily for Us-Sister Parish's team has provided a extra large Oldwick Green serving tray, measuring 22 x 17. Serve up breakfast-lunch-or drinks, lemonade or juleps & mint, lots of mint.
to be able to serve up the drink of your choice on this tray in no time-Leave a comment here, Follow along with little augury on Facebook-or Follow along at Pinterest- or all 3 with 3 chances to win!
I'll have a winner next week-announced here and selected by the list randomizer at random.org.
I'll be monitoring your progress- here there-and everywhere. Good Luck!
SISTER PARISH is on FACEBOOK & PINTEREST too!
thanks to Sister Parish for the beautiful tray!
Sister Parish Design-what's new, their fabrics and papers, and a beautiful archive of Sister's famous and fabulous rooms.
my post about the book-SISTER PARISH, The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer, here
here's a great post of the apartment by The Devoted Classicist, John Tackett.
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14 May 2013
about Pink
according to the great editors-Pink is-the navy blue of India (Diana Vreeland) , and Anna Wintour declared Pink to be the color of PUNK, she says so- according to curator of the Met Costume Exhibit- Punk: Chaos to Couture, Andrew Bolton.
Still in all-Pink is the color of Pretty.
things are finally blooming some color here in the South-though today it is quite chilly.
Peonies & Mistinguett.Charles Gesmar 1928
Colors of-Pinks, rose pinks & the hot pink variety-along with a pinky red. The Peonies, most of mine are Sarah Bernhardt-are all knobs and nubbins, but soon to be bursting in Sarah pink. I've added a some pale pale-almost white pinks with them and a some deep pinks- the pinky red kind to my row of Peonies for appeal and to dot into arrangements of Sarahs- these are some of my favorite flowers to bring into the house en masse.
from last year in my favorite container
Others agree...
Christian Dior Fall 2012 Couture, Paris
from Veranda -years ago, the scenes at the home of William Howard Adams are such evocative photographs from Lisa Hubbard. Inspired-each image is a perfection of color and mood. The house is divine-the dog equally so.
(photographs above All by Lisa Hubbard)
Chanel-as always turned to these colors.It is inspiring to see CHANEL's soft side, and there is a lot of soft~ and here she pairs the palette we love with an earthy peat color~ that's only natural.
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still life with Peony the garden of William Howard Adams
photograph from Veranda by Lisa Hubbard
the team of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli at Valentino are feeling it too~just beautiful.
Surely-she was thinking pink...
the Constance Spry climbing rose
& floral designer-
13 May 2013
the harmony of CLASH
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Spring no longer exists in the South-there's a sort of Autumn and a sprint to Summer from there-with a few weird winter days scattered in May, and occasionally in the appropriate month of January.
the North Carolina mountains-at the moment are flush with frail green leaves shivering in the wind.
farther down the mountain at my house-greens are morphing into pinks-and whites-and lavenders-the colors I cultivate with the occasional deep purple-almost to the black. Sometime I think-why not add Yellow (I admit not a favorite color of mine in flowers)-with tangles of orange and red? Maybe if I had an estate-or even and acre-I'd be more at home with this arresting garden palette.
along with questions of clashing color-I can't help but think about clashing decoration.
Where are the Rose Cummings of interior design today? The decorator that dares to rival Rose's raunchy room I so love?
The question is- would it be magazine copy? Could it be published? I recently saw this room captioned: "the worst! what was she thinking?"
I say: (oh clueless little one)
a close call to the answer Rose-would be Sig Bergamin, his own home (as was Rose's room), is much the same.A clash or color-but not of wills. Bergamin is in total control.
There are rebels-and there are rebels, more in design please. How I yearning for a Rose Cumming -Vivienne Westwood mash up. There's just something so simpatico about these two-don't you think?
Always reaching beyond a mood or period-but grounded in classical design elements-both.
Rose Cumming used fantastic chintzes to their fullest.
Woe, to a single chair in with its legs primly crossed in the corner-that's the last one taken in the room. Vivienne Westwood takes historical dress and molding it into a modern way-swathes of silk wrap around a body or like Rose-a canopy?
I must try the harmony of Clash in my flower beds this summer-
I vow to plant obnoxious dinner plate Dahlias-clanging riots of Zinnias- Reds, Pinks, Purples...
reds, pinks, purples,
and maybe a spray of orange for Vivienne, and Sig, and of course Rose.
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Spring no longer exists in the South-there's a sort of Autumn and a sprint to Summer from there-with a few weird winter days scattered in May, and occasionally in the appropriate month of January.
the North Carolina mountains-at the moment are flush with frail green leaves shivering in the wind.
farther down the mountain at my house-greens are morphing into pinks-and whites-and lavenders-the colors I cultivate with the occasional deep purple-almost to the black. Sometime I think-why not add Yellow (I admit not a favorite color of mine in flowers)-with tangles of orange and red? Maybe if I had an estate-or even and acre-I'd be more at home with this arresting garden palette.
along with questions of clashing color-I can't help but think about clashing decoration.
Where are the Rose Cummings of interior design today? The decorator that dares to rival Rose's raunchy room I so love?
The question is- would it be magazine copy? Could it be published? I recently saw this room captioned: "the worst! what was she thinking?"
I say: (oh clueless little one)
ROSE was in complete and total abandon of expectation-especially in her day. She was a Rebel.
She was thinking, Fearless Design.
a close call to the answer Rose-would be Sig Bergamin, his own home (as was Rose's room), is much the same.A clash or color-but not of wills. Bergamin is in total control.
There are rebels-and there are rebels, more in design please. How I yearning for a Rose Cumming -Vivienne Westwood mash up. There's just something so simpatico about these two-don't you think?
Always reaching beyond a mood or period-but grounded in classical design elements-both.
Rose Cumming used fantastic chintzes to their fullest.
Woe, to a single chair in with its legs primly crossed in the corner-that's the last one taken in the room. Vivienne Westwood takes historical dress and molding it into a modern way-swathes of silk wrap around a body or like Rose-a canopy?
I must try the harmony of Clash in my flower beds this summer-
reds, pinks, purples,
and maybe a spray of orange for Vivienne, and Sig, and of course Rose.
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