God is in the Details

God is in the Details

If you were a fan of Domino magazine, then you remember Lili Diallo's amazing styling skills.  I'm very excited that her new book Details: A Stylist's Secrets to Creating Inspired Interiors has just been released so we can all learn from the master.  Also seemed like a good time to revisit her Brooklyn loft.  It's like the American version of Loulou de la Falaise's Paris apartment.  Enjoy!

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Working Girl

Working Girl

"If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

There are not one but two fabulous new books that chronicle the more than two decades that Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent as a book editor.  Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence which you can read an excerpt from in the January 2011 issue of Vanity Fair and Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn.  For most of her life, Jackie was defined by the men in her life but it wasn't until she started to work that she really came into her own.  Jackie was said to have nurtured her authors, many of whom left Doubleday after her death because they couldn't bear working there without her.  I was surprised to learn that she worked with Diana Vreeland on her book Allure which was recently rereleased.  Vreeland's grandson, Nicholas Vreeland, remembers Jackie coming over to Diana's apartment to work on it.  I can't wait to read both books and see what else she helped to publish! 

Diana Vreeland and Jackie Kennedy Onassis

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Happy Thanksgiving !

Happy Thanksgiving !

 

I want to wish all of you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  Here in Belgium, we are not used to celebrate Thanksgiving day, but blogging for a year now, made me feel so connected with all of you and that is why I wanted to wish you a warm and peaceful Thanksgiving !

 

And for those who are still on a doubt for a Thanksgiving gift, or a Christmas gift, I have some good news!

This week a wonderful, gorgeous new Belgian book is released, titled QUIET LIVING.

The author, Piet Swimberghe who is an art historian and the photographer, Jan Verlinde work for numerous magazines, as ‘Elle Living’, ‘Côté Quest’, ‘MTC’, ‘Weekend Knack’.

They were granted permission to have a look inside the houses of numerous designers, artists and collectors!

‘Personal Rural Interiors’.  All of them warm and charming European houses.

Jan Verlinde has taken the most wonderful pictures! Top quality !

The book is a ‘must have’!!!

 

 

Some pages of the book.

 

Oh yes! I also have to tell you this! One of the houses in this book, is the house of Céline Chollet, a blogger colleague of the blog CELINE CHOLLET AQUARELLES.  Céline and her family live in Auxerre in France. She is an aquarellist, specialized in watercolour paintings of old buildings, often ruines, and interiors! If you don’t know Céline or her beautiful blog yet, please visit Céline HERE !

Céline at work!

 

You can order the book HERE or HERE.

I am sure that you and the one who has received the book as a gift, will so enjoy it!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!

xx

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Happy Thanksgiving !

Happy Thanksgiving !

 

I want to wish all of you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  Here in Belgium, we are not used to celebrate Thanksgiving day, but blogging for a year now, made me feel so connected with all of you and that is why I wanted to wish you a warm and peaceful Thanksgiving !

 

And for those who are still on a doubt for a Thanksgiving gift, or a Christmas gift, I have some good news!

This week a wonderful, gorgeous new Belgian book is released, titled QUIET LIVING.

The author, Piet Swimberghe who is an art historian and the photographer, Jan Verlinde work for numerous magazines, as ‘Elle Living’, ‘Côté Quest’, ‘MTC’, ‘Weekend Knack’.

They were granted permission to have a look inside the houses of numerous designers, artists and collectors!

‘Personal Rural Interiors’.  All of them warm and charming European houses.

Jan Verlinde has taken the most wonderful pictures! Top quality !

The book is a ‘must have’!!!

 

 

Some pages of the book.

 

Oh yes! I also have to tell you this! One of the houses in this book, is the house of Céline Chollet, a blogger colleague of the blog CELINE CHOLLET AQUARELLES.  Céline and her family live in Auxerre in France. She is an aquarellist, specialized in watercolour paintings of old buildings, often ruines, and interiors! If you don’t know Céline or her beautiful blog yet, please visit Céline HERE !

Céline at work!

 

You can order the book HERE or HERE.

I am sure that you and the one who has received the book as a gift, will so enjoy it!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!

xx

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The Art of the Scrapbook

The Art of the Scrapbook

I could spend a week discussing Cecil Beaton.  He was a photographer, set designer, costume designer, interior designer, diarist, style icon, and probably more.  Among the highlights of his career were the sets and costumes he designed for Gigi and My Fair Lady as well as the wedding photos he took of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.  If you really want to really learn about this intriguing man, then I suggest picking up Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook from Assouline.  I will warn you that the volume is a bit expensive and quite heavy.  I could barely lift it off the shelf to leaf through it but it's definitely worth it.  Looking through the pages of images is like looking into Cecil Beaton's mind and creative process. "Beaton’s scrapbooks allowed the artist to play with pictures he had taken (and perhaps those he wished he had) in the dreamspace of artifice that was always his favorite setting."  Definitely makes me want to start a scrapbook but then again, my blog is my modern version of a scrapbook. 

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton

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