Dust Furniture: Straight out of Alice in Wonderland

Funky Furniture Designs by Vincent Thomas Leman

What happens when an artisan takes traditional furniture design and brings his own twist of whimsy and an abstract point of view into play? You get Dust. Dust Furniture that is. In his Valparsiso, Indiana studio, Vincent Thomas Leman creates beautiful handcrafted art furniture that seems to have been flung full-born from Alice’s rabbit hole.

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Home Library

Home Library Design

Home Library

Could we ever return to the beauty of an actual room devoted solely to books, a personal refuge for reading, thinking, relaxation and contemplation?

Do you ever wish we could bring back the home library? Could we ever return to the beauty of an actual room devoted solely to books, a personal refuge for reading, thinking, relaxation and contemplation? Manor houses and estates always had rooms custom-built to house an owner’s book collection.

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Cheap Wall Art Ideas for Home Decorating

Inexpensive Wall Art Ideas

Five Inexpensive Wall Art Ideas

I’ve always felt that if I didn’t have the right thing to hang on the wall, then I’d rather see it bare. I decided long ago I would run into the perfect piece during my travels, but my mind tends to not be thinking of my living room during vacation. The time has come to get something up on those empty spaces and finish off the room.

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THE YVES SAINT-LAURENT - PIERRE BERGE COLLECTION

yves st laurant furniture and art collection

Berge-Saint Laurent Art and Furniture Collection

Pierre Bergé has argued that inimitable couturier Yves Saint-Laurent was more focused upon style rather than fashion. Their art and furniture collection was a testament to this heightened sense of style, one that Saint-Laurent cultivated throughout his career as a kind of personal quest for joy. The Bergé-Saint-Laurent collection was sold at Christie’s over a year and a half ago, yet it still resonates as this century’s largest auction of the personal aspects and intimate expressions of Saint-Laurent and Bergé’s lifelong collaboration. In terms of work Bergé and Saint-Laurent were inseparable even if they were, at times, separated from one another.

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Herve Gambs' Fausse Fleur

Is it ever appropriate to use fake flowers in your home?

The thought of populating a beautiful vase with plastic flowers rightly sends shivers up your spine, but a small, über-chic movement has been growing traction in Paris over the last eight years.

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Digital Print On Canvas and Large Scale Photos - Taking Your Pictures to New Heights

canvas wall art ideas

Pros and amateurs unite! Massive images produced as high quality photos on canvas are taking over the empty space above you sofa.  Larger than a game board and sometimes spanning the width of a sofa, these majestic photos on canvas are becoming easy to produce with the high tech of digital printing.

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ZILLIJ Moroccan Mosaic Tile Designs

Zillij Moroccan Mosaic Tile Bedroom Motif

ZILLIJ - Moroccan Mosaic Tile

In The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca author Tahir Shah recounts the vast adventure of buying an old mansion in the center of Casablanca, relocating his wife and young children from London to Morocco, and embarking on a vast, difficult and ultimately spiritual renovation of a great house.  The pitfalls were great, varied and even comical, but the end result was a completely restored, tranquil environment that benefited from Shah’s dogged insistence that the house be restored to its original, if now virtual, glory.

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Bullet Acrylic Coffee Table from Alexander Von Furstenberg

Bullet Acrylic Coffee Table from Alexander Von Furstenberg

One more reason to believe “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” or “diamonds are forever,” Alexandra Von Furstenberg’s coffee table was created because of her love of diamonds.

This piece was inspired by the emerald cut faceted diamond—thus The Bullet Acrylic Coffee Table’s beautifully complicated shape. It’s actually difficult to understand how such a design can come together. Ms. Von Furstenberg says that much like a diamond in the rough, a raw piece of acrylic is dull and unappealing, “But when faceted, buffed, and shined the attributes of acrylic take on the same as that of a well cut and polished diamond.”

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