Banquet Journal

Andy

Warhol's always amazing colour sense.

Ribbon Rosettes

Mother's Day Rosette Note Card

Forbes Pigment Collection

Loved this article about the Forbes Pigment Collection at Harvard University, and reading about Mummy Brown, Quercitron and Dragon's Blood. Reminds me of the time I bought a tube of Lapis Lazuli p...

Marthe Armitage "Back to the Drawing Board"

I can't talk about hand-blocked wallpaper without thinking of Marthe Armitage's beautiful papers. She is one of those people I want to be when I grow up. Plus she is so exactly right when she talk...

Nicola Del Roscio & Cy Twombly

I can't complain, but i will add to the covet list a house built in 1000 AD in Gaeta, Italy, complete with frescoes, rare palms, and Cy Twombly paintings and ephemera. Here.

ETTORE SOTTSASS

Ettore Sottsass rings for all my friends! Long live Memphis!

when i finally get around to decorating my yacht....

... i will use these astrology themed state rooms designed by piero fornasetti for the ocean liner andrea doria as a template. sadly the andrea doria lies on the bottom of the ocean, and my yacht ...

saguaro

here.

gloria

gloria vanderbuilt must be freaking out over givenchy's resort collection... (note especially the lacquered patchwork floor)

truly outrageous

  i was sorting some papers yesterday and discovered an envelope of forgotten cut-outs, probably from when i was working on this typeface. (i remember the phrase, but i really don't remember much e...