Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me Away

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going. Man has had a love affair with horses for over 5,000 years. Why not bring a little of the wild outdoors inside? Best of all, these horses don't have to be fed.

"Love Bite" - Wild Horses of Sable Island series by Roberto Dutesco

Horse Lamp by Moooi £3346.00

Faux horse-leg benches from John Rosselli

Thomas Paul Imperial Horse pillow $99.00

Jonathon Adler Horse Head Lamp $375.00

Portrait of the blogger as a young woman

The Incredible Lightness of Being a Hipster

"Born French, Unknown Hipster early moved to New York to become a painter, a poet, or whichever position was available on the Art scene. Once a lead tambourin for Uneven Dusk , it’s unclear what became his main occupation after the band quickly broke-up. All can be said is that Unknown frequently appears at Fashionable and Cultural events without being necessarily on the list."
Jean-Philippe Delhomme's fantastically illustrated blog The Unknown Hipster is a playful satire of New York high society with plenty of name dropping. The hipster is a loveable euro trash Chauncey Gardiner with delightful broken English whose as apt to chat up a coyote in Central Park as pole dancers at the Indochine party. Follow the Unknown Hipster as he reviews art exhibitions, gallery openings and fashion shows, as well as explaining his day to day wanderings.
http://unknownhipster.com/
 
 

The Unkown Hipster

With Karl Lagerfeld

Chatting up pole dancers at Indochine party

In Hunter boots at Gallery opening in inclement weather

Style Icon #3 Inès de la Fressange

Inès de la Fressange is a former Karl Lagerfeld muse and model and now the brand ambassador for luxury shoe label Roger Vivier. She embodies the quintessential effortlessly stylish French woman. Readers of Le Figaro recently voted her the most chic woman in France beating out first lady Carla Bruni. She even walked the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier last year at 51! Not only is Inès the epitome of timeless style, her office at Roger Vivier is an amazing, bohemian, eclectic pink dream.

Los Angeles Modernism Show & Sale

Santa Monica's Barker Hanger is hosting the Los Angeles Modernism Show & Sale this weekend. This much anticipated annual event draws collectors from across Southern California and features sixty-five noted national and international decorative and fine arts dealers representing all design movements of the 20th Century. The modernism show will highlight the works of celebrated 20th Century designers including Wright, Sullivan, Le Corbusier, Van der Rohe, Rohde, Eames, Noguchi, and many others. All merchandise offered for sale at the show is authentic; with no reproductions permitted.

The exhibition and sale will feature furnishings, decorative arts, and fine arts in room-setting vignettes including furniture, lighting, paintings, prints, silver, porcelain, art glass, pottery, rugs, textiles, bronzes, vintage clothing, and more. Come celebrate iconic 20th century design.

Weekend show hours are: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $15; good for return all weekend. Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Air Center, 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica 90405.

Saarinen Tulip Table

Charles & Ray Eames DCW-Dining Chair

Noguchi Coffee Table

Little Jazz Bird

Blossom Dearie (1928-2009) was a singer, pianist and songwriter best known for her eponymous platinum pageboy and her halting little-girl voice. She's best known for the 6 albums she made for Verve Records in the late 1950's and early 1960's. I've had Blossom's version of Rhode Island is Famous For You running around in my head since I first heard it about a 100 years ago.


Even if you think you've never heard Blossom Dearie, you've heard her. Remember Schoolhouse Rock!? She was the voice of Unpack Your Adjectives and Figure Eight. Her New York Times Obituary states that Ms. Dearie didn’t suffer fools gladly and was unafraid to voice her disdain for music she didn’t like; the songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber were a particular pet peeve. How could you not love her?
Below is a link to Blossom singing The Surrey with the Fringe on Top.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZd4GKzOdQ

April is the cruelest month

It's also National Poetry Month. Let's celebrate with some poems that celebrate April...

"April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers."

- from 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot


Always Marry An April Girl by Ogden Nash

Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true --
I love April, I love you.

April Is The Saddest Month by William Carlos Williams

There they were
stuck
dog and bitch
halving the compass
Then when with his yip
they parted
oh how frolicsome
she grew before him
playful
dancing and
how disconsolate
he retreated
hang-dog
she following
through the shrubbery

Absent Place -- an April Day -- by Emily Dickinson

Absent Place -- an April Day --
Daffodils a-blow
Homesick curiosity
To the Souls that snow --

Drift may block within it
Deeper than without --
Daffodil delight but
Him it duplicate --

Song Of A Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay

April this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ago,
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again, and butterflies.

There rings a hammering all day,
And shingles lie about the doors;
In orchards near and far away
The grey wood-pecker taps and bores;
The men are merry at their chores,
And children earnest at their play.

The larger streams run still and deep,
Noisy and swift the small brooks run
Among the mullein stalks the sheep
Go up the hillside in the sun,
Pensively,—only you are gone,
You that alone I cared to keep.

God Save the Queen!

Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth II. Born April 21, 1926, Elizabeth has been the queen regnant of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms including Canada, Australia, the Bahamas and Grenada since the death of her Father George VI in 1952. Her official title is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Visit her official website at http://www.royal.gov.uk/ it includes lots of interesting trivia and you can even follow the Queen on Twitter! It's good to be Queen.