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These quilts speak for themselves.  www.apc.fr

Now that the holidays are over and you're banishing the tasty decadence of the season, we recommend heading back into your own kitchen.  These dish towels will brighten up any rack or oven.  (Maybe it's time for a little gift to yourself).

Les Toiles du Soleil has been making this beautiful cloth for 150 years from the French Catalonian town of Saint Laurent de Cerdans. Although it has switched hands and families a few times over the last century, the latest incarnation brings us the most fantastic colors around. Think of a rough hewn Paul Smith stripe in durable thick cotton weave.

While we just moved into a lush new HQ on Howard Street, wall space is still at a premium.  As we sit and wait for the heated arguments about decoration to subside, we'll turn the walls into our planning ground.  World domination never looked easier than when the entire wall becomes the map.

IdeaPaint takes your plain white walls and transforms them into the dry-erase battleground for corporate tactical intrigue.  One Gallon covers 50 sq ft.

We're sold. Now where's the paint-on roof deck?

A breath of fresh air in the world of internet telephony.   Hulger brings us the Pappa Phone. This beauty is hand-crafted from walnut with brass details.  A steampunk dream that would spruce up any desk or laptop station.

As we celebrate the last few weeks of summer and reflect on the seductively oppressive heat, the humidity which inspires revealing fashions, and the glamour of a tom collins in a sweating highball, on rattan table top, on a porch lined with grand ferns; it is the  glorious ceiling fan twisting slowly overhead, the catches our attention.  

Perhaps even above the proper soundtrack, light is the key ingredient to a successful domain (work, play or otherwise). It's time to head back to the lab with these clever lights from Gothic Glow.  With steampunk all the rage, you'll be able to accessorize with a subtle nod to Artemus Gordon.

2 bulb lamp = $85
6 bulb lamp = $125
12 bulb lamp = $190

www.gothicglow.com

If you've been contemplating an overhaul to those dreary apartment walls, perhaps its paper instead of paint this time. In the T design magazine from the New York Times today, this number caught our eye. Wallpaper designed by artist Kiki Smith.

via NYTimes.com

Available from Studio Printworks

Riding that fine line between cool and kitsch, these New York Graffiti patterned china place settings would be a welcome jolt of the unexpected on the dinner table.  The design is by Lovegrove and Repucci and can be found at designpublic.com

$90 a place setting.

Dinner plate 10.5 inches diameter Soup Bowl
8 inches diameter Side Plate
7.5 inches diameter

http://www.designpublic.com

Thanks for the tip from: Stand D'arde ;)

Alas, we haven't had the opportunity to visit in person, but if the cake stand alone is any indication, it is not to be missed.

"The Wolseley was created by Chris Corbin and Jeremy King in 2003 in the style of the Grand Café normally only found on the Continent. The original building was commissioned in 1921 by Wolseley Cars as their West End showroom and was designed by William Curtis Green in the Art Deco style of the time. In keeping with the Grand Cafe tradtion and to match the opulence of the interior, a range of equipment inspired by the era was sourced, some antique and others bespoke."

The Wolseley has started a web store to sell selections of their exceedingly popular table and glassware. The Black & White Cake Stand with Cloche is £165.00.

thewolseley.com

This one just in from the those sage fellas at Cool Hunting.  A fantastic trove of modern furniture from Modhaus, a store in Boston.

Modhaus

Cool Hunting