Category: Beautiful Spaces
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Inside Grand Central Station, NYC
Grand Central Station is one of our favorite buildings in the city. In fact, I find it to be one of the most majestic buildings in the world, especially because of the constant life and lives who pass through it’s walls on a daily basis. The girls are growing up accustomed to running around…
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Preschool in Japan Lets Kids Play in Puddles
This new preschool in Japan understands kids and was designed to accumulate puddles so the kids could play in them indoors! Usually when it rains, kids aren’t allowed to play outside, but the new Dai-ichi Yochien in Kumamoto City is designed to make sure the puddles stay exactly where they are. And yes, the kids play in…
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The Incredible Kids Museum of Glass – Shanghai
With China’s first design museum still in the works, a very cool institution dedicated to encouraging children’s interest in glass has opened its doors in shanghai. The ‘kids museum of glass’ is located in a converted warehouse, containing exhibition areas, a DIY workshop, two cafés, a gift shop and a party space. Designed by Tilman Thürmer,…
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Completely Wild and Amazing Swedish Family Home
Here’s another installment of our Beautiful Spaces series. This ever so joyful spread from Family Living, a Swedish blog, really made my day. I just could dive into that sea of color and quirk and get lost in it! This is the three-room Stockholm apartment of Do It Yourself evangelist, interior designer and creative force…
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Vogue’s Tour of Sarah Jessica Parker’s NYC Brownstone
I just got wind of this interview that Vogue.com conducted with Sarah Jessica Parker in her lovely Greenwich Village brownstone. And it’s fitting, see that there is talk of SJP taking over Vogue. We actually live in the same area and we pass her home often, so I kind of feel like a voyeuse seeing what is actually on…
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A Chic and Retro Family Home That Embraces Kids and Dogs!
Okay, I admit it: I have completely neglected our series of Beautiful Spaces, but I figured this post would let me off the hook! (Check out a previous family home fave of mine here). I am totally in love with this vintage inspired, eclectic home lived in and designed by Southern California interior designer…
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Beautiful, Rustic Home of the Ushida Family
Here’s another in our series of Beautiful Spaces. I am truly touched and moved by this heartfelt family home of J’Antiques vintage store owner, Hitoshi Ushida and his wife Fumika and kids, Hanto and Cocone. Their gorgeous home in Kamakura, Japan is filled with a treasure trove of colors, textures, forms and light. I…
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How A NYC Couple Fit A Nursery Into A 400-Square-Foot Loft!
I am just amazed at how interior designer and photographer Gunnar Larson and his wife, Sara Larson, senior associate for brand development at HONOR, have rocked their 400 square foot apartment in the East Village to welcome their baby girl, Ihlen! Instead of heading for Brooklyn and more space, they decided to redesign their…
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Amazing ROC Apeldoorn Classroom By Jurgen Bey
Dutch designer Jurgen Bey has created a classroom to inspire and draw out the extraordinary in young minds. The classroom interior project is part of the ROC training school at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. The aim was to create an environment that enables students to start their studies in a space with room for investigation,…