Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: A lotus pod at Lotus Land. Looks like friendly alien eyes.
Above and below: Inside a wave... "Green Room" screen grabs from this video.
Above: Jane Wilson, End of Winter: Watermill, 1985
Above: Winifred Nicholson, Sound of Rhum from Isle of Eigg, 1950s
Above: Georgia O' Keeffe, Sun Water Maine, 1922
Above: Edouard Manet, On The Beach, Boulogne-Sur-Mer, 1868
Above: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible
Photo by Stephen Shore
Above: Stephen Shore, Ginger Shore, West Palm Beach Florida, November 14 1977. From his new book, Stephen Shore Selected Works 1973-1981.
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: Sea foam green vinyl front seats , Santa Barbara
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: From an installation at Creative Growth, Oakland
Above: Vintage surfing postcard
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: Blue green glass at Lotus Land, Santa Barbara. Chunks of this glass edge many of the walkways there.
Above: Louise Fishman, oil on canvas. Fishman will have a show opening at Cheim & Read this fall, September 7 - October 28 2017.
Above: AD France, June/July 2017. Room at El Fenn Hotel, Marrakech
Photo by Steven Meisel
Above: AD France, June/July 2017. The book matched onyx makes a fantastic design in this bath by Marmol Radziner.
Above: Ben Nicholson, June 11 1949, (Cornish Landscape)
Above and below: Oscar Niemeyer, Casa das Canoas, 1952, Rio de Janieiro
Above: Craig Ellwood's Hunt House (1955-1957), Malibu
Above: Color chart from French book "Traite de la Coloration des Pates a Papier"
Above: Luna Moth
Above: Ceramic by Dame Lucie Rie (1902-1995)
Above: Fredrik Vaerslev, Installation view 2012
Above: Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), The large Piece of Turf, 1503
Above: At Katin Surf Shop, Seal Beach, Sato Hughes has been making canvas surf shorts since 1961. You can read more about Sato Hughes here. Love the pale green formica of her sewing table.
Above: A vintage pair of Katin shorts
Above: Brice Marden, Grove Group, 1980
Above: "Tiny Room" at Soho House's High Road House in London, originally designed by Ilse Crawford in 2006 and revamped by Alexander Waterworth in 2014. This shade of green feels calm, restful.
Above: Charles Darwin's rooms at Christ College, Cambridge. Photo from The World of Interiors, September 2009.
Above: Virginia and Leonard Woolf's living room, in their home, Monk's House, village of Rodmell, East Sussex, England. Rodmell is just a few miles from Charleston, home to Virginia's sister, Vanessa Bell, and much of the Bloomsbury group. The mint walls are a cool foil to the warm tones of the carpet and rose colored chair.
Photo by Tim Beddow
Above: On the Greek island of Patmos, this kitchen is in the residence of Stamatiki Stefanou-Stymfaliades. From World of Interiors, July 2017.
Above: Lois Dodd, from her book "Catching The Light".
Above: Patricia Iglesias, Florecen 17, 2015. At Sears-Peyton Gallery
Above: Xala's Drop Bucket in pale green as seen on remodelista and available here.
Above and below: Italian bicycle company Bianchi is known for it's Bianchi Green.
Above: Edward Hopper, Compartment C, Car 293, 1938
Above: This London Tube car, put into service in 1938, was still in good shape when photographed here in the 1960s.
Above: This photo of Mick Jagger in mint came to my attention on Kendall Conrad's instagram.
Above: Screen grab of Brittany Leonard surfing
Above: James Turrell light installation
Above: Michael Eastman, San Lazaro, Havana, 1999-2002
Above: Sample for window blind treatment circa 1940, designed by Dorothy Liebes.
Above: Michael Eastman, 167 Havana, 2010
Above: Michael Eastman, 107 Havana, 2010
Above: Louise Fishman, Wintereisse, 2002
Above: Louise Fishman, detail, catalog cover from a show at Cheim and Read.
Above: Sense and Sensibility book cover designed by Leanne Shapton, Vintage Classic Austen Series
Above: Hylton Nel, Transitional Cat
Above: Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), Primroses and Goldenrod, 1966
Above: Mary Pratt, Vegetable Marrow, 1966
Above: Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922), Rain in May, 1905, color woodcut.
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: Looking up at a tree in Lotus Land, Montecito
Above: Fairfield Porter, Birch Trees by a Window, 1968
Above: Laduree Macarons shop
Above: Michael Eastman, Deco Stairwell #2, Havana, 2014
Above: Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Gathering Fruit, 1893, collection The Metropolitan Museum
Above: Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960), A 1944 Pastoral: Land Girls Pruning at East Malling. In 1940 Dunbar was appointed by the War Artists' Advisory Committee as an official war artist. Her job was to record "Civilian contributions to the war effort on the home front". Her frequent subjects were the Women's Voluntary Service and the Women's Land Army.
Above: Luigi Ghirri, Modena, 1973
Above: Luigi Ghirri Modena (Serie: Catalogo), 1971, Mai 36
Above: Monica Vitti, scene from Antonioni's Red Desert, 1964
Above: Winifred Nicholson, Roman Road, (Landscape with two houses), 1926. Collection Kettle's Yard.
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: Tablecloth from fabric by Raoul Textile, Santa Barbara. Ceramic dish left by Uplifter Ceramics. Ceramic dish right by Magdalena Frimkess.
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: Little ceramic cups from Uplifter Ceramics with an Oribe glaze.
Photo by Laura Clayton Baker
Above: Sculptural rock
Above: Detail from Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti, a utopian town in Arizona.
Above: Vogue, July, 1948
Photo by Louise Dahl-Wolf
Above: Gretchen Harris in black maillot by Greta Paltry and cap by Adolfo, 1957.
Above: Gerhard Richter, Eis, 1981. A tour of Greenland's icebergs inspired this piece.
Above: Mary Heilmann, Beach Break, 2008
Above: Cy Twombly, Untitled (Peony Blossom Paintings), 2007, 99" x 217"
Above: Cy Twombly, 1986
Above: Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979), Untitled, 1976
Above: Etel Adnan, Untitled, 2014
Above: Verner Panton, Lobby of German publishing house Spiegel Verlaghaus, 1969.
Above: Milton Avery, Lilies, 1943
Above: David Hockney, My Parents, 1977, collection Tate Museum. Hockney's dad, Kenneth Hockney, was politically engaged. He waged war against smoking, and wrote regularly to world leaders such as Eisenhower, Mao, and Stalin, sharing his thoughts. His mother, Laura Hockney, was a willing subject of many portraits.
Above: The Green Party, perhaps a cause Kenneth Hockney would have embraced.
Below: An illustration from a wonderful William Steig book, "Gorky Rises".
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