An image spotted at the great Moon to Moon has us revisiting the idea of tattooing wood furniture: carving with words or images in the tradition of stealth carvings on park picnic tables, bars and old school desks.
Read MoreLagerfeld’s Libraries: Horizontal + Vertical Book Stacks
While we were writing about Karl Lagerfeld’s bathroom, we remembered an image of his library that we’d posted years ago. Lagerfeld seriously loves books and has found ways to house LOTS of them. We’re interested in how he arranged them. The interplay of vertical and horizontally stacked books makes for a pleasing graphical look while allowing…
Read More‘this is your world; shape it or someone else will’
…Another illumating bit from The Selby’s photo essay, “Fede Saienz — Musician and Artist and Katrine Glindvad Larsen — Fashionista at Home in Brooklyn“. Here’s the entire image. Words to take to heart in a wonderfully improvised setting: Buddha, beer, wooden shoes. These folks are definitely shaping their world…
Read Morehome ideas from the selby: cool fireplace decal + more
Since Todd Selby hit the big time, he’s been so busy photographing the rich and famous that the images at The Selby have yielded far less useable ideas than they used to, when his subjects were seriously original, eccentric, and..’er..REAL. So we were happy to spot these two usable and oddly charming ideas in his…
Read Morecool and surprising uses for pegboard
In The Selby’s recent photo essay of Coffee Supreme in Auckland New Zealand, we spotted some very cool uses for pegboard, a material with which we’ve become enamored when we saw a pegboard headboard. Practically, pegboard is masonite (tempered hardboard) with holes punched in it to hold metal tool holders. Visually, pegboard is polka dot masonite that…
Read Morechic rusty steel paperweight, via ‘the selby’
We have a fondness for rusted and/or corroded bits of steel, aged into a patina that no artist could produce (well…maybe Richard Serra). We find them lying in the street, along railroad trestles, near construction sites. They are sculptures unto themselves that often have great uses, like this stunning vintage nail – a railroad tie perhaps…
Read Morecool bike tape (another selby find)
We love artist Thomas Jeppe‘s wonderfully taped bike, via The Selby. The tape is not just a cool visual, it adds cushioning to the handlebars. We went looking for this snazzy handlebar tape at found a trove of close matches – Splash Ribbon – made by Cinelli, whose tapes get very high ratings. Possibilities include…
Read Morefast-and-loose dining table via the selby
Our two favorite takeaways from The Selby’s latest photo story of Charlotte Rust, stylist and co-owner of vintage store Fast and Loose in Auckland, New Zealand: her funky “tattooed” wooden table that invites friends to carve it + the candles stuck with melted wax right onto the table, pooling as they burn down to nothing.
Read Moreevocative ideas from “the best of the selby 2010”
The Selby recently posted its favorite photos of 2010. So we choose our favorites of its favorites: all have an idea that we can put to use (or at least make us think), like stacking books horizontally as well as vertically on our library shelves: the flow and visuals are totally different. The wall of…
Read Morereal-life interiors
A pleasurable antidote to the nothing-out-of-place, perfect fabulousness of mainstream interiors magazines is The Selby which blogs photographs (by Todd Selby) of creative people and their spaces, sometimes with a brief, handwritten interview attached. It is a relief to see real, un-styled totally personal spaces. Scroll down the page of notated images of people in their…
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