National Trust (US) Walking Tour

The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US has just announced a walking tour of once-endangered buildings in Washington, DC on Saturday, November 21.

“Begin with a stop at 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., the Beaux Arts headquarters of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  Uncover the stories of Decatur House -- designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, whose prior work includes a wing of the Capitol -- on an insiders' tour. Lunch on your own at Barracks Row, a thriving, revitalized community in the Capitol Hill Historic District and the oldest commercial area in Washington, D.C. An architectural walking tour through the Embassy Row neighborhood features grand 19th-century mansions. Stop at the Georgian revival home of Woodrow Wilson -- now a house museum -- that showcases a collection including gifts of state from around the world. Attend an elegant tea at the Mayflower Hotel, considered the grande dame of luxury hotels by Washington's elite when it opened more than 80 years ago. Conclude with an exterior look at the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building, currently closed for renovations.”Architectural historian, author and National Trust employee Dwight Young will lead the tour and tickets can be booked here.

Luxury Elegant and Modern Old Fashion Design

Luxury Sofa Design

Luxury Sofa Interior Design

In the modern sofa home often times play a stronger role than purely functional. That is why designers are constantly in search of a formula that can meet the different lifestyles of everyone to be part of the individuality of the home, the owner of his character.

 

Elegant Sofa Design

Chic, unusual, but extremely comfortable and functional, couches catch the eye and imagination along with the most enticing vision. Creativity as a combination of design and content has never been a greater tribute.

Modern Sofa Design

Easy to reconfigure modular sofas, suitable for all areas and is perfectly fit to different situations. Low and sleek silhouette, smooth lines, inviting comfort - couches are available in such a wide variety of colors, coatings, dimensions of the elements, options, hardness, etc., that choice at all compromise solutions and excludes fluctuations. This does not speak only for Class design.

Golden Sofa

Under the beautiful flawless skin underlie technology developments swallowing colossal amount of time and effort we can, even unknowingly, to feel comfortable every minute in every corner of the couch. Removable armrests, holding elected position in the range of 45 degrees or by rotating and moving downward to support the legs.

Unique Sofa

Sofas, designed to conform to any movement and position of the body for relaxation, thanks to a comprehensive network of propulsion devices. Sofa, which changes with you couch on which to detail each one offers a range of options. Whether you want to sit comfortably or to lie to you now will be irrelevant, since there is no need to move - the sofa will offer convenience for the perfect body for a second.

Luxury and Modern Sofa Design

Are a real temptation and couches for their own modeling. When you can combine them willingly color, texture, different modules to get a unique model by choosing among a solid set of symmetrical or asymmetrical elements.

Luxury Purple Sofa

Series of elements combinet are designed to meet every requirement, regardless of selection and combination and regardless of the countless ways of their arrangement, contiguous to each other, they form a perfect profile. Asimetrichniiyat in a wild design continues to surprise with the original silhouettes.

blog wunderlust: 02 November 2009

10 years of turbine commissions | a sad fate | no to Gropius, in Chicago | stoop to conquer | Rope-Access Surveying | a glimpse into my past | forest façade takes root | from industry to living | kirigami

Architecture is a local act: it ought to be attentive to and representative of the unique physical, topographic and environmental constraints of the location.

Graeme Massie architects

Housewerks on Daily Candy

Congratulations to my dear friends Tracey and Ben and their business, Housewerks, for the great piece in DC Daily Candy today.  I write about Housewerks frequently, because Tracey and Ben have such a great eye for unusual pieces and they put them all together in such a striking way. I am so pleased to see Housewerks getting the recognition it deserves!

Iamboatman's Legal Imperfect Storm - When Will The Cruise Be Over?!

As many of you know I am not only a travel agent, but a lawyer whose practice is focused in large part on superyachts and the maritime industry. On Friday, the New Jersey Appellate Division announced a decision ruling, for the second time, in favor of my client in a rather complicated (and frustrating) estate matter.

The New Jersey Law Journal published an article today about the case. Read it and you will see while I smiled when I read it and, when I got to the end of it I had to post it here:

An Imperfect Storm — Eric Goldring devotes so much time to marine law that the Web site of Goldring & Goldring in Red Bank is called yachtlaw.com. But he has been on a rough voyage in a nonadmiralty matter — an estate case afloat for three years and still far from harbor, even after an appeals court ruling on Friday.


As the estate's lawyer, Goldring defeated three plaintiffs' claims that they were entitled to bequests under a codicil. Even so, the claims were reasonable enough to entitle the plaintiffs to $15,000 from the estate to pay their lawyer, Jeffrey Knapp of Basking Ridge, Essex County Superior Court Judge Renee Weeks ruled last year. But her opinion didn't explain why she picked that amount, so an appeals court remanded the case for more math.


On Friday, the Appellate Division ruled that Weeks got it right the second time around in the Matter of the Will of Richard XXXX , at least about the amount of the fee. But Judges Mary Cuff and Alexander Waugh Jr. say the record remains murky about whether Knapp has already been paid. If so, the $15,000 should go to the litigants as a reimbursement. If not, it should go to Knapp.

What's more, there is some suggestion in the case that Knapp might have been paid by a nonparty — a son of the decedent who was disinherited. If that's true, the estate is off the hook for the fee, the court says. So the case was remanded again.

Knapp did not return a call, but Goldring says it is frustrating trying to explain to the heirs — the decedent's daughter and grandchildren — why the cruise is taking so long.

— By Michael Booth, Charles Toutant and Henry Gottlieb

Wooden garden bench

Here are some creative garden bench furniture plans for you

Bedroom Design - Bedroom Inspiration

Modern Interior Design

This is the 18th inspiration of the bedroom design. This is a very simple but harmony design. This inspiration is suitable mostly to small rooms. As you can see the space for the bed is quite small there. However, the room design has made the room l ...

Bedroom Design Ideas

This is the 17th inspiration of the bedroom design. The theme color it used here is the combination of green and white. It looks so natural and relaxing just like being in a forest. The feeling is so relieving. It looks so good too by putting some p ...

This is the 16th inspiration. This is a great design for a girl’s room. The theme uses pink as the main color. Pink will be all time favorite for girls. The most special part will be the fur carpet under the bed. It is so classy and elegant. Th ...

Stylish  Bedroom Inspiration

This is the 15th inspiration. This is a great design for a guy’s room. The theme is using blue as the main color. The most special part will be the drawing on the wall. It goes well with the color of the bed and other furniture greatly. The sof ...

Bedroom Decoration

This is the 14th inspiration. This is another yellow and green theme color. The combinations are great and attractive. Thecolors make the room pretty refreshing and reviving. I like 3 round glasses on the table for decoration. It looks cool! It se ...

Nice and Luxury Bedroom In Green

This is the 13th inspiration. It is a cute design. For we the part that I refer the most will be the cabinets. It has light shine out from inside. It looks so classy. Besides, the table lamp is also very special as the whole table is a lighten like ...

Bedroom

The 12th inspiration is specially design for youthful girls. It used the red and white as the theme color and it matched tremendously. From what you can see, just by the red stripes pillow cases, some red carpet and the red blanket, it have make the ...

Simple Bedroom Design

The 11th inspiration is using the lavender theme. It gives natural and relaxing feeling just like the main function of the lavender. It will release all your stress and the pressure of the day. Thepurple color is so light and sweet. Besides, there ...

Bedroom Design