Fall is in the air! Outdoors the leaves are changing colors before our eyes, isn’t it nice to bring the look indoors too? Art prints are one way to do it and they will last for years after the real leaves fade. I featured two of Andy’s prints from Flat Flower Designs on my living room mantel earlier this month, his shop is a favorite of mine for botanical prints, especially the pressed leaf art.
Today Andy is giving away three \$75 shop credits to Flat Flower Designs …
Eligibility to be one of three \$75 shop credit winners:
1) Visit Flat Flower Designs and pick a favorite botanical or feather art print, then name it here in a comment.
Three winners chosen at random, giveaway ends Sunday October 26, 2014 at midnight PST. By entering this giveaway you agree to this site’s giveaway policy and Official Rules of Entry.
Hello everyone! I’ve been totally absorbed in my e-course, Blog Boss, at the moment so I’m sorry if I’m not that active on the blog at the moment. Between teaching, one-on-one blog business consultations via Skype and redecorating some rooms in my home – well I’ve been busy! Plus I take care of my baby full-time and am busy with other work projects too. I have some great things coming up for 2015, including the redesign of decor8 AND a brand new logo.
It’s very exciting to be so busy, especially doing things that fuel me and make life sweeter. My baby boy is really thriving too, which makes me so proud. He is a little over 8 months old and tonight he did something for the first time that was so completely precious that I had tears of joy streaming down my face. I was putting him to bed and I asked him for a kiss. I usually just say “Kiss” or “Kiss mama” and he opens his mouth wide and dives in and plants a wet kiss (mouth open) on my face, somewhere around my mouth. Well tonight it was different. He did that, but then he kept giving me kisses and kisses and more kisses, even moving his little lips trying to make a kissy face… Holding both sides of my face in his little pudgy hands with his bright blue eyes gazing into mine with such joy… And the more he gave me the more he giggled and then I started giggling and we collapsed on the bed in hysterics as he kept kissing me more and more. Tears were streaming down my face because it was this perfect moment when you realize your baby is developing a real personality and is really starting to understand you and your humor and words and wow, it was magic to bond with him like that. I just had to share. He’s so darling.
Aren’t the photos in this post divine? I’ve been pinning like crazy from the new Design Files blog. I’m so impressed by what Lucy has done to revamp her site. Looks gorgeous. She is such an inspirational blogger. I love that it’s so easy now to find all of her beautifully photographed Australian home stories. Whenever I look at pictures of Australia I always think I COULD TOTALLY LIVE THERE. Don’t you?
How are you doing? I hope you are well. Do you have any heart warming stories to share?
Hello everyone! I’ve been totally absorbed in my e-course, Blog Boss, at the moment so I’m sorry if I’m not that active on the blog at the moment. Between teaching, one-on-one blog business consultations via Skype and redecorating some rooms in my home – well I’ve been busy! Plus I take care of my baby full-time and am busy with other work projects too. I have some great things coming up for 2015, including the redesign of decor8 AND a brand new logo.
It’s very exciting to be so busy, especially doing things that fuel me and make life sweeter. My baby boy is really thriving too, which makes me so proud. He is a little over 8 months old and tonight he did something for the first time that was so completely precious that I had tears of joy streaming down my face. I was putting him to bed and I asked him for a kiss. I usually just say “Kiss” or “Kiss mama” and he opens his mouth wide and dives in and plants a wet kiss (mouth open) on my face, somewhere around my mouth. Well tonight it was different. He did that, but then he kept giving me kisses and kisses and more kisses, even moving his little lips trying to make a kissy face… Holding both sides of my face in his little pudgy hands with his bright blue eyes gazing into mine with such joy… And the more he gave me the more he giggled and then I started giggling and we collapsed on the bed in hysterics as he kept kissing me more and more. Tears were streaming down my face because it was this perfect moment when you realize your baby is developing a real personality and is really starting to understand you and your humor and words and wow, it was magic to bond with him like that. I just had to share. He’s so darling.
