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Remodelista Reader Survey

On September 28, 2011 By

Call­ing all Remod­elista read­ers (old and new): We invite you to par­tic­i­pâté in our site redesign by fill­ing out our Remod­elista Reader Sur­vey. This is your chance to let us know what fea­tures you’d like to see more (or less) of, what’s working […]

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Our meme for the day is A Per­fectly Kept House Is the Sign of a Mis­spent Life, the title of a recent book by Mary Ran­dolph Carter and intro­duced to us by our friend Kath­leen. The long­time cre­ative director […]

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Events: London Design Festival Roundup

On September 27, 2011 By

I man­aged to hit all the major events dur­ing last week’s Lon­don Design Fes­ti­val, criss­cross­ing the city to shows and exhi­bi­tions from Shored­itch Tri­an­gle to West Lon­don. With nearly 300 events, the worlds of fash­ion, archi­tec­ture, tex­tiles, home fur­nish­ings, and inte­ri­ors all seemed to […]

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Spot­ted on Lon­don In Sight: the Old Curios­ity Shop. Phở­tog­ra­pher Stephanie Wolff, who focuses on the city’s “over­lap of his­tory and myth,” paid a phở­to­graphic visit to the his­toric shop, located just off the Strand; the building […]

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Creamware Canisters

Based on a clas­sic Bel­gian design, Williams-Sonoma’s Creamware Can­is­ters fea­ture bam­boo lids secured by elas­ti­cized fab­ric bands; $ 79.95 for a trio.

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Julie

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Attribute it to the tem­per­ate cli­mate, but the util­ity room seems to be a low pri­or­ity in the Cal­i­for­nia home. Not so on the East Coast or in the UK, where muddy wellies and laun­dry dry­ing racks clut­ter the entry­way. We especially […]

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We first admired the work of UK artist Sam Orlando Miller at last year’s SF 20th Cen­tury Mod­ernism Show (see Acces­sories: Sam Orlando Miller); so we headed straight to the Hedge booth at this year’s SF20/21 show in […]

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Fresh off the (online) press: Our friends at UK-based Toast have just launched the Autumn/Winter 2011 House & Home cat­a­log; phở­tographed in situ in two dif­fer­ent houses designed by London-based archi­tect Jonathan Tuckey (see Archi­tect VIsit: Jonathan

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We like these house num­bers from A Short Walk in Corn­wall, not only for their curb appeal but because they are engraved on a unique slate­like mate­r­ial made from recy­cled cof­fee cups. The com­pany also has a won­der­ful story: Pre­vi­ously a product […]

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Katya Katkova started East Lon­don Morn­ings, an art and phở­tog­ra­phy project, as a way to pay trib­ute to East Lon­don inde­pen­dent cof­fee shops (“home to musi­cians, artists, phở­tog­ra­phers, and all those cre­ative types for whom 9 to 5 is not an option”). Katkova […]

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