5423 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115 504-897-1555
A mandatory stop during my Magazine Street shopping: Continue reading
Magazine Street Shopping: Scriptura
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Category Archives: BlogTour
Magazine Street Shopping: Hazelnut
I want to share one of my favorite New Orleans stores for your Magazine Street shopping: Continue reading
Magazine Street Shopping: Interior Design
Ahhhh, Magazine Street Shopping for antiques and Interior Design. The stores are located in beautiful old houses- built with the fabulous New Orleans proportions. The architecture is unique and the history is tangible. Here are a few shops that sum up the look nicely. They are actually located in a 2-3 block stretch of great Interior Design resources on Magazine Street. (see map below)
New Orleans French Quarter Guide
Today I bring you the New Orleans French Quarter Guide- a primer in food, drink, shopping, and language lessons. In a matter of weeks, thousands will descend upon New Orleans for THREE major interior design events- KBIS, Vision and BlogTourNOLA. If you are attending one of them, you may have booked your flights and hotel but are perhaps now wondering where to go and where to eat. Fear not, no worries of falling in to the jaws of a tourist trap if you are a first timer to the Crescent City. Note: today’s post is just on the French Quarter. Stay tuned for upcoming posts on other areas of New Orleans- there is PLENTY to do so plan to pace yourself.
The map is key and many places are Continue reading
Scenes From BlogTourNYC
I want to share a few scenes from BlogTourNYC trip. If you want the experiences from the point of view of the attending bloggers, visit the Modenus page to link to each of their sites and follow their posts. I am going to share a slightly different perspective, that of correspondent and veteran BlogTour Blogger who followed the crew around with an eye for more than just what was on the action packed agenda…. so get ready for an abbreviated whirlwind visual stroll through BlogTourNYC:
New York Here I Come!
New York Here I Come! I am packing my bag to go cover the Modenus BlogTour crew as they experience a carefully curated inside look at design in NYC. This international group is in for an amazing time. Modenus’ Veronika Miller has arranged for the group to attend the Architectural Digest Show, mingle with New York blogger stars over Marys and Mimosas, have a private residential tour sponsored by Corcoran Real Estate, meet Vincente Wolf, visit other offices and showrooms, go on a Brooklyn design tour, a nighttime boat tour around Manhattan and so much more. Veronika knows how to show people a city. I will be joining as Modenus correspondent, capturing beauty, moments, local design resources and design trends. Excited to get to this fabulous city- Follow #BlogTourNYC on twitter for updates from the bloggers~
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Cologne Germany
The City of Cologne, Germany
In WWII the city of Cologne, Germany was all but wiped off the map. It was rebuilt, mostly in the 1950′s, as Veronika Miller put it, “purpose-built” in a very functional way. So you find a lot of contemporary buildings right next to old or old style buildings. The city is charming, clean, efficient, and well-organized. There are a surprising number of impressive museums in walking distance from each other. People walk everywhere and ride bikes, rather than drive as Americans are inclined to do. Here is a video that will give you an idea of what it might be like to walk around the city and take in a few museums. The BlogTour group went to the German Museum of Sport and Olympic, The Romisch-Germanisches Museum (built directly over where an entire buried ancient Roman CITY was found, with treasures aplenty in tact, during an excavation for a new subway stop next door to the magnificent Cologne Dom cathedral), and The MAKK Museum. (There is also a chocolate museum not included in the photos). If you have been following the BlogTour posts, you may be one of the many who have asked what the city of Cologne is like, so I have prepared about a 4 minute video tour of this beautiful city:
Window Shopping in Cologne- Fashion Forward? You Decide:
Your mother always said… “if you can’t think of anything nice to say….” You know the drill. So here we go on a little window shopping tour of the fashions in Cologne (and I will warn you in advance that this video could be considered Rated R):
”…” That’s all I could say: “…”
Leanne, I see why you refrained from shopping when your suitcase didn’t make it to Cologne. At first glance I thought it was a joke, but many stores later realized otherwise… as I reminded myself that BlogTour was being held in Cologne for INTERIOR DESIGN enrichment, not fashion….
Cologne is a great city to which I will definitely return. Maybe I will just pack a carry on bag just to be on the safe side.
All photography by Courtney Price
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Philippe Grohe – On Good Design
Philippe Grohe, head of Axor/Hansgrohe SE, on what makes design good:
”For me personally, good design should have a notion of timelessness. A well-designed object is able to trigger an emotional response through aesthetics, while, at the same time, fulfilling its function. Ideally, it should also integrate symbolic content and present a technological innovation. Good design, and this is the pretense we follow with the Axor brand, should always change our awareness for what we are doing when we use a product. A well-designed bathroom fixture, for example, should first and foremost clean our skin, then it should produce an emotional response, and finally, it should leave us with the conscious experience that water is a valuable resource. Our newest collaboration with Philippe Starck, Axor Starck Organic, embodies this pretense very well.”
Kitchen Wish List: Blanco
Blanco‘s new lineup delivers a few reasons to want to redo your kitchen. Here are a few of the items from the Modenus BlogTour experience of Living Kitchen show that made it onto my kitchen wish list:
One of the thrilling technology advancements for the kitchen is Continue reading
Kitchen and Bath Trends 2013
The Modenus BlogTour Cologne trip was an incredible experience in so many ways. It was a privilege to see an international Furnishings & Kitchen and Bath show of the scale of IMM Living Kitchen because we were exposed to products designed for different cultures and spacial uses – also technologies that are way ahead of what we have in the US. Below is a photographic tour of Kitchen and Bath trends 2013: Continue reading