Hoyt Clagwell's Profile

...that should be Forms *plus* Surfaces, but once submitted, the "plus" sign disappeared.

Have you taken the time to research that particular piano online? Who was the manufacturer? What model was it? It shouldn't be hard to find out if it's a particular desirable and valuable piano or just something from some common old 3rd tier manufacturer.

It would help, too, to know what city you're in.

No H.A. Rey? Mike Mulligan was my personal favorite overall, but I spent hours as a kid just admiring the simple and beautifully expressive illustrations of Curious George and the like.

Maurice Sendak, too. My God, the love I had for In the Night Kitchen, because of the beautiful illustrations and the dreamy urban fantasy theme.

When I buy books for my niece and nephews, I always end up tracking down reprints of these sorts of classics, largely because I remember fully well the impact that the quality of the illustrations had on me, and I want the same for them. Really, have there been any childrens' book authors in recent years who create work of such clean, elegant, soul-touching beauty?

I would not just stub my toes on that--I would BREAK my toes.

I'd love to know where the frames come from. They look like cheap plastic novelty frames from around the 1950's--like something that might have been buried at the bottom of a junk-drawer in my grandma's house. Something too cheap and tacky to actually use, but just a little to charming in spite of itself to actually throw away.

I mean, the artist's work here is very nice, but man I'm coveting those picture frames.

Design excess. Trying waaaay to hard to be clever and interesting. One idea/concept to build around is all you need--it's often a sign of a very young, very greenhorn designer when a project has had fifty unique, breakthrough ideas crammed into it.

This is in Manhattan. How in the holy hell did they ever get a certificate of occupancy with a setup like that? The answer can only be that they didn't. Possibly they did whatever they needed to do to pacify the building inspectors, then tore it out and surreptitiously replaced it with what we see here.

I'd guess mid-1990's, based on the presence of the Tolomeo lamps and that nearly useless little table by the cheap, hospitality-trade-looking chair. The really thick black top on that table seems like a 90's kind of embellishment. The magnifying mirror on the edge of the tub is something I've more than once in 1990's issues of Elle Decor. If I felt like digging, I could probably name the designer/manufacturer

I know the Tolomeo lamps debuted in the 1980's, but it was in the 90's that they became more omnipresent than even the Tizio.

The tile seems more 90's to me too.

If not for those specific details, I would have been certain that this setting was late 1980's--precisely the kind of thing one would have found featured in House & Garden during its Anna Wintour incarnation as "HG."

I hope, HOPE, there's a sheet of glass or plexiglass or something on the side of that thing by the toilet. In the very least. Otherwise one incident of bad aim, or even just routine minor splattering, would leave so much TP soiled.

Gross. Really kind of gross.

I'd be inclined to strip it or paint it the same color as the ceiling--but I would make no effort to conceal the fact that it's cinder block. Actually, yeah--I'd clean the cinder block up and leave it as-is, and I'd install a picture rail made of of flat bars of brushed aluminum or stainless steel over the joint between the brick and the block.

Get over the attachment to the notion that having the brick go all the way up would for some reason be more desirable, and learn to appreciate wall for what it is.

Typically it's most cost-effective to have multiple pieces done at once. I had an entire set of 1960's garden furniture done for a client and they didn't charge much more than they would have for any single piece of the set.

Another great thing about powder coating is that you have a range of textures available as well.