Everything I Saved This Week
An ongoing visual chronicle.
Welcome to Everything I Saved This Week. I am officially introducing you to a weekly post you can expect from Mad For It, which is my attempt to organize clippings and errant visual thoughts from every corner of the internet. Pulling out my favorite bits from my Saved folder on Instagram, what I find deep in “Suggested Pins,” etc.
With Everything I Saved This Week, I hope to give you a taste of my own approach to finding inspiration, which is rarely methodical, spur-of-the-moment, and slightly chaotic. It is the complete opposite of how I work. I like to get into a hole of images. Digital tearsheets. Digging into the suggested pins from one image and finding a plethora of others. Viewing scans of fashion editorials online. Perhaps there will be themes or unintentional ones. It’s the thing I’ve always loved and hope I continue to do forever. I look forward to sharing this with you in addition to Right Now, which you met last week. That’s more about what I’m consuming in culture—reading, shopping, etc at the moment. Subscribe below if you want to keep seeing these posts in your inbox :).
Enjoy!
Maddie
The Studio & Home of Louise Bourgeois (Source)
Saved because: I am currently obsessed with the aesthetic of “mess” and the odd perfection and organization of it, especially when it comes to artists’ studios or homes.
Multi-color Sabre Pie Servers at Bucatini LA (I took this lol)
Saved because: It was one of those moments where everything in your head somehow manifests somehow in the most beautiful mixed lineup of Sabre utensils. Perhaps it’s the comedown from working at a very pastel-based brand in 2023 and the saturation of cottagecore in the last couple of years, but I’ve never been more attracted to primary colors than as of late. To me, it’s been a mark of my own style maturing, and I love it.
Brown Ceramic Lamp by Los Objetos Decorativos & this French Wrought Iron Lamp
Saved because: I’m starting to explore lighting more as an interest. It’s not really something I’ve cared about before, but it’s something I hope to invest in soon for my home, specifically one or two gorgeous, mismatched table lamps.
Bread Bouquets by Centá Project
Saved because: I’m obsessed with what designer and creative director Lera Spirina is doing at Centá Project, like these wacky bread bouquets. I first found her last year when she did some designs for Sandy Liang’s store and, subsequently, Sandy’s own wedding. Her work comes from the surrealist world of the Gohar Sisters, but her work is less twee and has more sex appeal. I can’t really describe it. Her combinations of things like roses with braided blonde hair accents or a chess board with unexpected chewed gum pieces make me say this.
Italian Modernist Staircases (Source)
Teatro Mediterraneo, architects Barilla, Gentile, Mellia and Sambito, interior designer Luigi Piccinato, Naples, 1939-1952.
Palazzo Bo, architect Gio Ponti, Padua, 1934-1942.
Saved because: Have you literally ever seen anything more beautiful? This phrase may be done, but this top staircase at Teatro Mediterraneo lives rent-free in my mind. The individual ornamentation of the railing, the colors! The second one, by Gio Ponti, is the ideal level of mismatched, with its alternating marble and wall murals. The lipstick-red banister adds warmth to the muted tones throughout.
A Seasonless Outfit Formula (Source)
Saved because: I see two things here—the perfect ‘90s minimalist outfit formula and a rekindled love for black and white photography. Perhaps it’s from watching Ripley (which I talked about in my last post), but holy shit, am I obsessed with perfectly shot black and white these days. I think of Bergman’s Persona as a starting point.
The photographer is Ana Roque, who I now realize has taken several of my other favorite recently saved images, her specialty being black and white. (See here and here.) There’s something nostalgic and mature about her images that makes them unique.
Thanks for reading! Until next time.