Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
There's so much to say that I'll have to do this in several posts, but let me start first by talking about the DESIGN of the Mondrian hotel in South Beach, Miami. Creator: the products and interiors designer, Marcel Wanders.
In short, it's wacky. In a good way. Fresh, crazy, perspective-defying, and yes, a little bit indulgent, but it totally works, so who cares?...
I love small businesses. I mean, I know I am one, so that makes sense, but when a professional photographer and a letterpress owner /graphic designer said they needed a bossy basic for a new meeting space, I jumped at it.
They each have their own offices, but they decided to go in on a nice room in a central location where they could meet with clients. This is the room before. Not huge....
Thanks, Uncle Jimmy! Just in time for Christmas, he painted our dining room radiator!
Remember when we talked about radiators? Well, I went to the paint store and bought this Modern Masters metallic paint....
I called a client on my way to her house to hang some art. As we were getting off the phone, she said, "And please ignore the tacky midwestern Christmas decorations!"
Oh, my friend. Have no fear. I will never, EVER judge you for your tacky Christmas decorations. (Which weren't, in fact, very tacky at all. Disappointing.)...
You say, "hallway," I say, "library."
This area a master suite was woefully underused. It's too wide to be considered a true hallway, but it's too narrow to be treated like a room.
Since this client is a GENIUS with photographs and has roughly a gazillion, we thought it might be handy to have some shelves where she could store completed albums as well as unframed pictures in boxes. Open shelves and closed storage, in other words....
Gentle Readers, a fellow blogger and I need your help. Yesterday, Nichole of 40 days of... asked for recommendations for design books. I have the same question!
Can you help?
I've already raved about Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan's book...
Yesterday a friend asked me about another friend's rental apartment. It's a little sterile. She just moved in, doesn't know how long she'll be there.
"Is she allowed to paint?" I asked innocently. Because, well, duh.
"No."
"No?"
"No...."