Travel : Bridges in Paris

Via Dominique Picquier . . .

Friday's Fabulous Woman: Tricia Guild

Long long ago before I even contemplated working with fabric, I used to visit Designers Guild on Kings Road in London and take swatches from the little drawers and I have been a huge fan ever since. Tricia Guild is a dynamic, creative and inspirational designer.  Back in 1970 she founded Designers Guild which is now a global enterprise celebrating the use of bold design and color in fabric and wallpaper.

Per the cover of her latest book, Pattern: "Taking traditional motifs and giving them a modern twist; finding surprising contemporary used for forgotten techniques such as flock printing and stencilling; reinterpreting the ikats, crewelwork, quilting, and other techniques seen on travels everywhere from Italy to India; all these are vital to Tricia Guild's original designs." Pictures below from Designers Guild.

Pattern

I have been playing around with pattern and inspiration.   My photoshop skills are pretty basic so did these on Picasa.  Think I may want white lines between the images but that's for another day.  Time to get some work done.  

Interiors

A comment on one of my posts from Danielle send me to a wonderful blog called live like you which sent me to the site of a talented interior designer called Marjorie Skouras.   I could happily move into either of these two rooms -- they are such a celebration of living large and bold.  And for the artwork alone in the first image!

Beautiful Composition

Love the composition of the collages on A Thing For . . .

Pattern

Even though I am in the store seven days a week at the moment, there is still something about Monday and the new start that it represents.  So this week,  Monday will be a day of hoovering and dusting, bill paying and quickbooks, and a few sundry other things.   If I check off half of what's on my to do list . . . oh happy day!

Loved the patterns and colors in Morocco. Here are some beautiful wood inlay ceilings and tiled walls.

 

Friday's Fabulous Woman: Doris Eaton Travis

At the age of 105, Doris Eaton Travis is the last surviving Ziegfeld girl and reportedly still dances three times a week.   Per Uppercase Gallery: "By the time she received her honorary doctorate at age 101, Doris had starred in silent and talking pictures, performed for presidents and princesses, bantered with Babe Ruth, offended Henry Ford, outlived six siblings, wrote a newspaper column, hosted a television show, earned a phi beta kappa degree in history (at 88), raised turkeys, and raced horses." What an inspiration!