The Spring 2012 issue of Trad Home is live and below is a sneak peek at the article I wrote on New Trad honoree Gideon Mendelson! To see the full article, and other stunning spaces by designers like Nick Olsen, Palmer Weiss and Christina Murphy, click here to check out the latest digital issue of Trad Home!

 

 

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In my previous post I talked about my obsession with Pinterest and other social media sites and one that I post to almost daily is Instagram! It’s an app for Apple and Android devices that creates a fun way to capture and share photos with vintage inspired filters. Like Pinterest, I’m totally addicted to it! Here’s a recap of the last couple of weeks through the lens of Instagram! I’m going to make this a regular feature so you can stay connected to what I’m up to when I’m offline. 

I took a stroll through Union Square Park in awe of the first true sign of spring – blossoming magnolia trees!

I flew to LA where I spent most of last week and the week before for a bit of work and play. I stayed at The Chamberlain which is one of my favorite hotels and has the chicest interiors. Here’s a vignette from inside the hotel.

I also spent some time chillaxin; at the Chamberlain’s rooftop pool. There’s nothing like the California sun!

While lounging I enjoyed a drink from one of my favorite places in LA – The Pressed Juicery.

I also enjoyed some fonuts – another LA food obsession! This is their baked, gluten free chocolate hazlenut donut. It was as delicious as it looks:)

I bought a chic, gold hand chain made by my friend Kelly Schumacher who I caught up with while in LA. Her fabulous jewelry line is coming soon!

I continued to eat my way through LA with a stop at Lemonade for some fresh salads and a yummy blood orange lemonade!

I caught up with Kishani Perera for dinner and was thrilled to receive the most amazing gift – a copy of her new book which I have been devouring! The beautiful book highlights some of Kishani’s best work with a focus on mixing old and new! It’s full of inspiration and you can purchase a copy here.

I flew home on a red eye…

And this past weekend upon returning to New York I made a pit stop at J. Crew where I picked up this colorful arm candy!

You can follow more of my daily adventures on the Instagram app @sohaute or here from your web browser!

PS – did you hear the announcement yesterday that Facebook bought Instagram for $1BILLION dollars! That is not a typo. One of my favorite lines in the movie The Social Network is when Sean Parker played by Justin Timberlake tells Mark Zuckerberg: “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.” That is the first thing I thought about when I heard the news about the Instagram acquisition – ha!

 

 

I may be a little late on the bandwagon but I’ve recently become utterly obsessed with Pinterest! It’s such a fun way to catalog all of the beautiful and inspiring images that I come across on a daily basis! In fact, I’ve become so obsessed that I’ve added a “Pin It” button to the blog so that all of my fellow Pinterest lovers can easily pin images from my posts on So Haute! I’d love for you to follow my pins and share in my newest obsession! Since we’re on the subject, a reader recently emailed to ask why I hadn’t posted on the blog in a while. (Cue overwhelming feelings of guilt.) Although my crazy busy full-time career and travel schedule doesn’t allow me the time to post daily, luckily, I’m pretty active on other social media outlets. If you’d like to stay in the loop on what I’m up to in between blog posts and keep up with all of the things that inspire me from the worlds of interiors, fashion, beauty and beyond, you can follow me here on Twitter, here on Instagram and here on my new favorite site Pinterest!

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Traditional Home has just announced its list of top 10 New Trads of 2012 who will be featured in it’s sister publication Trad Home and this year they tapped design bloggers to submit nominations for the honor. “Design bloggers have always been integral in helping us identify emerging trends, ideas and new designers,” said Ann Maine, Editor in Chief, Traditional Home. “With the help of design bloggers, we selected 10 NEW TRADS we think everyone should keep an eye on and we’re thrilled to showcase their work in the spring issue.” Trad Home received hundreds of submissions for up and coming designers and I’m excited to announce that my submission, the incredibly talented Gideon Mendelson, is one of the 10 who will be featured on this year’s list of New Trads! I will also be guest editing and writing the piece on Gideon for Trad Home. Congratulations to Gideon and all of the other designers who are so deserving of the honor! Below are more photos of Gideon’s work along with the full list of the New Trad class of 2012! For more info on all of the designers featured including links to their portfolios and the bloggers who submitted them, click here and be sure to look for the issue of Trad Home on virtual newsstands mid April!

 The New Trad Class of 2012

 

Looks like style star Taylor Tomasi-Hill has moved into a fabulous new apartment! (See our previous feature on her old home here.) The former fashion editor-turned artistic director for Moda Operandi recently gave Vogue.com a peek inside her new apartment which is a bright, loft-like space with an industrial-chic vibe and eccentric touches that mirror her quirky fashion choices. I’m especially loving the Rorschach inkblot-inspired wallpaper from Eskayel shown in the photo above.  See more of Taylor’s style at home below and you can see the full photo slideshow here on Vogue.com!

Photos by Claiborne Swanson-Frank for Vogue.com.