HANGING OUT

 

I’m not sure I want to ever wake up to a pair of steel hooks in my field of vision but Anthropologie’s Barnwood Hanging Bed is oddly intriguing.

BOWL GAME

 

 

I must say this is an amazingly authentic-looking splash of paint, this whimsical Dropp fruit bowl, fashioned from silicone.

RARE BREED

A visually arresting side table, fashioned from the distressingly unfortunate composite of  ”black horn and white bone.”

COSMETIC CHANGE

Here’s a curiously feminine promotional item from Knoll, venerable Mid-Century furniture and textile arbiters:  a nail polish to celebrate its Cato textile line (this is the same upholstery fabric that covers its Saarinen Womb chair, for example) which turns 50 this year.

BERRY FINE

 

An exceptionally lovely hand-printed Josef Hoffmann-designed wallpaper pattern called Blueberry, available at Neue Galerie.

PEACE PRIZE

Too noble to desecrate with footprints, the hand-made Doves and Stripes rug by Luke Irwin deserves a loftier place than the floor.

Happy 4th.

NOTHING & SOMETHING

Love may be everything–but in tennis, it’s nothing. The actress Courtney Cox has a tennis house (which I’m guessing is like a pool house, only for tennis), a Matthew Heller painting, Love, Love, Love–and the very good sense to pair up the two for an effect that’s, well, something.

COLOR FIELD

The very bright color chart rug mat from Japanese retailer, Uniform Experiment.

DOTTED LINE

Shades of Damien Hirst on these cheerful melamine serving utensils from French Bull’s Multidot line of housewares.

STRAPPED

New from the Dutch design collective, Droog, is this wall organizer comprised of horizontal silicon belts which keep those bits and bobs strapped in place. Hmm. I like the organizer, minus the bits and bobs.