What Could Have Been....

We’ve all been there. You see something. You want it but you don't buy it.  You think you don’t really need it or you’ll buy it later.  You eventually forget about it and move on. Well, the one definitely didn't "forget about it" and should have purchased thing that I’m still kicking myself for is this:

A one-of-a-kind daybed from Revival (one of my favorite stores in Chicago). I know!!  I live in a small apartment right now so I didn’t think I would have room for it. What was I thinking?  Can you even believe how similar it is to the daybed Audrey Hepburn is lounging on?  The stripes, the brass, the legs - It's just so glamorous.  I could have been glamorous!  I'm not sure I'll every get over it.  Do you have any such regrets?
image: mark shaw via svenska mobler

Smitten | Mark Shaw Photography

Haute couture meets decor.  Mark Shaw's fashion photographs have been popping up everywhere.  Three of my favorite designers, Windsor Smith, Mary McDonald and Nate Berkus, featured Shaw's iconic images in the rooms pictured above.  As the family photographer for the Kennedy's and a longtime photojournalist for Life Magazine, Shaw had access to the most beautiful models, celebrities and interiors of his day.  Wouldn't it be amazing to own such a glamorous piece of history?  Any one of Shaw's photographs would be enough to glamify almost any modern-day apartment.  The limited edition photographs, pictured above, are available at Svenska Mobler in Chicago.

(images via House Beautiful, Veranda , Elle Decor and Svenska Mobler)