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Design Meets Fashion: Braiding
One of my favorite textures is braiding, whether it’s thick woven jute rugs or beautifully patterned hair styles. It’s a wonderful way to add warmth and eclectic flair. (Images via Pinterest.)
Design Meets Fashion: Bohemian Lace
When I first saw this amazing Zara Hanging Pod Chair from New Zealand’s Cush & Nooks, I assumed it was from a local Californian brand. It perfectly captures California style with its Bohemian meets mod design. There is something so charming about white Bohemian lace! (Images via Cush & Nooks & Jeou.)
Design Meets Fashion: Navajo & Aztec Inspired Prints
While Navajo and Aztec inspired prints are trendy on a national level, here in the southwest they are more of a staple style, which stems from our region’s history. Although Aztec people come from Mexico and Navajo people from the southwest (or technically Canada and the Pacific Northwest), their is a lot of overlap in [...]
Design Meets Fashion: Wicked Black & Orange
Happy Halloween! In celebration of this spooky holiday, I found two examples of good uses of black and orange used together. While orange interiors usually connote images of the Brady Bunch, this modern sofa and surrounding decor is decidedly cool and Zen. And paired with rust orange shoes, orange sweater with black jeans are surprisingly [...]
Design Meets Fashion: Dog Prints
When I first saw this wallpaper by Lisa Bengtsson Tillsammans at the modern Scandinavian store Huset in Venice, I thought, “Could the dog really be the next horse?” Whereas horse prints stem from a more elitist equestrienne love, a passion for dogs is much more mainstream, down to earth and–at times–comes with a dose of [...]
Design Meets Fashion: Agate
The use of agate in design is getting more and more incredible. What started as chunky jewelry and lamp bases has transformed into thin sliced pieces of agate inlayed into walls or surrounded by precious metal in order to highlight the beautiful design in the natural stones. I absolutely adore this bathroom, don’t you?! (Images [...]
Design Meets Fashion: Black and White Photographic Prints
I don’t know what I adore more-the black and white photographic print of the mountains inlaid onto this cabinet or the romantic stream and billowing trees photo printed on to this asymmetrical Dries Van Noten dress. One thing is for certain, whether it’s on furniture, accessories or a piece of clothing, this is one incredibly [...]
