Sponsor Spotlight

By www.lightaslife.com On August 31st, 2010
I’d like to welcome two of my fabulous new sponsors, Lamshop, whose Ming table is seen above, and The Katch Design Company.  It’s not too late to advertise in September or plan for October.  Contact me for rates today!

Templeton

By www.lightaslife.com On August 31st, 2010
You never know where inspiration for a story will strike.  I was reading Page 6 yesterday and they mentioned that Cornelia Guest (above) is putting her ancestral home, Templeton, on the market again.  In case you don’t know, Cornelia’s mother was the chic style icon C.Z. Guest.  Templeton in Old Westbury on Long Island was actually the guesthouse on the estate of White Eagle, designed by Carrere and Hastings, which was owned by Cornelia’s great-grandfather Henry Phipps and inherited by Frederick Guest, her grandfather.  He felt the house was too big and grand for his family to smaller quarters on the property.  Of course, Templeton was added onto and now the 28 room home on 15 acres includes 11 bedrooms, a pool, tennis courts, barn, formal gardens, and a greenhouse. I’ve included photos of how it looked while C.Z. was still alive that were published after her death in 2003 and more recent photos. 
C.Z. Guest in her garden in Mainbocher opera coat. I was actually privileged to meet C.Z. at a big beauty event at Bergdorf Goodman shortly after I moved to New York in 2001.  She was there to promote her garden line of products of course I bought one of her candles.  It came in a beautiful flower pot and included seeds you could plant after the candle had burned down.  She was just as chic as you could imagine, even into her 80′s!

A look at the the downstairs library which features club chairs and a wall banquette upholstered in French printed cotton. The walls and bookcases are also covered with the fabric.
The downstairs library from House & Garden, June 2004.
The desk in the ground floor library.
A John Singer Sargent portrait of a baby Winston Guest with his grandmother, Anne Phipps, sits above a small sofa.  It is a study for the final portrait which hangs at Old Westbury Gardens.
A look at the same room from House & Garden, June 2004.
The hallway with its famous leopard carpet.
As the caption from House & Garden, states, the leopard carpet conceals muddy paw prints from all the dogs. 
The dining table holds stacks of Winston Guest’s old equestrian books piled up by Cornelia. “I just have so many books. My father used to say, ‘No more books!’”

The dining table set for House & Garden, June 2004.
A wider look at the dining room.
The blue and white room overlooks the garden.
A wider view of the blue and white room with it’s tiger carpet and portrait of C.Z. by Salvadore Dali above the mantel.
The dramatic painting in the salon was purchased by Winston Guest in Paris.
The sunroom that looks like it had it’s original lattice removed.
The sunroom from House & Garden, June 2004.
The entry foyer holds very large elephant tusks, a trophy from Winston Guest’s big game hunting. The ocelot hide chairs were featured in Bruce Weber’s book A House Is Not a Home.
Portrait of 6 year old Cornelia on Ivanhoe with her Jack Russell terriers, by esteemed equine artist Richard Stone Reeves.

A bedroom at Templeton.
A collage of rooms at Templeton including Cornelia’s bedroom with her portrait by Andy Warhol, center. The bottom row are photos of White Eagle.

The gardens at Templeton include topiaries which Cornelia stands in front of, below. It can all be yours for $20,000,000 too! 
Photos from Alexandra Rowley, Peak of Chic and Luxist.

RUSTICO AMERICANO TRADICIONAL

By www.lightaslife.com On August 31st, 2010

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El estilo rustico americano tradicional esta imbuido de las tradiciones y mistica de los antiguos colonos, establecidos en poblaciones lejanas, pero que guardan relacion con un tipo de diseño, que como define el arquitecto norteamericano Downing, esta lleno de libertad.

Asi es que tienen espacios amplios, compartimentados en un mismo ambiente, plurifuncionales, y son extremadamente abiertas al exterior.

Por supuesto tiene una base de diseño ingles pero mucho mas abierto, techos mas altos y mucho mas extrovertidas, ademas de mas espaciosas, y alejadas de la caracteristica conservadora de la economia de espacios  inglesa.

El estilo rustico americano tradicional esta referido a la arquitectura de la Costa Este, Virginia, Pensilvania y menos a Nueva Inglaterra o los Adirondacks.

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EL RUSTICO DE ZAMBIA

By www.lightaslife.com On August 31st, 2010

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Si hay un rustico organico y natural, ese es el estilo que se desarrolla con mucha fuerza en Zambia.

La utilizacion de raices de arbol, con formas caprichosas, rebuscadas y ondulantes, como los muros con la mismas formas en argamasas de tierras y fibras naturales son lo mas caracteristico.

Todo en este rustico tiene formas ondulantes, bolseadas y antisimetricas. La organicidad es la base de todos los diseños. Hasta las cubiertas tienen formas caprichosas.

Nada mas cerca de la naturaleza que este rustico.

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Dormitorios temáticos – Paris

By www.lightaslife.com On August 31st, 2010

Si alguna vez visitó París, siempre sentirá amor por esta ciudad y su vista tan hermosa y famosa, la Torre Eiffel, que le permite observar todo París. Si usted desea tener un pequeño pedazo de esta maravillosa ciudad en su apartamento, a continuación se pueden encontrar varias ideas interesantes para recrear la ciudad de París dentro de su dormitorio.

Modernos purificadores de aire de metal color blanco o negro

By www.lightaslife.com On August 31st, 2010

Lindos purificadores de aire de metal por Swizz Style hechos en Suiza de color  de color negro o blanco. Elimina los ácaros y la contaminación del aire. Cuenta con un filtro que recoge el polvo, polen,  los contaminantes, la caspa y los malos olores. También cuenta con una luz UV que mata las bacterias, esporas de moho y virus.

Fuente: Swizz Style