pages and pages

I've got several file folders full of pages and clippings from magazines. Sometimes the magazine just had one or two things worth saving so this was my way to toss the magazine and keep the good stuff. I've been doing this for 15 years! I'd like to get all these clippings organized. This week I pulled out 7 or 8 clippings and tried searching the internet for digital images that I could keep here at HousePet. And I came up with one, a home designed by architects, Haga & Grov. And the photo here wasn't nearly as amazing as the one published in that Wallpaper from 2001...



Haga & Grov also had these great photos of other homes...



There was a living room featured in Lucky Magazine in 2001 as part of a feature called the Lucky Home Guide.


Ten years later, this living room still looks good to me. Lots of classic pieces... although I still hate the purple on the walls but that's just paint. And maybe the homeowner is wondering why they ever went purple in there too. Who knows. This person with this living room cofounded a design firm and MCM-Scandinavian Design-Vintage seemed very important to she and her then boyfirend. I google searched on the homeowner's name thinking they might have a blog or be part of an interior online zine. I searched on her Design Firm's name. Nada. Did she get married and change her name? Did she give up on this style and now she's devoted to Shabby Chic-Moroccan? I thought it would be so cool to see what her living room would look like now, ten years later. And then I could blog it here. But no. I found nothing on the internet.

The big nothing happened again and again. I searched on more architects names and the amazing projects I had clippings of didn't exist at all on the internet. It was all so very odd to me and such a bummer. I was trying to organize but was being shut down at every door. I'm going to try some more this weekend. Seriously, I have hundreds to search on and I'm bound to find some of them.