Marni Jameson: Bring regretful touches to your home

September 15, 2012 by admin
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Some homes are filled with love. Some homes are done with love. Some homes make we tumble in love.

I usually left a home that was all that. Casa Feliz, a obvious ancestral home in Winter Park, Fla., is so regretful that I’m blissful we toured it with my husband, or we competence have left off with a gardener.

Built in 1929 by designer James Gamble Rogers, a home resembles a Spanish cortijo or farmhouse, and looks a century comparison than it is — on purpose. The casa is so regretful that some-more than 100 couples are married there any year.

As a architect’s granddaughter showed us around a weathered section estate, a catering staff was scheming for a wedding. Love was in a air, and debility was in my knees. What is it about this place? we wanted to know. And could we bottle some of it and take it to my house?

I called architectural historian Susan Sully, author of 12 books on Southern architecture, including “Casa Florida,” a demeanour during regretful Spanish design in a region, to speak generally about intrigue in architecture, and privately about how to get some-more in my house.

“Talk about a place that invites adore and happiness,” Sully says about Casa Feliz. “It has each component a regretful home should have. It tells a story of a opposite time and place. The designer used aged materials to expel a spell. And it was done out of passion.”

The strange owners asked Rogers to build a 5,500-square-foot, Spanish-style farmhouse while

they trafficked for a year. Beyond that, Rogers could build a home as he wished. It was an architect’s dream, and we can tell Rogers poured his heart into a place.

“But what about those of us who can’t elect an designer to build a Spanish cortijo?” we ask Sully. “Is it too late for intrigue for us — we mean, for a house?”

(Anyone who got married in a year that starts with 19 knows that, after a decade and of babies and their 3 a.m. colic bouts, of anticipating someone else’s hair in your showering each day, of carrying done a bills and income come out even usually to find we need a new carburetor, knows that intrigue simply flies out a window, compress fate or no compress curtains.)

“Any character home can be romantic,” she assures me.

“But where does intrigue come from?” we ask.

She takes me literally. “The word ‘romance,’ ” she says, “comes from a base word ‘Roman,’ and refers to something that has a mislaid and pleasing past.”

“So wait! It’s not flowers and chocolate and candles and diamonds?”

“It’s a richly storied past.”

“To think, I’ve had a wrong expectancy all these years!”I say.

“It’s an antique china tea set that has graced a home, and that layers of amatory hands have delicately spotless over years.”

“Think of all a relations that competence have been saved if people usually realized.”

To assistance me improved understand, Sully explains what a regretful home is not. “Unromantic spaces are immobile environments, with no views of a outdoors, all fake materials, and a atmosphere conditioning or heater regulating nonstop.”

“Like my office,” we say.

“Unromantic homes are ideal and pretentious,” she continues. “They put on front rather than tell stories. They don’t entice we to lay down in your nightgown and daydream.”

Wistful sigh.

“Romantic interiors wave we to let your hair down and obey to your senses.”

Ah, romance. we surrender.

Here, Sully says, are a qualities regretful homes share:

Access to nature. “A regretful home has to be sensual, and partial of that means saying a outdoors,” Sully says. Many regretful houses have core courtyards, that a residence wraps around. They have French doors that open to gardens, and balconies, terraces and large windows that open adult a residence and bond we to nature. “Being in a room with French doors opening to a outside and a sound of a fountain is really romantic.” If we can’t lift that off, try putting a tiny garden or fountain outward a window.

Age. Romantic houses are aged or demeanour old. “All of us ring with story and a past,” Sully says. “That’s since aged houses feel regretful in a approach that new homes don’t.” When Casa Feliz was built some-more than 80 years ago, a designer endeavored to make it demeanour a century comparison by regulating unsettled materials. He reused section before that was fashionable. He deliberately combined exploding outside arches. In newer homes, furnishings with patina, antiques and heirlooms can deliver that unreal dimension.

Romantic windows. Long, issuing panels of white compress are Sully’s favorite window treatment. “They locate a light and move it in.” Homes are some-more regretful when they’re filled with healthy light.

Natural materials. Reclaimed wood, chipped ceramic tiles, ragged handles and faded fabrics all secrete a clarity of a “lost and pleasing past.”

Imperfection. Materials crafted by palm also feel nostalgic. The winding Spanish roof tiles during Casa Feliz are beautifully unsuitable since they were made by farmer workers frame a clay over their thighs.

Older, natural, unlawful with stories to tell. Romance — we consider it’s possible.

Syndicated columnist and orator Marni Jameson is a author of “House of Havoc” and “The House Always Wins” (Da Capo Press). Contact her by www.marnijameson.com.

