На прошлой неделе подбирала кафель для проекта и зашла в один из магазинов на Жомий, в котором я всегда нахожу что-то интересное. Возле выхода, так, между прочим, лежит на табуретке еще не выставленная на витрину майолика. Красивые цвета, приятная текстура. Моя первая мысль – будет интересно как это будет выглядеть на “фартуке” на кухне.
Спрашиваю продавца откуда такая красота. Он меня удивляет ответом “Это наша, узбекская” и продолжает “но стоит она дорого …”. Дорогая майолика стоит 300 тысяч узбекских сум за квадрат (по базарному курсу это около $44). Для тех кто не в курсе цен на кафель, $45 и выше – это цены на испанский кафель Made in Spain. Спросите почему так дорого? Оборудование из Испании, было завезено очень дорого.
Размер плитки 45см x 30 см в магазине Venus Ceramic, который среди дизайнеров и кафельщиков больше известен как “У Альберта”.
Отличная новость для дизайнеров и не только – в Ташкенте открылся новый магазин портьерных и обивочных тканей британской фирмы iLiv. Я имела возможность на прошлой неделе пообщаться с представителем фирмы iLiv Ферузой в Ташкенте и воочию пощупать ткани.
Выбор тканей огромный и что особенно радует минималистов вроде меня есть большой выбор тканей для интерьеров в стиле минимализма и хай-тека. Эко-дизайнер во мне ликовал при виде тканей из натурального льна и хлопка.
Для родителей, которые думают об обустройстве детских комнат, iLiv предлагает отдельную коллекцию гипоаллергенных тканей.
“My theory is that this lack of “starting” is attributed to two stupid things: perfectionism and fear.”
Emily Henderson
As I was doing some research this morning I stumbled upon a blog of Emily Henderson (LA based interior stylist, for those of you who like myself haven’t heard of her until this morning) and got sooooo carried away watching her styling videos. You can check them out on your own here (there are some great decorating tips in them, just FYI ), however, this post is about a specific article Emily wrote not too long ago which resonates with two other books I am currently reading – “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert and “Show you work” by Austin Kleon.
“Show your work” by Austin Kleon. 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered.
How do you start a creative career, any creative career? From my own experience I know it is a change, a challenge and my answer is “Just start” and once you start you follow Nike’s slogan “Just do it”. For more elaborate discussion on the topic you can first read “Big Magic” and then “Show your work” but key points are:
A) you need to overcome your fear, and
B) you need to be breaking out of your comfort zone daily and showing what you do, even if your work is far from being perfect.
Elizabeth Gilbert in her “Big Magic” talks about how fear becomes a glass wall many people never manage to destroy to start doing what they have been wanting to do for years, sometimes their whole lives. She has an interesting way of talking about ideas as energy life-forms which come to a person waiting for the person to materialize them and if the person does not act on it, the idea picks itself up and goes to someone else who is more willing and ready to collaborate. I can totally relate to this because I have learnt for myself that if I have a recurring idea visiting me over and over, it just means that the idea is nagging to come to this material world through me. I have also seen how an idea that came to me and I never followed it through was implemented by someone else.
“Show your work” by Austin Kleon is about getting your work out there (still focusing on your work and not necessarily joining the glamorous world of La Boheme) and showing what you do using social media, taking your audience behind the scenes, sharing the process of creating, telling the stories behind the work because each step is influenced by something that we hear, read, see, try, fail, try again, fail again, try until you get it. Important point to remember is what needs to be shared is work or things related to work – not cats, dogs, lunches, babies, sunsets, selfies, but WORK!
Не могла пройти мимо этой статьи в индийском выпуске Architectural Digest, потому что вопрос того что делать со стенами всплывает на всех проектах частных домов и квартир, и очень часто мне приходится объяснять своим клиентам почему клеить обои на все стены – это перебор.
Вот мнение экспертов по этому поводу. Основная часть выделена желтым и на русский переводится приблизительно так:
“Люди часто перебарщивают с обоями и клеят их на все стены. Это просто размывает красоту обой, не говоря о том, что по цене они обходятся в целое состояние. Эксперты рекомендуют покрывать обоями только одну стену – возможно, акцентную – для того, чтобы подчеркнуть истинную их красоту”
Voila!
Architectural Digest India | Use of wallpaper
Main image is of “Graham & Brown Birch Heart & Tulip” Wallpaper designed by Marcel Wanders. The image of a courtesy of http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/
“Limits of whatever form, provide an ideal context for innovation. When faced with obstacles or adversity, our efforts to overcome them hone our creativity and help us find solutions to global problems”
Writing on a wall, Expo 2016, Italian pavilion
You know how we, the humans, are finally realizing a mass damage we are creating by our mass production and are going back to eating local and using local materials?
I have been pondering on these thoughts for some time and while visiting Bukhara and Samarkand I saw how a basic construction material such as brick could be used in so many versatile ways as both a building material and a decoration material. These images are a mix from 9th century architecture to newly renovated / built buildings. The key is – you have a basic brick and it is only human creativity and skills that turned it into something spectacular.
Samanid mausoleum
Winding brick staircase at Chorbakr
Glazed partition wall (details)
Glazed partition wall
Brick wall partition
Exterior wall of a new construction
This is how the shape of the old brick – square! Chorbakr necropolis.
Brick covering of a dome
Samanid mausoleum – change of pavement in progress
I saw this in the past, loved it but forgot to pin it. I re-discovered “the formula” today (courtesy of Melissa Boyer’s blog ) and am bookmarking it everywhere including my own blog. This is a formula for decorating a night stand, end table, anything which has a purpose of creatively displaying things.
Those in Uzbekistan – pay attention to a blue ikat bowl – made in Uzbekistan, cherished around the world!
A formula for decorating a night stand or an end table. Image courtesy of Melissa Boyer interiors.
I came across this photo and could not believe my eyes at first – Uzbek kazan, a quite modern one too, (a kin of Chinese wok) placed in one of the most visible spots in the living room as a decor item. And it looks like it really belongs there!
Image by www.amerisonic.com
I must say, this is something that will work only outside of Uzbekistan or even post-Soviet territories. Why? Because for people who had a brilliant idea of using a kazan as a decor accessories it is probably considered a cultural object fused with sweet memories of the Silk Road. For us it is the most utilitarian pot that belongs to one and only place – the kitchen!
A few days ago I came across a Thonet chair which I want to buy for a project. Today, as I was googling Thonet chairs to identify the one I found, as it always happens, I got distracted and found myself in the world of Fred Gonsowski’s guidance on interior decoration. This is something I want to bookmark for myself and feel that a lot of other people will find very useful.
This is a great resource for interior decoration – anything from arranging decorative accessories, pictures over a sofa, furniture layouts, pairing lampshades with side tables and much much more. There is also a gardening section which I still need to dive into.
Many thanks to Fred Gonsowki for making the resources available to us. Also, I love his hand drawn illustrations.
Дизайн: Hummingbird. Используемая ширина ткани 141 см, подходит для обивки и для штор, 
Не знаю как вы, но лично я вижу какие шикарные получатся портьеры из этой ткани. Состав ткани: полиэстер + лен
