Lussier’s Creamy Cabinet

July 29, 2010UncategorizedDesigners, Vintage DesignMrs. Blandings

Here we go, the reoccurring theme of green and white.

Hanging cabinet, chocked full of creamware and Chinese export porcelain. Hard to argue with that.

Images, Roger Lussier, his own home, photographed by Thibault Jeanson, Southern Accents, March/April 2003.

And to Bed

July 28, 2010Uncategorizeddesign books, Vintage DesignMrs. Blandings

Curtains do seem to be one element that instantly date a room. Pity as they are so pricey.

But many of Lussier’s objects are equally appealing today. Could this be a Claire Potter lamp?

Images, Roger Lussier, his own home, photographed by Thibault Jeanson for Southern Accents, March/April, 2003.

Roger Lussier – White Knight

July 27, 2010UncategorizedDesignersMrs. Blandings

Previously, I have posted two versions of Roger Lussier’s Boston apartment. The first was published in ’89 and the second in ’94. (You might remember that Suzanne Rheinstein noted Lussier’s apartment was a space that would last in the Enduring Styles series.)

My needlepoint guru recently passed along piles of Southern Accents and I whiled away a few mornings catching up with that old friend.

This is a third version of Lussier’s apartment which appeared in SA in March/April of 2003. Another jewel. With white walls.

Photography by Thibault Jeanson.

Desk Set

July 20, 2010UncategorizedOn AssignmentMrs. Blandings

Months ago former Kansas Citian, Kate Donnelly, asked me to snap a photo of my desk for her very engaging site From the Desk of. It took me a shameful amount of time to make it presentable.

You can check the post here, then read the other profiles. If you are expecting super-styled, accessorized fantasyland, don’t; this is where people work. You’ll be embarrassed by what I consider clean. That’s Kate, above, who is incredibly patient and nice. Stop in and see her.

Header art and photo via From the Desk Of.

White on White

July 19, 2010UncategorizedDesigners, Vintage DesignMrs. Blandings

You probably already know this. It’s like someone telling you that sugary snacks are not good for you. But if you read the text from the Elle Decor piece on John Dransfield’s and Geoffrey Ross’s home, above, you know that Parish-Hadley originally decorated the house.

Which you can see hither and yon. My image comes from Influential Interiors by Suzanne Trocme, but the house also appears in Parish Hadley, Sixty Years of American Design. Which I don’t own, but yearn for. I thought this was the case (that this was the same house, not that I yearned for the book) when local dealer, Barbara Farmer called to tell me she had the magazine and the book open on her desk.

The previous owner of the home moved here, a spot also decorated by Albert Hadley. All beautifully crafted with white walls. White walls may be the theme for the rest of July.

Images from top, Dransfield and Ross in Elle Decor, July/August 2010, photography by Simon Upton; Albert Hadley from Influential Interiors by Suzanne Trocme, photography Michael Mundy, I think; Albert Hadley from House Beautiful, photography by Simon Watson.