Although I wasn't even ten years old at the time, I remember being really captivated by Peter Menzel's Material World: A Global Fami...

Happy early Thanksgiving, dear American readers!  Are we all preparing for our feasts tomorrow? Whipping out those yardsticks to ensure even...

A few days ago, I was reading an article on the history of the mantel as a "family altar" in a 1985 Art & Antiques magazine. ...

Rose Cumming had her "ugly room," my mom and I have a studio space. Rose's was filled with furnishings rejected by clients; ...

I want these. In an ideal world, I'd wear them while relaxing in a Michel Haillard (1959) chair .  Somehow, they remind me of crustacean...

Surely, you've heard it before, but wholeheartedly, you'd better believe that's it's okay pretty fabulous to mix-match plac...

"Everything is honest; we hate fakery and pastiche." - Kozerski on Donna Karan's British West Indies retreat, Architectural ...

Stalactite , Greek origins, meaning "to drip," or "that which drips." A dripstone that hangs from the ceiling of limesto...

EONS ago, the fabulous Little Augury tagged me with the "Kreativ Blogger" tell-everyone-7-things-about-yourself thing. (Thanks fo...

Gangster Style! Gangster Al Capone (1899-1947)'s prison cell at Eastern State Penitentiary, where he served 9 months for a gun charge:...

Before I took the plastic straws (do they make them in non-offensive colors???) off these daisies, they looked positively PLASTIC. So bizarr...

 William Merritt Chase (1846-1916)'s studio: Above, The Tenth Street Studio, William Merritt Chase, c. 1880 Marcel Duchamp (1887...

...some macabre things deserve to hang around all year.  Like the paintings of Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) and his GLORIOUS apart...

I was reading this post at House of Beauty and Culture —about a mother who responded negatively to her child when asked why they don't ...

Has anyone seen the film Valentino (1977) with Rudolf Nureyev?  Watching it reminded me just how much I love Nureyev (1938-1993).  If you h...