Category Archives: design
walkies
We’ve been pushing ourselves to take long walks, sometimes early morning, sometimes early evening, as much as 4 miles, mostly through Long Beach’s old downtown, which has seen many of its older buildings become frozen mid loft conversion. (Probably too … Continue reading
bowl of succulents
Hoping to do some holiday shopping for the hikers in the family, I drove out to Patagonia’s store at The Camp in Costa Mesa. Also at The Camp is the little shop Organic Designs by Aggelige, where I studied this … Continue reading
Covent Garden’s LEGO Greenhouse
The LEGO greenhouse from London Design Week 2011 got lots of coverage from design blogs last fall. Image found here. But since LEGO at one time was practically synonymous with winter holidays in our house, it seems appropriate for a … Continue reading
Bulbs, Poppy Pots, and Echeveria imbricata
By the first week of December, any activity that’s not directly holiday related can seem a bit, well, selfish. But it’s also the time when the bulbs that have been prechilling in a crisper drawer in the fridge since September, … Continue reading
metal basket
The day I picked up my shelves at go2machinery, a salvage yard/building in Gardena, I also found this basket of expandable metal. Mad metal lust gripped my heart. And baskets are always useful, right? And then there was this little … Continue reading
Outdoor Rooms Need Shelving
Outdoor furniture, kitchens, fireplaces. Outdoor fabrics have come a long way for dirt and UV resistance. But anyone else notice something lacking? Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places, but it seems to me that for sturdy outdoor … Continue reading
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Tagged Building REsources, outdoor rooms, salvage, shelving
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Desk Diversions
The past few days have been misshapen, unwholesome things, misspent in a prolonged bout of desk duty. Sporadic but sweet relief and diversion came in the form of The Paris Apartment. Claudia has been shopping the Paris flea markets(!) The … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden ornament, pots and containers
Tagged Colette, Irving Penn, Paris flea markets, Parisian florists
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pieces of Rancho Reubidoux
The inaugural Rancho Reubidoux Bazaar took place this weekend, a truly one-of-a-kind experience amounting to a physical journey through Reuben’s blog posts, a kind of dimension-pushing experience with flash mob overtones. Blogging in 3-D, so to speak. At my last … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden visit, pots and containers
Tagged assemblage, flea market, garage sales, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz, salvage
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Villa Mundo Nuevo
This fall photographer MB Maher revisited this Northern Californian residential garden designed by landscape architect Jarrod Baumann of Zeterre Landscape Architecture and built by contractor Jim Everett of EvLand LLC that won the 2010 California Landscape Contractors Association Trophy Award. … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, edibles, garden ornament, garden visit, MB Maher, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged 2010 CLCA Trophy Award, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Evland LLC, formal gardens, Interleafing, Jarrod Baumann, Jim Everett, landscape architecture, Laura Livengood Schaub, mediterranean climate, Northern California, Villa Mundo Nuevo, Zeterre Landscape Architecture
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this week on AGO
A new garden in Los Gatos, California, by Jarrod Baumann of Zeterre Landscape Architecture, re-explores formalism in the landscape and proposes that modern materials like steel do not necessarily equal chilly results. Not when forged with a plant lover’s sensibility. … Continue reading
Posted in design, garden visit, MB Maher
Tagged California, Jarrod Baumann, landscape design, Los Gatos, MB Maher, Zeterre Landscape Architecture
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