Fashion designer Angela Missoni's garden of delights.  The chairs with the card table are shaped as suits.

The Fashion House, by Lisa Loveatt-Smith

Photograph by Horst Thanhauser

"Presenting another fine example of our work in Embossed Motifs on Leather backs of settees and booths in the Dining and Cocktail Rooms of this beautiful restaurant."

Gaetano Corallo

Sculptured Fabrics Company

The Architectural Digest - Spring 1962

Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's apartment is located in St. Petersburg.  As if we needed to add more romance to these photographs, Pushkin died at age 38 from a duel with a French military officer fought over his wife's honor.  The photos above show his study.

Russian Houses by Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto

Thank you to Cathy Whitlock for featuring B&B Encyclopedia and B&B Magazine in New York Design Center's ARRAY!  Click here to read.  Congratulations to all the glamorous bloggers on the cover, including our dear friend Jennifer Boles.

Some design inspiration from the 19th century Russian country house of writer Lev Tolstoy, where he wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Image from Russian Houses  by Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto

Photographer unknown

Russian Ilya Repin artist re-located to a parcel of land near the gulf of Finland and designed a home for himself perfectly suited for the prolific painter.

Russian Houses by Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto

Photographer unknown

*photograph by Massimo Listri

*photograph by Massimo Listri

*photograph by Elizabeth Whiting & Associates

All photographs from Moroccan Style by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren

Peter Dunham delights us once again...

*photographs by Coleen Rider

Holli Thomas of Balustrade & Bitters just happened to be wearing pink and green when we stopped by Hollywood at Home.  Seriously.

The swanky events just keep on coming in Los Angeles.  We have to hand it to those who have participated in the L.A. Antiques Show, L.A. Modernism and now Legends of La Cienega.  The following are some of the seriously spectacular windows :

*all photographs by Coleen Rider

The Fountainhead by Oliver Furth at Bausman & Co.

The Fountainhead by Oliver Furth at Bausman & Co.

Mad Men by Amy Wells at Paul Marra

A Passage to India by Peter Dunham at Hollyhock

A Passage to India by Peter Dunham at Hollyhock

Indochine by Cliff Fong at Downtown

Cleopatra by Katie Leede at Szalon

Grey Gardens by Kathleen Clements and Tommy Clements at Hollywood at Home

Auntie Mame by Woodson & Rummerfield at Baker

Dr. Zhivago by Dayna Lee at George Smith Handmade Furniture & Fabrics

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Richard Hallberg at Navona Antiques

A tribute to romantic & musical comedies of the 50's & 60's by Melissa Levander at Dragonette

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*photograph by Coleen Rider