by Brett on 31 October 2008
While studying interior architecture at UCLA, I got to meet and work with some truly talented and amazing people. One such person was Nadia Barker. Nadia started her own firm called Hue & Timber in Los Angeles after getting to work with such design luminaries as Kelly Wearstler.
I came across one of her [...]
by Brett on 30 October 2008
I was over at a new client’s existing home today so I could take some photographs. I really like going to clients’ homes b/c it really shows you how they live and what they like and is more useful than 100 meetings in a designer’s office or 1,000 pages torn from magazines. Plus, I get [...]
by Brett on 28 October 2008
My name is Brett, and I’m a perfume-a-holic. There, I said it. I have a full wardrobe of perfume artfully arranged in a lacquer tray on my vanity table – I love that I have a scent for
every mood and every season. Some scents are appropriate for day, some for night. Same goes for the [...]
by Brett on 27 October 2008
Is anyone as big a fan of Mad Men as I am? I can’t get enough of that show – the costumes,
the sets, the characters, etc. I
especially like the highball glasses with the silver rim seen in this photo of
Don Draper and Roger Sterling – I actually saw a set that was very similar at
Lee [...]
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by Brett on 23 October 2008
It’s getting to be that time of day where my sweet tooth goes into overdrive and it takes every ounce of will-power that I possess to not eat all the candy that is stocked in the office kitchen. The Francophile in me decided to look up pictures of Laduree Macarons instead. Macarons from Laduree are [...]