Decorating Ideas For Every Room In Your Home , 1969.  A GEM.  At least in the sense that the editors exhibit an unusual zeal for all things ...

A while back, I mentioned artist Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944),  to whom I regularly refer for whimsical, candy colored inspiration and wi...

YUM. Images via Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum First Image , A Regency Egyptian revival settee designed by Thomas Hope (1769-1831...

A detail as small as red drapery lining can make a room. This actually reminds me of a photo The Sartorialist posted a while back, of a woma...

S ir Terence and Lady Conran's Gardener, Jonathan Chidsey, at Barton Court.  From House & Garden , April 1991. Gardening photos are...

Has anyone seen that I Love Lucy episode where Lucy makes a deal to trade apartments with another tenant and connives to switch out all of ...

Eight films to watch when you're craving a visual feast.  Most of these aren't serious, just purely fun and fancy for the end of a w...

This morning, the postman woke me with a delightful surprise: House & Garden's 1987 Best In Decoration .  And when they say "be...

When I posted photographs of designer Norma Kamali's apartment , a reader asked what kind of finish I thought the ceiling might have, co...

I was admiring (with GREAT zeal) the enormous, frizzy heaps of hair that have, for the past couple of weeks, been gracing the Spring/Summer ...

Is it just me, or does Norma Kamali's apartment in 1988 look an awful lot like her Spring/Summer 2010 collection of clothing? Sort of li...

Long before Barbie and Ken shacked up in a clumsy pink plastic hunk of a house complete with pink convertible corvette, shag carpeting and s...

Most people will recognize Edward Gorey (1925-2000) as the American artist known for his macabre illustrations, darkly comedic, nonsensical ...

Venetian born artist Piranesi (1720-1778) may have been trained as a builder, but his greatest architectural feats exist in his engravings, ...