Banquet Journal

miroslav sasek

I'm suddenly seeing Miroslav Sasek's books everywhere. These images are from This is Paris. I love his more architectural illustrations, particularly how he captures a seemingly teeming city.

mina perhonen

I always get a boost looking at the prints from Mina Perhonen. Because I am me, I also adore the fact that they are located by a doughnut plant.

alice waters

I love alice waters, and recently ordered her latest cookbook, the Art of Simple Food. It's so great, and ties in with so many things I am hungry for right now, like the farmer's market, and final...

schiaparelli

More from the World of Interiors - this, an old Schiaparelli print. Fantastic circus animals and really lovely rabbits! Working on a design job right now, but hoping to get back into things next w...

more thoughts on quilts...

Love these old concrete builders. Yes, that's snow on the ground. So much for gloating about our early West Coast spring. Another quilter I admire is Ian Hundley.

quilting

My quilt obsession is growing. I bought the brilliant Quilt's of Gee's Bend for myself recently, and it's doing nothing to still my itchy fingers. Like these two, by Annie E. Pettway and Annie Be...

dahlias and sweet peas

More from Hazel...

Hazel Peckinpaugh Dunlop

 I have a few old flower arranging books that I have recently been revisiting. I'm loving the odd architecture and rigid austerity. I'm still at the point where I'm not quite sure why, but I know ...

Diorama

  A magical diorama, by artist Tyler Lepore. He of the now defunct Human Five, and a current Super Champion.

authenticity

That’s sort of the goal in life, to be authentic; to be an authentic, real person and to somehow integrate your internal world and the world around you has to be one of the most difficult things to...