And A Good Time Was Had By All!

Dozens of Red Roses From Jack, Her True Love

The Fountain We Found In Nola

Barb's Day At The Beach

BBC

09.22.08

Happy Birthday, My Dear Friend!

Best Wishes for The Wonderful Year Ahead

One More From the Big House

One of Our Design Projects In Willow Glen

Something Different is in the Air

Looking for Something Different?

Got it.

This is a bit of fun, out-takes from a shoot that was actually for a house that was under construction (I selected many of the finishing materials and colors for the interiors and exterior).

Margot, Megan and I took a few moments off to do a riff on "Brooke Astor Meets Eloise by Way of The Little House," or something like that (Brooke Astor had just passed away, and I was reading Patchwork Child, one of her autobiographies, and was enchanted by it).

I'd hoped to create a little advertising campaign for my design business around one the other shots--a close up, with the binoculars.

It was to say:

"Looking for Something Different?

Victoria Thorne Design."

Photo Design|Style: Victoria Thorne

Photographer: Margot Hartford

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I Can Fly

mary blair, genius

victoria thorne, design

margot hartford, photographer

house on laurie avenue, pink bath

megan logsdon, model

(thumbnail for "my magic mim")

New Work From Peter Sis

There's more Opona Goodness on Art.Books.Children.

Audrey Hepburn Redux

The little Audrey Hepburn table has been a big hit...

so I've ordered up one more dish o'raspberries

with a sweet smile on the side. Cheers!

design | style victoria thorne

"Garden office rooms are all the rage," says Emilia D’Erlanger

Great article on working from home, via Shedworking.

(If I read Shedworking enough,

will a lovely little shed appear in my backyard?

With a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush?

And an old lady--would that be me, now?--whispering hush?

Once upon a time,

I certainly read "Goodnight Moon" enough...

when the T.K. were all so very little.

And it seems it has appeared, somewhat...

now, where is that rocking chair?)

I digress.

Anyhow, lovely quote from the article:

"Garden office rooms are all the rage," says Emilia D’Erlanger,

interior designer. "The smartest of addresses now all

want a media room and a garden office

as a sanctuary away from distractions."

Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas worked at home;

one would be in good company.

Working at home. The new old frontier?

Now, if my smart garden shed

would manifest in my backyard. Bitte.

(above, a sweet little brickhouse @the Presidio)

more here

design: victoria thorne

photo: nlmphotography

Be Light of Heart

A Summer Rhyme, In Time for Fall

I asked my mother for fifty cents

To see the elephant jump the fence;

He jumped so high he reached the sky

And didn't come back till the Fourth of July.

From I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

edited by Iona and Peter Opie

illustrated by Maurice Sendak