Vigilante Copy Editor

This scrap metal sculpture is in the Pratt Institute Sculpture garden in Brooklyn, it is 2 blocks from where I lived on Lafayette Ave. I walked through this garden often to go to the store or bank, etc.

This piece I particularly like. I like the use of industrial scraps, the off cut shapes welded together into a flat 3D cube. The light played on it. It showed the variations of color and shape, you could see the gaps between the shapes on the grass on strong sunny days. So always visually interesting. I like the economy of it and the recycling of materials.

I am thinking of this sculpture because of an article in the New York Times "Vigilante Copy Editor"
has a short video about how someone has gone around to each sculpture and edited the titles and description. I laughed but so much enjoyed seeing all the sculptures again. Have a look:     http://nyti.ms/13dNT4o
                                            

White With Gold Touches

Recently looking at some ornate gold frames, I was thinking about how this color associated with wealth is a great accent. It can go over he top, but when used in touches to outline it looks fabulous, elegant. These examples found on Pinterest just set off the schemes. Above gold is used to outline and define the architectural features.

The contrast of the elaborately carved console and simple frames, satisfying.

Gold framed mirrors are a favorite and always look great, but here again, the contrast of the straight lines of the chair frame and the carved mirror and molding in the ceiling.

And this gold kitchen cabinets, looks gorgeous.... Also notice how all are used with an abundance of white, the color to make the gold stand out but restrained. Add a touch of gold to your white space.

Orb Wins

A large whiskey for all

New American Whiskey Bar : NEW YORK CITY

           
KENTUCKY DERBY WEEKEND 
 NEW YORK CITY STYLE!
    
                                                          MAYSVILLE 

          Nouveau Southern cooking  and the best mint juleps in Manhattan, I do declare, Maysville has something for everyone.

THE BEST SELECTION of WHISKEY in NYC

BACKLIT WALL of WHISKEYS

 

BOURBON and RYE

HUGE HORSE DRAWINGS OVER the DINING ROOM

                                  

Tastings of RYE: Willett: OUTSTANDING

MORE RYE

BEST BULLEIT MANHATTAN EVER!

                                                   

CRISPY GRITS with COUNTRY HAM and BOURBON AIOLI

            

CRAB TOAST and GINGER AIOLI and RADISH

 

PERFECT SIZE CORN MUFFINS

POACHED EGG GRITS, DUCK CONFIT, MUSHROOMS and SMOKEY BROTH

THE SPECIAL AGNOLLOTTI 

These guys get it. Sean Joseph knows his brown stuff better than Don Draper, he also has the  Brooklyn whiskey bar, CHAR #4. 
  Chef Kyle Knall has plenty of Southern DNA,
 Alabama DNA so that makes the food all the more authentic. Previously he was with the famed Grammercy Tavern.
Manhattan needed a refined whiskey bar, and the Flatiron is a perfect location. I am returning ASAP.
    Go for the Kentucky Derby Day BBQ.
       
             My picks for the Derby: 
              VERRAZANO across the board
                MYLUTE with ROSIE up for the 
                 longshot   
                  Hope we get Lucky

Dressing Room Lighting

How often do you go into a dressing room and try on a gorgeous dress to find it looks horrible.  How often do you avoid it, just bring the garment home and try it on in your own space knowing the lighting is better.

This past week while working on the space and light for a dressing room, there are a few tips that are essential for good light in the room where you hang and store your clothes and dress yourself.

Remember it is a private space, usually just for you and/or your partner, but it is the space where you need good lighting that is flattering, but also light enough to see the difference between your brown, navy and black socks or tights.

This is where white and diffused light really are best, white so you can see color clearly and diffused, the flattering light, so there are no hard shadows. The examples above have white shades around the pendants. Easy to find your black socks and renders color well

Designing dressing rooms are essential for retail spaces as well, it is in the dressing room where we decide to purchase and a good tip from the high end retail dressing rooms is to place long strips of LED or T5 triphosphor fluorescent behind your mirrors so the light reflects off the walls.

If your your dressing room is more the size of a closet and not one that you walk into, putting a small white glass pendant in the area where you do dress, you will see the colors in better light.

Examples of good lighting for dressing rooms and closets and all from  John Lewis, under £100. They will give a good quality for any room.