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Shots from a Florida Vacation

Posted on January 23rd, 2012, in Inspiration, Travel

Hunting for Shells.. what could you do with these? cover a mirror? Cover a console with them? For now, I started my quest for the most colorful array with this pile I found on the beach..

I went to Florida to turn off my design mind for a bit. Who am I kidding!! I love it too much and this bench at a croquette court fit in so nicely with it’s surroundings. I took about 10 shots of this croquette court, I loved it’s perfect blades of green precisely mowed grass.

But mostly I relaxed with Peter awaking to this view and cherished the downtime where my only responsibility was getting to dinner on time.

For now, I will dream about ocean waves and Planter’s Punches and wait excitedly for our next lift off.

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Louis Vuitton and Goyard, practical thinkers for the worldly traveler of yesterday

Posted on September 7th, 2011, in Decorating, Fashion, Interior Design, Travel

You don’t see a lot of these travel trunks at airport terminals anymore, they used to serve a very functional purpose for people taking the ocean liners and trains during the mid nineteenth century.

I was recently at my in law’s house and found that they had a collection. While most of them had what one Ebay seller called “age appropriate patina”, they still have a grace and beauty about them.

(Photo: Lovejoy Designs)

If you want to learn more about these famous trunks, Louis Vuitton came out with a book, ‘”Legendary Trunks” And it is available here:

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Traveling the world in search of patterns…

Posted on February 9th, 2011, in Art, carpets, Geometric Patterns, Travel

”A traveler without observation is a bird without wings”

-Moslih Eddin Saadi

I was scanning through my I-Photo library the other day and realized I have a major place in my heart for geometric patterns. I love them on the ceilings, as room dividers, as window shutters, marble tiled floors, gates and front doors! And whenever I travel, I take photos of these patterns. Take a look at a few I have seen in trips in the past few years.

The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai India

The Blue Palace, Elounda Beach, Greece

Front door on East 69^th St, New York, NY

Haru Restaurant on Huntington Ave. Boston, MA.

Alleyway in NYC, somewhere in the Upper East Side, NY.

Screen found at Brimfield Antiques Fair. Said to be from a Bank in Los Angeles, CA.

I love using geometry in spaces I design. They show up in fabric selections a lot but I find I am drawn the most to putting them on the floor.

Here is a carpet for a client that is being hand knotted in a custom color as we speak!

If you haven’t fallen in love with Madeline Weinrib’s carpets, you will. She does geometrics so well. Here is one we did in a client’s house in South Boston.

We all have photo libraries fills with pictures of trips gone by. Have you been in any trips where you seen something that has inspired you?

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