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Do You Have a Dress Form?
A dress form can be a quirky design accessory, and if you're crafty, it's helpful too. I just bought this 1920s-era dress form from a friend, and I am absolutely in love with it. If you don't have room for an actual dress form, you can get the next best thing with Ballard Designs Laundry Room Prints ($49-89).
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Crave Worthy: Niki Jones Silhouette Chair
Aside from antiques, it's not often that I see a dining chair that's so outstanding and lustworthy as the Niki Jones Silhouette Chair ($407). The shape has beautiful proportions and such a delicate shape. Its form is based on classic French antiques, but has been updated with a high gloss lacquer.
The Card Shop: Dress Form
For all of those fashionistas in your life, there's no such thing as too many dresses. That's why I recommend mailing them a sweet note on this Dress Form Card ($5) from Messenger Bird Press. They'll be thrilled to actually find something in their mailbox, and you can almost guarantee that upon your next visit, this card will be pinned to their inspiration board, along with other fabulous frocks torn from the pages of W and Vogue.
Do You Use Dresses For Décor?
I love decking out my dress form with some of my favorite frocks, but you can get a similar look by using a pretty hanger. Decorating with dresses definitely adds some feminine flair to your home. Do you have any hung in your home?
Casa Capsule: The Week That Was
- What will be 2009's Keep Calm and Carry On?
- Learn about a cool natural earth building method.
- Don't forget to enter January's Su Casa Challenge.
- Try out my ideas for displaying vintage aprons.
- Zooey Deschanel graces the cover of February's domino.
- Check out Wallpaper magazine's 2009 design award winners.
- Do you own a dress form?
Artist of the Day: Carol Hummel
An overt sign that the growing crochet trend has been taken to new heights, literally, is artist Carol Hummel's Tree Cozy. As part of a two-year exhibition of eight works by sculptors in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Hummel crocheted a cozy with brightly colored nylon and synthetic material for a tree in front of Cleveland Heights City Hall, which wouldn't impede "the growth of the tree or [harm] wildlife." In her artist statement, Hummel refers to the tree cozy as "an emphatically handmade blanket representing femininity and comfort" which covers "a natural object representing masculinity and strength," a piece that personifies the tree "keeping it cozy and colorful throughout the year, enhancing the beauty of nature," and evokes "memories of bygone times and places when life was good," as well as "softens the strong tree form while also emphasizing it."
Midday Muse: Card Catalog Envy
One furniture piece I've always craved but still haven't managed to obtain is an old library card catalog. So I'm green with envy over the technicolor version featured in this house tour on Apartment Therapy: SF. This be a great way to organize all sorts of things, and I love how the owner, Tricia, has inserted different colored labels and placed it next to a dress form.
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