OBSESSED / skinny LED string lights

by | Dec 16, 2013 | MAISON, OBSESSED

I recently had the honor of being a guest at a beautiful X-mas / B-day cocktail party where I discovered these super skinny light garlands by Restoration Hardware.  The little LED lights are so tiny — as well as the string that binds them together —...
MÖDERN cliff house

MÖDERN cliff house

by | Dec 13, 2013 | MAISON

This pure box is precariously perched off a bedrock cliff along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.  Designed by architects Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, this cliff house heightens one’s experience of the landscape through a sense of vertigo and of...
DREAMING OF: manhattan ‘sky’ loft

DREAMING OF: manhattan ‘sky’ loft

by | Nov 23, 2013 | DESIGN, MAISON, NYC

Designed by award-winning Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design, this 2,000+ apartment located in Manhattan’s financial district is like a white wonderland on acid.  Surrealism mixes with clean modern design culminating in a fantastical space perched high up in...
MÖDERN lake house

MÖDERN lake house

by | Nov 4, 2013 | DESIGN, MAISON

This lake house was built using local materials with a simple A-frame construction that is anything but typical.  Toronto-based architects UUfie have drawn from elements in nature – fish scale shingles, window panes that look like trees, and an exterior...
MYKONOS / luxury wedding villa

MYKONOS / luxury wedding villa

by | Oct 30, 2013 | GREECE, MAISON, SUN, WEDDING

Aptly named the ‘Aegean Mansion’, this is the villa of all villas.  The owners painstakingly built this chateau over five years, collecting ancient artifacts and ruins from Delos and having their own private church hand-painted in gold.  The...