Legends 2013

Posted on May 17, 2013 by leestantonblog

The following video is by Domaine Home discussing the Legends 2013 Time Capsule event.

I feel so blessed to be among such a distinguished group of colleagues in the LCDQ.

Want to thank all the designers this year for their great work on all the windows.

Window Designers

Kim Alexandriuk – Downtown (north window)
Tom Allardyce – Janet Yonaty, Inc.
Jeff Andrews – Downtown (south window)
Tim Barber – Renaissance Design Studio
Brett Barrett – Gina Berschneider, Inc. (north window)
Chris Barrett – Ralf’s Antiques, Inc. (north window)
Bonesteel Trout Hall – Reborn Antiques
Robert Brown – Baker Furniture
Barclay Butera – Barclay Butera Interiors Inc.
Carter Truesdale – Gina Berschneider, Inc. (south window)
Chuck Chewning/Donghia – Outside Downtown
Timothy Corrigan – Studio Workshops
Florence de Dampierre – Hollyhock (north window)
Lori Dennis, Inc. – Stark Home
Steven Ehrlich – Soli Architectural Surfaces
Sandra Espinet – Mehraban Oriental Rugs
Thom Filicia – Harbinger (south window)
Brian Patrick Flynn – Jamal’s Rug Collections
Cliff Fong – Dragonette Ltd (north window)
FORM – Antonio’s Bella Casa
Jane Hallworth – Fuller & Roberts Co.
Sheldon Harte – Lee Stanton Antiques (south window)
Wendy Haworth – Ralf’s Antiques, Inc. (south window)
House of Honey – Waterworks
Christopher Howe – Woven Accents
Eric Hughes – Nathan Turner
Kathryn Ireland – Scalamandre
Annie Kelly – Antique Rug Company & The Rug Affair and Hollywood Sierra Kitchens
Molly Luetkemeyer – George Smith (south window)
Maine Design – Jasper
Susan Manrao – Baker Furniture
Mary McDonald – Dragonette Ltd (south window)
Andrea Michaelson – Marge Carson
David Michael Miller – Lee Stanton Antiques (north window)
Matt O’Dorisio – George Smith (north window)
Karina Oldemans – Tufenkian Artisan Carpets
Alex Papachristidis – Claremont Furnishing Fabrics Co.
Lawrence J. Rizkowsky – Compas
Wendy Schwartz – Harbinger (north window)
David Scott – Hollyhock (south window)
June Scott/DWG Design – Off The Wall Antiques
Frank Pennino & Scott Shelley – Szalon (north window)
Mark D. Sikes – Mecox
Hillary Thomas – MK Collection
Kelly Wearstler – The Rug Company
Woodson & Rummerfield – Szalon (south window)

Women In Design

Posted on April 25, 2013 by leestantonblog

This is the first post of a series that introduces some of the most influential female designers of the past and present. We look at the women who have shaped the basics for the design industry and continue to set the bar in creativity and productivity, never settling for anything less that perfection.

Andree Putman

The designer who epitomized understated French chic. Putman’s career as an interior designer only took off in her fifties she was almost sixty when she created her most famous design, the Morgans Hotel in New York, in 1984. She loved simplicity and loather “pompous luxury”, values established in childhood, when her summers were spent at Fonteany Abbey in Burgundy, a former monastery. It’s austere architecture , she said, “made me very wary of the awful excesses of anything”. At the behest of her musical mother, she studied piano, but abandoned plans to become and composer after Francois Poulenc warned her of the extreme discipline required to succeed. Instead she became an art and style journalist before gravitation towards design.

“I am interested in that family of things that will never date” – Andree Putman

She is known for her interior that were dominated by black and white with touched of glistening chrome and clean lines. The monochrome was an echo of her musical past: for the Morgans hotel she created black-and-white tiled bathrooms with all the graphic punch of a piano keyboard. in 1978 Putman founded her design company Ecart. One of her first projects was to reissue furniture but forgotten Modernist designers such as Elieen Gray and Jean-Michel Frank, “names that I one had to spell, with rage, even to art historians” she noted. She also became associated with fashion, creating shops for Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, and a line of oversized sunglasses worn with couture suits and a slash of red lipstick, became her trademark. At her funeral last January, it was Lagerfeld who gave the pair of vases filled with white rose blossoms that flanked her simple, blonde wood coffin. Chic to the last.

To learn more about her, pick up Putman Style by Stephane Gerschel.

Romancities of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Posted on April 19, 2013 by leestantonblog

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During the Spring of 2013 the British Museum will present a major exhibition on the Romancities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, sponsored by Goldman Sachs. This exhibition will be the first ever held on these important cities at the British Museum, and the first such major exhibition in London for almost 40 years. It is the result of close collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Naples and Pompeii, will bring together over 250 fascinating objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Many of these objects have never before been seen outside Italy. The exhibition will have a unique focus, looking at the Roman home and the people who lived in these ill-fated cities. exhibition_pompeii_1200268_b624x352 Fragment of a wall painting showing a man reclining to drink. From Pompeii,1st century AD exhibition_pompeii_1175954_624x352 Relief with Bacchus and followers, marble wall panel, From the House of the Dionysiac Reliefs, Herculaneum, 1st century ADGold bracelet in the form of a coiled snake, 1st Century AD, Roman, Pompeii

Buying Trip

Posted on April 10, 2013 by leestantonblog

I managed to sneak away before Legends for a short (and very quick) buying trip. I found some really fun and different pieces that should arrive late in May. In the meantime, I thought I would share some journal photos of my trip. As fast as I moved about, I still managed to have some inspirational moments.

