Casa

via Making Chicken Salad

Shoemaker Beatrice Valenzuela's home in Echo Park. Love the colors and textures - they remind of the textures and colors that dotted my childhood. More pictures here.

Oh, Phillip

via New York Times

On more than one occasion in law school, I cursed the heavens for chaining me to casebooks full of painfully small font and dry archaic text, when friends were madly rummaging through samples at Development, then run/designed by Phillip Lim, who, friends recounted, was kind and overly sympathetic to the male saps dragged along to these sales.

The New York Times just did a lifestyle piece on him, and I'm finding that the images of paintings, bookshelves -- all the random, beautiful things collected over time -- makes me pine for the comfort of my old home in Portland.