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Barneys Private Sale
It’s here! It’s here! For one week only, save up to 40% off regular priced gifts and home items. There’s lots of smart and stylish stuff available including Superdeluxe monogram stationary, John Pomp vases, and coffeetable books galore. Get going and get shopping.
Great Gift Deals at Wisteria
The Dallas-based online retailer has extended its gift sale until Nov. 19. Save 25 percent on affordable perfect presents for those hard-to-shop-for on your list. With party season upon us, I really dig these Venetain glass tumblers as a sweet hostess gift. A set of four is only $37.50.
Book Club: The Heirloom Tomato
My partner in crime often chastises me for my obsession with books, particularly big, beautiful ones focusing on food, home decor, and architecture. Seriously, they’re stacked everywhere in our small Oak Cliff abode. “You should start your own book club,” he snarled last night, tripping over my latest pile of purchases. Great idea, I thought. So, here goes: Every week, I’ll recommend a new and noteworthy tome and tell you where to buy it locally. This week? The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World’s Most Beautiful Fruit by Amy Goldman. The award-winning food writer grows more than 500 varieties of tomatoes on her Hudson Valley farm each year. In her latest book, she waxes poetic about her favorite fruit, profiles each variety of tomato, and publishes more than 50 tasty recipes. The photography is stunning and Goldman’s words elevate Heirloom beyond the typical cookbook. It’s a true page turner. Get your own copy at Dicho’s in the Bishop Arts District. And if you have a book to recommend, comments are on.
Why Doesn’t Dallas Have a DEAN & DELUCA?
I mean, really, even Kansas City (?!?) has one of these delectable foodie posh shops. Every year when I get my D&D holiday catalog, I devour each savory page, finding numerous great gift ideas and a few things to buy for myself. (Sea salt caramels and roasted strawberry balsamic vinegar ballontins? Why, yes, thank you.) I hear that Victory is supposed to get an Oakville Grocer (yum) at the House development. So, why no D&D? I think it would fit in perfect at the West Village.
Metallic Finds on Sale at Chiasso
The Plano-based online retailer has some big sales going on. Receive an additional 15 percent off all reduced merchandise and all items purchased are sales tax free, to which I can only say, “Nice.” I’m all about this slick skyline sofa in shiny silver metallic vinyl. Yes, it’s a bit hotel lobby-ish. But I’m transforming one of my spare bedrooms into a drinking lounge (because it’s the holidays and it’s time to get soused). I think this sofa will fit the bill to a Long Island iced T.
Check Out Jesse’s Cool Duplex
Apartment Therapy is holding its Fall Color 2008 contest. People can submit photos of their homes and how they use color and design to great effect. And guess who is in the finals: Jesse of Dallas. Go, look, and be humbled. Great design for such a small space.
Exercise Your Right to Redecorate
Z Gallerie–the home of great knockoff lamps and vases–is having an election day sale online. Enter promotion code VOT at checkout and save 10 percent. But shop now. The sale is for today only.
CB2 Ready for the Holidays
Yes, you’re right. It’s not even Halloween yet. Holiday decor? Already? Really? But we don’t have a CB2 in Dallas. (It’s Crate & Barrel’s hipper, younger, and more thrifty line of home furnishings.) And the mod retailer just debuted its holiday catalog online. So, I though I’d share the news. You can flip through the pages of the catalog online and decide which stylish bauble you’re going to buy first. Me? I have my eye on these lumiere candleholders. They’re only $4.95-$17.95 each and work great as gifts or across your holiday mantle. ‘Tis the season to shop.
Need Some Cool Dinner Party Music?
Check out Dallas’ own The Shock of Pleasure. I discovered the electro-lounge group through music blog Arjan Writes (a great place to taste new, cool music) and dig their rendition of the Carpenters’ classic “Superstar,” featured on the group’s MySpace page. Dim the lights and pour a little Riunite on ice. Oh yeah — that’s nice.
Truth in Advertising
In the paraphrased words of Morris Day…this post ain’t for everyone, only the sexy people… Cue this.
Let me say from the “get-go” I don’t care who anyone “sleeps” with…as long as it isn’t me, it’s consenting, between adults, and as long as it doesn’t affect kids. That being said, can’t “DOING IT” look better than this?
Frontburner has been all over this story from the beginning. It has all of the hype you can imagine…SEX…DRUGS…ROCK & ROLL, and according to Eric Celecste, fondue! However, no one in the “mainstream” media has dared to touch where I dare to touch (and I say that as a non-member of neither the mainstream media nor Dallas’ most notorious club). Dirty minds, all of you…
We here at D Home are in a constant quest to bring you the inside story (literally), the interior motives. Today is no different. I’m not sure what I was expecting from the inside of The Cherry Pit…velvet drapes? A smoke machine? Candles? Chick flicks? Comfort food? A cozy afghan? A bubble bath? Snuggling? (more…)
New Blog In Town
The Goss-Michael Foundation debuted a blog this morning. I’m fascinated already by the dark exhibition space they’ve created to house their current show, which features shadows created by light cast dramatically onto “rubbish” and “rusted” metal objects. It’s beautiful.
D Home shot Kenny Goss’ and George Michael’s apartment two years ago. Boy did we get lots of letters. Not because Michael is a pop star. But because we showed a gay couple kissing!
