This woman is my new hero. Make sure you go look at it from the other side; the contrast (and context) are the best part. (via @michaelsurtees)

Great video about the birth of British street fashion, by way of @luxlotus

Rosecrans Baldwin's latest post for The Moment contained this image of the mid-20th century's most iconic furniture designers and a link to the 1961 Playboy article it was shot for. Unfortunately, the article has since been pulled down. (And before I had a chance to read it!) But what a great photo.

My favorite thing about our house is that it feels like a treehouse, and my favorite people are those who make this observation. Most recently, a five-year-old boy we’d never met before came in our back door, looked around, and asked me point blank: “Is this a treehouse?” But living here hasn’t quenched my lifelong desire to have a real one — a fancy one. I’ve been collecting images for years, and I’ll be acquiring this new book reviewed and previewed at the LA Times, but I can’t imagine there’s a better image in it than this one.

Hotze Eisma is one of my very favorite photographers. We’ve used a lot of his shooting in the European interiors series I edit, and I’m compelled to say HOTZE EISMA! out loud, emphatically, every time he comes up. I also have a number of the original magazine features on my corkboard and in my files, and so know a lot of these places by heart — as if I've stood in those rooms, in that light. But Emma Fexeus today pointed out something I did not know: his website is not only packed full of images, many of which I’ve not seen before, but there are downloadable PDFs of dozens of homes. So much insanely beautiful stuff. For example, I’m pretty sure I could live happily ever after on this little Netherlands waterway —