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My friend Barbara, a Landscape Architect, up in Eastern Washington sent me a photo of her newest obsession. She found this hook rug at a garage sale last fall. She said she wanted to give the woman a lot more for the rug because it was so beautiful, but she paid the asking $3. Yeah, for $3.
As a kid I did hook rugs and for several years when I lived in Seattle I used to collect them as I had a vision of attaching them all together and making a large patchwork rug, but along the way of moving from one place to the other, and several failed attempts at binding them together I let them all go. I never found one as nice as this one that Barbara found. It is lovely with the bright but muted colors with the sweet folksy scene of a jaunty figure in a landscape. The scale of nature vs. human walking on a winding path through the woods next to a bend in a river-many delightful narratives could be developed from the reading of this piece.
How can you go wrong with this Jacques Arnet lamp for 7500 from Orange? This was back pre-holiday hunting on Beverly Boulevard, but still looks to be available. Adnet was a French architect and decorator see Galerie de Beyrie.
How can you go wrong with this Jacques Arnet lamp for 7500 from Orange? This was back pre-holiday hunting on Beverly Boulevard, but still looks to be available. Adnet was a French architect and decorator see Galerie de Beyrie. 
Clodagh is having a sample sale. If you are in NYC and you have a chance you should definitely stop by her showroom. I know when I first walked in right after grad school in hopes of a job with her, I was quite taken with it. She herself is a delight and I was lucky enough to work for her for a year and a half. Clodagh developed her own singular view: the four C’s of Design: Contemplate, Cleanse, Clarify, and Create establishing a context from which to work. She writes about it in her book, Total Design. 
Objects can be suitable to their environment depending on where and how you look. Here at Bibelots Design we like to apply the mantra of Lady Mendel: Proportion, Simplicity and Suitability. This was her view of how to judge good taste. I think it’s safe to view Lady Mendel’s mantra of good taste as a view of beauty. Beauty depends on the context and Lady Mendl would look to see if all three principles were there to understand it in situ. One must look from a broader perspective to see if something is suitable.
My Holiday Wish for us all is that when we , “I need a…” The next thought would be, “Do I need it?” Then if the answer is Yes think about where one could find it locally. Eschew the Ikea, (it will always be there) and take the time to find something more thoughtful.
French 1940’s bar stools, beautiful green leather and details with cerused oak. At Orange in Los Angeles
Lou Hodges. The leather is a dark greyish blue not unlike Payne’s Grey. My general dislike of oak has been surpassed by a love for the contours of the frame. Design One.