New Product Generates Water from Air Moisure
Coming in September from a duo of British Columbia entrepreneurs: the Water Mill, which claims it can extract more than 3 gallons of water a day from the moisture in the air and then funnel it to your tap, or fridge or water cooler, or wherever. It’s been designed for home use, connects to your household current at a cost of 36 cents per day, and is this innovative company’s answer to the world’s growing water shortages. Building a new home? Might want to incorporate a few of these.
Small World, Again
[Photo by Timothy Kolk]
I was digging around style blogs this morning for inspiration, and came across this photo posted on Absolutely Beautiful Things. My first thought was, wow, what a great shot! My next thought was, wow, I think I helped style this shot. In fact, I know I did. It’s Susan Palma’s pool house. How did it end up in Brisbane, Australia? Blogger Anna Spiro had seen it on another style blog, So Haute, out of New York, so she borrowed it. So Haute had borrowed it from our photographer, Tim Kolk’s, website. Both of these blogs are so beautiful, and I love how images can travel around the world and back home again, via the Internet.
More from Ben Spaisman
I asked Ben Spaisman, president of the new online site Bond & Bowery, to show me the object he’s been most coveting on his site….readers, what’s yours?
Also, I asked him what trends he’s seeing (Hint: it’s all about the web now), and for more details on the Dallas, Houston and Austin acquisitions this summer.
Bond & Bowery Comes To Texas
I just got this email from Ben Spaisman, President of Bond & Bowery.com
Hi Rebecca,
I read your recent post regarding 1stDibs with great interest. While I agree they are a fine site, I’d also like to suggest that you take a look at Bond and Bowery, a rapidly growing new site that many decorators and designers have already taken note of. Given our planned expansion into Texas during the next few months I would very much be interested in your comments and feedback.
Best
Ben Spaisman
1stdibs.com
Some of Dallas’ top furniture and antiques showrooms are now listed on the coveted 1stdibs.com site, home to the best of the best in Paris, New York, Milan and elsewhere.
Hello? Is This Thing On….check…check…check…
Since Rebecca said I would blog this morning, here I am. Yes, I am nervous. You know what they say about public speaking, imagine your audience is…naked. That’s what I am doing right now. All of you…in the buff. I feel much better.
Confession? I’m technology-phobic. Check back later today, after I figure out how this new fangled blog machine works. I have to buy some sod, but I’ll be right back. In the meantime, I humbly offer this.
Paige Phelps
Okay Paige, even though you referred to me vaguely as “the writer of the blog” in your post at your fancy new job at the News, I’ll ignore it. Notice I used your full name in the title, no less.
Wisteria Online Sale
Big sale at Dallas-based Wisteria. Lots of online home furnishings goodies 40-60% off. I dig this sweet little half-oval console in crisp white. And I especially dig the $377 price tag (originally $629!). Hurry though. The sale is ending soon.
Time Flies
[Pentagram 2008 Typography Calendar at Ken Knight]
Ken Knight, whom I credit with making Dallas a more stylish place in the 80s and 90s, sent me this cool calendar because he knows that I would not remember to buy a 2008 calendar until 2008, and he was right. A lot of people are like me, he says, so that’s why he’s been pasting labels on mailing tubes for weeks solid now, trying to keep up with all the urgent orders. Ken’s in San Francisco now, selling design books and office products of good design via his website. And now, the strangest thing. I rode down in the elevator this morning in my apartment building with my neighbor in 12C, Irving Goldberg. I was silently admiring Irv’s taupe and cream houndstooth cashmere muffler and thinking about how I hadn’t blogged yet about the calendar from Ken (the graphics reminded me of each other, I guess?). Irv piped up around the 8th floor and asked if anyone knew where Ken Knight was these days and whether he was still writing. Eerie. Have I watched The Secret too many times or what?
DWR Gift Sale
Design With Reach just added more items to its gift sale with prices up to 50 percent off. DWR doesn’t have sales all that often. Go. Shop. Now.
Sputnik Modern and George Nelson
I have a thing for Mr. Nelson. I know, I know. His bubble lamp and marshmallow sofa are a bit overdone. (Overheard from a homeowner at a photo shoot today: “Design Within Reach is quickly becoming as ubiquitous as Pottery Barn.”) But the man knew his design and I love his work. If you do too and you have $1,200 to blow, click over to Sputnik Modern. Owner Chris Thurman — a man who knows his mid-century modern — has some Nelson seating for sale. The bench featured on the site is powder-coated sexy with a graphic print. But move fast. Chris’ stuff doesn’t last long.
Free Shipping at West Elm
For the last minute shopper with no time to hit the malls, West Elm has good news: free shipping on many of the mod retailer’s reasonable gifts, some of which are on sale. Go online and check out great gifts like these pine branch salad plates. A set of four is only $26. And once again: No shipping charges. Nice.
Mod Gifts at Chiasso
Looking for a cheap yet chic gift for your contemporary comrades? Try Plano based Chiasso. The online retailer has plenty of choice offerings in its modern art decor section. I especially like this vinyl shadow chandelier black decal for only $42. It adds nice graphic pop and a dash of whimsy to any room.
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