Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
What ho, Gentle Readers?! Holy cow - is it February already? Since when did January/February become crazy decorating season? It's wonderful, of course, but I'm sorry I've been neglecting you!
A piece of exciting news: I've just been named an Expert on the Benjamin Moore Experts Exchange....
The other day I was talking to the wonderful Sheila Hagar of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, and she casually asked, "So how's your living room looking these days?"
Egad! I thought. (Or something close to it.) Things have changed! Not too much, but still, enough for an update....
Thank you, Kelly from Arte Styling!
Kelly tagged me for a "Stylish Blogger Award" (which I assume is based on blog content and not on personal appearance...if she could see me right now in all my nose-blowing/cold fighting /catching up on client emails, Diet Coke in hand glory...).
This is one of those pass-it-along things that's actually kind of fun. As a condition of the award, I have to share 7 things about myself, and give the award to 10 more fabulous bloggers....
Given that the temperature in D.C. dipped to 5 degrees last night - that's FIVE degrees, people; a single digit - Miami seems like a distant memory.
Nonetheless, I have a few more pictures of the Mondrian to show you, so I'll make this long on visuals, short on words....
When someone says, "Mondrian," what do you think of?
Me, too
But that couldn't be farther from Marcel Wanders' design for the Mondrian hotel in South Beach. You saw the white-on-white lobby in my last post - remember the overscale columns and the black staircase? Nary a grid nor a primary color in sight.
Apart from the fact that designing a hotel like a Mondrian painting* would be well, kind of dreadful, the designer gives us the Dutch connection - and a wink and a nod - in another way....
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 know: it seems like we were just ON vacation, right? Or at least on "winter break;" it sure doesn't feel like vacation when you have small children and they don't have school....
So just for fun, I dug through the bossy color blog archives to see what posts might bear repeating. Here's one. I hope you enjoy it....