Sometimes all you need is a bit of finetuning, rearanging, and tweeking to have a cleaner fresher look and feel. Read more of what Nate Berkus has to say.

This gallery of trends by year is quite amusing.  Fun to see which were the good years and the bad years – or the years with a flash in the pan trend or a more enduring one.  Glad to report that my year of birth features the Barcelona Chair.  Which perhaps explains my fondness for iconic chairs.  OK scratch fondness and replace with obsession.  Which reminds me I need a bigger flat to house more of these chairs.  Here’s a link to some of those pieces. Would love to have the Corona Chair.  Some of you may remember it being features in Roger Sterling’s office on Mad Men.

I’ve read a million design magazines (I exaggerate but not by many), have worked on projects with several designers and mostly I get it right.  Sometimes a designer is needed and the results are then different.  And sometimes Molly is needed!  Molly has an innate awareness of what is right or wrong.  That and having seen countless houses in 25 years.  Yesterday I invited Molly over for coffee to appraise the situation. Molly outright rejected one that was on the wall (sorry Mom & Dad) then we ran around the apartment looking for suitable pieces – and voilà.  All that is needed now is a little tweaking on exact location. Thing about a gallery wall is there has to be scale and dialogue. I am amazed by the dialogue of these paintings! For a while they weren’t talking at all!  Dialogue is the contrast and the flow and the colours. Thanks Molly! Together we made this wall look great. What a team!

As some of you know I have a thing for chairs (as my daughter sighs!).  Seems my favourites were designed in the 50s but I’m willing to look of previous and subsequent decades.  Love this chrome number! Well perhaps in an entrance not the living room.  A couple of odd ones in this selection. You wouldn’t want the glass above the cactus to break.  Molly thinks the cocoon one would be lovely to sit in with a breeze blowing through.  I’m not sure she can get in…  And I’m not sure what she feels she needs shelter from but there you are.