Reader Monica emailed me looking for the source of a fabric she had seen once in a Veranda Magazine feature and then on another blog.  I did a little research and didn’t immediately come up with an answer for her.  Thought I would throw this out to you all.

Can anyone help a girl out?  I am curious myself, where there is this beauty there is sure to be more.  Hope everyone has a good day today.  I’ve got our guest room, living room and Maddie’s room drapes going in today.  Tomorrow our barstools and kitchen chairs are due in…..slowly but surely around here.

I am throwing this one out to you all to see if you can help a girl out.  Reader, Kristen, recently came back from a stay at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica (where the interior was designed by Kelly Wearstler).  She snapped a shot of the following wallpaper and is trying to find the source.

Anyone have an idea?

Have a great weekend!

One of my clients has me stumped and this doesn’t happen often.  She saw this fabric on Brisbane designer Anna Spiro’s blog and fell in love.   But for the life of me I cannot find the source.  I even emailed the source did not get a response.  So, please…..I am sure someone out there knows this lovely fabric?

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Does this fabric come to mind?

Pretty Please?

Given my schedule these days there is no regularity to this series but I thought I would share you a fun reader request today.  Reader Shana emailed me the below photo from the set of the movie “Change Up” looking for a source on the fabric.

I’d like to claim that I immediately knew where to look but in my mind I had it narrowed down to a couple of lines and emailed my wonderful showroom reps and hit the jackpot.  A sample is on its way to me now.

Said fabric is Harlequin’s Eva fabric from the Amilie Collection.  Have you checked out their products?  Love them!

Are you having trouble finding an elusive source?  Feel free to contact me and if I have time I’ll post it on the blog.  If you need something more timely, I do charge hourly.  Contact me for more information.

With that, have a great weekend!  I have been in a Craigslist facilitated purge in anticipation of the move.  So, more listing stuff and packing is on tap here.  Oh, and friends for dinner Saturday night….hope we still have a kitchen table when they arrive!

A while back I received an email from a designer in NYC. Her client had been at the D&D building and found a mirrored fabric that she had fallen in love with. The problem was, she couldn’t remember where she saw the fabric. She thought it was a Diane Von Furstenberg fabric but wasn’t sure. I remembered I had blogged about a new fabric line DVF was to come out with here. So, I picked up the phone and called DVF. They had no idea about a fabric line, but directed me to their home line of ready made items.

Not to be discouraged, I dug a bit deeper and I think I not only found the fabric, but also an image of it in use in none other than Charlotte’s study from Sex and the City.

It is hard to make out the fabric in the above image but here is a close up from Donghia. Notice the little “mirrors” which combines hand woven silk with small pieces of mica, which are exquisitely hand embroidered into the fabrics.

It is a very unique fabric, don’t you think?

PS–Contact me if you have a research project you would like considered for a future blog post.

I cannot tell you how many times I get readers emailing me photos or links to blogs/magazines trying to find out the source of a particular item.  Although there is a “research” component of my business I haven’t really ever asked for anything in return for finding items for people….but as the requests seem to be picking up I thought I would aggregate them and do a periodic “Reader Request” post.

So, here we’ll kick it off with an email looking for help in identifying a particular wallpaper that a reader had seen on another blog.

image via Young House Love

image via Young House Love

So, just a little bit of research brought me to Sanderson.  The “Squirrel and Dove” pattern is part of a recently released Vintage collection which is pulling from Sanderson’s vast archives.  This particular print was first introduced as a wallpaper around 1890!  It is now available in both wallpaper and fabric, in three colorways….

Teal/Red

Linen/Ivory

Sage/Natural

It is a lovely pattern, don’t you think?  And how cute is that nursery?  What a lucky little girl.  So, if you are looking for a little free research, feel free to drop me a line and I’ll try to help you out and post on a future “Reader Research” post.