Some Thoughts

One of my favorite takeaways from the Housing Works Design on a Dime event was a post card from Paul Smith.  The image was of a hand written list entitled "Some Thoughts," reflections from the desk of Sir Paul Smith.  I tried to get the photo from the designer but never heard back so I was happy to find a post on the British Vogue website that explains this inspiring list.

 

"I was sitting in my office one day and jotting down some thoughts about life - and then I just left them on my notebook and someone from the team came in and saw them - and the next thing I knew they were framed and on the wall. Then the New York team requested them because they wanted them on the wall of the New York shop..." - Paul Smith

 

SOME THOUGHTS

by Paul Smith

1. Start something new
2. Take pleasure seriously
3. Life/work is not about shorter hours or longer hours, it's about every hour
4. Look at the world through the eyes of someone you respect, admire and love
5. You can't do it without doing it
6. Make room to BREAK THE RULES
7. Stop making sense...logic is predictable...think differently

Housing Works Design on a Dime 2011

There are so many wonderful events every year in New York but one of my favorites is Housing Works Design on a Dime.  I had the pleasure of attending the Opening Night and was yet again blow away but all the great booths.  For those of you who don't know, each year designers beg, borrow, and steal items for their booth that will be sold to benefit Housing Works "Get a Room" for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. This year's co-chairs include James Huniford, Charlotte Moss, Nate Berkus, Iman, and Lara Spencer who hosted the wonderful evening.

While I had time this morning to upload my photos, I did not have time to label them all before heading out to a client meeting.  If you click on the photos, they will enlarge and you should be able to read the signs.  As soon as I get back, I will label them all so each designer gets the credit that they so richly deserve for participating in this great event! 

Housing Works Design on a Dime

Friday, May 6, 2011 - 10:00am - 6:00pm

Saturday, May 7, 2011 - 10:00am - 6:00pm

Metropolitan Pavilion

125 West 18th Street

(bet. 6th & 7th Avenues)

Admission : Free

Miles Redd

Huniford Design Studio

Shawn Henderson

Foley & Cox Interiors

Ralph Lauren Home

Flair Home Collection

Nikelodeon

Gabriel de la Portilla

Asler Valero

Joshua Ingraham Design

de la Torre Design Studio

Charlotte Moss

Jonathan Rosen

Tricia Foley + Roy Hardin for the New General Store

Larry Ruhl for High Falls Merchantile

This was one of my favorite booths and I bought a Blue Willow plate from it.

Franck Hodelin & Company

Publisher Beth Brenner measuring a rug in Lilian August

Jack Bergamino for Paul Smith

Loved this creative tenament apartment booth by Bradley Stephens Interior Design

Valspar was giving out paint samples and brushes.

Brett Design Inc.

Katie Lydon Interiors

Carrier & Co. booth featured screens from their room in the Hamptons Designer Show House!

Access to Design Shop

Loved this ode to Elizabeth Taylor room by Daniel M. Pafford

Yetta Banks for MTV Networks

Arlene Angard Designs

Bradley Thiergartner

S. Russell Groves

Form Architecture + Interiors

Photos by Heather Clawson for Habitually Chic