A Merry Christmas gift to a very special friend…and my very best wishes to all of you special blogger friends! Two years and two hundred posts later, we have gotten to know each other, and I humbly draw from your talents…Happy Holidays! See you in the new year!
The Whitney for the Georgia Okeefe exhibit and the Guggenheim for Kandinsky…what delight!
Some beautiful doors around the city…5th Ave, Chelsea, the Village.
Shopping is amazing…I bought a great lucite necklace from Alexis Bittar. The Mac store is a glass box in the middle of the city you walk down into…with glass stairs.
Bergdorf’s windows were the best!
Vuitton, Avenue of the Americas, Lincoln Center (we saw South Pacific), Rockefeller Center soldiers.
Columbus Circle from the Time Warner Building.
Large scale decorations along 6th, at Saks, Angels and the Swarovski star at Rockefeller Center
McGuire and Henrendon at the NYDC
Dennis Miller at the NYDC
We had lunch with Francine Garner, who owns Interieurs in Tribeca
First three in Chelsea area..other off 5th, and last off Greene St.
The Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking district…love the red door down the street…they really do pack meat there!
The Meatpacking district and Highline…they were filming Gossip Girl that day.
Merry Christmas!!
Time just flies by! We are in the middle of the Holiday season already! After I catch up on some work and some things around my house today, I can’t wait to share my pictures of Christmas decorating in NYC. This is one of Bergdorf’s windows.
My client has a very large guest room with a 16’ ceiling peak…the idea is to install an electric or sterno fuel fireplace with attached millwork shelving. I propose installing a new TV and stereo that is wired to the existing wall speakers. There is an armless modern wing chair with desk that doubles as a nightstand, a great plaid rug, antler chandelier, and white leather ottomans with nail head trim that funk up the traditional ski chalet concept. The client grew up at Whistler, and owns the desk and antique skis, as well as the log bed. A red Hudson’s Bay blanket provides colour inspiration, and warms you by the fire. Wouldn’t you love to stay here at Christmas, watching the crashing waves and snuggling under the quilt with your sweetie? She makes a great gingerbread cappuccino!
Music and art excite me to the point of dancing and giggling…the ultimate joy and delight (well maybe great food and wine as well). I want to be listening to this song as I digest Motherwell, Rothko, Kline and Miro on the 5th floor of the MOMA next week…what a great recipe! The simple nature, repetition, undulating melody, emphasis and lyrics go so well with the playfulness of modern art.
Two west coast bedrooms- both with built in beds, taking best advantage of the room layouts. There is a bookshelf behind the mbr headboard, incorporating a post. The bunk room includes niches for books. I like these types of dwgs, because they offer so many finishing choices. The after photos are always an interesting story to me…of how design develops, what the client adds to the mix, and where we are in the process . Design in always in flux.
Interior Design and drawings by Michelle Morelan Interior Design
Photos of Eaglerock by Graeme Owsianski-graemephoto.com
My love of the outdoors started early…this is me in 1967!
I spent the first few years of my life in one of those little shacks along the shore in Glace Bay Nova Scotia (my family moved to Vancouver Island in 1969). I was at my moms last week, and took some old photo albums home to scan; it’s been so much fun to look them. I miss my grama and grampa who lived across the street…when I hear that Dion Warwick song “Whenever I See Your Smiling Face” I think of him and feeding the birds that used to nest outside the kitchen window. Life is so strange, tragic and beautiful…
On days like these, I like to snuggle, nap, break habits and reconfigure. I spent the whole day in my re-arranged studio/workspace and beside a roaring fire. After prepping my space and thinking about last week’s mixed media class, I did three “Rose, where’d you get that Red?” paintings. When you have everything set up, it’s so easy to take an hour or two to be creative. Hope I haven’t bored you too much with this room, but it sure is changing my life.
My instructor is pushing me outside of my box, and we are experimenting with the cursive and familiar nature of text married to a powerful colour. They sure have brightened up the studio space! I wish I could take better pictures of my art…I know it’s the lighting…any suggestions?
“Rose, where’d you get that Red? #2
Acrylic on Canvas, 30x48”, Michelle Morelan, 2009
“Rose, where’d you get that Red? #3
Mixed media on watercolour paper, 20 x 30”, Michelle Morelan, 2009
“Rose, where’d you get that Red? #4
Mixed media on watercolour paper, 20 x 30”, Michelle Morelan, 2009
