identical eye: October 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Looking in: Roy McMakin Artist, Designer, Furniture Designer

images: Wallpaper magazine

Thursday, October 29, 2009

better than the boys.

Anamaria Marinca

Gioia Spaziani

Laura Vasiliu

all images L'uomo Vogue

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Gypset. High+Low.

Spain 1999

interior, Madrid

Twiggy 1967, Bert Stern

French encampment 1959

1968 "Baby" Jane Holzer, Warhol factory girl

Veruschka, Franco Rubartelli Vogue 1968

Yves Saint Laurent, Villa Oasis Marrakech 1980

Halloween channeled through Vogue Italia

just a few fun ideas for the holiday on saturday...

Craig McDean

Steven Meisel

Richard Burbridge

Steven Meisel

Tim Walker

all images from Vogue Italia, 2009.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Paris Flea Market is hard to describe. I was intially expecting a Parisian-like Brimfield...I couldn't have been more off. To start, the market consists of either large loft spaces which hold several smaller showcase shops...or small winding passageways filled with these small "stores" that resemble storage areas with garage like doors. However, inside these storage-like spaces are breathtakingly beautiful design capsules. The architecture inside each booth is done to represent the amazing furniture pieces held inside. The attention to detail is amazing. The spaces resembled something closer to an elle decor spread than a vendor's area a weekend market.(hence the poor quality of the photos- pictures were not allowed, these were a few I snuck in, moments after being scolded for doing so). I hope you are able to get a glimpse of what it was like.

my favorite vendor...love the pop of red of the roses filling antique bottles.

click to see the shelving unit with amazing head sculptures

Monday, October 26, 2009

Hunt Slonem

I first came across Hunt Slonem in a L'uomo Vogue shoot of artists in their homes. He looked so intriguing I googled him and couldn't believe what I found. Below are images from his 40,000-square-foot, 87-room studio on 10th Street in Manhattan. Each room has been painted a different vibrant color-he prefers to see his paintings against bright hues rather than museum-standard white. His many parrots fly free from place to place as they see fit, while his cats roam the studio. Slonem says he's shared his studio with monkeys, turtles, hedge hogs, a leopard and an armadillo. It is said, walking through each room is like walking through a painting. Slonem appears to dress in similar colors. To get a better idea of how much of a character he is, watch the Style.com video on him.

http://men.style.com/video/obsessives/obsessives/3000755001/obsessives-hunt-slonem/3168451001