Aerin Lauder's Manhattan Offices

Aerin Lauder, the style and image director of Estee Lauder, is moving beyond the family brand into her own product line, a variety of home and fashion accessories, as well as beauty products. Though her new brand, Aerin, will be launching its first collection in a few weeks, Lauder’s offices are an urbane expression of what the brand's style will be. Her offices in Mahnattan occupy a former eight-room art gallery and will eventually house about a dozen employee. In order to create a chic and beautiful working environment Lauder invited her favorite designer, Jacques Grange, to give to the space "an underlying structure that’s clean and inviting...with colors and fabrics and textures to make it look very personal, warm, and elegant.” The result as you can see from the pages of Architectural Digest magazine is just that!

The Newsstand - Home Decor Magazines: April 2012

Clockwise from top left:

 Elle Decor (US edition), Elle Decoration (French edition), Lonny, Living etc, Dwell, Vogue Living, Elle Decoration (UK edition), Architectural Digest

A Living Room Ready for Valentine's Day

Brooke Shields' Manhattan apartment seems to the perfect place for spending a cozy and warm Valentine's day! Architectural Digest has picked the apartment of the famous actress for its March issue which is out on the newsstands now, a few days before Valentine's day. Her Greenwich Village townhouse was renovated in collaboration with designer David Flint Wood and MADE architects. 

Shields, says that she toured brownstones all over Manhattan "looking for 'the one'. About four years ago she was shown a derelict (though landmarked) four-family brick house built around 1910, with a ramshackle ’60s addition. “It needed a complete gut,” she says, “but after a quick walk-through, I could see our future there. My bathtub in a niche by a window. Our daughters’ playroom on the top floor. A light-flooded, parlor-floor kitchen with a big hearth and a balcony. That kind of instant certainty is rare for me—I’m a Gemini—but for once, I was sure.”

The Newsstand: November 2010

Fashion bloggers and fashion lovers constantly post about the latest fashion magazine covers; who is on the cover, a model or a celebrity? who is the photographer? what is text about? have the fonts changed? what colours have they chosen? Apparently the same topic is not that interesting to the interior design fans. Although the community is very active (there are many, many blogs, a lot of magazines and plenty of related forums),home decor magazine covers are almost never a topic of discussion...This monthly post titled "The Newsstand" will be featuring the latest home decor magazine covers in an effort to finally bring them to the spotlight! 

From top left (clockwise):

• Elle Decor - The cover features a photo from the LA based designer Suzanne Rheinstein's home
• Dwell - Live/Work (I'm sure that many Etsy sellers will find this issue interesting)
• Interior Design - Bright colours in the kitchen of modern apartment in Tribeca, NY
• Architectural Digest - Feautures the actor Rob Lowe at his Californian dream house
• Lonny - one year anniversary issue with Celerie Kembell