by DesignBabylon on 10 November 2009
“Interior Designers Help Homeowners Discover Styles” from the Associated Press is a must read for anyone thinking of re-decorating their home or, better yet, hiring an interior designer or decorator, to help them.
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by DesignBabylon on 24 August 2009
Quand j’ai vu cette vidéo, il a été le coup de foudre.
Loosely translated, “when I saw this video it was love at first sight.”
The film focuses on Gabrielle Chanel’s late 20s — her work as a seamstress and cabaret singer to her life as a kept mistress of wealthy playboy Etienne Balsan and her fling with a British industrialist Arthur “Boy” Capel, all the while developing her signature style that became de rigeur for the modern woman of the 20th century.
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by DesignBabylon on 5 August 2009
I really wish I had been around in the 60s as my personal style is so highly influenced by that decade — the clothes, the interior design, even the hair and make-up! I came across some stills from “The Party” starring Peter Sellers today and immediately fell in love with the house it was filmed in
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by Brett on 6 January 2009
Where do I even begin listing all the reasons I am obsessed with Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti? My incredibly stylish and talented friend Conni clued me into Jeanbart-Lorenzotti's Vivre empire a few months ago and since then I have been in awe of the Switzerland-raised entrepreneur and global jet-setter.
Jeanbart-Lorenzotti is the founder and CEO of Vivre, an [...]
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