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- Friday is For Fabulous: Purple Eames Chair & More March 25, 2011Enjoy what these great interior design bloggers have dreamed up for your reading and viewing pleasure. You’ll find some beautiful chairs which caught our attention. (via) See the unexpected home of this Elizabeth Taylor image in Apt. in Vogue Via Made By Girl. (via) Take a city design tour at Material Girls. Yummy stuff. (via) A chair named […]mari rose
- The Possibilities of a Pink Suzani March 22, 2011This morning, when I saw that Table Tonic has just received a new shipment, including a gorgeous pink suzani, it reminded me of this room featured on Elle Décor. (via) Wouldn’t Table Tonic’s pink treasure look so perfect on the wall of a little girl’s room? (via) On second thought, for grown-up girls with a love of pink, […]mari rose
Friday is For Fabulous: Purple Eames Chair & More
Enjoy what these great interior design bloggers have dreamed up for your reading and viewing pleasure. You’ll find some beautiful chairs which caught our attention.
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See the unexpected home of this Elizabeth Taylor image in Apt. in Vogue Via Made By Girl.
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Take a city design tour at Material Girls. Yummy stuff.
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A chair named FiFi at Linen & Lace. You know how we feel about chairs, especially those with names.
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Have you been as fascinated with Blue Cow as I have? See a dining tale at Little Blue Deer. At least now I know I’m not the only one who loves this painting.
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A wonderful pink chair–what could be better? Find out at Chic Provence.
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See, I told you that old clawfoot tubs never die, they just retire gracefully to the garden. See Go Play Outside at La Maison Boheme.
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This awesome vintage Eames Time Life Chair is just one thing to see while you listen to Purple Rain at Angie Hranowsky.
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You’ll love this Victoria Webster house tour at Marcus Design.
Have a peaceful weekend!
The Possibilities of a Pink Suzani
This morning, when I saw that Table Tonic has just received a new shipment, including a gorgeous pink suzani, it reminded me of this room featured on Elle Décor.
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Wouldn’t Table Tonic’s pink treasure look so perfect on the wall of a little girl’s room?
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On second thought, for grown-up girls with a love of pink, nothing could be better. How about pairing it with a gorgeous chair like this or one of these from Joanna’s earlier post?
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If pink is not for you, take a look at the other gorgeous colors from Table Tonic.
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Friday is For Fabulous Finds: Saturday Edition
From Get Going Girl to you. For inspiration:
“Interior Design is the art of arranging beautiful things, comfortably.”
– Billy Baldwin
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Run, don’t walk to see this beautiful post and sign up for Great Walls….A Give Away at katydid.
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See what’s up with gray-ish blues at eclectic revisited.
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Check out Worldly Flair at A Life’s Design.
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Happy birthday Belle Maison! Be sure to take time to learn about the amazing charity project Julie is involved in.
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Lots of inspiration in Elegant Spaces at VT Interiors.
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See a beautiful collection of churches turned homes at Surroundings.
The Amazing World of NAMA ROCOCO
The company’s name is intriguing. Nama Rococo. What does it mean? What do they do? What do they sell?
Enter the world of Nama Rococo and find out.
First of all, the name is beautiful. NAMA is for North Adams Massachusetts where it all started. It also means raw in the Japanese language. Why Rococo? The company says, “We have always been big fans of the Old World, its sensuousness. Our passions run from the paintings of the French artist Watteau to the Chinese hand scroll paintings of the Qing Dynasty to the old Paris Metro stations.”
Using artist’s pigments and mediums on acid free French paper, the artists of NAMA ROCOCO create hand-painted and hand-screened inspiring and awe-inspiring wallpapers. They say, “To us, wallpaper is simultaneously a painting, parade and symphony.”
We say, “To us NAMA ROCOCO wallpapers are colorful art, rhythm and dance on paper.”
NAMA ROCOCO is about family and friends who also happen to have a passion for creating glorious wallpaper by hand. The history of the company and its founder, Karen Combs, is best told on the NAMA ROCOCO website. So, we’ll leave that part for you to explore. Check out “history” and “about” to learn the story of these talented and passionate people.
