Remember how I was just telling you about all of the new things out there in the art + design world and how inspiring it all is? With all of the fairs and flea markets and indie fests going on right now, there is a lot to find and be inspired by. Not to mention what the big retailers are up to as they begin to roll out their Fall previews... Take West Elm for instance. They have some great things for Fall... would you like a mini taste of what is to come? Good, because that's what this post is intended to do! And a big pssssst -- I love their new bedding!

Now I'm hoping that I have time to hit a West Elm store when I'm in the states in July. I'll be in New York and Los Angeles working with Debi Treloar on my book (we have a lot of spaces to style + photograph together) and I'm very excited because I'm leaving ahead of schedule so I have 4 vacation days in New York for the July 4th weekend and I'm staying an extra 4 days in California so that I can hang out with my husband as we'll be celebrating our 9th anniversary and being in California is always special to us as we spent our honeymoon in San Francisco and Sonoma and we both just adore CA from top to bottom, it's such an amazing state and we both love the diversity - people, places, landscape -- bliss! If we ever relocated back to the states California is where we'd go!

But yes, anyway, I plan to hit a few shops while I'm stateside for nearly 3 weeks (Target here I come, ready or not!) and West Elm is one of 'em. I wonder if the Tripod table in white is flat pack... Hmmmm... It's NICE. Also loving their new collaboration with Mike Miller...

(images: west elm)