Kelly Wearstler's Vision
Kelly Wearstler's Vision
The lovely , beautiful and talented Kelly Wearstler. What can I say but this woman is a genius! Love her vision, how she mixes all different styles, colours and textures to create these magnificent interiors. Her choices are bold and always elegant, pieces are well curated and thought of. I chose the images of her more subtle palette of colours as she is more known for her bold and vibrant one. Just want to show how versatile she is.
You will never get bored in any of the rooms Kelly has created, whether its a house on the beach or a mansion in Beverly Hills. Her talents are vast, including all The Viceroy and Tides Hotels, has collaborated with Schumacher fabrics, Sferra Linens, Pickard, The Rug Company, Lee Jofa and Bergdorf and Goodman where she created the elegant Restaurant. There is also a section in the store where you can buy some of her great homeware.
It doesn't even end there, as a woman of eclectic and chic style herself I always wondered why she never designed her own line of jewellery and clothes, et voila her first collection of clothes and accessories has been created. Today her online boutique launched, have a look, you can view all her work, shop and also read her blog where she takes you on her sourcing adventures where you really get to see how magical her eye is for great pieces and the way she views colour and details. You can also buy her pieces at Neiman Marcus and Net-a-Porter for accessories.
Lastly for the piece de resistance, I was recently in LA where I went to a hair appointment which was in the same building as her studio, I was so tempted to ring the door bell and run inside to be surrounded by all her talents.
Oh and her first stand alone store is opening around the Corner on Melrose (see below) Will go back to LA to hopefully see it open and do another post on Kelly as there is so much I could not put on one post.
Enjoy xo
Pictures via the following links ,
www.kellywearstler.com
www.tidesresorts.com
www.viceroyhotelsandresorts.com
www.net-a-porter.com
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Transport yourself back in the days of the Nabateans on their Spice route or Marco Polo on the Silk Road. Here on both of these incredible roads is how traders, merchants, nomads and royals would move spices, silks, silver, incense to and from faraway lands . This is what Australian designer Camilla Franks collection Tales from A Reading Room makes me dream of the weaving of storytelling from all these journeys. Ancient mystical nomads on their caravans adorning themselves as they cross over foreign lands and cultures.
Camilla Frank has captured it so well, the colours, the styling, the jewels , having grown up in Theatre herself she would transform her own costumes to give life into them. Doing this manifested into a whole line of Kaftans and from there she expanded into home ware, jewellery, accessories, children's line and more. A Modern Nomadic Merchant.
Her online shop is full of merchandise but sadly they only deliver in Australia and where she has a whole list of boutiques. For ther rest of the world there is stockist list on the site.
I want the whole package must be my multi cultural blood. xo
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Annette and Phoebe Stephens of Anndra Neen Via Dossier Journal
Anndra Neen Collection via Fallow
Coral Necklace via Couturelab London
Hiroshi Suzuki via Adrian Sassoon London
Shell Choker via Couturelab London
Pieces by Modernist Jeweller Art Smith 1917-1982
Anndra Neen Birdcage Brass & Alpaca via Milk Made
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Pre- Colombian Nose Ring
On my Birthday I received a beautiful piece from Anndra Neen, I wear all the time and get so many compliments.I had seen the pieces before and really admired them, there is a native and modern feel about them which marry together exceptionally well.
You can see their influences of their own culture, the Beautiful and stylish Sisters Annette and Phoebe Stephens were born and raised in Mexico City where they have their pieces made in their workshop by artisans , Mexico is known for its ancient craftsmanship especially in silver, but these pieces are not made out of sterling silver which would weigh a ton and be extremely expensive, Anndra Neen collection is made of Alpaca a alloy metal that is coated in silver , it is light but yet has substance and has a beautiful finish to it. So much better than feeling like you have a ton of bricks around your neck.
The sisters have a very mixed and creative cultural family , their grandmother was a well known artist and their grandfather was a avant-garde composer, so they grew up a home filled with creative people. The influence of these collections come from all their travels especially Japan where their idea was born into fruition, the Japanese are gifted with creating incredible work with silver, but you can also see their inspiration of Pre-Colombian , Tribal , French Medieval Armour and Modernist jewellery as I have shown in some of the pictures.
Keep it up ladies and Viva Mexico xo
You can buy Anndra Neen at www.couturelab.com which based out of London and ships worldwide.
A Universe In The Ocean
“That was the most amazing, the most incredible moment of my life; as if I had been offered a trip to the moon … I thought of nothing else for months before it happened. Afterwards, for weeks I couldn’t talk about it without crying. I’m still not entirely over it … It was so beautiful and so intense, it changed me forever.”
Producer, journalist and film director of wildlife documentaries Claire Nouvain's speaking of her experience when she was invited on board the submersible Johnson Link-1 to travel down 1000 meters below the ocean in the Gulf of Maine part of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.