Here at at Get Going Girl, we’re all totally head over heels in love with these unbelievable wall coverings.
By the way, single wallpaper sheets are available to hang as pieces of art, which of course they are. Find out how you can own a bit of NAMA ROCOCO.
French Dot Sheets (via)
French Dot Ooh La Black Wallpaper (via)
French Dot Ooh La Black Panel (via)
Chateau 66 in Hot (via)
Chateau 66 in Kraft (via)
Tokyo & Vine in Peacock (via)
Little Butterfly Loop in Chinese Red (via)
Serious Bokay in Black and White (via)
Tokyo & Vine in Cherise (via)
Paris and prettymaps by Aaron Straup Cope
Maps as art. Now, that’s one winning concept. I’m fascinated by the topographic and typographic art that’s being created now. Maybe I’m the last to know, but today, I discovered prettymaps. They’re the work of Aaron Straup Cope at Stamen in San Francisco.
Combining maps and data, the artist (design technologist) documents a city. It’s a wonderful process to explore. See links below.
Right now, 20×200 has four of Cope’s works available as limited edition, museum quality, archival pigment prints. They’re all beautiful, but I’m especially fascinated by prettymaps (paris) that to me looks like a giant flower. The prints of prettymaps are created in four sizes. Sadly the smallest 8″x10″ of all four cities is sold out.
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Learn more:
About prettymaps at Stamen Design.
About the artist and design technologist Aaron Straup Cope who created prettymaps.
About Stamen Design studio.
Friday is For Fabulous Finds: Out & About
Easy access to the Internet allows us to explore and contribute to the wonderful world that is the online community of interior design, DIY and style blogs. We love to get out and about in that community and see what’s happening. Friday is For Fabulous Finds gives us an excuse (as if we needed one) to visit old friends and discover new talented and interesting bloggers.
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Check out Friday Fine Dining and Gone Fishing at Head Over Heels.
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Hurry over for a color fix at Coco + Kelley.
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From the ZHUSH comes Inspired By: Muriel Brandolini and you will be inspired.
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No, it’s not all pink over at Two Ellie in Loving Color.
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For lots of “just because they’re cool” images, take a look at today’s post at Belle Maison.
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Do a little trendspotting with Marcus Design.
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Mr. Goodwill Hunting, no not Matt Damon from that Good Will Hunting, but rather he who haunts Goodwill stores and has an uncanny way of finding the BEST pieces with which to decorate his great condo. Tuesday, he posted [living room changes] with glimpses of his living space.
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Meanwhile, from Design Shuffle, here’s an intriguing title, Style On A Shoestring: Transitional Country Designs.
Chasing Rainbows: Colorful Chairs
Yesterday, we went looking for sunshine. Today, we’re chasing rainbows. Chairs in a rainbow of colors bring spring a little closer and put a smile on our faces.
For days, we’ve been drooling over these beautiful chairs from ada & darcy (sadly for some, an ocean away in Australia.) They say, “… these can be custom painted to any color of the rainbow.” Wishing for one to use in the foyer or perhaps as a desk chair.
Make mine deep pink with black and white stripes on the seat, please.
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Then, there are the garden chairs by Bristish designer David Le Versha for Antropologie (shipped only within the continental United States.) Wouldn’t one of each be lovely for dining outdoors or in a cozy kitchen corner? Mixing and matching is a great idea, but a set of turquoise would be beautiful. Or plum, perhaps. Or red for big color. Or orange would be so unexpected. Decisions. Decisions.
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Sunshine and Yellow Living Spaces
Looking for sunshine this morning? So am I. Yellow is the color of sunshine, optimism, hope and joy–just what we need today. With a bit of synchronicity at work, Elle Décor was my first stop online this morning and apparently the editors there also thought the world could use a sunny boost of color. Featured on ED’s front page is Color Code: Yellow in which four designers share their thoughts on yellow and how they use it in their interiors.
