• How Clr Shop’s Talia Taxman Brings Color And Whimsy Into Her Berlin Apartment
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    How Clr Shop’s Talia Taxman Brings Color And Whimsy Into Her Berlin Apartment

    August 21, 2023 - By 

    “I met with a psychic a year ago and she told me that my work with textiles was something that I carried with me through ancestry,” says Talia Taxman, founder of woven textiles brand Clr Shop (pronounced “Color Shop”). “Then recently my partner and I were playing around with ChatGPT and I looked up the meaning of my last name and, sure enough, ‘taxman’ has Yiddish and Ukrainian origin and I guess ‘tux’ used to mean textile. People carried last names that had to do with what trade they were involved in so someone with my last name was probably…

  • Jen Samson Treasures the Old, Well-Made + the Unexpected
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    Jen Samson Treasures the Old, Well-Made + the Unexpected

    August 20, 2023 - By 

    Jen Samson is the founder and principal designer of Laguna, California-based design firm Jen Samson Design. Her creative style often results in unexpected design elements that highlight intrigue and self-expression through combined styles. JSD’s spaces are sophisticated but relaxed, playful, and always unique. A lot of inspiration for her “curated creative abandon” comes from world travel, culture, fashion, and interiors both new and old. The interior designer keeps filing away ideas as she travels with her family. “Traveling is basically the only thing that forces me to truly disconnect from day to day work,” Jen admits. “My husband and I…

  • DAB Studio lines kitchen of Dutch home with oak and Afromosia wood
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    DAB Studio lines kitchen of Dutch home with oak and Afromosia wood

    August 19, 2023 - By 

    Dutch interior design practice DAB Studio has transformed the kitchen of a family home in Zwaag, the Netherlands, by covering the floors and ceiling in one type of wood and the walls and cabinets in another. DAB Studio aimed to create a “calm yet soulful” interior with an earthy colour palette made up of tan and neutral shades. Quarter-sawn Afromosia wood lines the walls and kitchen units The floors and ceiling were covered in hand-scraped oak with a smoked and black-oiled finish, laid in a pattern of side-by-side plank pairs. Afromosia wood, a tropical hardwood native to west Africa, was…

  • The Ultimate Guide to White Kitchen with Gold Hardware
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    The Ultimate Guide to White Kitchen with Gold Hardware

    August 18, 2023 - By 

    The Appeal of White Kitchens A large part of a white kitchen’s appeal is its timeless elegance. It will never go out of style and is considered a classic. Having a white color scheme can also create the appearance of a larger and brighter kitchen. One of the most appealing aspects of white kitchens is the fact that you can make any aesthetic work. Add any color or texture and it is sure to make any kitchen pop with a white base. Photography by Eric Piasecki | Custom White kitchen design in Sag Harbor with rose gold pots and pans hanging…

  • Tour a Coastal Norway Home Made of Wood Flooring Scraps
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    Tour a Coastal Norway Home Made of Wood Flooring Scraps

    August 17, 2023 - By 

    At first glance, Saltviga House looks like a minimalist, shingled vacation home perched atop a rocky bluff on Norway’s southern coast—but the exterior cladding is so much more complex than it seems. Zoom in and you’ll see over 20,000 stainless steel screws and not a single traditional shingle. Each piece of wood on the outside is actually leftover German oak from Dinesen‘s flooring factory; on the inside, it’s all imperfect Douglas fir planks. Yes, the entire house was built with scraps. This impressive architectural feat is the work of Stockholm-based studio Kolman Boye Architects. Founders Erik Kolman Janouch and Victor…

  • The Link Up: The Lipstick Em Wishes She Found Sooner, The Multi-Tool We Could ALL Use, And A VERY Exciting Announcement About The Team
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    The Link Up: The Lipstick Em Wishes She Found Sooner, The Multi-Tool We Could ALL Use, And A VERY Exciting Announcement About The Team

    August 16, 2023 - By 

    Welcome everyone. We don’t have to tell you that this was a devasting week for the island of Maui. Watching those flames ravage so much beauty and history as well as leaving so many people without homes was beyond heartbreaking. If you have the means please consider donating. Here is an article with organizations from a Hawaiian news site to donate to, as well as articles from CBS News and Time. Also as we’ve been watching and listening to indigenous Hawaiians, they are asking tourists to avoid traveling to the islands. As you can imagine resources are extremely limited given…