Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

11.11.2015

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12.24.2013

Winter Palette








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12.13.2013

The Children's Bookshop at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

The Children's Bookshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sir Thomas Lawrence



The Calmady Children, by Sir Thomas Lawrence,1825. His favorite painting, and to paraphrase, "if I'm remembered by only this painting I will die a happy man." 








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11.26.2013

New books in the shop

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It's Holiday time! Give a book!
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11.24.2013

Miscellaneous photos from our Instagram

Black Forest #mercedes

#tbt Actual 1970's pottery made by an 11 year old me, 1978

Lunch at Citicorp Center, 1980. I love all if this. #Bertoia #shagrug #HughStubbins #shopping #lunch #Conrans

#twosday House & Garden, 1963 #whynot

Candle making #warymeyerscandles

I love white brick. That blue behind the house is the ocean, not the sky.

#itsbetterinthebahamas #typography #1974

Big pink lightning from a little coconut cloud

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The Gade house, Laguna Beach, by Thornton Ladd and John Kelsey. On the page after those two raccoons, House & Garden, 1963. Photo by Ezra Stoller. #yesplease





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11.16.2013

Dwell Loves our Instagram ♥

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Thanks very much Dwell magazine for naming us one of "8 Design Instagrammers We Love" (and just as I was about to post another cat photo =^.^=... )
Read the article *here* and follow us on Instagram *here*









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11.15.2013

warymeyerscandles.subliminalseduction


If so, you may want a candle or two:

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11.14.2013

How to Hang a Picture

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Our friends Jay Sacher and Suzanne LaGasa have a new book out which nudges the record straight about the ancient conundrum of picture hanging. It features loads of Jay's Mark Hampton-esque interior watercolors which even include a couple of our rooms (above, filed under the catch-as-catch-can/wabi-sabi style.)







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11.05.2013

Why design another chair?

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Selections from the 1977 American Institute of Architects International Chair Design Competition. There's absolutely no need for more chair designs in the world; nonetheless this does make me want to get out a pencil and join in. 

From "Chair" by Peter Bradford and Barbara Prete (1978)- which, if you're into chairs....








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11.03.2013

The High-Tech Industrial look in Esquire, 1978

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Here, specifically the Pompidou Center, the Shulitz House, the de Bretteville-Simon House, and the Eames House.






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10.15.2013

Roald Dahl, Kingsley Amis, and Coco Nuit

#twosday : Two books that should be made into movies, and two #CocoNuit candles. #RoaldDahl #KingsleyAmis #warymeyerscandles

Two books that should be made into movies, and two of our Coco Nuit candles





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10.04.2013

Making French Desserts and Pastry Is Child's Play

Recipes and drawings by 28-year old father of three, Michel Oliver, 1966
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