Christmas Gifts

AND BEIGE
1781 Florida Ave. NW.
Washington, DC. 20009


I love little objects, I love photographing them, I love touching them and I love imagining them filling my shelves and tables. Luckily for me, there is a store in this city that has a wonderful collection of them, it's called AND BEIGE. This precious store on the outskirts of Adams Morgan also has an eclectic furniture collection as well as very special found objects and accessories for the home. Daren Miller- the boutique owner- tells me that all these are thoughtfully arranged to tell stories, and it's obvious when you walk through the store - each shelf, corner, anywhere you look there are captivating little arrangements which you can spend hours staring at - I certainly do :)

It's hard to photograph them all, or to even capture their texture and beauty - for that you must go there yourself. These are my favorites.

Warm December

I bought an over-sized linen seersucker vest by Karen Walker a couple seasons ago, I was very excited about its versatility but it has proven to be very hard to wear. It was a little too heavy to be worn in the Summer, and Fall kinna skipped us this year so now it's too cold to wear it - until recently- thanks to 50F temperatures in December. I wore a baby pink corset under the vest and layered a leather bomber jacket on top of it, which I wore to the 2 year anniversary party of one of my favorite furniture stores in the city - AND BEIGE (more pictures of the party later).







Vest- Karen Walker
Corset - Proenza Schouler
Jeans - 3GR
Boots - Alice and Olivia for Payless

Five Decades

If you have seen Richard Avedon's "In The American West" portraits, you will know that they are as good as Avedon's images get. I like Avedon for his unique and special ability to deconstruct emotions, circumstances and experiences and condense them into one face, into one single shot. That's why I love "In The American West", and also why I love the two images below from his current exhibit "Portraits of Power" at the Corcoran. I am not a huge fan of his political portraits or his celebrity photos, I find that they don't contain the depth and haunting quality of his other shots. Nevertheless, the exhibit showcased some fantastic extra large images of his and provided a chronological exposition of his work which interestingly underlined his trends and styles throughout the years.

Here are some of the pictures I took at the exhibit:


Banner in the cafe courtyard


His books in the exhibit media room

My two favorite images from the exhibit - Avedon at his best - condensing 10000 life long emotions into one shot

William Casby, Born a slave 1963.


Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, 1958.

Of course no trip to the Corcoran would be complete without visiting their cafe

Delicious brunch waffle.

Pixel Prints

It's been well established on this blog how much I love Phillip Lim - So it should be of no surprise that I'm delighted by his "Holiday 2008" Collection. I want the red cadet jacket, I want to wear all his gloves with all my dresses, I want his over-sized necklaces, I want his patchwork Belgium bags. Good thing Christmas is right around the corner ;)