designer i love: raji radhakrishnan

I think my favorite and most move-in ready room from this year's Kip's Bay showhouse was the one by Raji Radhakrishnan. She has only been working in design for about 7 years, can you believe it? It seems that a common element in all of her designs is the architectural or art photograph blown up into a wall mural. I think it looks absolutely sensational in the way she uses it, but almost all other wall murals look cheesy to me. I find her work to be so soothing and inviting, I could honestly live in any of these spaces! Happy weekend...
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Kips Bay Showhouse (through So Haute Style Blog)

Kips Bay Showhouse

Kips Bay Showhouse (through Heather Clawson)

inspiring

That's all.
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deco dream

You guys know the Deco period is seriously my fave of all time. The new Great Gatsby movie with Leo DiCaprio looks like it is going to be an explosion of Deco excess and a serious treat for the eyes. Check out the trailer below!
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i love it when people....

Put teepees in kids' rooms...

and disco balls in otherwise traditional rooms...

And have crazy good details on interior doors...

Don't you?
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more kips bay

I am just loving everyone's photos from the Kips Bay house this year! Julie from Belle Vivir is showing us a few amazing rooms each day and I love every one! Knocking me out this year are these details:

Green bookshelves in Jamie Drake's library

Paneled oak walls in Alexander Doherty's bedroom

Jamie Drake always wows, but Alexander Doherty is new to my radar. I love having new talent to obsess over! Off to his website to drool...
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kips bay showhouse 2012

Once I caught a "designer" in my store taking pictures of a sconce to copy and I stopped her, citing plagiarism, good neighbor standards, and just plain old ethics, and she told me, "Everyone copies everyone else. No one is doing anything new anymore."

Here is the Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse 2012 as evidence that she is wrong. Check out more of the original, beautiful interiors at the New York Times slideshow or at Habitually Chic, where these pics are from...

I wish you all a wonderful weekend. Keep striving to do creative, original work - the world needs it!
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Brian del Toro

Thom Filicia

Todd Alexander Romano

if i was a rich girl

Window shopping on 1st Dibs today...just so you know, if money were no object, I would have purchased every single one of these:

Brass and Agate wall sconce by Honore

Clear polyhedral chandelier

Lavender stemware for eight

Love this zebra photo

That's what I am looking at instead of working! Hope your week is going great...
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