I’m not sure if you’ve seen my latest series of posts on sfgirlbybay, but I kind of love doing them! The column is called ART GOES HERE, and I write one every second Wednesday {which happens to be today!}. Basically, I find a beautiful interior design image, and using a little photoshop magic, I add three different selections of contemporary art to the shot. Sculpture, painting, installation – yep, anything goes!

To be totally honest, this is my dream job. Finding, and then hanging, the perfect art for someone’s home… I’d get to play matchmaker between artist and collector, and amazing work would end up on beautiful walls. Win, WIN! Here are a few little snippets from ART GOES HERE from the past few months {visit sfgirlbybay to see the full posts}:

{Art // 1. Tape ~ Alex Menocal 2. Lights ~ Steve Lambert 3. Photography ~ Amy Friend 4. Thread ~ Anne Lindberg 5. Chalk ~ Dana Tanamachi 6. Pen ~ Il Lee 7. Stairs – various images found on Pinterest by searching for ’staircases’}

Ok, this should probably go under ‘design’, but really, an enamel pot with a bunch of illuminated teapots growing out of it, like some kind of bizarre Alice in Wonderland garden, should also totally qualify as art! Either way, I love just about everything that Tel Aviv based Junktion makes… or, more correctly, remakes. They take forgotten junk and flip it on it’s head {literally, did you see those dangling phone lamps?}. TV’s transformed into lights, suitcases into tables, and don’t even get me started on those bike seats turned bar stools. DIWITOT {ie., Damn, I wish I thought of that!}

{via sodapopgirl}

I’m so happy to have editor & stylist Victoria Smith {of the always fab blog sfgirlbybay} back again! She was one of my weekend guests this past summer… I guess I served her enough glasses of sweet lemonade, because she agreed to come back over the holidays! She’s hilarious, unbelievably generous, and has amazing taste, which is why I can’t imagine that she’d be jealous of anyone, but it turns out, she kinda is:

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i’m so incredibly jealous of the selby. todd selby has the life. he gets to visit super talented, and creative people and photograph their homes and studios. now, i know what you might be thinking, “hey, isn’t that what you do, too?”. well, i do, but i aspire to do it as well as the selby. i don’t know how he does it exactly, but i’m very envious of todd selby’s ability to light his subjects in such a way that i feel as though i’m right there in the room. i am a visitor, right along side him. his photography is what i am most jealous of. i get to visit rad people, too. i just wanna do it as well as mr. selby. kudos, dude.

this is one of very favorite selby visits – that of eileen and mark wiesmayr at home in venice beach, winners of the Selby x CB2 contest. lucky. i’m quite jealous of them, too!

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Sigh. So many people to be jealous of in this post! Thanks so much Victoria… see you next summer ; )

Ahh, Paris… home to croissants, fancy poodles and Ma + Chr, a design studio created by Mathilde Aubier and Christine Delaquaize. So, where should I begin with my list of things to be jealous of? I already mentioned that they live in Paris, right? Right, ok, then, moving on. Well, how about the fact that they cover the spectrum when it comes to creative endeavors… print, textiles, mixed media, web, interior design! Basically, if it’s creative, they do it. Oh, and of course, those cats! I love those cats with their giant, vintage lady eyes! Yep, je suis très jaloux.

Is it weird that I’m totally jealous of the dolls who get to live in this house? No, I didn’t think so either. These super cool, damn I wish I’d thought of it, dollhouse interiors are by Georgia Smith, and were featured in the latest issue of frankie magazine. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about Georgia {i don’t even have a link for you}, so let me know if you have any info… oh, and if you could get me some of that amazing teeny-tiny wallpaper while you’re at it, that would be fantastic!

{via cream coloured ponies}

ps. continuing with the dollhouse theme… if you missed the post about Heather Benning a few weeks ago, you must go and take a look!

Sweet jiminy… my student work did not look like this! But then again, I didn’t attend Beckmans College of Design in Sweden. Maybe if I had, I would be sitting in my cozy/crazy knit chair {Anni Arnefjord}, a stylish donkey head mounted on my wall {Hanna Billqvist}, while I read by the light of either my very sweet tent table lamp {Fredrik Andersson}, or my insanely cool pendant slide lamp {Joel Sandelius}. Alas, Beckmans was not my alma mater, so the only Swedish design that I own is from a little shop down the street. It’s called IKEA… have you heard of it?

{Thanks to Design for Mankind for featuring Anni Arnefjord’s chair… which led me straight to Beckmans’ site, and all of this other amazing work! Thanks Erin!}

Sigh. Oh my word. I love these intricate, amazingly beautiful wooden textiles… wait… what?! Yep, that’s right, wooden textiles. German artist/designer Elisa Strozyk has figured out a way to make wooden fabric, and I could not be more jealous. So smart, and so stunningly beautiful. Um, Santa, if you’re reading this, I really, really want that lamp for Christmas. Thank you!

I’m in the middle of redecorating my office… literally {there is a drop cloth on the floor as we speak}. You’d think that would mean that I have a clear plan, but since I’m starting with a pretty clean slate, the possibilities are endless! Enter Lonny. The newest issue of this lovely online magazine just hit the virtual stands, and it’s full of great ideas. So, I started clicking, and clicking, and clicking, until I wound up on the “work spaces” and “book shelves” sections of their site. Perfect. I’m redecorating a work space, with book shelves ~ this will be great. Ooh, I love the first one with that Warhol print, and what appears to be a Rachel Denny trophy in the fireplace… oh, but that black wall in number five is gorgeous… and don’t even get me started on that chair in number four. You see? This is my problem. Too many amazing / inspiring things out there to confuse me! Help me Lonny. Help me. I can’t look at this drop cloth much longer.

{…well, I may be a little lost on my office plans, but at least I know what I’m doing in the basement! That’s right, spin the bottle and a whole bunch of wood paneling in the house that jealousy built over at sfgirlbybay today!}

For those of you who don’t know, I’m in the middle of decorating my very own imaginary dream house {filled with fabulous art} over on sfgirlbybay, in a series titled The House that Jealousy Built. Well, it turns out that Canadian writer & artist Douglas Coupland is doing exactly the same thing… oh, except for one tiny difference… he actually lives in his dream house {filled with fabulous art}! Giant detergent bottles, spools of coloured thread on the wall, and white Lego around the support beams. Hm… I wonder if he’s looking for a roommate? No? Oh, ok.

{via The New York Times}