The Royal Tenenbaums Revisited

The Home section of The Washington Post ran a story yesterday about readers' favorite film interiors in honor of Sunday's Academy Awards. I submitted photos from The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). I loved the pink walls, the taxidermy, the art by Elliott Puckette and Hugo Guinness, and the wonderful eccentricity of it all. Well, they obviously thought it was a bad joke because needless to say my suggestion did not appear. If you are taken by the quirkiness of taxidermy, but not, Heaven forbid, the real thing, I have found two great new pieces from the wonderful online and catalog store Wisteria. The Butcher Shop Bull $229 and Curly Horn Ram's Head $189 are reproductions of European antiques. Both are heavy resin castings. I think either would be stunning and dramatic in an entryway, over a mantel, or in a kitchen.

The Royal Tenenbaums

Domino 

Domino

Domino

Wisteria

Wisteria

(photos courtesy of dominomag.com and wisteria.com)

Happy Valentine's Day

Hearts are not exactly my style, so here is my favorite painting by my favorite artist Elliott Puckette, and my favorite color with my wishes for a Happy Valentine's Day to all my new blog friends. The painting is available at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York and other works of this amazing artist can be seen on the gallery website at paulkasmingallery.com.