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25 most beautiful scented candles

October 17, 2013 by The CoF

Autumn is here, rain all day long , morning frosts , low gray sky , late sunrises and early sunsets.If you are still trying to fight the fall mood you could use the help of scented candles. Mankind has long ago mastered this trick: the tiny flames warm the soul, incense pacify the mind . You can pick up scents for summer memories of southern France like lavender, rose and amber remind about the Middle East resorts and patchouli , ylang-ylang and […]

Categories: Design • Tags: Bottega Veneta, Bulgari, Candle, Fragrance, home, Home and Garden, Prada, Shopping

Diana Vreeland’s Apartment : The Garden From Hell

March 12, 2013 by The CoF

” There are several things about the apartment that accord well enough with anybody’s expectations. Of course the “garden in hell” turns out to be neither remotely hellish nor particularly horticultural. But quite aside from the flamboyant scarlet-flowered cotton of the walls and curtains of the living room, there is undeniably an abundance of the color red: red carpets, red-lacquered doors, closet linings, and picture frames. True to form, when Vreeland consented to have her rooms photographed for the present article, […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Alexander Liberman, Architectural Digest, Art, Christian Bérard, Diana Vreeland, Home and Garden, New York

Yves Saint Laurent’s Timeless Left Bank Apartment

March 12, 2013 by The CoF

“Saint Laurent’s Paris apartment on the Left Bank was originally designed by Bérard’s friend and sometime collaborator—the icon of Art Déco design—Jean-Michel Frank. Frank and Bérard’s interiors were madly dapper and stylish yet at the same time modern classics. The pair were celebrated not only in France but also in America, where they designed one of New York’s greatest Déco interiors: the Nelson Rockefeller apartment on Fifth Avenue. Yves Saint Laurent’s apartment was also originally designed for an American, which […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Art, Art Deco, Home and Garden, left bank, Paris, Yves Saint Laurent

Reed Krakoff : New York Townhouse

March 12, 2013 by The CoF

Let’s go inside interior designer Delphine Krakoff’s sophisticated New York townhouse that she shares with her designer husband, Reed Krakoff, and their children. Reed Krakoff in the living room, in front of Alexander Calder’s 1971 wall mobileTwo Black Discs and Six Others. In the living room, Joris Laarman’s 2006 translucent chaise sits on a c. 1940 Cogolin rug designed by Henri Gonse. Robert Motherwell’s 1968Open No. 16 surveys the living room’s design-scape. The Claude Lalanne bronze crocodile chair sits next to […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Art, delphine krakoff, Fashion, Home and Garden, New York City, Reed Krakoff

Gabrielle Coco Chanel’s Apartment

March 10, 2013 by The CoF

source vogue.com.au

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Coco Chanel, Fashion, Home and Garden, Paris

Valentino Garavani’s Asian-Inspired Château

February 27, 2013 by The CoF

Château de Wideville celebrates the haute couturier’s passion for all things Chinese, from Qing-dynasty ancestor portraits to European chinoiserie. Joined by one of his pugs, couturier Valentino Garavani stands before a hand-painted fireplace on the ground floor of the former dovecote, orpigeonnier, at Château de Wideville; the 19th-century Italian mirror reflects a Qing-dynasty ancestor portrait and the staircase’s polychrome metal banister The pigeonnier at the French estate has been transformed into a Chinese-themed retreat. Sofas on the ground level are covered in custom-embroidered […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Fashion, Home and Garden, Jacques Sarazin, Qing Dynasty, style, Valentino Garavani

Alice Temperley And Her Country Estate In Somerset

February 27, 2013 by The CoF

Temperley, using her dining-room table as a makeshift studio, designs paper patterns for bespoke bridal dresses that she prefers to work on in the peace and quiet of the countryside. The designer contrasts the classic English style of her Cricket Court estate with bold-colored accents, such as the ornate fuchsia couch pillows in the house’s piano room. The working stand displays Temperley’s paper and textile patterns in the dining room. The figurative antique bronze lamp in the dining room was […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Alice Temperley, Fashion, Home and Garden, LONDON, Somerset House

Iris Apfel’s Exuberant Apartment

February 26, 2013 by The CoF

The style icon takes us inside her bold Manhattan home: In the library, a Dutch painting is displayed above a Louis XVI daybed covered in fabric Apfel reproduced from a 17th-century French document. In the entry, an 18th-century English gilt chinoiserie mirror and an Italian console. An Italian tole chandelier above a Maison Jansen table draped in a woven paisley throw. The first painting Apfel ever bought—a portrait of the Infanta Margarita she picked up 60 years ago at […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Art, Fashion, Home and Garden, Iris Apfel, New York City, style

Elie Saab At Home

February 23, 2013 by The CoF

“Symmetry is the ultimate goal,” architect Chakib Richani says of the apartment he conceived for fashion designer Elie Saab in Paris. Above: The living room. The low table and sofas Richani created were “inspired by the cube,” he says. Sahco sofa leather. An Empire-style chandelier and rows of candles illuminate the dining room. The custom stainless-steel Wing table “is a contemporary touch to a classical room,” says Richani, who designed it. Mirrored screens line a wall in the master bedroom. […]

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Chakib Richani, Elie Saab, Fashion, Home and Garden, Paris