Last New Year, our first round-up focused on interesting auction items. This year, we’re embellishing the pillows big-time! Over the next several days we’ll be posting Atticmag’s first annual “Most List” our own irreverent takes on what was most noteworthy in design — or most noteworthy to us — in 2008.
Part I – Most Beautiful [...]

Ring in the New Year while sipping champagne from colorful blown glass goblets (above, $310 each) from Artful Home.

Chill two bottles of bubbly in Mauviel’s oval polished copper champagne bucket (above, $460) from Sur la Table.

What goes better with champagne than chocolate covered strawberries! Instructions are simple and can be found at All Recipes (Photo [...]

Recently, a question was asked on an internet decorating message board as to whether or not wallpaper was back in style. With the influx of home makeover shows filling TV airtime, one might be led to believe wallpaper was a monumental faux pas since its removal is first on the “must eliminate” now list. [...]

Do you consider chaise longues old fashioned? Some people might but we don’t. Neither does megawatt designer Michael S. Smith, a British-trained Californian. Smith decorates some of the most glamorous homes in Hollywood and has his own line of furniture plus elegant branded plumbing fixtures for Kallista. We were pleased to learn of his pro-chaise [...]

It is never too early to start shopping holiday bargains online. The Little Brown Bag ornament with Santa snow globe (above, $6.00) can be found at Bloomingdale’s.

These delicate bone china snowflake drop ornaments (above, $10 each) are available from Crate and Barrel.

With his handpainted features and tailor-made clothing, the Christian Ulbricht Gingerbread Nutcracker (above, $296) [...]

A Holiday wouldn’t feel complete without featuring the wonderful hooked rug patterns of our friend Barb Carroll at Woolley Fox. Patterns are available for purchase (you get to do the fun part of hooking) and can be found on her website. Thanks Barb for allowing me to share these fabulous completed rug images [...]