Thursday, February 18, 2021

Book Review: Dream Rooms For Children: Inspiring Spaces for Sleep, Study, and Play by Susanna Salk

Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021

A decade after her first book on Rooms for Children, Susanna Salk has curated a natural successor in Dream Rooms for Children. All of the rooms in this book bring fresh high-style and creative design ideas for rooms dedicated to the youngest members of the household, and some interesting and clever options you can use in any room! 

Dream Rooms for Children takes kid's spaces with creative seriousness. Whether the room is intended for a newborn, toddler, first grader, or teenager, the rooms shown throughout the 240 pages of the book show the endless possibilities of imaginative design. 

The book showcases work by top-notch designers, including Fawn Galli, Katie Ridder, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Miles Redd, Amy Lau, and Celerie Kemble. The diversity of styles range from formal to modern to fairytale whimsy - each creating a vision of childhood at its best. 

In addition to sleeping spaces, the book explores playrooms and study spaces, engaging the mind to think creatively when crafting spaces for children while keeping them stylish, functional, and fun. 


Designer: Elizabeth Hay Design

Photo By: Alecia Neo

Copyright: Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021


Designer: Alex Papachristidis Interiors

Photo By: Stacey Bewkes

Copyright: Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021


Designer: Katie Ridder; Architect: Peter Pennoyer

Photo By: Pieter Estersohn

Copyright: Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021


Designer: Griffith Blythe Interiors

Photo By: Griffith Blythe

Copyright: Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021

Designer: Mark Cunningham Inc.

Photo By: Richard Powers

Copyright: Dream Rooms for Children by Susanna Salk, Rizzoli New York, 2021

Check out the book, now available for pre-order on Amazon via the link below, along with some of my favorite of Susanna's other books, linked here as well. 

Friday, August 28, 2020

Artie Vanderpool Fine Art Giveaway! $250 VALUE!

 Hey y'all!

I know I haven't been blogging much lately. I hope you're following along with the fun changes that are going on at our new place, including all of the art updates on instagram!
If you ARE, you may have already seen, but I'm offering an INSTAGRAM ONLY GIVEAWAY of a 10x10" canvas abstract! Learn more about it by heading over there now!


Giveaway starts today and will end on August 31, 2020 at 4PM EST! So you have ALL weekend to enter! Winner announced on August 31, 2020 at 5PM EST, and the remaining 10x10 pieces will be available for sale beginning at 9AM EST on September 1, 2020.
Thanks for entering and your support!

Be back soon with some beautiful book reviews!


Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Mark D. Sikes' "More Beautiful" Sneak Peek!


I've been a fan of Mark D. Sikes for a long time. I've blogged about him, his home, and his many published rooms crafted for his clients. Yesterday, Mark sent an email to his email list letting us all know that we can pre-order his newest book, MORE BEAUTIFUL, to see even more goodness! 

His first book, BEAUTIFUL, has been the most widely sold interior design book ever published by Rizzoli. 


And I'm sure that MORE BEAUTIFUL is going to be as popular, if not more. If you have a copy of BEAUTIFUL, you know that the book was separated into color stories. Chapters like "NEUTRAL TERRITORY" and "RED MY WAY" had photos from rooms in various projects that fit into these color categories.

His newest book separates his projects into distinct decorating styles, including "TRADITIONAL", "COUNTRY", "COASTAL", and "MEDITERRANEAN".


A special chapter, titled "BEAUTIFUL" provides a look at Mark's personal home in the Hollywood Hills, and his decor changes since it was seen in the pages of his book of the same title.

Tiny images of photos that are published in the book provided a little sneak peek at projects we know we will see in the 272-pages of MORE BEAUTIFUL.

For die-hard MDS fans, you are already familiar with some of these images. For those of you who aren't, I immediately identified 16 of the 24 photos:

Three images in the grid are from Mark's 2018 Kips Bay Decorator's Showhouse Room, "Sleeping Beauty":

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Three images are from Mark's work on the 2017 Coastal Living Showhouse




Four photos are of the newest decor in Mark's own home and garden, which was recently featured in Architectural Digest:





Three more are from a house he designed in Montecito that was featured on the cover of  House Beautiful:



One photo from a house he did in Alabama made the grid, but I'm sure we'll find more of this beauty in the book: 



One is from a project he completed long ago in Santa Monica that has yet to be published, but much was photographed of the renovation project for instagram. You can find those pictures here, and another is a project that he did in what might be the largest, most expensive property on Fernald Point in Montecito. That project was a very hushed, but you can see some photos of the spaces via the architect website here 

8 shots have me wondering what I've missed on IG, and those 8 alone would make it worth buying the book. But Mark has said that this book includes nearly 1,000 photos! Can you imagine? So - if you don't have the first book: 


And you can pre-order MORE BEAUTIFUL here: 


Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Follow Me on Instagram

Many of you know that I've been creating for years. First, interiors, then cross bottles, now paintings and drawings. Lately, I've gotten such joy from painting that I've essentially done nothing but paint.

I apologize for those of you who still read the blog, that I haven't had much in the way of new material here. But I do hope that you're following artie.vanderpool on instagram. There you can see all the new stuff that I'm doing, glimpses of the new apartment - which is still unfinished, btw - and keep in touch.

Talk soon!
Artie

Friday, April 24, 2020

Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent's NEW New York City Digs

Architectural Digest just published the beautifully finished NYC home of designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent. A little more than a year ago, I started a story on the sale of their home in California, and found the listing of the new townhouse in NYC. I didn't have enough information at the time, but now with the new pictures from AD we can take a look at the before and after, ala Nate and Jeremiah!



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You can see some changes in the background behind this photo shared to instagram of their daughter, Poppy. Notably the cabinetry which looks to be white French oak, and the addition of custom white oak cabinetry to the right.

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