Strange Closets

Always the journalist, I noticed this meeting.  But it looked boring. ↓ INTERMISSION ↓ ↓ My self-indulgent Hipstamatic photo essay is at the halfway point, and I appreciate your patience.  Please take fifteen minutes to use the facilities, return calls and stretch.  We’ll resume in fifteen starting . . . now. ↓ And we’re back:

According to a variety of sources, Apple will today announce its long rumored tablet computer. Nobody knows exactly what the tablet will do, but insiders claim the new product will look and function much like a larger IPhone with a 7 or 10 inch screen. Media companies have reportedly made deals to deliver content for [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I recently purchased a few lamps on clearance at Andrew Hollingsworth.  The most dramatic piece is no doubt Julie Prisca’s Dahlia floor lamp, which in combination with the mantel lamps completely transformed my living room.  Although I’d like something sleeker to replace the much maligned yet quite comfortable Pottery Barn Manhattan [...]

I’m trying to figure out if I look like a dashing spy or Peppermint Patty in this photo.  Who cares?  I’ll soon be posting an Adler-inspired Manhattan Open House, so I thought you might enjoy seeing the potter / designer’s ICFF booth.  Breaking news and fresh content, that’s why you read Strange Closets.  I included [...]

This pod table, available online from Urban Outfitters, has just the right mix of retro and mod, and don’t even get me started on the orange hue, which makes me all kinds of happy.  Available in orange, lime and white.  If I were the crafty kind (coming this fall to the Hallmark Channel), I’d buy [...]

Russell Johnson (whom you may recall from a piece I wrote earlier this year) divides his time between the U.S. and Buenos Aires where he scouts for ultra-cool vintage products (seltzer bottles, vintage phones and apothecary jars . . these are a few of my favorite things) to restore and bring to the U.S. market. [...]

Andrew Stansell, a local designer of Mission-style metal furniture, is the subject of this week’s Open House home tour (check back later today at 10:30 a.m. Central and every Thursday for new home tours). In the meantime, check out a a few examples of Andrew Stansell’s work and studio space (which was incredibly neat and [...]