Isn't this a fascinating concept? How to blur the line between interior and exterior spaces through thoughtful design. Are you like me, feeling the urge to throw open every door and window? I think we are craving permeability, air, light, movement. This spring especially, we're inviting the birdsong and breezes to drift indoors.
Today, we're taking a look at steel casement doors, garden rooms and loggias. Rooms that breathe the outdoor air, houses that invite the garden in. Let's wander together over vanishing thresholds, as butterflies drift by, seemingly oblivious to boundaries between inside and out. READ MORE
Posts tagged: architecture
Magnificent Places, Beautiful Spaces 4/22/24
We talked last Monday about classic style. Yet we just scratched the surface. Let's pick up again with classical design. A friend of mine wrote a book about the physical response you get from seeing beauty, “Feeling Beauty”, by Gabrielle Starr Harpole. While I can't do justice to paraphrasing the neuroscience she lays out in exquisite detail, I do intimately know the physical feeling she's describing. You walk into a magnificent building or a beautiful room, and your involuntary response seizes control - you take a pause, an audible deep breath, then emit a sigh, while a smile takes form.
One of my favorite spaces in Washington is the National Building Museum. I get that pause/big inhale/sigh/smile every time I walk in. READ MORE
One of my favorite spaces in Washington is the National Building Museum. I get that pause/big inhale/sigh/smile every time I walk in. READ MORE
Classically Lovely: CHS edition 4/15/24
I spent last weekend in Charleston combining a myriad of favorite pastimes ... a visit to see my younger son, a visit to fabulous gardens, a girls trip with a dear friend, time spent with a wonderful new friend, all amidst rich American history and exquisite architecture. And of course, no trip for me is truly fabulous without really good food. And we had plenty of that. And I gained four pounds.
Charleston, I'm in love. READ MORE
Charleston, I'm in love. READ MORE
At Home 1/30/23
Three Coins in the Fountain 1/16/23
This week, I'm heading to Rome. I have never been before, and I'm beyond excited. Our mornings will focus on the iconography of the saints in the great cathedrals. It's a subject I know very little about, and I've been incessantly cramming everything from guidebooks to youtube videos, hoping to establish a rudimentary baseline on religious history. READ MORE
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