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Happy Tuesday Friends!

Hope you have a cheery one :)

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Modernism Week - shops and stuff!

There is such an amazing selection of vintage shops in Palm Springs. You can pick from thrift stores (every other block has one it seems) and vintage/designer shops. These photos start out from the day we walked the design district street and wandered in and out of shops... Some vintage, some not.



Charming Hilary and some outdoor furniture




The beautiful Kristie at Trina Turk's Residential store

  

Vintage shop window





Pretties inside said vintage shop




Another vintage furniture store. Stacks of classics - love the Danish mid century modern teak stuff




A booth in the modernism show called Urban Burp - could have stayed there for hours!




Vintage cowboy fabric...




Kristie looking through the stacks of amazing fabrics




Sarah and I took home a yard of this ship fabric. I'm in love with my 1/2 yard, not sure what it will become yet though!




Best L.B.D EVER! check out that lace! I know it's blurry, but the bottom hem shows it pretty good... just scrumptious




Old posters sporting the most beautiful colours...





More old Classic pieces



This place is amazing. I am going to find it really difficult not to go again next year, but this time do more of the home tours and seminars that our silly school was too lazy to sign up for until it was too late. I HIIIIIGHLY recommend it; both the Modernism Show that runs every February, and Palm Springs itself.

(plus, my aunt has a spectacular place there, good to sleep 6! Anyone else in?!)

Fresh is Best



This was my favorite thing I saw when first arriving in Palm Springs. Crispy fresh blue sky.



just another butterfly-style house taken drive-by-shooting style. Still lookin' fresh 50-some-odd years later.



The boys cooked one night. We had HUGE steaks and asparagus and potatoes. All Delicious. Mind you, that's Sarah, not a boy,  in the fluorescent jacket (thrift store find!), but she never really left the kitchen : P

We peeked into a lot of houses this way... At least these guys had the decency to have built-in step stools for us!



FRESH Grapefruit. Best thing in the world right there. Yes, we jumped at every tree we could and stuffed them in our purses.



The Kaufman house, designed by Richard Neutra in the 1940s. It is phenomenal. (and FRESH!)  If only we could have gone in...

Best ever fresh salsa! Hilary aces it!

More fresh lookin' architecture... haha like my theme yet?

The freshest Grapefruits ever .... an inside view... glorious!

More beautiful old and fresh architecture. Hurrah!

Ace Hotel Lunch

It's about time I shared some goodness from my little trip to Palm Springs! (it was already a month ago!)

I'll start with one of my favorite places we went, the Ace Hotel.

We went for lunch after a morning spent walking the street in the Palm Springs Design District, which was breathtakingly lovely, as you can imagine. But stepping into this hotel's restaurant actually made my heart beat a little faster...

and now I'm dying to go stay at The Ace Hotel in Portland!



The little foyer; loved the Navajo-esque rugs and yummy leather chairs... not to mention: Macrame!



Yes, lots and lots of Macrame! I love that Palm Springs doesn't for a second deny it's 1960s celebrity status!

The Lovely Hilary, with her favorite style of print :)

Simple lovely table linens = yum

Buttery leather soft seating, globe lights, natural stone ... all laid back but super sleek at the same time

I fell in love with that tile... it had a pearlescent glow to it and was just pretty in such a simple way.

See the Macrame elephant sculpture on the wall? Now there's a reason to learn macrame!

Big beautiful windows with - get this - SUN streaming in! Not so great for photos like this, but I would never complain!

Cute little menu. Can you see why I took a picture of this page? ;)

I can't explain enough how inspiring it was to be around good, timeless design. Everywhere you looked  there was something to look at and inspire. It just made me so happy.

Anyways, thats where a handful of us ate one day ... I'll try to share more this week as I'm doin' little to nothin' on Spring Break!

PS: 

Here is a facebook album if you want to see lots of photos!

and another one .....

Palm Springs

Modernism week in Palm Springs was amazing and beautiful and inspiring and oh-so-fun!

I want to share it bit by bit, but I don't really know where to start and I am really busy back at school now ...

So for now, a photo of us girls. Add 3 guys to it and you have our whole group. Loved it.

Have you heard about Vivian Maier?

I can't believe I haven't blogged about this yet!

I feel like a nerd saying somethin' like that... but it's true (so is my nerdinness)!

Vivian Maier (thanks mom for showing me this in the first place, by the way!) was a street photographer/nanny in Chicago who lived from 1926-2009. Her work was discovered way later (in 2009) after the photos had been taken, stored, some un-developed, and some still on the roll. Nobody had seen them.

Her images are amazing.

Here are some of my favorites:

There is a book and a film coming out some time soon, but for now you can keep seeing new images of the collection regularly on this blog: vivianmaier.blogspot.com

And watch a little preview of the film here: "Finding Vivian Maier" 

Lonny Magazine
It's more than anyone bargained for.
It's super inspiring every time I look at it.
It's ecologically sound, as prints are only made to order (for $34.95 a pop) and are on FSC paper.
It's free online.

Go see the holiday issue - so good!
And also the website has extra goodies!

Yay!

Beautiful Things

Tomorrow....

 I am going to a talk by Demetrios Eames. He is the grandson of none other than Charles and Ray Eames. So yes, a tad bit excited I am.

And for those of you who haven't heard of the husband and wife design duo, maybe these mid-century modern iconic beauties will spark your memory...

Uh, yes.

I predict we will get to hear a bit about the Eame's design process and philosphy, indoor spaces, design and .... design!

I will take notes.

Oh and, yes I have been really busy and not blogging. I assure you, the busy-ness has been far less glamorous than what I have on tomorrow. Tomorrow will look like the following:
6am - wake up
6:45 - get to the gym at school, work out...
7:45 - shower and get ready
8:15 - have a pancake breakfast in the construction shop for United Way (mmmmm...)
8:30 - 3D rendering class
12:00 - head to BCIT's downtown campus for Eames seminar (did I mention it is just my class he is speaking to?!)
3:30 - head to HOK's Vancouver Office on Homer St. for another interesting talk
4:30 - go home and finish a biiiiig AutoCAD assignment for Friday morning!