Prints

This is more color than I usually like, but these are so wonderful.
Muriel Brandolini designed them
http://www.murielbrandolini.com/
She doesn't have pattern names. They are just called "Orange #1" or "Grey #4"

Perfect Containers

Wardrobe
Wardrobe interior
Wardrobe Exterior
Jewelry Box Interior
Jewelry Box Exterior. See the website for more images and info. on the materials they used!
http://madebymeta.com/

doorways

Mint Green and Gilt at a museum in Spoleto

the Cortona metals studio... levels leading up to the bread oven and anvil

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's dresses

I love the entire fresco cycle - The Allegory of Good and Bad Government - But I really adore the dragonfly and caterpillar fabrics these women are wearing ( As did all the girls in Sarah Cree's seminar)

Gold

The head of a goose, with feathers all around




Where Temple St. Claire got it's first inspiration?

Silver

Palm trees?

Pack of wild dogs

one on each arm

Dramatic/ Peaceful

Fur Hammock from Spazio Rossana Orlandi
http://www.rossanaorlandi.com/
I don't know the origin of this image, so I unfortunately cannot credit the work
Light fixture from Asli Tunca reminds me of scaffolding. love the sparse arrangement

Portraits at the Met

A sweet gilded pendant

the hat

Fabrics

A detail from Duccio's Maesta- the pattern intricacy & colorstory (and hands)
In the same building were some textiles similar to the ones he is painting here.... I will edit the post to include those later

Face

Sam Fogg deals Medieval, Islamic, and Indian Art. This example is my favorite, although I have no idea who it is meant to represent
http://www.samfogg.com/

Surfaces

Painted floor Manhattan

Custom Designs in Verre Eglomise.
I have not had the chance to work with her, but If I could have her help on every project that would obviously be ideal as the effects she renders are glorious
Vesna Bricelj

Dreamland

Steiner & Lenzlinger
If I had a greenhouse I would have to set it up like this because all of my plants die

enamel and glass

the materials and the overall effect
www.judystabile.com

coffee shop

well, it would obviously be contrived to do this in my kitchen, but I really want to

Library

Pretty wine labels and script from Torgiano

At the Museum of the Etruscan Academy in Cortona.  Nice details for constructing bookcases- reference for a future project.  I'll probably start working up sections

eating

-I like pink in a dining room ( lucca- March 29, 2008 with Anya)

-sheer drapes (March 26, 2008 Pitti Palance)  

-silver trays with little snails crawling around the rim.  Pretty much anything like this with animals on it(April venice).  The store was closed so I had to try to fit my camera through the metal grate guarding the window, thus the poor quality.  For reference!  

scale?

From the photo without any other reference, it's nearly impossible to tell that this fluid sculptural artwork is actually jewelry made out of paper.  *The texture of the black and white one is my favorite

By Janna Syvanoja at the Alternatives Gallery in Florence