Kelly Klein’s Palm Beach Home

Jul 302012
 

I’m just lov­ing the neu­tral palette of Kelly Klein’s Palm Beach home.  The wood against white has a sur­pris­ing calm­ing effect and adds  just the right amount of tex­ture to the over­all  min­i­mal­ist style.

Kelly was wife to Calvin Klein, but the two divorced in 2006.  She is a noted pho­tog­ra­pher and author (her sixth book, Pools: Reflec­tions, a sequel to the 1992 best­seller Pools, will be pub­lished by Riz­zoli next month). Work­ing with David Pis­cuskas of 1100 Archi­tect, Kelly built an inti­mate get­away that’s a per­fect fit for her bliss­ful new life.

“I wanted some­thing a lit­tle Neu­tra, a lit­tle Ando, a lit­tle Bauhaus–y.  I knew in my mind how I wanted to live here—in an indoor-outdoor house, enjoy­ing the breeze off the water, with the fam­ily always together,” Klein says. “I find that in big houses every­body is always in a dif­fer­ent room, no one can find each other. I was going to build a really com­pact house. I call the four bed­rooms my hotel rooms.”

Kelly Klein's Palm Beach Home

Kelly Klein's Palm Beach Home

 

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Design Portfolio — Rut Karadottir

Jul 232012
 

Rut Karadot­tir stud­ied inte­rior design at Isti­tuto Europeo di Design in Rome.  She worked at an archi­tec­ture stu­dio, Iezzi & Iezzi in Italy, for some time before start­ing her own design stu­dio in Ice­land in year 1997.  Rut´s designs are char­ac­terised by sim­ple and clear forms with a care­ful selec­tion of mate­ri­als & light­ing  to cre­ate a clas­sic, but warm atmosphere.

I love her work - a won­der­ful mix of Scan­di­na­vian and mod­ern with some rus­tic elements.

Rut Karadottir

Rut Karadottir

 

 

 

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Les Interieurs

Jul 162012
 

Les Interieurs projects have appeared in numer­ous highly regarded pub­li­ca­tions around the world such as Elle Decor UK, Marie Claire Mai­son Italy, Elle Decor Italy and Vogue Liv­ing Aus­tralia, to name but a few. There is some­thing unique about Pamela Makin and the spe­cial­ized style she brings to her work.

Pamela’s sig­na­ture style is defined by her quest to source one-off pieces from around the world to accent the clean lines of her inte­ri­ors. Tribal arti­facts, smooth con­crete floors and large strik­ing art­work are com­pli­mented by nat­ural tex­tures includ­ing beau­ti­ful aged tim­bers teamed with cot­tons & linens.

Stun­ning inte­ri­ors to match the breath­tak­ing views.

Les Interieurs

Les Interieurs

 

 

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New shades of Mustard

Jul 052012
 

New shades and tones have sown the seeds of a mus­tard revival, and rooms every­where are reap­ing the benefit.

Mus­tard has gone from dated to dash­ing. Yel­low can be a dif­fi­cult color to work with, but the browns in mus­tard make it a lit­tle eas­ier to approach. Need proof? Just look at the var­ied per­son­al­i­ties that mus­tard takes on below.

Muted. Deep gray keeps a mus­tard cov­er­let and pil­lows in check, pre­serv­ing this bedroom’s quiet air.

Sub­tle. Add a splash of colour to an all-white scheme.

Strong.To pull off a yel­low sofa, you need a room to stand up to the impact. These graphic schemes rises to the challenge.
Mod. Deep mus­tard yel­low, a clas­sic mid-century hue, per­fectly com­ple­ments the retro atti­tude of this liv­ing area and reflects the golden floor­ing color.

The per­fect foil for the graph­i­cal pat­tern in the curtains

Source: hgtv.com

Glam. Mustard-yellow adds a swanky top note

Source: Erin on Pin­ter­est

For­mal.Mus­tard shows its tra­di­tional side in this gra­cious liv­ing room
Cheery. This yel­low door sim­ply beams, draw­ing vis­i­tors right in.

Eclec­tic. It’s hard to imag­ine another wall color that would look as fit­ting as mus­tard does in this casual bed­room. It’s just off­beat enough to sup­port the whim­si­cal gallery wall.

Source: houzz.com

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Teremok Marine

Jun 302012
 

Along the trop­i­cal belt of KwaZulu-Natal, nes­tled amongst the palm and giant milk­wood trees lies Ter­emok Marine, a lux­u­ri­ous five-star bou­tique lodge. Ter­emok Marine Bou­tique Hotel and Spa is one of those rare places with a won­der­ful his­tory but is thor­oughly contemporary.

Built in the late 1950’s, Ter­emok was intended as the hol­i­day home of a Russ­ian trav­eller. Aptly named, as the word means ‘lit­tle hide­away’ – and a hide­away it cer­tainly is.  Sit­u­ated just a kilo­me­tre from the hus­tle and bus­tle of Umh­langa village’s shops, restau­rants and pop­u­lar beaches, Ter­emok is a haven of tran­quil­lity nes­tled among ancient milk­wood trees.

All eight suites are unique in design, lay­out and feel with small sub­tleties like indi­vid­ual scent and mood-music, cre­at­ing an enchant­ing atmos­phere. Each suite trans­lates some of the house’s her­itage through decor and art. The atten­tion to detail and com­mit­ment to mak­ing guests feel at home is evi­dent through­out — a feast for the senses indeed. We stayed in the Zodiac Suite and were totally enchanted, but it is cer­tainly worth drag­ging your­self away from your suite for the deli­cious break­fast served alfresco or for a truly indul­gent treat­ment in the Spa.

Ter­emok is the per­fect com­bi­na­tion of all the things that make for a fab­u­lous break.

 

via houseandleisure.co.za; http://www.teremok.co.za

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