PICKS :: COLORWARE
PAUL WISEMAN
Buzz' interview with Paul for Decorati this week was a total hit. I walked away with new insight on the importance of timeless design and what it means to have this admirable "exceptional talent". Below are a couple Q&A highlights and snippets from his portfolio that made my little heart melt.
(Buzz side note: Hey, that’s exactly how I got into it, only without the youth part!)
I was 27 years old when I started and my contract read something like, “Hi my name is Paul and I want to make your house pretty….Now sign.” Ugh.
Buzz: What makes a particular design timeless?
knobs & pulls
i got your back
Ladies & Gentlemen present . . .
2011 Philharmonic House of Design
daily dose of fabulous
fortuny fetish
love for klismos
What actually makes a chair a klismos chair?
Basically, it's the concave top rail that's curved to embrace the shoulders of the sitter, and those four incurved saber legs. Some chairs have vertical or horizontal back splats and some have none. Because this element is seldom visible in the Greek original, we don't quite know what's "right." There are many variants with perfectly straight front legs, too, but they look clunky.
Thank you, House Beautiful
hygge & west
meatball mondays & then some
grand opening
for sale
a collection of notebooks i saw and liked
Let me introduce Archie Grand the infamous Scandinavian notebook maker. Archie Grand produce high quality notebooks for shopaholics, artists, fashionistas and 55 other breeds of charlatans, scoundrels and luminaries.
Our notebooks are made with great care given to their quality. They have a rigid cover, are thread sewn and have a matte leather-like lamination. The size is 160x115 mm and neatly fits the pocket of a suit or a small evening bag.
The JUMBO is an astronomical 410x310 mm for your overxized ambition, big ideas or that very long meeting or just that super sized gift you always planned of giving.
GO JUMBO OR GO HOME! -me