Santa Monica Airport Antiques Mart
California Dreaming…
No matter what time of the year we visit LA, we are always amazed at how lush and vibrant the vegetation is. This marvel of nature greeted us on our recent trip and we were delighted to find many streets lined with these beauties called Jacaranda trees and bloom only once a year. While in LA, we also love an invigorating morning hike to start our day. Our recent favorite is Mandeville Canyon. Check out those hills!
It’s hard to see how delicious (best mac & cheese ever!) this meal was from the Iphone photo, but the food they serve at Forage is fantastic; the concept is a bit like old school tray service restaurants meets hip deli. This delightful little spot was a recent find on a trip to the Los Feliz/Silver Lake area, and we will definitely be going back.
We found some great new resources on this trip and this lighting shop on La Brea was one of them. Dispela Antiques was literally filled floor to ceiling with thousands of chandeliers and wall sconces. We had to force ourselves to leave…would have been very easy to spend hours just looking at everything.
Liz’s Antique Hardware on La Brea was a drool-worthy resource for all forms of vintage hardware for inside and outside of the home.
With stacks and stacks of finds, we couldn’t help taking pictures of these one-of-a-kind doorknobs.
Our go-to source for all things antique is Wertz Brother’s Antique Mart in Santa Monica. If you need any good looking accessories, jewelry, or finishings, this place has it all. Here are some of our favorite finds this trip:
Stay tuned for flea finds tomorrow from Santa Monica’s Airport Antiques Mart!
Brimfield Adventures
Last week, we headed up to Brimfield, MA for one of the East Coast’s largest outdoor flea markets. With miles and miles of vendors spread across green fields, we found enough great finds to spread over a couple of posts. Take a peek!
Stayed tuned for more finds tomorrow!
One of the Joys of Being Your Own Boss…
It’s certainly not the mundane things like doing paperwork, meeting with the accountant, or filing taxes…it’s the hour you unexpectedly find you have free! So on Friday when we found ourselves blissfully without obligation and near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we very happily ducked in for a couple of hours to see old favorites and The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City exhibition. Here are just a few of the things that we love and inspire us at the Met (with apologies for the not fantastic Iphone photos):
Love the color and pattern combination.
We always wonder what the person who got to sit and play at this piano must have been thinking when their fingers hit the keys.
We love the rooms filled with these Grecian urns–simply fantastic.
A favorite Georgia O’Keefe painting.
From the Pre-Columbian wing; feather panels with an amazingly modern design.
This little silver elephant makes us smile every time we see him.
Pair of earrings we’d love to make copies of!
Andrew Michael Geller
Andrew Michael Geller’s love of nature’s beauty helped mold him into one of the greatest architects of our time. As chief architectural designer and vice president of Raymond Loewy Associates in New York, he helped design NYC’s Lever House, Macy’s Department Stores and Lord & Taylor. But, it was his summer houses in the Hamptons and Fire Island that started our obsession. Geller’s designs were economical, easy to construct, and easy to seal up at the end of the season. The houses defined a new era of modernism on the beach.