Aren’t the photos in this post divine? I’ve been pinning like crazy from the new Design Files blog. I’m so impressed by what Lucy has done to revamp her site. Looks gorgeous. She is such an inspirational blogger. I love that it’s so easy now to find all of her beautifully photographed Australian home stories. Whenever I look at pictures of Australia I always think I COULD TOTALLY LIVE THERE. Don’t you?
How are you doing? I hope you are well. Do you have any heart warming stories to share?
Career Contessa is celebrating a HUGE milestone—our first anniversary! Between all of the career features, the blog posts and more inspiring interactions than I can name, it has been an incredible 365 days. To kick off the celebrations, my fellow directors and I are spilling all when it comes to our own career experiences. Read up on our founder Lauren McGoodwin here and my interview published this morning. Check back tomorrow for the run down on our photo director Mallory Benedict.
In the meantime, I’m sharing a few of my favorite photos from the photoshoot I had with Mallory below. She followed me around to all of the places that fill a normal work day for me—namely, my favorite estate shop downtown and, of course, my pint sized studio at home.
See the rest of the photos right here, and thanks again for making this first year one for the books…Literally. Because we are excited to release an exclusive mini coffee table book, packed to the brim with 50 pages of Contessa photos, plus their sage and sassy advice. Click here to find out how to enter to win your own copy, care of team CC. Cheers!
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has created an installation in Paris’ Jardins des Tuileries composed of suspended metal cubes and plants, for the FIAC art fair.
Photograph by Marc Domage, also main image
Commissioned by Parisian art gallery Philippe Gravier, the Many Small Cubes installation features stacked boxes – some filled with plants and small trees – that are connected either just on one corner or one edge.
Related story:Sou Fujimoto bus shelter closed to prevent “possible accidents”
Together they create a structure with seemingly random cantilevers and openings on a tree-lined avenue in the Tuileries park.
Photograph copyright Dezeen
A void in the centre represents the “living area”, with formal entrances at either side and lots of other access points if “one doesn’t mind lowering their head,” said a statement from Fujimoto.
The structure is intended to represent a “nomadic” house and serve partly as an architectural intervention and partly as a sculpture.
Photograph copyright Dezeen
“The floating masses of Many Small Cubes create a new experience of space, a rhythm of flickering shadows and lights, as being under the trees,” said Fujimoto.
“The architecture forms one unified element whose balance and stability are carefully designed: the position of each cube and each tree participates to the overall stability, yet reaching a random-like feeling, bringing the whole architecture closer to nature.”
Photograph copyright Dezeen
Supported on a steel frame, the cubes are made from sheets of anodised aluminium that have been individually hand cut to fit into place.
Lower level plan
A small tower built from scaffolding nearby contains a projector from which images are shone onto the surfaces of the cubes on one side of the structure.
Designed by lighting artist Patrick Rimoux, these range from abstract colour patterns to numbers in a digital-style typeface and moving clouds.
Upper level plan
The installation is part of a series of pieces the gallery is commissioning from artists and architects, which it described as architectural “jewels” or “follies”.
“These Maisons d’edition are nomadic structures, removable and durable, that can be inscribed in both the artistic and environmental landscape,” said Philippe Gravier.
Section one
The installation is Fujimoto’s first work in Paris, where he will also be giving a lecture tomorrow as part of the FIAC art fair events programme. It follows on from the architect’s popular design for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London last year.
“He may place himself in the legacy of Japanese culture, yet he brings a new vision to architecture, especially by developing a unique formal vocabulary: 1 nothing + 1 nothing = something” said Philippe Gravier.
Section two
Many Small Cubes is one of a number of satellite installations and events taking place for the FIAC art fair. It officially opens later this week and will remain on display until the end of November.
Photograph by Marc Domage, also main image
Photograph copyright Dezeen
Photograph copyright Dezeen
Photograph copyright Dezeen
Lower level plan
Upper level plan
Section one
Section two
