More of Ryan Korban (from Lonny)

Again....Lonny was awesome.  I am mostly excited about the ad for John Derian for Target!!  But I also really loved seeing this designer's work:  Ryan Korban.  I dug up his portfolio and some pictures for myself...and y'all.  Here it goes...

what a cutie  (this image from The Selby )

I am loving the fur.

from his business, Edon Manor 

I love being able to dine in the library if you want to....aren't his spaces so lush and yummy?

Excuse me...he is simply just bad ass.  

(Can you read that...something like "college is an institution where a man gets his bachelor's degree and a woman gets.....something marriage.?)

And if you have read Lonny...you have seen the one above this text.  (via The Neotraditionalist )         Do you love how he mixes such a good feminine with the masculine?  (the rough headboard with the soft fur...the Bridget Bardot with the utilitarian chrome task lighting?)  I love.  Do you love?

He sites (on The Selby) as Kelly Wearstler as one of his influences.  Do you find his work polarizing like hers?

And one more thing...think Michelle Adams will be the new Margaret Russell? 

All the best!  Julie

Twinkle Twinkle

One good piece of advice I was given:  "If you have to ask yourself if you love it, you don't."

(image credit unknown)

  I love that.  Now, if I ever ask myself, "Do I love that?"  It doesn't go home with me.  Watch how much less you will spend if you don't bring home things you just "like".
One thing there is no doubt I love:  star pendants.

isn't that the most romantic library ever?  (Vogue Living)

I love these so much I put some on our porch...

and one more in the entry!

these are star-ish and lovely and simple.

This was isn't a star either, but it is one of my favorite things in Angie Hranonosky's son's room.  (This is in the maybe list for inspiration for Liam's room, too)

this flush-mount star pendant makes the room

(by the way, if any reader ever knows the source of some of my uncredited pictures...please comment with the source!  thanks)

This one from House Beautiful really geared our direction for the renovation.  Can you imagine this den without this star?  I can't.

I think I put this lotus flower in our bath because I couldn't put ANOTHER star in the house....but it twinkles like a star in the sky...

these are so fun (from Pottery Barn)

let your light shine today....Julie