This Charming House

The Elliott Puckette is back!

Are y'all sick of it yet?  I don't care if you are.  I am excited about this. 

As I've told you before,  I bought an Elliott Puckette lithograph late last fall and immediately rushed it off to the framers.  And when it came back it was just ..... wrong.   I missed.   I don't often go wrong with my framing decisions but I just really messed up with the Puckette.   I think I overthought it.   You can go here and see what it looked like before.

But because I paid money for that frame job, I hung it in my bedroom and decided that I'd live with it for a while.  Well, last week I decided that I'd had enough and that despite a valiant effort on my part, I still hated it.  So back it went and today I picked up the re-framed piece and I have to say....

I LOVE IT! 

Here it is hanging in it's new spot in the entry hall. I just cannot get over how much difference the frame and mat color makes.  It literally made my heart skip a beat when I hung it on the wall.

And as an added bonus I moved the piece that was previously hanging here (an Imogen Cunningham print) upstairs to the empty spot in my bedroom, where it looks so wonderful and completely new. 

I need to thank the lovely and patient guys at my frame shop, Corners, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.  If you're a Charlotte area reader, definitely give them your business.  There are no words to describe how great they are. 

A Little Pretty for the Weekend

This room was designed by Carrier and Company for a home somewhere in Connecticut.

I have two things to say about it.

It's pretty.

That's an Elliott Puckette hanging over the fireplace.

Elliott Puckette, Part Two

I really don't have a lot to say about Elliott Puckette, except:

I love her I love her I love her.

Seriously, if I won the lottery, I'd build a house and have it designed around all of her art that I would buy.

That's how much I love her.


She's Southern, born and raised in Tennessee, educated in New York.

I don't think that her Southern-ness is either here or there, but it makes me love her more.

I'm really not a fan of abstract art, but something about these works speaks to me. And they aren't as easy as they look. She makes her abstracts with gesso (whatever the hell that is) and colored inks and then scores the marks and flowing lines with a razor blade - at least that's what Vogue has to say about her.

I just find it mesmerizing. Modern and yet, elegant and not formal or harsh. Kind of how I want to be - so maybe I'm projecting? Maybe just hopeful.

She sells her work through Danziger Projects and the Paul Kasmin Gallery.
And you can check her out there if you want to know more.
Photos from Vogue and Domino Magazine

Elliott Puckette

I've been a big fan or Elliott Puckette for a few years now, ever since I read the article in the May 2003 issue of Vogue.

I never thought I'd be able to own her work.

Happily, she offered a limited edition print through Conde Nast and I was thrilled to be able to buy it. It's happily hanging in my bedroom now.

Yay!

Here it is in the room -