Brett Bara of Brooklyn Craft Camp
Tweet Brett Bara is the mastermind behind Brooklyn Craft Camp, an epic Saturday packed with awesome food and hands-on DIY workshops about everything from terrariums to macrame. It’s all happening in Greenpoint on March 16th, and we’re excited to be a sponsor! Honestly, Brooklyn Craft Camp couldn’t have a better host. Brett is a published...
Amy Azzarito: Author of Past & Present
Tweet We’re very excited to help Amy Azzarito launch her new book: Past & Present: 24 Favorite Moments in Decorative Arts History and 24 Modern DIY Projects Inspired By Them. In preparation of the official launch party at west elm Broadway on March 7, we chatted with Amy about her love of design and decorative...
Lucy Feagins of The Design Files
Tweet Welcome Lucy Feagins! The founder of Australian blog The Design Files joins Holly Becker of Decor8 and our growing list of influential home decor and style bloggers from around the world. We chatted with Lucy about her five years blogging at The Design Files and the fast-approaching opening of West Elm Sydney — our first...
Studio Visit: Leah Durner
Tweet Leah Durner‘s abstract paintings in oil, gouache, and poured enamel were the inspiration behind her colorful new collaboration collection with west elm. We love her eye-popping vibrancy and post-Warholian pop sensibilities. So we took a look inside Leah’s studio to learn more about what inspires her, and her daily practice as a working artist...
Talking With Justina Blakeney
Tweet Any home is a reflection of its owner, so maybe the best way to introduce designer Justina Blakeney is with a description of her Los Angeles bungalow. The place is overgrown with lush plants, oversaturated with color, overflowing with incredible vintage pieces, and yet somehow never completely over-the-top. We’ll also go ahead and tell...
Michael Mundy of An Afternoon With
Tweet Michael Mundy is a big time commercial lifestyle/fashion photographer and NYC native whose personal photo project, An Afternoon With, is one of our great Internet obsessions. With astonishing intimacy, An Afternoon With documents the homes of different notable New York characters. And every time, Micahel seems to capture something wonderfully real about the way...
Irene Hoofs of Bloesem
Tweet We’re excited to be featuring Holly Becker of Decor8 and Irene Hoofs of Bloesem Blog and Bloesem Kids in our newest catalog! We spoke with Irene about her love of design and the impact of her global lifestyle on her own design aesthetic and Bloesem…
4 Questions with Emma Gardner of Poires Au Chocolat
Tweet Our favorite food bloggers inspire us to cook at home and make us hungry every day. We wanted to know them a little better. So we’re getting together to chat all throughout the holidays! Emma Gardner of Poires Au Chocolat is a Cordon Bleu-trained pastry cook, an Oxford graduate student, and all-around overachiever who...
4 Questions with Kelsey Brown of Happyolks
Tweet Our favorite food bloggers inspire us to cook at home and make us hungry every day. We wanted to know them a little better. So we’re getting together to chat all throughout the holidays! Kelsey Brown’s Happyolks presents an irresisitable mix of beautiful photography, downright poetic musings, and some delicious recipes, too. We love...
4 Questions with Amelia Morris of Bon Appetempt
Tweet Our favorite food bloggers inspire us to cook at home and make us hungry every day. We wanted to know them a little better. So we’re getting together to chat all throughout the holidays! The always-witty Amelia Morris says challenge accepted to fancy glossy food magazine recipes, and documents her culinary triumphs and fails...
4 Questions with Camille Styles
Tweet Our favorite food bloggers inspire us to cook at home and make us hungry every day. We wanted to know them a little better. So we’re getting together to chat all throughout the holidays! Camille Styles has made entertaining with good taste her career, and a quick glance at the recipes and food photography...
4 Questions with Lindsay Landis of Love & Olive Oil
Tweet Our favorite food bloggers inspire us to cook at home and make us hungry every day. We wanted to know them a little better. So we’re getting together to chat all throughout the Holidays! We first learned about Lindsay Landis through her quest to develop the ultimate raw cookie dough recipe, and her subsequent...