Three years ago today, we started this little blog. Three years of sticking it to good taste, swinging from chandeliers and roasting harlequin chickens. Happy birthday, baby (IN)DECOROUS, weve had a ...
Wink wink. Are we cyborgs? When misplacing your cell feels like losing a limb, I wonder if its actually a phone, or more like a third arm or possibly an external brain supplement. Eyephone, in...
Happy holidays!!! Clearly, I love sparkly crystal as much as the next person but Im sort of sick of "elegant" silver trees. The Plaza has a tack-tastic, vomitous pink thing in their lobby (ha...
Pantomime is best defined by its use of the object illusion... the illusions created are conventional objects we are all familiar with; rope, stairway, or door... The anecdotes make up the stories wh...
"...I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with him an hour. I said to myself: Theres the kind of man youd like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister.&...
On Friday, I celebrated my birthday and so, hosted a little dinner for my nearest and dearest used it as a giant excuse to make a really unabashed tablescape complete with several things th...
Hilarious...
House and Garden, June 1988. Love a woman who isnt too stylish to pull weeds.
I was cleaning out my closet earlier, extracting all of the winter woolens from the mix (I guess Im finally willing to concede that its no longer January?) when I realized that I dont wear half ...
Givenchy Mens Spring Summer 2012. Love or Hate? People seem to be polarized on this one but Im not, really. Im into it, but not the plastic Jesus sandals, go figure. Images via style.com
"Every arrival [to the Fabergé shop in the late 1800s, early 1900s] was reason enough for a state occasion. Sleighs noiselessly deposited their loads. By some quickened footstep, half-waltz...
Ive been using these gin bottles as candle holder — light reflectors. They do a great job at creating a nice, bizarre blue glow at night, reflecting the candles (however, I hate that theyre dri...
Have you seen Ellen Rogerss beautiful fashion photography? I love the decadence and otherworldly-ness of her images, textures, and colors. All images via Ellen Rogers . Head crystal pieces...
Oh no they didnt! I just wonder what they thought this "Intercourse Taste" needed magnets for...
Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! His nails are never cut; They are grim’d as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare,Never once has combed his ha...
Sage advice. Have I posted this before? I dont think so, but its one of my favorites. Brooke was a corker. Images from New York Times.
A quick stop to Sally Beauty and roughly $15 yielded this bizarre track of human hair. (Disclaimer: the platinum one (on the table) is acrylic! Woe to you who have naturally glowing locks...
I used to be one of those people firmly against the idea of wearing sleepwear outside of the house, but here I am in my new silk jammies, without even the slightest intention of wearing them anywhere...
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you...
This is the supermodel Veruschka, daughter of the Countess Gottliebe von Kalnein.... as a rock, in Playboy 71. Weird and wonderful. But is it erotic? "The body does not arouse me sexu...
Ooooooh I have news! Can you believe that the (IN)DECOROUS TASTE harnesses are adorning the heads of all of the models in the decadent "Wasted Luxury" shoot in Vogue Italia March 2011? ...
Still kickin, oh yes I am. Im working on lots of new things, and there will be posts galore in the coming weeks. We have lots to catch up on. As the curtains opened on the ava...
Oh yes, we do convention just peachily over here at (IN)DECOROUS TASTE. A box of chocolates.... (Giant delectable gumdrop rings in crystal and hot pink by Zina Sparkling) A glitzy jewel or fifteen......
Sir George Sitwell had a Tom Ford moment (or is it the other way around?): "Sir George Sitwell (1860-1943), head of that endemically eccentric family, had seven rooms he used as studies at his fa...
I love silk scarves. Wear one as a turban: youre a diva, Joan Crawford. Wear one as a scarf, youve gone the other way: its bon chic bon genre! Use it to tie up your beaux, youre a luxe-ifi...
Im aware that this isnt an earth shattering idea, but its a swanky little trick to avoid wardrobe boredom and the cold. Its like a facelift! Just keep it on the simple side because a nip here, a tuck...
From Chandler Burrs essay on fragrance. But it transcends fragrance, dont you think? Luca [Turin, perfume critic] once called something chic, and I asked him why, or rather what "chic" ...
Hope everyone is having a fabulous holiday season! Somehow, I managed to stir myself from my eggnog induced stupor long enough to shovel myself out of a mini storm and then make these floral harnesse...
A few new additions to the shop in time for the holidays... Ive been inspired by the texture of the brass chains against the slickness of black lacquer and faux tortoise lately; I think that that com...
This is how I plan to do it... Painted zebra commode, faux tortoise backdrop, painted canvas by (IN)DECOROUS TASTE.
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