Loft Tour

Artist Michele Oka Doner's amazing NYC loft is a true live/work space. A pioneer during Soho's rehabilitation days, she has maintained her remarkable sense of personal style while the neighborhood around her evolved.

Update: The eagle-eyed Liberty Post recognized this loft as the space used in the movie Ghost.

Only one notch lower on the cool scale is Castleberry Hill, Atlanta's hippest downtown neighborhood. Their Sixth Annual Loft Tour will be held this month and is a great opportunity to see the galleries and artists in residence of this revitalized in town neighborhood. For an example of what you might find, check out Stable 1897.

(photos from Taschen's New York Interiors).

Shelling Out

I am heading to the Georgia seashore this weekend with shells on the brain. As Labor Day signals the end of summer on the East Coast, I am suddenly feeling not-quite-ready for the season to be over.


Lettuce coral is the centerpiece for a table set by Hable Construction founders, Susan Hable Smith and Katherine Hable Sweeny. (Image from Southern Accents).



Michele Oka Doner's collection of shells and shell books in her Miami Beach Library (From At Home with Books).


Ornithological prints framed in ocean-motif decoupage (from Decor Fall/Winter '07).