lifestyle… and things that make the heart race…
“I Don’t Know Much About Clothes… But My Hair Looks Fierce!”
While Japanese artist, Nagi Noda, passed away in 2008, her hair hats, which are animals sculpted from hair, are the most decadently glorious accessories! They are frivolous, avant-garde decorations to wear perched above one’s beautiful visage… meant to evoke gasps, giggles and all manner of excited reactions from onlookers and admirers. Sign me up!
Crystal Comb Beehouse Lamp
Russian designer Yar Rassadin has created the most exquisite honey-filled lamps, that capture the honey making process using Swarovsky crystals to form each brilliantly warm cell.
Toundra Booty
Some shoes you leave on, no matter what! Christian Louboutin’s fantastical “Toundra Booty” is made from coyote fur perched atop a 5 inch stiletto. Leave your lover panting and howling!
Food For Thought…
“We need to send into space a flurry of artists and naturalists, photographers and painters, who will turn the mirror upon ourselves and show us Earth as a single planet, a single organism that’s buoyant, fragile, blooming, buzzing, full of spectacles, full of fascinating human beings, something to cherish. Learning our full address may not end all wars, but it will enrich our sense of wonder and pride. It will remind us that the human context is not tight as a noose, but large as the universe we have the privilege to inhabit. It will change our sense of what a neighborhood is. It will persuade us that we are citizens of something larger and more profound than mere countries, that we are citizens of Earth, her joyriders and her caretakers, who would do well to work on her problems together. The view from space is offering us the first chance we evolutionary toddlers have had to cross the cosmic street and stand facing our own home, amazed to see it clearly for the first time.”
–A Natural History of the Senses, by Diane Ackerman (1990)
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Always at home. — One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook to reach it. In fact, we were not even aware of traveling. But we got so far because we fancied at every point that we were at home.”
–The Gay Science, by Friedrich Nietzsche
A Longing For Fall & Winter
The recent heat wave makes one desperately long for those days and nights when one can be gloriously swathed in a sea of furs, hats, stunning coats and all manner of dressy clothing.
Here is a peek at some gorgeous little items Albertine & Odette have their sights set on for F/W 2010 – 2011…
Victor & Rolf's Show-Stopping Coat
Lavin's Elegantly Embellished Sleeve
Hermes... To Die For Runway!
John Galliano's Beautifully Put Together Gentleman
Every Stylish Man Needs A Pair Of These YSL Solid Brass Bullet Cufflinks... Meow!
Nomadic Tipi Makers… Make Dreams Come True
I have been dreaming of owning a tipi for the past ten years… It is a dream that I cannot shake, one that haunts me and will not let me be. I know that I need to make this dream a reality, so I began researching tipis and found the absolute chicest dwellings for all of one’s nomadic fantasies to be played out in!
Nomadics Tipi Makers have been crafting Sioux style tipis since 1970. Located in the Three Sisters Wilderness in Oregon, the tipis are sewn in the homes of local residents. They are made in the traditional way and can withstand all types of weather and climates, from below zero to coastal rain forests, and even your own backyard… They are literally “living artifacts” that can serve as passageways into the spiritual and cultural magnificence of the Native Americans of the Great Plains.
As Nomadic Tipi Makers allows you the option to custom design your nomadic abode, Albertine & Odette think that this is, without a doubt, the most delicious answer to creating a beautiful new bedroom for oneself. It is also just about the chicest way to entertain outdoors!
Los Angeles In Summer… A Special Kind Of Paradise
How I envision Cherokee Bat
“Cherokee Bat loved the canyons. Beachwood Canyon, lined with palm trees, hibiscus, bougainvillea and a row of candles lit for the two old ladies who had been killed by a hit-and run, led to the Hollywood sign or to the lake that changed colors under a bridge of stone bears. Topanga Canyon wound like a river to the sea past flower children, paintings of Indian goddesses and a restaurant where the tablecloths glowed purple-twilight and coyotes watched from among the leaves. Laurel Canyon had the ruins of Houdini’s magic mansion, the country store where rock stars like Jim Morrison probably used to buy their beer, stained-glass Marilyn Monroes shining in the trees, leopard-spotted cars, gardens full of pink poison oleander and the Mediterranean villa on the hill where Joni Mitchell once lived, dreaming about clouds and carousels and guarded by stone lions. It also had the house built of cherry wood and antique windows where Cherokee lived with her family.
Cherokee always felt closer to animals in the canyons. Not just the stone lions and bears but the real animals — silver squirrels at the lake, deer, a flock of parrots that must have escaped their cages to find each other, peacocks screaming in the gardens and the horses at Sunset Stables. Cherokee dreamed she was a horse with a mane the color of a smog-sunset, and she dreamed she was a bird with feathers like rainbows in oil puddles. She would wake up and go to the mirror. She wanted to be faster, quieter, darker, shimmering. So she ran around the lake, up the trails, along the winding canyon roads, trying not to make noise, barefoot so her feet would get tougher or in beaded moccasins when they hurt too much. Then she went back to the mirror. She was too naked. She wanted hooves, haunches, a beak, claws, wings.”
–Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block, taken from the chapter entitled, Wings… (A book I delightfully read every single summer).
Meet Me At The Club
The Club Hotel, located in Singapore’s fashionable Club Street conservation area, is the hottest new boutique hotel! It was desgined by none other than, Ministry of Design. The 22 rooms are sophisticated, sexy chic, über comfy spaces that are “targeted at the design and lifestyle savvy nomad”. The hotel brilliantly offers check in at the ground-level lobby, for you old fashioned types… as well as on the rooftop, Sky Bar, where you can gaze out at the panoramic while whetting your whistle.
Photos by CI&A Photography
Hotel’s website here.
Cuppa Fabulousness
illy Art Collection cups are just the thing to brighten your morning. The cups are designed by contemporary artists and are limited edition miniature works of art. These beauties are perfect for a quiet morning of personal pampering, or maybe a sweet breakfast in bed with someone special.
Robert Rauschenberg
Jeff Koons
illy Cup Chandelier
July 29, 2010
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