This decadently bejeweled and dripping glam rock orgasm of a chandelier by jeweler Erickson Beamon is still available at Vivre. WHY? Please...

Marcel Duchamp, Sixteen Miles of String , 1942 BACK after a brief hiatus in blogging. Lately, I've been tied up like the gallery Ma...

Style rules are made to be broken. Especially the one that mandates that small rooms can't be painted in dark colors. I don't kno...

Lately, my adoration for all things dilapidated has reared its head as a frenzy for sturdy old boxes and random old tools. Sometimes, you ...

TOO. MUCH. TOILE. Lest you ever get the idea to use those 200 yards of remnant toile in ONE ROOM, I kindly offer you this, as a reality ch...

I haven't quite figured out what to do with these babies in the kitchen, but I do know that they look quite elegant in a vase. In fact...

Add to the list of things I am reconsidering (rapidly becoming obsessed with): graffiti. A year ago, I would have called you insane if you...

According to Amazon, customers who bought a vacuum cleaner also bought: 1. A pillow, filled with gel (??!!!!) 2. A CD: "Just a Littl...

Above Left: Ray Johnson Letter to Lucy R. Lippard, 1969, Smithsonian Archives of American Art . Above Right: Ray Johnson collage, artnet.co...

"...this is the guy who had an orange tractor at his property in New Mexico spray-painted black because he couldn't stand the colo...

Lately, I've been an avid subscriber to the "never say never" philosophy. This is probably due to the realization that I'...

Scan from World of Interiors, May 2009. Please tell me I'm not the only one who found this market story particularly humorous. Yeah...

Scan from May 2009 World of Interiors. Photo by Annie Schlechter. One look at this fantastic perspective-bending, spatially disorientin...

Well, not quite. But these ironwork monstrosities (in the VERY best way, and you know I mean that) are so sublimely beautiful I needed to ...

"Although these things, heirlooms, portraits, furniture, silver, etc., are in themselves both beautiful and interesting, they seem to...

One of the best uses of color that I've ever encountered is at the Fåborg Museum of Art in Denmark. The museum (incidentally, located ...

Sometimes, all it takes is a bouquet of fresh flowers to make you realize how deficient even the most expensive perfumes are at making a r...

I've always felt that the only thing more gratifying than discovering a beautiful objet d'art is appropriating one from an unexpecte...

One of life's simplest joys is perusing womens' mags from bygone (read: antiquated) eras. Take, for instance, this delightful Cosmo...