Our Love is {Sphere} to Stay!

Adults spend an astonishing nine hours per day looking at rectangular screens: computer, TV, iPhone, blackberry (aren't I this very minute looking intently at my Mac screen, scrutinizing every word and pixel, in a rush to get this post done before the season premiere of Mad Men?).

And, as a designer, I spend an extravagant amount of time concerned with rectangles: graph paper, doors, windows, floorplans, tiles, floors, picture frames, rugs, cabinets, countertops....on and on the list of angular items grows. And it seems the younger and hipper the client, the more straight lines there are.

The Artist Model Keeps Two of Artefact's Wire Spheres Company

Is it any wonder then, that where ever I go, I see spheres? O happy sight! Roundness, curves that are so curvy they meet themselves again in an eternal embrace! No angles to square? Relief!

Out scouting design ideas yesterday, I fell hard for spheres. The antidote to too many angles in our worlds.

Starfish-Covered Spheres on French Deco Club Chairs

Mossy Green Spheres in an Old French Urn for the Garden

Big Statement Spheres From Reclaimed Wood

A Spiky Little Guy Adds Oceanic Interest

Galileo Might Have Liked the Way These Spheres are Shaping Up

We Can Only Wonder What The Buddha Is Thinking About This Big Red Sphere

Rustic Sphere

Waterballs...Reclaimed From New England

Water Filtering Plant in Last Century..

Beloved by Designers Everywhere

Stunning Wire Sphere Crafted by Dave Allen at Artefact

A Tower 'o Balls 12 feet Tall...

Just In Case You Miss the Point

Equal Time to the Rosary, Since Buddha is Pictured Above!

A Tactile Soft Sphere

Small Delicate Orb Spheres in Blown Glass

Contemporary Chandelier in Crystal Daisies, A Diaphanous Sphere

Sources for These Spheres Click on the Store Names Below:

Artefact Design & Salvage, at Cornerstone in Sonoma, California

Extremely creative and talented team of David Allen and Wade Hines for very cool furnishings from repurposed items

Zipper, at Cornerstone in Sonoma, California

HIp and chic, not to be missed!

Chateau Sonoma, just off the Square in Sonoma, California

Well, if you can't make it to France anytime soon, just drop by toute de suite!

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Kit Golson Design

for elegant, sustainable and pragmatic

Chic Provence Interior Design

Lowcountry Lowdown

If you don't really know what Lowcountry means, that's OK; you're probably not from Savannah, Georgia. Lowcountry is a good thing. It means you have a house made from wood (in case there is a hurricane, wood is good) circa 1905 with at least one porch, if not four (to catch the breezes and the latest gossip). It means your ceilings are high (heat rises), your overhanging eaves are deep (shade from the blazing subtropical sun), each room in your house has a ceiling fan (to keep that still air moving) and your old wooden floors are painted glossy white.

One of Four Porches on this Tybee Island Former Franciscan Convent

Lowcountry Cottage, Circa 1905

A Lovely Old Wicker Couch Inherited and Made Fresh With

Blue Pillows and Cover

Ten Foot High Double Door Entry to Circa 1905

Lowcountry Cottage on Tybee Island

A Beach is Never Far Away in the Lowcountry

The Front River, One of Dozens that Spill into the Atlantic

in the Lowcountry Around Savannah

Twelve Foot Ceilings with Cypress Walls in Circa 1905

Lowcountry Cottage on Tybee Island

It means your furnishings are simple (antiques inherited, found, made to work again), your decor clean and inspired by the surrounding beaches, marshes and rivers. It means that outside grow palmettos, palm trees, crepe myrtle, wisteria, dogwood, magnolia; with lots and lots of Spanish moss hanging around. It means you can probably hear the ocean, or at least throw a stone in any direction and hit a waterway of some sort: bayou, river, stream, bay, ocean.

Series of Oyster Shell Paintings Found at

One Fish Two Fish in Savannah

An Oyster Shell Lamp Found at Paris Market & Brocante in Savannah

The Carmelite Monastery on Front River on Coffee Bluff

Near Savannah

The Chapel of St. Mary in the Cathedral of St. John

the Baptist in Savannah

The Cathedral of St.John the Baptist in Savannah,

Founded by French Nobles Fleeing the

French Revolution in 1789

It also means you just might also have a city home half an hour away....in downtown Savannah. This home is situated down the square from the magnificent Cathedral of St. John the Baptist...founded by French nobles fleeing the French Revolution in 1789. This home can be Georgian or Regency, and can be splendid by anyone's standards. It sits proudly on a street paved with cobblestones and with sidewalks of herringbone brick made 300 years ago.

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Kit Golson Design

for elegant, sustainable and pragmatic

Chic Provence Interior Design

{Stencil} Lust!

Researching stencils for a client's walls the other day I found these light hearted and uplifting Asian inspired flowers that are so chic and pretty! Many of them are oversized and look fabulous in modern and transitional interiors.

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Below are stylized Asian medallions and borders to be interpreted in any size, color and configuration that you (or your designer/artist!) desire. Make no mistake, these are not simple, do it yourself stencils. It's difficult to get these right but in the hands of the right artist, they are worth the effort.

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And still more stencils in a Chinoiserie mood below. In the hands of a great decorative artist, you could have the look of custom wallpaper (think DeGournay) for a fraction of the cost.

If you are interested in using stencils in your design, contact me at kit@kitgolson.com. I can help you with obtaining stencils, designing the room, and finding a great decorative artist to work directly with you.

Most flower stencils here can be seen at Henry Donovan.

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Kit Golson Design

for elegant, sustainable and pragmatic

Chic Provence Interior Design