I've got a bit of a busy week coming up, but I've got a couple of interesting decorating links I want to log before I go away from bloggy distractions.
Via Sugarfused is a clever Shockwave colour mixer. I'm not 100% sure what it's doing, but they call it a "toy" so perhaps it doesn't matter. It does, however, make some rather lovely colour combos.
Since my house was built in 1897, I've been trying to ensure that anything semi-permanent I do is in keeping and I've found a few nice links to Arts and Crafts movement resources. It probably would have been a bit high-brow for this middleclass house, but there's some lovely stuff to draw from nevertheless.
The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum has a nationally-important collection of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain and a website as well. Unfortunately the site seems to be struggling at present. I can only hope it will snap out of it soon.
Another site, called Head, Hand and Heart is a better functioning, yet private site with a lot of information, but sadly, few images.
Another - California-based site - has information about the movement, focussing, not surprisingly, on Arts and Crafts in the US. California has some particularly beautiful examples, especially the lovely Gustav Stickley homes. There are loads of these in Long Beach alongside Ocean Avenue, as well as some fabulous ones in New England.
Moving onto Art Nouveau, the Art Archive has some good links and for actual images from which to draw inspiration, there's Bare Wall's catalogue of Klimt paintings.
Finally, whilst trying to figure out what the dining room fireplace surround was made of, we ran across an interesting guide to cast stone.
Now, I'm stepping away from the computer and picking up pencil and paper. Move along, move along. Nothing to see here, me old son.
Posted by Lisa at September 08, 2003 10:00 AM