We are pleased and honored to receive a Kreative Blogger award nod last week. We were tagged by our esteemed colleague The Corinthian Column.

Conditions of this award are:

That I tell you 7 things you may not know about me.

That I nominate 7 others blogs for the award.

(There are three of us here at Atticmag but my  two blogging partners, Jane T and Allison, refused to contribute. In truth, there should be 21 things no one knows about us.)

Here are seven things you don’t know about me.

7. My very first job after college was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, typing labels for photos of art in the museum collections. (photo via artstampsdk)

6. I am a coffee addict. Early one morning in 1983, on a Chinese train to Shanghai, I borrowed our guide’s handkerchief so I could brew coffee in a soup bowl  — in front of me, partly obscured by the jar Coffee mate I brought from New York.  Everyone thought it was hilarious and a very sleepy me was photographed reaching for the hot water thermos.

5. In 1997, during a military coup in Cambodia, I had a significantly grounding experience. I had tagged along with my husband, who was there on assignment for Vanity Fair and on the third day of the trip, the current dictator, Hun Sen, toppled Prince Rannaridh, son of the Cambodian king.  When the shooting began, tanks appeared on every corner – this one came towards our car in the alley behind our hotel. Every time I hear someone say “oohh, that was so scary” this is my reference point.

4. My love of furniture dates to my childhood in Los Angeles, where my parents owned an upholstery factory on Sunset Boulevard and Alvarado St. Among my earliest memories are upholsterers spitting tacks onto the ends of magnetic hammers to secure webbing.

3. The late Frances Elkins is the interior designer I would like most to have worked for because her taste was exquisite and two of her default sources were Jean-Michel Frank and Diego Giacometti.

2. I adore wonky archaeological trips like this one touring Greek temples in Sicily.

1.  Shoes are one of my trademarks. Among my vintage favorites are these fuchsia suede Maud Frizon cone heels, purchased in Paris in 1987.

And the blogs we nominate are:

Hatch: the Design Public Blog
Fifi Flowers Design
House of Turquoise
The House That A-M Built
The Peak of Chic
Bahrani Diva
My Notting Hill

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