the october issue of lonny magazine is online and i particularly fell for the manhattan atelier apartment of painter mary nelson sinclair. i love her eclectic and colorful mix of artwork and collected treasures — she’s taken advantage of every nook, creating interesting vignettes to draw your attention, but nothing looks fussy. the space doubles as her atelier,... 
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Freunde von freunden has a great home tour and interview up with new york-based Textile Designer isabel wilson. her Apartment & Studio in Williamsburg is a live/work loft space with glorious white brick walls and high ceilings. that tiered bookcase and cozy window seat had me at hello. for a complete tour of her great space, visit Freunde von freunden. Tweet#call_to_action... 
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Artist and former Anthropologie visual director Leslie Oschmann breathes new life into found objects with her Amsterdam design studio Swarm. For this piece, anthropologie commissioned her to transform and repurpose pairs of antique stools into a bench-cum-work-of-art, using both leslie’s own sketches and once-forgotten found drawings. one of a kind, handmade in the netherlands.... 
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first i fell for Belgian textile artist Renilde De Peuter’s mobile sculptures, and then for her home. so i may have done a little happy dance when renilde of at swim-two-birds kindly agreed to let me share her home/studio with you on unexpected guests. a stylist who works part-time in a shop, renilde is also trying to make a living as a textile designer. A graduate of... 
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a few weeks ago rena tom and i took a little makeshift field trip out to the studio of fine artist jen garrido to check out some of jen’s / aka jenny pennywood’s textile designs. i love a good studio tour, and jen’s light-filled space was just what i imagined from someone with a prolific talent for beautiful and colorful paintings, paper goods and textile... 
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