Laudomia Pucci at Home

 

One of the things I enjoy the most is when I go through my files looking for inspiration and I find something I had forgotten about, impressing me again and making me sigh. Last night, while searching for rooms with geometric rugs, I came across Laudomia Pucci's estate located in the hills of Florence and I felt like looking at a home that has been published just recently, even when these images were published in W magazine in 2005. The estate dates back from the Renaissance and the "modern, kicked-back glamour" is my favorite feature of this house because it makes the Renaissance architecture warm and comfortable, two of my all time favorites as well. The earthy tones and red throughout the estate also adds to the overall elegant comfort atmosphere.

In the living room, the rug is a vintage Pucci.

A typical Renaissance facade. During the 14th century Laudomia's ancestors were political councillors of the Medicis.

Jennifer Lopez's California home

I'm looking forward to reading the Jan/Feb issue of VERANDA where Jennifer Lopez's California home is featured. The subtle glamour of the interior was designed by Michelle Workman. “Jennifer wanted to go modern and streamlined but retain the sophistication and stylishness. It’s tastefully glamorous, like Jennifer herself” he says.
I personally love the serene colors used throughout the house.

Cozying up inside

By now it's not news how the snow storm has hit the Northeast. Kids are the only ones who are having fun around here. The grown ups of this house are keeping themselves warm inside cozying up in front of the fire and enjoying a good hot coco.

My Home for Christmas

 

Christmas is almost here and I can't think of a more appropriate time to thank all of you who support and visit Belle Vivir, even when you stop by quietly without letting me know who you are. Without you dear readers I wouldn't be here so, for that thank you. I wish you the best Christmas and I hope that wherever you are, you feel the peace and love of this special time of year. Please find below a few images of our home. This year we kept things simpler than usual. We did not put a Christmas tree, instead I created small vignettes around the house.

I decided to decorate this sculpture by putting poinsettia between the wings but, as Murphy's law would dictate, just when I was going to take a close up of my wingy sculpture one of the flowers decided to fall down.

Inside our Art Deco bar. You can see my lovely nephew's head through the mirror.

All images for/by Bellevivir.

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Love color

 

A perfect way of living a life, surrounded by beautiful shoes displays, open fire and beautiful shades of pastel colors. It sounds like Marie Antoinette.

images credit: Top via Claudia Trucco, 2 via Belgian Pearl, last via Beautiful Things to Share.

almost ready

Telling the truth I don't like christmas time. All this preparations, buying tons of food, sitting 3 days at the table and eating, eating, eating... Happily my family is "a little different" and we didn't have to spend christmas time like this. We don't have the tree, all this traditional polish meals, just time to rest and watch stupid movies ;-) But this year, we have to do something more traditional, so I and Seba "prepared" christmas tree (!) and my sister baked ginger-breads... as for the rest – we'll see what's happened :-))))

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Nie lubię świąt. Taka prawda. Całego tego zamieszania, przygotowań, nerwowych ruchów w sklepach, gotowania, pucowania a później jedzenia, jedzenia, jedzenia. Całe szczęście, że w naszej rodzinie wygląda to inaczej. Jednak w tym roku ulegliśmy i będziemy bardziej tradycyjni. Ja z Sebą przygotowaliśmy "choinkę" – horyzontalną, ze względu na koty i łatwość sprzątania a moja siostra Ewa upiekła pierniczki ;-) co do reszty – zobaczymy co się wydarzy, ale najważniejsze, że cała rodzina będzie razem a że wszyscy się bardzo lubimy, nikt się zbytnio nie napina i wszystkim dopisują humory – będzie dobrze, czego i Wam życzę.

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link for today: great, great com-pa-ny, wow!

Geometry

I am a big fan of scenic wallpaper but when it comes to choosing a favorite between geometric or scenic wallpaper, I can't. While a scenic wallpaper evokes the elegance and aristocracy that no other wallpaper offers, geometric wallpaper can give more freedom when it comes to decorating because, in my opinion, they work more as a uniform background. I love all of these images below and how young and versatile they look

Does anyone know who makes this wallpaper? I've seen it used a couple of times but none of the images credit the source. It's not Kelly Wearstler's trellis, in case you think otherwise. This is more rounded, while Kelly's trellis are bigger and it changes vertically from round to rectangular shape.

La promenade by Twigs Fabrics and Wallpaper

Quadrille's Ziggurat reverse.

Zebra-printed paper by Rose Cummings.

Trellis Background used by Tom Scheerer available at Quadrille.

I'm loving these geometric wallpapers below.

Betty Jackson wallpaper.

Vivienne Westwood.

Neisha Crosland Zebra wallpaper.

Enjoy your weekend

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Paul Rand.

via Desire to Inspire

via I don't think Prada is the answer.

Via Dress Design Decor.

soon (I hope :-)

I hope everything will be ready at the beginning of 2011 :-)

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for today: jane gets ready for christmas, (do you remember – jane's beautiful house),

and you? have a sweet weekend!

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Candy u Oli –wchodźcie i zostawiajcie wpisy!!!

i po hey'u

Dziś bez obrazka, w zasadzie bez słów też można by, bo słów szkoda... Pierwszy raz, pierwszy raz w życiu wyszłam z koncertu, no dobra dałam szansę do 7 utworu wytrwałam (po koszmarnym supporcie!!!!) ale więcej nie. Zespół Hey, który lubię, nawet bardzo (no dobrze 2 – 3 ostatnie płyty) nie wytrzymał próby czasu ;-( Choć nie wiem czemu się czepiam, przecież zanim kupiłam bilety trzeba było przeczytać że to "reemisja" – zła reemisja. A żart Kasi, że syn wolał zostać w domu niż być z nimi dziś w Stodole ma jakiś taki wisielczy wydźwięk. Powiem tak, fryzura super, bransolety super, nawet młodzież pijąca ekskluzywne czerwone wino z gwinta (co za czasy)  super – ale "stary" Hey nie super. A może ktoś był i uważa, że się zestarzałam, że nie czuję klimatu, że wygniatam orła :-) dajcie znać

Santas Breaking News

We interrupt this transmission to inform you that Rudolph has been temporary suspended due to clear weather. Now you can expect Santa riding on one of these gracious and elegant creatures.

via Classiq


via La Maison Fou

A pair of Belgian horses making a delivery to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. via here.

Country Living

Orange you glad it's almost Christmas?

A friend of mine recently told me she hasn't seen a Christmas decoration in orange. I immediately reminded her of this image I posted last Christmas by the glamorous Mary Mcdonald. Once I got home, I started browsing through my old issues of Veranda magazine when I came across these images that were published December 2005. This stunning 16th-c home located in France's Loire Valley region belongs to San Francisco designer Stephen Shubel. The house is filled with antiques, vintage and new furniture pieces and decorated with crystal, silver candelabrum, mercury glass accessories from Mis En Demeure in Paris and old decorative papers wrap gifts. There are more images of this home in Stephen Shubel's website.

"A living nativity scene is created by costume townsfolk in the ancient town square outside the home's front door. Sights and sounds of the season, complete with the caroling of bells from a church on the square, transform this otherwise quiet place" How magical should this be. Sometimes we forget the real meaning of Christmas and just reading this makes my heart fill up with awe. You see, this is why I keep telling my hubby we should collect a handful of friends and get a chateau in France. Hubby response: riiight.

Photos scanned by/for Bellevivir by Thibault Jeanson via Veranda.