Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon"

A ghostly, milky white, lit as if only by moonlight, casts it's hue upon this Parisian apartment belonging to designers Gilles & Boissier...









Via Afflante (Quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet)

Monday, January 28, 2013

Spiegelsaal in Clärchen's Ballhaus

Tod Saniert, if literally translated, means rehabilitated to death, that is... overly renovated. Happily, this is not the case in the mind-bogglingly beautiful Mirror Hall (or Spiegelsaal) in the Clärchen's Ballhaus in Berlin. The walls, ceilings and mirrors have been left untouched as a testament to the passage of time and evidence of war...





Via here, here, here, here and here 

Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Right Ingredients...

The kitchen in Franca Sozzani's Marrakech house, photographed by Ivan Terestchenko... 


Via here (Published in AD Spain, June 2011)

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Monday, January 21, 2013

Trompe L'oeil

The dazzlingly gorgeous dining room at Villa Malaspina. Don't you love the painting of the dog in the fireplace? This and more splendour to be found in the book, Villas of Tuscany, by Carlo Cresti and photographed by Massimo Listri (who I have written about here)...

Via here

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Golden Lining

Appartement de Madame Victoire, Versailles...

Via here