CARVEN

I am love loving fashion label, Carven, lately. Amazing dresses at Opening Ceremony and Barneys and now these...

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Donald Pliner

Saving up for Bali so I can't buy shoes.
Anyway.
Donald Pliner are so well made and so beautiful and comfortable and by some miracle aren't completely insane prices. This is a secret place. If you see this post. Don't tell too many people or their prices will go up :)
Hands down, my go-to designer for a good staple heel.

a perfect beauty. not too tall. amazing support. exuding icanbewornallnight confidence.

for some magic

BuzzChips

Amazing new music website by my friend.

It lets you find new, unsigned, artists, by searching a database and typing in a bands you already love. Links to myspace pages etc...

Works like a charm. Amazing site. Graphically beautiful. BuzzChips. Check it out!

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wood and glass

The company I work for just renovated a space for this shop, Santa Eualia, in Barcelona. The image here is actually of the temporary location where they were housed in the interim...but it's really nice I think! Reminds me of the Ethics + Aesthetics design I did with Pratt...

Santa Eualia 2009 location in Barcelona, Spain

The Rural Studio

A spiritual mentor...Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio.

LINK to writing about the Rural Studio by Samuel Mockbee...

LINK to the Rural Studio website

I feel like I have lost this commitment of the social purpose of design and architecture. I hope the winds will change soon and somehow my commitments will reflect my best heart...

dieppa restrepo

obsessed...

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life outside of the city

I am really about to pull my hair out from getting city stir crazy. It's really pretty depressing this time. My passport has even expired. I have been really poor being in design school for the last three years and now on a designer's salary, it doesn't get much easier to splurge on world travel.
Thank heavens to my wonderful friends with a truck - Suzanne and Sam. Whether it's a simple drive up to Greenpoint or a little further, up the Hudson, I love a chance to get outside of normal life with them.
Here is a custom card that Suzanne made me for my birthday. She hand stitches them. I love this card because she made it, and also because it is a testament to our wonderful day at Storm King...