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Book Review

Posted on April 6, 2013 by leestantonblog

Hollister Hovey is the creator of the history-laden lifestyle blog, “Hollister Hovey .” Porter Hovey is a photographer and interior decorator. They are the founders of Hovey Design. Their nostalgia-highlighting aesthetic has been featured multiple times in the New York Times, as well as in House Beautiful, Domino, and Design Sponge.

A look inside the homes of today’s stylish new “heirloomists.” Proclaimed as “the New Antiquarians” in the New York Times, Hollister and Porter Hovey are proponents of an aesthetic that puts Ralph Lauren, the Royal Tennenbaums, and a whole lot of taxidermy into a tarnished silver cocktail shaker and mixes it all up.

This book opens up the homes of individuals and couples to show how they use décor to give their residences a sense of history and autobiography. The Hoveys venture into the apartments, cottages, and townhouses of artists, architects, designers, furniture makers, and landscape designers, who seamlessly integrate inherited keepsakes, tag sale curiosities, collections and memorabilia, and contemporary art. Inspiring in its eclecticism, this book introduces readers to a new kind of modern.

You can pick up a copy of Heirloom Modern on amazon.

Spain’s Dealers

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Thomas Demand

Posted on March 21, 2013 by leestantonblog

Featured Artist: Thomas Demand

Words by Monocle:

Thomas Demand has made a career with photographs and films of scenarios that look real but aren’t, and which underscore the dislocation between truth and fiction. But is his work specifically German? Is there such a thing as German art? “What people project is what they see,” he says. “You can see a messy artist such as Jonathan Meese as German, or my clean-cut work as German. What might be identified as German, though, is a coherence in thought.”

Demand says German sentence structure forces this mental clarity (with verbs often at the end of a sentence, a speaker can’t begin without knowing roughly how to end). “That goes really deep into the lower part of your brain,” he says. “You have to be clear in what you want to express. Your language and speech forms your view of the world.”

He sees his country in the midst of social transition; when he was growing up in the 1970s, social class was more uniform – children went to the same kinds of schools and the post-war boom benefitted everyone. Now there are nascent class differences but he also sees that “Germany is much more open than it was even five years ago.”

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What is modern Germany’s national brand?
“It’s the Verbindlichkeit [binding commitment], obvious in the German handshake. It’s relatively firm, not sweaty, and not with a second hand on top. It’s not trying to sell you something. That’s what I think is German.”

Congratulations Waldo

Posted on March 13, 2013 by leestantonblog

Waldo Fernandez is featured in the April issue of Architectural Digest.

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The decorator creates striking homes for Hollywood’s biggest names. His own residence, filled with an enviable collection of definitive design pieces and contemporary art, reflects his unfettered vision

McQueen’s Hummingbirds

Posted on March 8, 2013 by leestantonblog

THE ECCLESIASTICAL WARDROBE, FROM COMMUNION GOWNS TO CARDINALS’ ROBES. THE HIGH CHURCH. NUNS, POPES, ANGELS. BALLETS RUSSES. VIRGIN QUEEN.

The collection comprises ten looks, presented in pairs. The waist is cinched and the hips are exaggerated throughout. Volumes are overblown but lightness is paramount. Hyper-worked embellishment demonstrates an obsessive attention to detail – and detail within detail. Sharp pressing, multiple folds, quintuple and dégrade pleats, soutache embroidery, triple bulleting, silk and metal thread embroideries, enamelled flowers and more all feature. Rhombic grids lend a sense of graphic modernity to surfaces. Pearls and teardrop pearls evoke beauty and rarity. Hoop skirts, caging and corsetry enhance and idealize a quintessentially feminine silhouette and introduce an erotic undercurrent further suggested by stockings, suspender belts and harnessing. Each look is worn with an embellished ruff: faces are framed.

Hummingbird Collection

Three years in the making, Alexander McQueen’s rug collection took craftsmanship to couture levels, encapsulating The Rug Company and McQueen’s combined commitment to arresting design, superior quality and skilled craftsmanship. The collection won the award for ‘Fashion’s Contribution to Design’ at the 2010 Elle Decoration British Design Awards.

The room above is delightfully vibrant with a custom hummingbird rug from McQueen’s collection. The walls are full of architectural pieces, mirrors, sculptures, and urns which cover the room with elegance.

Italy circa 1890, set of sienna marble tazzas (UK8), France circa 1860 capitols (AZ65)

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Belgium circa 1800 marble fragment (AZ52), France circa 1860 pair of neoclassical bronze urns (CHI58)

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The Labeque Apartment

Posted on February 25, 2013 by leestantonblog

Katia and Marielle Labeque have their apartment designed by Axel Vervoordt.

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