To Renee Finberg, the designer responsible for the home office you see above. (Insert appreciative, low whistling sound here.) There’s a Murphy bed hidden behind one wall. Learn more about her at her blog.
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Login StatusWelcomeLuxe, calme et volupté.*
That sounds wonderful.
In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance.
Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it.
So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight.
* From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”
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shux……………thank you .
I guess you see now, after a little research , that I will always believe Cary Grant was the most beautiful, elegant man ever !
again…Thank You.
I think the room (and Ms. Finburg for what my opinion is worth) is quite pleasing to the eye; the room has a certain efficiency, yet considerable warmth. The printer in the photo, however, highlights what I’m sure what must be a common problem for those of us that would prefer to be surrounded by pleasant and “genuine” articles, yet are dependent on a variety of ungainly, plasticky, and often wired devices. I’ve seen computer cases which strive to remedy this (See, http://www.gadgetmadness.com/archives/00russfinal1.jpg or, for the aesthete on the go: http://www.techepics.com/files/wooden_laptop.jpg
I have yet to see a printer so disguised. I’m curious to know what, if anything The Elegantologist has done to remedy the clutter of the electronica on which this engaging site depends.
Hello Cap’t, Ain’t it the truth? The cables alone are maddening. I work on a MacBook and had thought to go wireless to minimize the mess. It would also minimize my efficiency as loading photos, etc. becomes more of a time-consuming task. If I weren’t of limited means, I would certainly entertain something from Suissa Computers. (http://www.suissacomputers.com/) An extremely elegant solution to my eye.