by DesignBabylon on 25 February 2010
Rugs are a key building block when I design a room’s decor. The design, texture, and colors in a rug provide a great jumping off point when coming up with the color palette, and later, selecting fabrics and furniture.
Stark is well-known for their amazing historical reproductions as well as more modern designs — their rugs can be seen in the White House, the Smithsonian, Gracie Mansion (even though Mayor Mike doesn’t really live there, but I bet he has Stark carpets or rugs somewhere in his Upper East Side townhouse), luxury hotels, and many of the gorgeous homes you see pictured in your favorite shelter mags.
And it’s just your luck that the lovely ladies of at One Kings Lane have a wide selection of Stark Rugs for sale — go check out the site and let your imagination go wild with the possibilities!
Here are just a sample of the gorgeous rugs that are on sale at One Kings Lane:
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White House
by DesignBabylon on 22 February 2010
Pronunciation: \bō-ˈbesh, -ˈbāsh\ Function: noun; Etymology: French bobèche; Date: 1855
image :: spirit of moscow
No no no… not babushka! Bobéche!
image :: cristalier
A bobéche is a glass collar on a candle socket that catches wax drippings. Bobéches are often equipped with small metal pins to hold suspended glass prisms or crystals from candlesticks and chandeliers. The pins can also be used to swag strands of crystals from arm to arm of a chandelier.
In the days before electricity, the bobéche was not only decorative, it was functional as well — the collar would catch wax and prevent it from falling down and burning carpets, furniture and even unsuspecting people (yeouch)
photo :: linda solan
photo :: the bella cottage
Thanks to Thomas Edison, we don’t have to worry about falling wax, but bobéches are still very much a part of the decorative arsenal.
image :: country living
Bobéches are not just limited to lighting fixtures — I cam across this cool idea over at Country Living — take a simple bud vase, add a glass bobéche and hang some crystal lusters then place a single bloom (that can stand own its own) and voilà — a chic item for your table top!
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Chandelier,
Country Living,
crystal,
electricity,
Glass,
Lighting,
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metal,
swags,
Thomas Edison,
wax
by DesignBabylon on 19 February 2010
photo :: slim aarons
As a blogger or anyone with a web presence, you are your brand and brands need to be managed.
Everyone’s name has value, especially for small businesses or sole proprietors who use their name for their businesses. You have an online reputation, whether you know it or not and how you look online can affect you in a HUGE way. How many of you google that interesting guy/girl you met out last Saturday night, eager to learn more about them? Think about how many potential clients or employers may be looking for you… do you know what they see?
According to Michael Fertik, founder of Reputation Defender, the first sign your reputation is in the gutter is usually when you hear about it from a friend. But here’s the kicker… for every person who tells you, there’s at least another hundred who know but are quiet. Freaky, no?
You don’t want cyber squatters posing as you, filling a page with irrelevant or offensive ads or doing/saying anything that is detrimental to your brand or name, so it is critical that you nail down your username on all of these online properties, even if you don’t use them at first.
New social networking sites are like rabbits — they are constantly multiplying!
So what’s a girl to do? There are so many social networks or sites that require a user name out there it’s almost a full time job to search out the sites and register your name on them one-by-one. {keep reading!}
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by DesignBabylon on 17 February 2010
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Before there was Rachel Zoe…there was Talitha Getty.
photo :: minimadmodmuse.multiply.com
Talitha Gettly, an almond-eyed gamine, was fabulous, rich and troubled. A tragic beauty. Talitha Dina Pol was born in 1940 in the Dutch East Indies (what is now known as Indonesia). Pol and her family were in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and her mother passed away shortly after the end of the war. After her mother’s death, Talitha moved to London to be with her father who had since re-married.
By the 1960s, Pol was a fixture in London’s swinging 60s scene. It was there that she met John Paul Getty, Jr, recently divorced and in the process of rebelling against his very conservative father. In Pol, Getty found the free-spirit he longed to be and in Getty, Pol found the security that she had missed in her childhood. {keep reading!}
by DesignBabylon on 16 February 2010
as i went through my in-box this morning, i came across an e-mail from lilly pulitzer announcing their spring vintage collection. the moment i saw the shayna dress i immediately thought of slim aaron’s photo of “the beautiful darling” babe paley in her poolside cabana. i decided that i must get the dress, but that’s a moot point really.
{keep reading!}
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mitchell gold,
ney swivel chair,
Pillow,
Retro,
schumacher,
Slim Aarons,
truman capote,
Zenyattà Mondatta
