Archive for 'furniture'

Hide in Style

It’s July. Sometimes you have to to hide from the sun in July. If you are like our family you hate sunscreen (blah blah sun damage blah blah “even the spray on?!” BLAH! We hate it!) but we still recognize the need for some respite from the rays as it were.  Now I loooove our [...]

Modern American Summer Swing

I grew up in the South. Porch swings were ubiquitous. From the one on our back deck that gave you a splinter in your left butt cheek if you slid off the wrong way to the one at the summer cabin whose squeaky chains swung my mom into afternoon naps to the fancy one on [...]

Modern Holiday

No, no, I simply COULDN’T have another glass of champagne!
Sometimes I wish I were in Italy in the summertime — in 1959. I would be wearing some vibrant little ensemble and zooming side-saddle on a scooter to meet Rock Hudson for Campari and soda on the terrace of a spectacular villa. We’d recline on modern [...]

The court recognizes…my bookcase

globe-wernicke bookcase
Oh my god, I love a bargain. I especially love a bargain on something vintage and cool. And I particularly love a bargain that comes as a suprise. Based on those statements you can imagine how this bookcase rocked our world. Here we went, just ambling around an antique/junk shop in Sacramento when Beth [...]

It’s the Great Lampkin

bent wood lamp #3 at sprout home
Ok so it does remind me of a pumpkin a little bit but not in a distracting way, just in a kind of “huh, sorta looks like a pumpkin” way. Oooh! And also a Japanese lantern! It looks kind of like that. And you know, it’s a bit sea urchin-esque. [...]