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This Just In: Nic Cage Is Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage has put his whopping, 14,306-square-foot, 7-bedroom, 8-bath Las Vegas home on the market for $9,950,000. The listing for the property reads:
Incredible new custom home with outstanding vistas of the Las Vegas Valley and mountains. With over 14,000 square feet of fabulous structure, this magnificent mansion features Crema Marfil slab marble floors with exquisite details, gourmet kitchen with professional appliances, huge great room with surround sound, theater room with built-ins, commercial elevator to all three floors, game room, work out room, 3 fireplaces, and 16-car garage.
The Card Shop: Vegas Bachelorette Invites
I must preface this post by saying, "Yes, this invite is rather kitschy." But, Vegas is kitschy too, so I whole-heartedly embrace it! Despite the rhinestones, the Beyond Design Custom Vegas Bachelorette Party Invitation ($4.75) is actually well-designed, affordable, and seems to be good quality.
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Vivienne Tam Launches Upholstery Furniture Collection
Fashion force Vivienne Tam is taking her modern Chinoiserie home — to your home. She's partnered with Rowe Furniture to create a new collection of custom upholstery furniture, including multiple sofa groupings and accent pieces. While designing furniture is a natural extension for many fashion designers, I think Tam's strength lies in textiles, so I'm excited to see a range of exclusive fabric designs used in the collection.
Link Time!
- Get some faux cabin style.— PoppyTalk
- The trickiest questions deserve the best answers.— Re-Nest
- Las Vegas's McMansions are shrinking.— Charles and Hudson
- Learn how to make heart sachets.— Craft
- Would you like a feedbag pillow? — Danny Seo
- The free market needs to account for sustainability.— Forecast Earth
- Check out this awesome 2009 wall calendar.— Shelterrific
- Get the lowdown on after-Christmas sales.— Simply Stated
In the News: Green Architecture Has a Ways to Go
Interested in getting the lowdown about green architecture? Then I suggest you read the Newsweek article, "The Bad News About Green Architecture." For a good while now, the reporting of green architecture practices has been nothing less than greenwashed, and I've been waiting for a mainstream publication to address our country's problem with its perception and definition of "green" architecture.
This Just In: Nicolas Cage Lists Two New Orleans Properties
Prolific real estate investor Nicolas Cage is on the loose on a wild selling spree. Cage has already put his Las Vegas, Bel-Air, and Rhode Island properties on the market, and today we have news that he's listed his two properties in New Orleans. According to WDSU and Real Estalker, Cage has listed his historical property (shown right) in New Orleans's French Quarter, the most haunted home in the neighborhood, in addition to a Garden District mansion.
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- Grassroots Modern provides a thorough list of modern Las Vegas vendors.
- Green Is Sexy kicks the drop in the bucket.
- Happy Mundane transports us to Kandinsky Square.
- Inhabitat shows us inflatable plastic bag polar bear subway art.
- Laissez Faire takes me to an art-filled home away from home.
- The Moment rambles about storage in all sorts of places.
- NotCot spots a chocolate Eames house. Yum.
- Remodelista shares her kitchen faves.
- Sfgirlbybay has mantle mania.
This Just In: Todd Oldham Releases Carpet Series For Durkan
Todd Oldham has released a new series of flexible, versatile, carpet designs for Durkan, a division of the Mohawk Group, which will feel right at home in hospitality interiors. TODD: Todd Oldham Designs Durkan, launched at the Hospitality Design Expo 2008 in Las Vegas this month. The Haberdashery Collection pays tribute to menswear by updating classics patterns like argyle, corduroy, plaid, herringbone, hounds-tooth, and checks with contemporary colors and pattern directions, dressing hospitality interiors with design elements that will never go out of style.
This Just In: Ken Paves Buys in Beverly Hills
Ken Paves, aka Jessica Simpson's hairdresser and other half, has purchased a 2,762-square-foot, 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath Cape Cod-style house in Beverly Hills for $1.9 million. The listing for the property reads:
Perched on top of a ridge along prestigious Mulholland Drive sits this elegant Cape Cod contemporary designed by Robert Byrd. Flooded with natural light and surrounded by breathtaking views, this home has been renovated with the finest attention to detail.
Nicolas Cage Owns a Haunted House
Now that we've "fallen back" into the dark, I thought I'd share some grim celebrity trivia with you. While flipping through a photo gallery of haunted "murder" houses at This Old House, I learned that Nicolas Cage is the proud owner of the most haunted house in New Orleans' French Quarter, which he bought for nearly $3.5 million. The house was built in 1832 for Dr.
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