Philippe Starck cabinet

I'm lucky to have bought this iconic audio cabinet, years ago. It's wood, with a silver matte paint finish. To me, it reminds me of some crazy temple.....or some sci-fi-meets-Mussolini's-EUR structure.

Beautiful Living Room

circa 1950. This room is nearly 60 years old, and looks really fresh today.

Perfection (again)

Gary Cooper's, lovingly restored LA place. WOW

Vintage sculptural lamp

This lamp in my bedroom makes me smile.......and the picture of my late Dad in college, makes me cry.

What is she thinking?

What is Sophia Loren thinking, gazing at Jayne Mansfield's over the top, and over the-edge-of-the-dress bust? Envy? Disgust? I don't think we'll ever know. But it's interesting to ponder 'what' we construct ourselves to be, on a daily basis to present ourselves to the outside world.

Squeaky Clean

Nice Michael Schmidt, and Starck bath tubs.

Perfect bathrooms with white marble, or better yet, terrazzo floors.

Flying Cloud Airship

Jean-Marie Massaud's proposed airship, with 40 passenger suites.

Plastic 'Akuma Bomb'

She likes to be on the Warhol Giant book.....

Kitchen Faucet

Alarmingly beautiful, and alarmingly expensive, the new Zaha Hadid faucet (in both bath and kitchen sizes) is a work of art. 

Design Landscape (fun with Photoshop)

Beautiful Weapon?

Starck's iconic barstool......can be yours for roughly 5k.

It's a beautiful object that easily can be confused with some clandestine weapon. Turn it on it's side, and add a ramjet engine, and one could imagine it hovering over the mountains of Pakistan.

Form overtakes 'function' in a beautiful way. No wonder Philip Johnson loved Starck so much.

"Do you believe they don't have an atomic bbq yet!"

How cute.....this is how we're supposed to be living, according to one 55 year old survey of the 'future'

Living room mural

Arresting London living room mural!

Vintage travel posters can be beautiful, with simple, colorful idealistic images. I like this Air France poster from the 1950's advertising Lourdes.

It almost looks like the V.M. herself narrowly avoided getting clipped by the airplane overhead.

I wondered what an updated image might look like. With Bewitched's Endora making an appearance.

Sconce Light

A Gino Sarfatti 43" wall sconce from the early '50's

Design with an iron fist

Mussolini's EUR, the fascist city outside of Rome, was built in the 30's (and rudely interrupted by World War 2). 'Fascist Modern' at it's best. Esteemed Time Magazine art critic Robert Hughes, once called the 'square coluseum' the most frightening building on earth. I'm not sure about that, but having seen it 3 years ago, I know it succeeds in it's intent. Frightening intimidation. Reducing the spectator to a tiny participant. 

I thought the whole EUR 'campus', looked like an incredible, beautiful, cemetery come-to-life.