By clarablogs 1/26/2014 art design furniture interior design The silence of the lamps Pardon the bad pun but if you keep reading it'll make sense. Four years ago, I wrote a blog post about an Italian furniture studio I...
By clarablogs 12/04/2013 art cabinetry design furniture interior design Old techniques, new furniture My friend Patrick Shilling is a master woodworker in Bethnal Green, London. Over the years he's carved out a niche for himself as a cre...
By clarablogs 10/01/2013 amusements art smart stuff My life on Instagram In the last year and a half I've posted 642 photographs on Instagram and in the process, learned that I'm not a bad photographer. I...
By clarablogs 9/23/2013 art design interior design kitchen design kitchen faucet kitchen sink smart stuff Lights! Camera! Blanco! Recently, I had the good fortune to visit my friends and colleagues at Blanco on the set of a photo and video shoot. The folks from Blanco...
By clarablogs 6/14/2012 architecture art smart stuff Architecture Thursday: Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall Two weeks ago, I was treated to a tour of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California . There are few things I appreciate a...
By clarablogs 3/11/2012 art furniture interior design Anthroplogie continues to offend I walked past an Anthropologie store in New Orleans this week and was mortified to see their store windows decked out in some bad reproducti...
By clarablogs 12/14/2011 art design Scandinavian Made, a webshop I think I'm in love with this bowl. Ceramicist Simon Koefoed made only one and it's available through a new webshop called Scandinav...
By clarablogs 12/12/2011 art travel Christmas in New York On the upper east side of Midtown Manhattan, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 50th Street, sits one of the world's most iconic dep...