Architecture
Unexpected and Personal Design
“Unexpected” and “personal” ideas are leading the design trend for 2009, particularly in this down economy. Here’s the story on the What’s new at Home blog. If the ideas are to personalize the space, create something unexpected and to keep it simple, then casart™ definitely fits the bill, as written up here recently on The Design Style Guide Blog. Here’s one of our photos below. That’s our lime colorwash casart™ on the wall. Be sure to visit our new video on YouTube showing its installation. Please vote for us! We have just entered the StartUp Nation, Leading Moms in Business Competition. The top 200 ranked businesses will get marketing exposure…
Library of Congress
Surviving Inauguration, as my city virtually shut down and as we move forward with a new President, I thought it might be worthwhile to post about some of the buildings near the site of this event, particularly the Library of Congress, the “largest repository” and safeguarding keeper of our literary and many artistic works of wisdom and expression. We had a friend visiting from California for work and for the Inauguration, so we took our own long neglected trip (as local residents) into the city over the weekend (before the crowds arrived) to tour the Congressional Buildings, Capitol and Library of Congress. Granted my husband works “on the hill” so…
Exhibition Design
Regardless of making it to the Cooper Hewitt exhibition from the last post, my son and I attended something similar, Pompeii and the Roman Villa at The National Gallery of Art, my favorite museum. It was a wonderful exhibit, both in content and exhibition design. The staging was meant to replicate the interior Tablinum of a Pompeiian Villa, complete with deep red & black walls, partially-painted red columns and an abundance of decorative finishes: marbling, colorwashing, plaster, and ornamental filigree. Upstairs included an interior atrium where the huge fresco of the famous Garden Scene from The House of the Golden Bracelet was on view. The entire three-wall frescoes of the…