From this life changing experience she set out to produce this beautiful book on the incredible universe that lies in the Abyss of our Oceans. A mind opening book of 220 mesmerizing photographs of marine life that has never seen before by most of us.
With an average of depth of 3800 Meters, the oceans offer 99 per cent of the space where life can develop on Earth. The Deep Sea occupies 85 per cent of this space, and thus forms the planets largest habitat. " And what do we know about it? Compared to what remains to be discovered practically nothing."
One of the major discoveries is that the depth is full of lights. There is no light from the surface, so creatures make their own, as many as 80-90 per cent of the animals are bio luminescent. Like fireflies they light themselves to collect food, to attract pray, to confuse predators and to signal potential mates.
Wow how fascinating is all this, am sure we won't find Nemo down here. This book will be a future classic, thank you Claire Nouvain and all the scientists for opening our eyes to the magic of this planet.
Enjoy xo
Sources,
www.thedeepbook.org
www.literaryreview.co.uk/robinson_05_07.html
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On my way to Eivissa as they say in Catalan the local dialect, for a little holiday.
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Visions of Sebastiao Salgado
The Nomadic Nenets Yamal Peninsula Siberia 2011
The Nomadic Nenets Crossing the Ob river to enter the Arctic Circle, Yamal Peninsula Siberia 2011
The Nenets : What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; our link to the land.
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Oil Wells Greater Burhan Kuwait 1991
Oil Wells Greater Burhan Kuwait 1991
Oil Wells Greater Burhan Kuwait 1991
Dinka Man covered in Ashes which sterilises the skin against insects and parasites Sudan 2006
Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Omo Valley Ethiopia 2007
The Anavilhanas covering 1000sq km if Amaziona Rio Negro Brazil
Two Mursi women, Omo Valley Ethiopia 2007
Yacare Caimans in the Patanal State of Mato Grosso Brazil 2011
A Yali man in the Jayawijaya mountains of Irian Jaya, West Papua 2012
The Mentawai Siberut Island Indonesia 2008
Zo'e Tribeswomen, State of Para Brazil 2009
Church Gate Station, Western Railroad Line, Bombay India
Coal Mines Dhanbad Bihar India 1989
Macaroni Penguins in Zavodovski Island, The Sandwich Islands 2009
Miner Standing up for himself Serra Pelada Gold Mine Brazil 1986
Figure Eight Serra Pelada Gold Mine Brazil 1986
Ladder Serra Pelada Gold Mine Brazil 1986
Arizona
Upper Xingu Kamayuva Shamans Brazil 2005
Namibia 2005
The Mentawai Siberut Island Indonesia 2008
Elephant Seal Calves on South Georgia, Barren Island on the South Atlantic
Sebastiao reading his Sumo size book Genesis by Taschen
Genesis Exhibition at the London Natural History Museum
The look in the eyes of the Seals, the brutality of the life of the miners, the intoxicating beauty of our natural world The Patanal, The Okavongo Delta, the dunes of Namibia and the incredible lives of the tribes from Siberia to Java Indonesia that live the same way for thousands of years. God do I live in a bubble in London.
These images just stir so many emotions in me, amazement, respect, sadness, anger, love but mostly awareness thanks to the courageous and humanitarian "photo-god" Sebastiao Salgado.
The love and sensitivity this man has for this planet has been recorded in many photo essays and books ,some of the images I choose are from "Workers" on labour all over the world , "Migrations" on the displacement of people due to famine and war and now Sumo sized Genesis is " My Love Letter to the Planet" a project that took Sebastiao into a journey of 9 years and over 30 journeys of trekking, canoeing, ballooning and travelling to the ends of the earth to visually connect us back into our planet, its tribes and its beauty that is still here.
" We need to recover our instincts, to learn more about nature"
" I wanted to give others the opportunity to see the nature of a pristine planet "
I wish I could make these pictures bigger as you can only skim the surface of their power here. Luckily the Natural History Museum in London is showing a retrospective of Genesis until the 8th of September 2013.
Otherwise you can get The Collectors Edition of the Sumo sized Genesis designed and edited by Salgados wife Lelia Wanick Salgado published by Taschen and also a custom made bookstand designed Legendary Japanese Architect Tadao Ando.
There is more information on the websites below of other work and books. A lot to read and learn.
Thank you for bringing us back the wonders of that still exists in our world. May they always be here for generations to come..
Genesis Exhibition at the London Natural History Museum
Amazonasimages
Taschen
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I had to put these beautiful pictures up from Zac Posen pre Spring Resort 2013 (what a mouthful) . Elegant clothes, incredible jewellery and the perfect model for this, the statuesque Erin O'Connor. Apparently the collection was inspired by the women in Singapore, who would have known? Wish I knew who the jewellery is by and who styled and photographed this to give them credit also.
C'est Dramatique!
Photos via,
www.fashionising.com
www.zacposen.com
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