European Eclectic

I had planned to work on this post from the plane yesterday but the wifi had other ideas.  That's what I get for flying Delta instead of Virgin America.  But I digress.  I was catching up on my magazine reading when I noticed how much I loved Harper's Bazaar UK editor Kim Hersov's London home in the October issue of Elle Decor.  (You can read the entire story here.) It was designed with Hubert Zandberg and has that eclectic mix of periods and styles that Europeans do so well.  It also features pieces by Christian Astuguevielle who I posted about on Monday.  See, there is a method to my madness. 

Photos by Simon Upton for Elle Decor

Wrap It Up: Part Deux

Besides a place in Paris, Christian Astuguevieille also maintains another workshop and home in Bayonne, France. You can read more about it and him here. 

Photographs by Jean-François Jaussaud

Wrap It Up

I was excited to come across the name of a designer who was new to me yesterday.  Christian Astuguevieille has been the head of a fashion house, a perfumer, a sculptor, a painter, a craftsman, and a designer of jewelry and furniture. He works in a nineteenth century space in Paris that is “a world of dreams” that sprouts “from his hands and imagination of the artist.” He’s probably best know for his pieces wrapped in hemp rope that are both chic and surreal. Unfortunately, the photos of his cabinet of curiosities can't be enlarged but I think they'll still make you want to grab a length of rope and wrap something up. 

Photos found here.