jet set interiors (questionable taste of the rich & anonymous)

m21 doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, looking at these photos of jet interiors from private aviation photographer nick gleis. on one hand, m21 grow up watching roger moore as james bond movies on TV, so we think the first two pictures are kinda cool in a "so bad it's good", moonraker-y, kind of way, but on the other hand: oh my god! all that money spent on supremely rotten taste, as evidenced in the last two photos, particularly the icky bordello-futurist bedroom in the last photo. how frightening is it that mr. billionaire dictator felt the need to hang a cheap nudie painting on the wall? bet that was a real turn on for mrs. billionaire dictator!

i have seen the future, and it is tacky...

see more so bad, it's almost (but not quite) good, tastelessness at telegraph.uk.

do m21 a favor, k?

will someone do m21 a favor and go the DWR on the 3rd st. promenade and buy the floor sample of the luxo great-1 floor lamp, one of our favoritist things ever? yes, it's still kinda 'spensive at $3800.00, but when compared to ordering it new from the catalog at $9500.00, it's a total bargain.

we'd totally go buy it ourselves, but we seemed to have misplaced our wallet (which of course contained 38 crisp benjamins set aside just for lighting), as well as misplaced the ginormous loft-like living room with 12 ft. ceilings needed to house such a beast.

thanks ever so much...

a whole different animal (a 2 month tedaversary update)

the tedster on our walk tonight

ted and i celebrated our two month anniversary this week, and the 60 day mark must have been a milestone of sorts, because all of a sudden, ted is a whole different animal (in a good way).

ted, two weeks ago- happy, but a little guarded and subdued

he's been a quiet little guy since he's been here, happy, but never really exuberant in the way an excited dog normally is. i didn't know if that was his disposition, and he was just a super mellow fellow, or if he was still a bit shell shocked at the changes in his life. turns out to be the later, i think, as in the last week, a spunky, confident, little personality has rather suddenly emerged. he's gone from being the quietest dog i've ever known, to letting out surprisingly deep barks when excited. when i return from a day with a client or shopping, i don't just get a wagging tail, now i get acrobatics! last, since ted arrived, i've tried to interest him in play session with a toy, but he's never shown the slightest interest but as of last week, for the first time, he played with me! still showed no interest in the toy, but he did that cute little downward dog thing, and ran in crazy little dog circles for a few minutes (yes, i might have got a little verklempt at this milestone).

the new, improved, jaunty lil' theodore

he's just become smilier and happier, and that makes me smilier and happier too. i can't wait to see how his little personality continues to unfold- so far, so good!

ps- ted and richard get along great now too. richard has come to adore ted, and gives him regular headbutts of affection. so cute.

lets pretend! (this isn't a totally recycled post!)

"omg, peg-a-licious," (my pet name for margaret), "congrats on the new gig!"

"thanks, m21!" (margaret's pet name for moi) "i'm super excited about the change, and have all sorts of great ideas for freshening up the old gal, but mostly i'm excited because AD has long been the banner title of the interior design industry, but sometimes the content hasn't always lived up to its reputation. that will change, now that i'm in charge- i'm going to drag AD into the 21st century if it kills me!"

"well, pegster," (my other nickname for margaret), "if anyone can do it, you can! let me know if i can help, k?"

"well, mon petit maison," (margaret's other, fancier, nickname pour moi), "now that you mention it, we'll be needing lots of fresh new looks for our cover, so save your next multi-million dollar project for AD, alright?"

"you got it, lady p!" (making a mental note to self: **must find multi-millionaire client asap!**)

congrats to margaret russell, and to architectural digest! maison21 thinks you'll make a great team, and in anticipation of good things to come, he is actually going to resubscribe as soon as he finishes typing this recycled fantasy of a post!

schumacher schic (a pretty palate cleanser)

after our last post, m21 thought y'all might need sumpthin' pretty to cleanse your palates, so we thought we'd share some of our favorite schumacher prints with you. popular prints, too- when we went to the showroom last week to pull these for a client, 6 of the 8 were not in stock, but they arrived on our doorstep this morning- a bright n'pretty spot in an otherwise rather dreary monday morning.

so what's your favorite of these fab prints? everybody can have an opinion, but of course, only our client has the final say...