Field Trip Report - Treasure Hunter

Let me begin with the fact that I have an awful cold and am really foggy, so the photos from my field trip are a little off. My camera on my phone is so much better than my old one though - so at least we have that. I love a good field trip and decided not to let being sick stop me.

So, of course I went to Scott's at the Atlanta Expo - it's the second weekend of the month after all. I hit all of my favorite dealers and strolled the entire South building. Skipped the North building since I felt crummy. One of my favorite things about being a designer is the treasure hunt part. Roaming around looking for the "perfect thing for that one spot" is heaven to me.

Here are the treasures I spotted today - with prices listed (if I can remember them).Those lovely stools above are $850 for the pair and are at the first booth you see when you walk in the far left door of the South building.


Pillows are $75 each - great price! Love the bench, great at the foot of a bed, but no one was there to tell me the price.




Double caned bergere - $275


Italian pottery from Wild Olive Company

Can you tell I was tired here? I cut off the top of the chairs!

These are great chairs and are $500 for the pair, at the Antiques and Decorative Things booth.

The best news of the day is that I scored a great buy, which I am working on rehabilitating and will blog about that when it is finished.

Will post a few more pictures later, going to rest now.

It's Field Trip Friday!

I'm off on a field trip today, and I have a new phone with a better camera. Yay! Guess where I'm going? Check in later to see....










Woman Walking in Exotic Forest, Henri Rousseau

Coming soon: Exclusive interview with Southern Accents founders!

Over the next few weeks we will have an exciting feature (spread over several posts), on the founding and early years of Southern Accents magazine. I had the privilege of working there in 1985, and through contacts made then, I am interviewing some of the founding editors and the publisher of the magazine. This feature is for all of us who are so sorely missing Southern Accents magazine.

The first installment will be posted next week. Stay tuned!

The Southern Accents magazine in the photo is Spring 1982.

What is it about those chairs?

I saw these today at Nadeau. $245 each What a price!

They aren't quite as elegant as this original Frances Elkins chair offered by Todd Merrill at 1st Dibs.


or this one offered by Palm Beach Antiques and Design


But the originals are considerably more expensive ($8500 for the set of 6 chairs, 2 armchairs and 4 side chairs).

Here are some Elkins armchairs from Pegaso Gallery on 1st Dibs. $6400 for the pair of armchairs.



Style Court posted about Elkins' chairs in 2007.

The Coco Cozy blog had a great post yesterday about these chairs and others like them.

Webcation

One of my childrens' least favorite words is staycation - when you stay in town and have a vacation. They think it's not a real vacation, but I say it is. You're doing fun things that you wouldn't ordinarily do, just in your home town.

Today, I am going to propose we all take a little webcation - suggesting that we each take a few minutes to visit some blogs and websites that are new to us. The vacation part is that we are venturing out of the regular ones we read and visit(I know many of us read over 20 blogs a day). But maybe I will suggest some that you haven't visited before....

For a look at beautiful France go to Occitania Tours. Perhaps you can plan a vacation to France this summer?

Next let's visit my favorite food blog The Dogs Eat the Crumbs. The pictures are fabulous and and recipes amazing and tested.



Want to see some beautiful, reasonable jewelry? Go here SPJ. I have many pieces by this jeweler!




A friend told me about this website yesterday Alabama Chanin. It features hand stitched clothing and accessories that are works of art. Don't miss their blog Alabama Chanin blog tour. This jacket has incredible handwork! I used to sew a lot (made many of my childrens' smocked and embroidered clothes) - and this amount of handwork is remarkable!





Always wanted to create your own fabric - check this out Spoonflower. Have fun!

The best place to find amazing fabric remnants The Designers Attic.

And last, but certainly not least, my favorite Etsy stores:
Annechovie
High Street Market
Decorative Instincts



Isn't this pillow from Decorative Instincts awesome? It's so reasonable - go see for yourself.



Here are a few of my recent finds at the above four online stores. Next week I'll post what I'm doing with all of that stuff.


Enjoy your Webcation!!

Photograph credits in order:
Occitania Tours
The Dogs Eat the Crumbs
Stephanie Putter Jewellery
Alabama Chanin
Decorative Instincts
Whitehaven

Bringing the Outside In

Spring is coming, or so the weathermen tell us. Today in Atlanta the forecast calls for us to reach 69 degrees F! Thinking of Spring reminds me of one of our decorating recipes for success - bring the outside in. By that we mean, fresh flowers and plants help a room to come alive - literally. Having fresh flowers and plants in the home brings the life and the beauty of nature inside. Flowers need not be fancy or extravagant (although that is fun once in a while) - a simple arrangement or house plant will suffice. Some photos to inspire -









The flowers in this Amelia Handegan living room above are simple and elegant. See mantle flowers in the mirror? (Image courtesy of Southern Accents)

These orchids on Handegan's own mantle are simple and perfect


(Image via Southern Accents)

Enjoy this beautiful day!






Unless specified otherwise, images from Whitehaven

Fresh Look

In January a client asked us to freshen up her living room. She has many beautiful antiques and great taste, so we were just adding the finishing touches. We reupholstered a wing chair, had six pillows made, moved a lamp and added a black shade, changed the coffee table, added two parsons chairs and reaccessorized the room. She loves it, and so do we! Can you find one of purchases from The Dump? Recognize the giraffe fabric from a January shopping trip?