One-hundred-and-three-year-old Hungarian designer Eva Zeisel has amassed quite a following for her sensual, curvaceous ceramics, glassware and furniture over her 80-plus-year career. In her most rece...
These Golly Pods—otherworldly porcelain succulent planters designed by San Diego-based Jason Lane (of Bells & Whistles) and Britton Neubacher of Tend Living—have just beamed down to E...
A big shout-out to reader Gwen for turning me onto these amazing stoneware Sky Planters by Boskke (an “evovled gardening” firm started by two Kiwi brothers, Jake and Patrick Morris), whic...
I’ve been putting off writing this post mostly because I have no logical words to describe the vibrant, multi-media work of San Francisco-based artist, Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum. I can only s...
Huge hats off to my friend Greer who sent the link to Yamaha Motor’s insane Paper Crafts website last week when it seemed too hot to be inspired to make anything at all. I guess that was because I di...
I’m a sucker for notebooks, as you know. But for me, this one, this maze-filled, roller-coaster ride of ruled paper—dubbed the “Inspiration Pad” by its creator, Brussels-based...
Sure, your vacation plans this summer may include a four star hotel, hot stone massage and some much needed R&R by the pool, but have you considered roughing it in Sweden? Of course, you wouldn&#...
Thanks to a recent introductory tweet by South African textile designer, Heather Moore (aka @skinnylaminx), I’ve become rather fond of the colorful and quirky vintage collectibles at the online...
Meet Sam, a self-professed wallflower who loves people-watching and boasts an incredibly green thumb. Will sparks fly when she runs into Dan, the down-to-earth outdoorsy guy who loves to think outsid...
Chrissy Angliker crafts lighting pendants, fixtures and lamps with little more than your average measuring tape. I love how the coils are tight enough to produce an unexpected pattern, creating the p...
This week I received the catalogue for this fantastic looking exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (whose motto I love: “Always Fresh, Always Free”). Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, H...
You don’t have to venture to your local zoo to see your favorite four-legged (or two-legged, in some cases!) friends—in fact, they’re all the rage in today’s online marketplac...
When I lived in Los Angeles, I rode my bike everywhere. Now that I’m in the Midwest surrounded by miles and miles of…well, space, I find myself in the car much more than I’d like to...
How do you mow your lawn? Chances are, you’re ready to get the job done in ten minutes flat and, naturally, resort to the rows vs. spirals method. Yet for those of you insane artistic folk, you...
I’m always inspired by a flip through the lots in the “Mass Modern” sale the Wright auction periodically holds. A little bit of everything in good design from the 20th century, it’s kind of like watc...
Remember my post on UK artist Peter Root’s Ephemicropolis 2010? No? Allow me to refresh your memory—check out his cityscape made of staples here. At the risk of sounding like I’m obsessed...
Have you seen these new, fantastically-packaged toiletries? Shampoo, shower gel and toothpaste that reminds you to love your environment (and yourself!). Brilliant. [Image: StopTheWaterWhileUsingMe.c...
Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger created a magical art installation for the 50th Venice Biennial Art Exhibition a few years ago, and yet, I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to spot ...
Show of hands: Who wants to live here, in this subterranean vacation villa by SeArch and Christian Muller Architects, located in the Swiss mountain village of Vals? I do! I do! I’ve always admi...
The green roof atop the Renzo Piano-designed California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (above) was recently included in The Coolist’s elite round-up of beautiful, energy-conserving, innov...
Yesterday my friend Katie and I walked past the Ghost Bike at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge. The Ghost Bike is a simple, elegant memorial marker– a bicycle painted white and minimally ado...
Fine-art photographer Mina Georgescu’s whimsical images only appear to be toy representations of real-life scenes, when, in fact, they are real-life scenes. Is this how we look to…aliens?...
Am I the only one noticing the crazy SillyBandz trend sweeping elementary school students across the country? Bizarre, and yet most of the time, kiddy trends are. Regardless, I’ve been inspired...
Today I read the New York Times obituary of Nicolas Hayek—the chairman of the Swatch group who introduced the watch to the world—and went into a nostalgia tailspin of Swatches I have know...
When Shanna Murray launched her dreamy decal line in April, people blogged it fervently. I meant to get one, never got around to it and was reminded of them last week when I saw one used “in si...
Now this is what I’d call some heavy duty street art. Loreta Haaker (I so hope her last name is pronounced “Hacker”, b/c really, how fitting would that be?!) transformed a half doze...
OK, guys. Every now and then I come across a craft project that is so, so brilliant and environmentally-friendly and SMART. Just, SMART. Throw in there a dash of beauty and I officially fall in love ...
I find the brand-new Moleskine cover for the Amazon Kindle kind of irresistible because I’m a reporter and all reporters love their notebooks. And even though I’m the country’s fore...
Prior to undertaking a major restoration on the building, The Judd Foundation recently held a small last look event at artist Donald Judd’s home and studio at 101 Spring Street in New York and ...
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