Head over to Elle Décor to see what Bunny Williams, Stephen Sills, Robert Couturier and Jamie Drake have to say–but first, enjoy our tour of yellow rooms:
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Of course, first up is our nod to pink in a yellow interior. This home reminds me just how beautifully brilliant pink works in a yellow setting.
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What an elegant corner with a cityscape view that seems to go on forever.
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With so much talk about gray being the new neutral, it seems very appropriate to include this sitting room that uses pale gray to make the yellow and blue accents sing.
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Whimsical and at the same time elegant, several shades of yellow are perfectly combined with black and white.
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Another black and white room with just enough yellow to bring even more life to the beautiful living space.
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Deep yellow is a striking match for the black and white tile floor in a sunny bath. If you love this colorful clawfoot beauty, see more in The Venerable and Versatile Clawfoot Bathtub.
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Elegant dining at its most natural in an outdoor setting with yellow chairs that match the wildflower bouquet. Take me away!
May you have sunshine with beautiful interior spaces and outdoor rooms in your life today.
The Venerable and Versatile Clawfoot Bathtub
First seen in the late 1800s, the vintage style clawfoot tub is surprisingly versatile. It looks as great in contemporary style bathroom settings as it does in traditional period bathrooms. Not just available in classic white any more, colorful clawfoot tubs have found popularity as focal points in cottage and country bathrooms as well. Some of our favorite clawfoot images include:
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Perfectly suited to an easy breezy cottage bath, this pale aqua tub with silver claw feet adds just a hint of glam, as does the mini-chandelier overhead.
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What tub could be more beautiful against this intriguing tile mural?
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At home in its vintage surroundings, this vintage clawfoot tub offers luxurious relaxation.
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This stylishly curved tub is just perfect in its classic setting with fireplace.
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Deep and inviting, an unusual clawfoot tub looks beautiful atop the black and white floor in this bath with an ocean view.
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An eclectic setting is just right for this great footed tub.
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A country bathroom is home to this brilliant red tub.
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So inviting with its interesting exterior and an awesome view, this clawfoot tub shows how well these beauties works in contemporary surroundings.
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This white tub with black clawfeet is looks awesome in an ornate gray and blue bath.
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Old clawfoot tubs never die, they just retire gracefully to the garden.
A little bathtub history:
“In the late 1800s, American Standard (still in existence today) produced the first clawfoot tub. It was made of heavy, sturdy cast iron, and covered in a hard enamel surface.”—Lee Wallender, About.com Home Renovations Guide
“Porcelain and cast iron were first used in the construction of a claw foot tub around 1873 (previously, tub interiors were painted); these tubs were produced by the J.L. Mott Iron Works Company. However, invention of the clawfoot bathtub is often jointly attributed to the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company (which later became American Standard) and Kohler.”—ClawfootTubs.com
Perhaps you’ve heard of H.L. Mencken‘s article “A Neglected Anniversary,” published in the New York Evening Mail on December 28, 1917. This wholly made-up “history” of the bathtub has since been widely quoted in speeches, books, magazines and newspapers. I have been told that the May 1930 issue of House Beautiful included Mencken’s “history,” but sadly I don’t have access to a copy of the magazine to verify this. To learn more about this unusual saga, follow the links above.
Friday is For Fabulous Finds: Spaces to Love
Ever notice how often we all use the word love to describe rooms and their furnishings and accessories? Here at GetGoingGirl, we use the word over and over to convey how we feel about chairs because the love of seating seems to be in our genes, passed down from generation to generation. Surprisingly, this post isn’t about chairs. It’s all about what interior design bloggers are finding to love this week:
From Belle Vivir comes a foyer to love—elegant, ornate and modern in one gorgeous tiny vignette.
Sarah at Flourish Design + Style says she has a suzani crush. Are you loving these very special textiles?
Get your purple on at A Punch of Color. Yes, I do really love this kitchen.
As always, there is a lot to see and love at Desire to Inspire, like this outdoor space in the city.
Wisteria (and accessories to love) is featured at Chinoiserie Chic.
What’s happening over at Design Shuffle? Lots of spaces to love.
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