Clever Idea # 6

Innovative, award winning, amazingly creative designer Lori Weitzner uses uncommon materials with an eco conscious mindset when designing her wallpaper collection.  Her Magnetism wallpaper is a beautiful way to pin a picture.  It has a beautiful hand and looks like linen wallpaper.  That certainly tidies the look of an office ~

AND... it's better than a bulletin board.

Head In The Clouds

Kvadrat "Cloud" Sculpture Designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
via Viteri Style Mgmt.

Some days just seem harder to get thru than others.  I am in a fog, a lazy, hazy fog.  Too much work, too little time, violence in the world, a ton of juggling, and the house needs work and it won't fix itself.  I am coveting anything cloud-like right now.  Don't know why, don't care.  When a feeling sweeps over you (or thru you, which is more cloud-like) you need go with it; envelop yourself in the ethereal, dream like-feeling.  It really does transcend the space

Fornasetti wallpaper,ph: Lisa Romerein

Ryan Studio

Real nimbus clouds created in unlikely places, then photographed. Strangely surreal and beautiful.

Berndnaut Smilde

Celerie Kimble for Schumacher

Ueli Berger via 1st Dibs

This reminds me of clouds or skipping stones in a lake.  Either  way, it elicits the same feeling.

Brunschwig & Fils, Alto velvet

Dolma

Asler Valero

Rosen Fine Art

Garden stool @ HSN

That's what I call "living on (in) a Cloud"

Cloud House by McBrideCharles Ryanin 

Isn't it dreamy?

Falling for Cubism

Woman in an armchair,1913

Woman in an Armchair is the first of 78 prized paintings Leonard Lauder will be donating to the Met.  The transfer of the collection will be complete in time for a 2014 exhibit.  In one fell swoop the Met will have one of, if not the, most influential collection of cubism in the world.  Below are a few pieces that will be included in that gift ~

The Scallop Shell, Picasso,1912

Fruit Dish and Glass, Braque,1912

Figure Seated in Cafe, Juan Gris,1914

The Typographer, Fernand Léger,1918-19

Picasso and Braque are credited for conceiving cubism.  It was the first abstract style of modern art.  Cubists proposed the notion of viewing an image from many different angles and reconstructed it into a composition of planes.  The whole idea of space is reconfigured. 

While not part of Lauder's collection, these men are also strongly tied to the cubist movement.  They all must have spent a lot of time in cafes because that is a theme running through their art.  I picture these men sitting outside a French cafe, smoking cigarettes, talking and inspiring one another.  I must have gotten that from the movie Midnight in Paris.  Did you see it?  You should.

Jean Metzinger, Dancer in a Cafe,1912

Albert Gleizes,Woman with Animals,1914

If you enjoy cubism and can't afford a masterpiece (and who can these days?), here are a few artists  

I am crazy for and whom I have recently been exposed to ~ with a friendlier price tag ~

America Martin, In the Trees 2012

Alexandra Nechita, Voiceless Forest, 2001

Paolo de San Lorenzo

We all know beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  There is also beauty in knowing.  If this is not for you, there is so much magnificent art work out there that will speak to you.  Go find your joy!

Read more about Lauder's multi million dollar gift here