The Iron X Goes Outdoors...

Originally created in 1956 for movie mogul Mervyn and Kitty Leroy for their Bel Air sunroom lanai.. William Haines Designs has reissued the Iron X in an outdoor version.  Customize your fabric, put it on a powder-coated steel frame and feel old Hollywood out in the fresh air...

[see the entire insanely fab collection here: William Haines]

"I would rather have taste than either love or money" - William Haines

Palm Beach Style...

WANT this collection for summer...

The Kantan II Collection... outdoor furniture with open-air design & tubular-brass framing... by Brown Jordan

LOVE!

What To Do With The Emptys?

Wine bottle chandeliers...

{Fashioned from bottles at the Maison Wine Estate in South Africa}

Genius!  

Happy Chic At Happy Prices...

My heart always sinks a bit when I see a major icon launch a line at a budget retail store.  However, who can be sad about a CHIC purchase for CHEAP?!  If you are into mod or crazy for Jonathan Adler, this is your lucky day...

The Happy Chic line for JCPenney.  Well done... great prices...

Katie duvet cover set & accessories $32-$160

Elizabeth square poof $100

Greek Key dinner plate $12

Crescent Heights 20" nightstand $400

Happy shopping!

Tuft Me Some Outdoors...

George Smith's new outdoor line... includes their dreamy Chesterfield sofa... every piece is hand made and weather resistant...

See more: George Smith

LOVE!

Pong...

I've posted a few times {here & here} on ping pong tables... I'm obsessed with the idea of putting one in my dining room.  Another good example...

{via}

Now, who wouldn't want to come for dinner with this lovely piece of guaranteed post-meal fun?!

LOVE!

Designer CRUSH: The Novogratz...

Robert & Cortney Novogratz {and their SEVEN children} make family life hip, fun and functional.  Chic spaces are often accessorized with a pool table & basketball hoop.  I would LOVE to spend a "day in the life" with this troop... constant chaos and uber-cool fun for sure...

{Buy the book here: Amazon.com}

Some of their work...

A few shots from their chic & affordable CB2 product line... 

{Shop the line here: CB2.com}

LOVE!!

SPIED & SPOTTED: {Letter Tables}...

Remember the FAB spread last summer in Vogue of Claude Wasserstein's penthouse apartment in NYC?  A brief refresher...

I know... too good to ever stop dreaming about...

The home also sports the most darling kids rooms and I've been obsessed with her son Jacks room ever since...

The upholstered walls, the lucite globe, the view to the rooftop patio... and those darn cute mirrored letters at the foot of his bed.  If you are going to put "letters" in your kids room, this is definitely one of the better ways I've seen it done.  

Giddy to have spotted them online at Andrew Martin...

Find most of the alphabet here.

LOVE.

Outdoorsy Cool...

The perfect bed for that perfect downtown, northwest-with-an-edge loft...

See loads more: Bespoke Furniture

COZY...

BEST sectional couch EVER...

I'd take this whole situation.

YUM.

POUF!

Don't walk... RUN to West Elm for these functional cuties...

New floor poufs... arrange a few around a cofee table for casual seating... ditch the old bean bags in the play/media room, rest a tray on top & turn one into a temporary side table.

All for the inexpensive price of $249.00!  Purchase here.

LOVE! 

Currently CRUSHING On: Tibetan Lamb

Shaggy.  Scraggly.  Unruly.

But oh, so cozy & chic... benches... I'll take any of these...

{via 1st dibs}

{via Sylvester & Co.}

{via Pieces Inc.}

Pieces of Hollywood GLAM...

Phyllis Morris.  The whole Circa Collection is dreamy...

The Accordian Bar

 Martini Bar Chair

Martini Chaise

Sutton Bed

Ingenue Throne Chair

Marrakesh Cabinet

See LOTS more: Phyllis Morris

LOVE!

The New Traditionalists...

According to their website, "If you believe "traditional" and "cool" are not mutually exclusive, than you are one of The New Traditionalists"... IN!

... a few favorites from their furniture line...

{Coffee table no. Fifty Nine}

{Dresser no. Seventeen}

 {Chair no. One Twenty Four}

{Side Table no. Eight Forty}

 {Side Table no. Seven}

{Credenza no. Two Twenty Five}

... a few more from their children's line...

 {The Savannah Changer}

 {The Regency Changer}

{The Regency Crib}

{The Regency Youth Bed}

See more: The New Traditionalists

Pretty darn FAB!

O'verlays...

Chances are you've seen some of these transformations.  Take a plain IKEA or old piece of furniture, add some paint, their decorative fretwork and voila... 

{this is a basic IKEA table transformed}

{lots of fretwork style options... with additional styles on their way!}

Shop it: O'verlays

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GENIUS!