Home is where the harp is...

 ... or the harp case.

I love them... they're so bizarre and unusual. 

Almost macabre; like a coffin for an inanimate object.

 

 From Installations Antique on 1stDibs...

 

From Jayson Home & Garden on 1stDibs...

 

This might be my favorite...

I love the bright orange stripes and the dates with different cities where the harp was transported

From Boo Radley's on 1stDibs...

Now on to what I would want to find inside these cases...

 Maybe a 19th century American gilt-wood harp?

 

From Berkshire Home & Antiques on 1stDibs...

or maybe an antique harp covered in tar?

 

by artist Mattia Biagi from Twentieth Art & Design on 1stDibs...

 or a bar for cocktails?

 I'm so stealing this idea one day... except I'm either mirroring the entire interior, or painting it ox blood red.

From Off the Wall Antiques on 1stDibs

My faith is revived.

Ok, so after being slightly disenchanted with the One Kings Lane Tastemaker Tag Sales, my faith is revived by the items Grant K. Gibson and Gabriella Sarlo have offered for sale. If these are the pieces that their clients aren't using, I want to see what is actually getting placed in these homes...

 

I love the way these plaster intaglios are framed asymmetrically... 

definitely plan on using this idea in the future...

 

 how can these Louis XVI style chairs with grass green upholstery not make you smile?

 

... and I've always had a thing for plaster casts of feet.

 

also, loving anything lacquered, 

I don't know that a finish could get more glamorous... 

 

I'm 99% sure this is my favorite piece of the sale... 

I especially love the deterioration to the mirror

 

If I had my way, I would have a room that was just filled with useless architectural fragments... maybe even one wall just dedicated to cast iron acanthus leaves. 

all of these items are available here.

Something else I need...

 

My new favorite poster at Julia Santen Gallery, c. 1930

Available here

Blackman Cruz

One of my favorite things to do is to browse through the One Kings Lane Tastemaker Tag Sales. Periodically I'll find one or two things I really like, but today I've found a few things I don't think I can live without, and I've been introduced to a new retailer I'm obsessed with: Blackman Cruz. Get ready to be amazed... and really prepare yourself for the third image... I still haven't recovered.

 

19th Century French Copper Madonna Head

 

Hand Carved & Gilt Thorn Mirror

 

1930s French Bronze Zeus Emblem 

Visit their One Kings Lane sale here, and Blackman Cruz online here

Something I Need

 

I want this photograph by Ivan Terestchenko so badly.

Fornasetti, an Obsession

 

 I've been lusting after this book for months now... when I finally purchase it I know I'm going to have to block out a solid week to stay in my apartment and read every page... also, the fact that it is covered in faux malachite doesn't hurt either.

 

I've been meaning to amass an umbrella collection so I have a legitimate excuse to purchase this "Ruins" umbrella stand...

 

...and I'm definitely going to need my entrance hall or bathroom covered in this Cole & Son faux malachite Fornasetti wallpaper.

 

Amazing... and if it couldn't get better...

 

...when I saw the "Panoplies" secretary I realized I'm missing part of my soul... I have to be united with this piece of furniture.

 

I absolutely love these panels...

 

...and a desk covered in guns and keys? So incredible.

 

 

As much as I love the "Ruins" umbrella stand... I'm starting to think I'd give my left hand for this one.

 

 My own meager collection... expansion in progress. 

Things I Need NOW

 I love this antique harp case from Jayson Home & Garden an amazing online home store with the greatest new and vintage furniture...

 and this awesome little black bird from 1st Dibs...

 and I can't really imagine a more amazing mirror than this Fornasetti faux malachite and Greek key mirror...

if I can't have a live peacock, then I could definitely learn to be happy with this taxidermied one instead...

 and I could always make room for a gilt serpent... especially when there are two in twined around a convex mirror...

 

and I still haven't recovered from Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz's antique wallpapers... she had a similar grisaille panel in her WAS booth as this French 19th century panel made by J. Dufour that I found on this amazing blog.