RocHouse Interior Design

Crosby Street Hotel

Have you heard of the Crosby Street Hotel? The hotel is located on a quiet cobbled street in the heart of New York’s vibrant SoHo neighbourhood between Prince and Spring Streets. The hotel’s 86 beautifully designed bedrooms and suites with high ceilings and floor length windows are designed by Kit Kemp. Using a clever combination of colour and texture, modern and antique furniture and original art she created “interiors with a fresh contemporary English style”. Love the fabrics and colors.

TIM & KIT KEMP - OWNERS OF FIRMDALE HOTELS

images: crosbystreethotel.com

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“Childhood is a journey, not a race.”

Since we are having a little baby on the way kids rooms are on my mind. I did a little research and here are my favorites. The challenge now: How do you combine a girl’s baby nursery with the taste of a four year old boy since they will be sharing the room?

images: pointclickhome.com

Colors and Textures

I love the subtle colors and textures in these two photographs. This could be a nice relaxing palette for a room.

June/July 2008 Genlux

Every New Year the Chance for a New Beginning

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.”

From Russia with Love

I have always loved russian costumes, Baba Yaga and I when I was little I admired the russian girls with their big ribbons in their hair. I love the fairy tale like architecture of the Moscow Kremlin. Now I’m getting sucked in by russian inspired interior design.

Vogue just featured the home of Charles and Olya Thompson (a textile designer and former dancer from Moscow) in Brooklyn NY. I love the antique furniture, ethnic fabrics and samovars and the their three girls are just so adorable in their matching dresses.

http://www.vogue.com/feature/2010_Jan_Charles_Olya_Thompson/

Now I really have to plan a trip to russia and practice speaking russian!
До свида́ния

A peek at her fabulous, decadent interiors

Kelly Wearstler shares a peek at her fabulous, decadent interiors of her Beverly Hills home.

“Wearstler opens the neoclassical gates into an epic realm, offering an intimate look into a 1926 James Dolena estate in Beverly Hills with an opulent Georgian-style main mansion, expansive guesthouse, gardens and grounds. A Paul Williams Bel-Air masterpiece is re-imagined as a textural metropolitan oasis with strong design details and an unexpected palette that reignites the mansion’s classic bones.”

Hue 2009, www.kwid.com

  

  

  

  

  
"MORE PHOTOGRAPHS OF KELLY WEARSTLER’S HOME"
François Halard’s shoot
www.style.com/vogue/voguedaily

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Update: Hue by Kelly Wearstler

A while back I posted the image of the cover of Kelly Wearstler’s new book, coming out in November. The Kwid office just informed me that they shot a new version of the cover. Take a look:

Can’t wait to see the inside!

Tags: Hue by Kelly Wearstler

The Spanish Riding School in Vienna

I admit, I’m not just obsessed with castles, I also love horses. And I don’t even ride horses. I just love their beauty and physique. I’m still mad at myself for turning down the opportunity to have my own white stallion at the stable of a family friend. I was to nervous and said no.

Last year I visited the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. What a treat! Absolutely beautiful. Just look at these pictures.

The Highest Level of Equitation in Stylish Baroque Tradition

Vienna’s Spanish Riding School is the world’s oldest and only riding school that cultivates classical equitation. It owes its name to the Spanish horses that formed the foundation of the riding school in its early days.

Emperor Karl VI instructed Josef Emanuel Fischer von Erlach to build the magnificent Winter Riding School in Vienna’s Imperial Hofburg Palace from 1729 to 1735. The monarch’s portrait still hangs in the white Baroque hall where the riders of the Spanish Riding School train the horses and perform.

The splendid building provides a one-of-a-kind setting for training and presenting the white Lipizzan stallions.

http://www.srs.at

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Ralph Lauren - Summer House

“Evoking a sense of garden party glamour, delicate painterly florals accent romantic layers of cornflower blue and crisp white.” 

I love the color palette. Who doesn’t love crisp white and blue in the summer? I also like the wicker bed and the garden china cabinet, the sisal rug and white china. For more Ralph Lauren home style go to www.ralphlaurenhome.com and don’t miss the beautifully styled videos.

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Hue by Kelly Wearstler

Book News:

(Available in November)

“Kelly Wearstler is the ultimate trendsetter in interior design. Hue by Kelly Wearstler builds upon the success of her first monograph, Modern Glamour, and includes recent, unpublished projects, including her home in Beverly Hills, celebrity residential projects as well as some of her latest hotel projects. Hue celebrates the power of color in Kelly’s work and the possibilities of color in interior design and decorating. A must-have for amateurs and professionals seeking design inspiration America’s top interior designer.”

www.amazon.com

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