Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

1.17.2012


Selin, is a perfect friend and an amazing person. Due to our studies abroad we were seeing each other occasionally during holidays.  What's more she is a good teammate. We have really good memories in this beautiful house mostly after our nights out coming home and playing Trivial Pursuit in the summers
 
The black armchairs used to belong to her grandmother, and the candles are from a small store in Le Marais, Paris where she used to work before moving to her homeland, Istanbul. With its checherboard marble tiles, entrance is one of my favorite parts of the house.
 
playing with 'Pablo'
 
She bought this purple YSL bag from New York and the rug it sits on is a purchase from Machu Picchu, Peru. From the time she volunteered in an orphanage.
This is a scratch-off map that Selin purchased from Singapore. She though its a cute way of keeping track of her travels, her sister also has one.
Selin loves to travel and she has many souvenirs in her room from the places she visited. The boomerang she recently got from Gold Coast, Australia, the Tumbi sculpture and hand crafted mini-notebooks she bought from Cusco, Peru, the Buddha sculpture from Bangkok, Thailand and a hardcover book from Singapore.
  
Although the living room generally has a Scandinavian effect with its colors, I noticed a few objects like this hand made Ottoman Iron Curtain that create a cozy Bosphorus house feeling. This was designed by her mother and Armenian craftsman made.
You can see the candles reflections seem endless.



3.13.2011


Even though we graduated from the same high school, I didn't know her too well. However I always found her tasteful because of the way she went through life, having a deep understanding of design, food, and traveling. These were the things that started our conversations and our friendship. Her blog, 'eat and travel' , is a good way to get an idea about what I am talking about and now I am really happy to know more about her by being in her house.




Her room and her lovely dog Tomy.

The sweet magnolia bakery recipe book purchased to cook pastel toned desserts.

She bought this weird Coca-Cola bottle from Florence in 2001.

The crystal glasses were Efes Pilsen beer bottles turned into whiskey glasses by Maybe Design.


Her mother purchased this bag from Peru.

Composition made of a leather English 'walking bag' bought from Milano, shoes from her one of the favorite shop, Madewell in NY, and hat from a hat shop in Nice.

I really like being surprised while I am visiting houses. This time i was flabbergasted with a huge vintage radio collection owned by her father. A collection that had been accumulating for nearly 40 years: a collection of more than 150 radios, some hi-fi receivers, and speakers and a special hi-fi room.
We listened some music from James Taylor. Once you enter, you don't wanna leave the room!

Back to her room...


While she was in New York, she collected carts and napkins whose graphic design she liked.



The bike strap on the wall is designed by NL Architects for Droog. A good way to store things like books, magazines, and toys. By the way I have to say that I love Droog and their Chest of Drawers designed by Tejo Remy which is one of the Droog classics.