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Plus-size Vogue cover girl Robyn Lawley is back to flaunt her curves for Boux …

September 14, 2012 by admin
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Bianca London

PUBLISHED:

04:17 EST, 14 September 2012

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04:30 EST, 14 September 2012

Plus-size model Robyn Lawley has
become somewhat of supernova in the fashion industry, defying ideals of
thinness equals beauty to star on the world’s most covetable magazine
covers and ad campaigns.

The 23-year-old size 16 model was such a hit as the face of Boux Avenue lingerie that they have asked her back to flaunt her curves once more.

Boux Avenue, which is the brainchild of Dragon’s Den star and businessman Theo Paphitis, is championing real women
of all shapes and sizes and encouraging healthier silhouettes to infiltrate
the catwalk this fashion week.

Plus-size model Robyn Lawley portrays how women of all shapes and sizes can look good in underwear

To hit the catwalk with a bang, the lingerie brand have launched new styles from the
Curve collection which are specially designed to complement and enhance women’s best assets.

Aiming to cater to all shapes and sizes, the
collection provides the perfect fit for a diverse range of sizes from a
30A to 40H and sizes 8-20, whether your figure is sporty, pear, apple or
hourglass.

Addressing the ongoing size debate,
Boux Avenue embraces a healthy attitude to body shapes providing options
for all women whatever their size or curves.

This is where Robyn fits in perfectly with the brand’s ethos.

The new range comes in a collection designed for all shapes and sizes with both day wear and sexy nightwear

The Australian model, who is a proud size 16, fronts the underwear line for a second time after hitting the headlines for their autumn campaign, where she replaced size 10 Strictly Come Dancing star Ola Jordan, 29, who was the face and body of the brand for over a year.

Robyn
has graced the pages of French Elle, French Vogue and Australian Vogue
and has become a role model for curvy women in recent years.

She is an activist on supporting healthy body image in women,
particularly young girls with low self-esteem, and also has a food blog
called Robyn Lawley Eats.

Robyn, who was once called chubby, now embraces her curves and represents real women

Supporting ‘team real
women’ the fashion industry has witnessed a surge in plus size model
agencies led by fashion’s most influential figures, and campaign’s such
as Vogue’s health initiative encouraging a more realistic view on body
image.

Boux Avenue is a brand that actively embraces this by championing real women.

‘We design our collection to celebrate
body shapes, encouraging women to love their silhouette, using
beautiful and luxurious fabrics.

‘We create striking, sensual and sexy
styles that will make every single women feel confident in their own
skin.

With London Fashion Week starting today, we wanted to celebrate curves and show women that
the perfect lingerie can really make a difference to your shape,’ said Debby Duckett, Boux Avenue Buying Director.

The label is the brainchild of Dragon's Den star Theo Pathitis

The label is the brainchild of Dragon’s Den star Theo Pathitis

Robyn is an experienced cover girl and her curves have made her famous

ABOUT THE COLLECTION…

Featuring two seductive stories, The Feminine Allure and After Hours Glamour, there’s a look and feel for every shape and size.

The Feminine Allure features a
selection of lingerie sets in delicate lace and sumptuous
satin, perfect for everyday wear with a touch of luxury.

Bright strawberry
hues inject an irresistible dose of colour into the collection alongside
chic black, blush cream and soft leopard print.

For a sultry, more seductive feel the
After Hours Glamour collection incorporates black lace, flirty frills and intricate
floral embroidery.

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I was really impressed with Robyn Lawley until I saw her un-photo shopped pictures. She still looked beautiful but not so flat and perfect. Think it’s a shame that such a stunning woman who is supposed to represent the larger lady still has to slim down artificially.

Naomi
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fordshire, United Kingdom,
14/9/2012 22:02

Come on, lets be realistic here, she would look far better if she were a few dress sizes smaller. She is just in denial. Give it time and she will lose it

Bex1983
,

London,
14/9/2012 21:50

There is no way on Gods green earth that this woman is a size 16!

MadameJoJo
,

Liverpool,
14/9/2012 21:38

Sophia Toronto, a size 6-8 in Canada is a size 10-12 in UK. I am also 5ft 8in and a size 8 but in British sizing I am a size 12.

PippaT
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Victoria,
14/9/2012 21:20

Can we get back to less airbrushing ? I’m amazed people accept that as the norm these days ….

C.
,

London, United Kingdom,
14/9/2012 21:16

WOW

paul
,

wilts, United Kingdom,
14/9/2012 20:45

Plus size my @ss, that’s what I woman should look like!

Chillmike
,

Madison, United Kingdom,
14/9/2012 20:37

omg she’s gorgeous but HOW is she plus sized. She’s a normal healthy, sexy woman.

poppi
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Noth,
14/9/2012 20:35

amazing to think this is plus sized… she’s prettier than almost any other model I’ve ever seen.

deanna
,

Lenexa Kansas, United States,
14/9/2012 20:23

very nice but hardly plus sized

david10
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norwich,
14/9/2012 20:10

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