
How is it almost February? January has flown by as I’m teaching a class on the influence of Japan on 19th Century American Decorative Arts at the Cooper-Hewitt this semester and classes started last week. If things have been too quiet around here for your taste, check out my Pinterest which is much more lively these days. (Image via Pennyweight)

It is grey and overcast in NYC today. This glassy canal in France is making me think of long summer days and picnics on the grass. Found in this month’s Elle Decor.

Comet Hale-Bopp was photographed above Val Parola Pass in the Dolomite mountains surrounding Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Found via Even Cleveland >> Invisible Stories>> NASA Tumblr. Italy, oh, Italy, the place I would most like to visit.

From Philip Johnson’s Glass House:
The Ghost House is a folly, sitting on top of the foundations of a 19th-century stone barn. Johnson described it as containing “the spirit of a classical house.”
Photo by Carol Highsmith.

Fantastic landscapes from painter John Beerman. You can see his work in person at the Tibor de Nagy gallery through October 15.


Design Scouting reader Katie sent in this amazing green wall created at the British National Gallery - a recreation of Van Gogh’s A Wheatfield with Cypresses.