Showing posts with label chez nous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chez nous. Show all posts

Thursday, February 5, 2009

DOUX CHEZ NOUS : the living room

look at us.
finally reupholstering the living room furniture.
like real grown-up people.
a reminder of WHY we might want to do such a thing:
mmm hmmm.
notice, well, EVERY corner of the chair?
let's let avec lead us to the new room, shall we?
that's right, downstairs.
love this shot.
good girl.  now go play.
daddy has a tour to give.
and fix me a french 75.  up.
let's see.
paul mccobb wingbacks we collected ten  years ago,
then never did anything with and gradually degraded to threadbare
"are you guys doing ok"
status whenever people came over?
redone in new grasscloth meets raw silk fabric:
daybed from chicago,
with killer bronze base
and severely unfortunate plaid seventies fabric
that, though artfully covered with a kuba cloth,
fooled NO ONE?
gray/green leather, kidlets:
mccobb stools,
sadly, no longer in brown (baby poo) naugahyde?
silver ponyskin.  i say no more.
finally.
that only took a decade, give or take.
now we can have people over and not try to artfully drape anything
a' la christo.
i like this growing up thing.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

DOUX CHEZ NOUS : the office space



seriously?  
is anyone surprised this book inspired our home?
once the walls were painted, 
we set about creating the nest.
i'm a cancer/leo, 
born under a full moon.
moody?  yes.
 but it also means "home" is a very 
very important thing to me. 
especially as i now do the majority of my work
from my home office:
the desk was my favorite part.
inspired by nakashima,
we bought a slab of claro walnut off ebay,
drove to "africa" for the tung oil treatment and finishing pads,
sanded and oiled the damn thing,
ordered the steel base custom from room & board,
and voila:
bliss.
add some books and inspiration pieces,
and some able assistants,
and i am now good to go forth and create:



grr has a new favorite perch.
and i have a real space to create from.