I know Domino is dead and gone but former Domino editor and blogger Michelle Adams has just launched Lonny Magazine, an online-only home magazine.

The first issue’s been out for a few weeks and I’m slow on the uptake these days but it’s really an amazing thing she and her partner-in-crime Patrick Cline have managed to put together. I love that each story has tons of photos accompanying and really shows a range of tastes. (First issue includes the homes of Eddie Ross, Grace Bonney, Ron Marvin and former Domino EIC Deborah Needleman.) It’s bookmarked!

I am totally in awe of the architect whose work is profiled in the New York Times today.

Architect Eric Clough was commissioned by a family to redesign their apartment. The father, Mr. Klinsky suggested the architect hide a poem he had written to his family in the walls of the apartment. This idea sparked a project that involved noted sculptors and writers to design an elaborate scavenger hunt in the apartment for the family of six to do together.

Such an amazing story with such intricate and elaborate details. Door knockers designed to come off doors, fit together to form a crank which opens a hidden compartment in a wall. Keys hidden in cubbies behind artwork which fit together to form magnetized cubes which open a series of panels which reveal the poem the father wrote for his family. Radiator grilles in each of the childrens’ bedrooms laser cut with a coded poem to each child. Amazing stuff. Read the article! Be sure to check out the slideshow as well.

Thought these would make such a great chandelier for a party. Each balloon is lit by a small LED light (which I suppose don’t get as hot as conventional lights.) and is powered by small batteries which last up to 100 hours. I love the clustered organic look of these.

I can’t believe I’m getting holiday catalogs at home. Well. I can believe it considering I’m wrapping up all the Christmas advertising at work right now but if we’re planning to drop ours after Thanksgiving the lead time for West Elm must’ve been bananas. Anyway.

I spied this desk set and loved it… High gloss black and white? Of course! The set is also available in gold tones and red tones.

Caught Domino‘s Editor-in-Chief Deborah Needleman’s Tribeca home in this week’s New York Magazine and loved it so much. That living room is to die for and oh, dear the gray on the walls of her dining room is sublime. I love how everything looks so light and airy and yet so comfortable. See it all here. (And check out the rest of the issue… this week is the Home Design issue!)

Okay guys. Seriously I have found my new favorite gift web site. Violet offers gifts for very specific types of people you know. And not just any gifts. Distinctive gifts, people. The website design is so easy to navigate, not to mention designed exquisitely. Gifts are photographed gorgeously and the selection is so amazing. I can’t stop looking through this. I hope you all love it. (Thanks Bonnie, for introducing me to your wonderful business!)