Tuesday, September 28, 2010

A Little Anthro Love



















































I love a little Anthro to get my imagination going ... to provide some inspiration...and to help me look at things in new ways!

Luckily I have one close by.

Is there anything here that excites you?
:)

49 comments:

Unknown said...

Lots of Anthro love! I went yesterday for some inspiration and got it. They took a vintage clear glass hobnail water pitcher put rocks in the bottom and then soil and planted a plant. I had been eyeing a vintage glass pitcher at my thift and I went and got it and did it!
Enjoy your week,
KarenSue

clustres said...

Oh yeah, the coffee sacks, the mirror with the pages on it and coming off of it and that lampshade!

Rachel Noelle Pallas said...

~*~*LOVE LOVE LOVE!~*~* Rachel

Leo said...

Love this store. Amazing photos. Love the seashell bottles the best!!

KarenB said...

I need to go visit mine. I love the doily headboard! And the bookcovers on the chandelier? woah, and the lampshade and I LOVE those beautiful classics (have a few) and I have a tin jello mold like them. Geez, I feel better now. ;-) Sorry.

also Karen Sue

The Smith Hotel said...

I knew that I would find something to do with all those book covers! Thanks for the picture! Wouldn't it be fun to be a decorator for Anthro?

Jody

Evi said...

oh Laura, I was cracking up when I saw the doily headboard. Do we dare show this to Paula.
Wonder if she has enough of them!
Loved the post- so many great ideas and things to buy....sigh....
Lots of love girlfriend,
Evi

Sarah said...

I have a store just minutes away and I like to pop in for quick inspiration. Such a fun store! Thanks for sharing the photos. ~ Sarah

Blessed Serendipity said...

I just went to Anthropologie in Scottsdale yesterday and I spied a doily headboard only made different. The pipes were configured differently in sections and only some sections had lace stitched onto them. Wish I had taken a picture. The store stagers must have some sort of guide on how to stage and they just make the projects with their individual takes on them. I must admit that since I cannot afford much in that store I really go for the displays and stuff that isn't for sale for inspiration.

-Danielle

Chrissie said...

Anthropologie is the most amazing store! I absolutely love to walk through, it inspires me every time!

wig4usc said...

I love all the letters hanging from those towel racks, and there's only the tinest glimpse, but on that bed, looks like there's a coverlet with script writing on it. I HAVE to check that out. Oh, and the chandelier made of book covers...genius!!

wig4usc said...

Oh, yea, the doily headboard...wow, the mind that came up with that!!!

manon 21 said...

heureusement que j'y vais bientôt....

Bonne journée

manon

Jacqueline @ HOME said...

Oh Goodness Laura....it ALL excites me !! OH where do I start ? .......the coffee sacks, the chandelier, the mirrors, the displays, the letters,the soaps, the cushions and those bags....I have to see if they have those bags at our Anthro.
I saw the script bedlinen only the other day and was considering buying it, but think I will stick to my white bedlinen.
I'm off to the Anthro website now !! XXXX

Alle mooie dingen said...

ohh this is a nice store... i love the letters.., the soaps, the cushions
thansk for sharing
greetings
Anita
http://alle-mooie-dingen.blogspot.com

Knicky Knacks said...

Please someone, transport me there now. Ohhh, the pain of yearning!

Zita - Mlle Magpie said...

Thanks for taking me along for some inspiration, Laura. I really loved the idea of doily headboard (not practical :), but I think a screen would be fantastic.

Kim Hanauer said...

Hi Laura! I LOVE Anthropology. Ever since I bought that bedding you showed I was hooked. Love all your photos. I just have to figure out how to load them on my blog! Have a Blessed day- Kim :0)

Unknown said...

...swooning!! Sadly ~ I don't have an Anthro nearby:( but I simply adore the mossy chandie, the old wire bins and of course the doily headboard!! Oh-so-lovely!!
xo, Rosemary

mary beth said...

woah. I have never been to one of these delicious stores, but thankfully I can live vicariously through you! I love seeing how creative people bring things about in such unique ways! I would love to follow these folks around and hear how they work it all out and make it happen..that's the fun part!your pictures give me courage to do some of the funky things that are floating around in my old head! heh heh!

Jill said...

I saw the book chandy in the one that is about 70 miles from me and fell in love with it. I only had my phone with which takes "not good" photos. So, happy to see it again here. That place just makes you happy doesn't it?! So inspiring!!

gail said...

that store is simply amazing!!!!!
gail

Yvonne - Frl. Klein said...

Dear Laura, so many wonderful things! This store is great!!!!!
I love the letters!
Have a nice day,
Hugs, Yvonne

Unknown said...

Their lighting displays are incredible. I have a picture in my camera of the glass bottles hanging from ropes around the lights. One from a summer trip to Irvine,CA and one from Southlake, TX. They were both different and both amazing. Now the book cover chandelier is AwEsOmE. I'll have to do a recon trip and snap another picture. Anthro-love here too!

Tricia said...

Anthropologie is the best...I love it there. After looking at all your photos I'm thinking that it is time for me to pop in for a visit :)

Vicki K. said...

Love the bag most of all!

Laurie said...

That mirror was great! It is so unexpected it made me smile!!!

Carole said...

All Inspiring! love that funky lammpshade....a definite DIY project in that one!
xx
Carole

Becky said...

I like a lot of Anthro love...Lucky you got to take pictures. They wouldn't let me bring my camera in...boohoo.
I love this place, your makin me want to make the trip again to swoon over it all in person.

Good day to ya,
Becky

Toyin O. said...

Love everything!

http://youcanfacetodaybecausehelives.blogspot.com/

Ann Marie said...

anthro is always so pretty!! lovely images. they made me happy!

Janean said...

lots of fun stuff that gets the imagination brewing!

Burlap Luxe said...

Ooooh! my this is a great post!
Thank you for listing my favorite shop!!
I have the wire found objects there wire basket. I bought it from them a year ago... I had to have it.

Love the book cover idea!
thank you girl your my source of inspiration for the day.
I will be back later to take it all in again :)
xx
Dore

Trouvais said...

Fabulous, Laura. Love glimpses into other Anthro stores...universally fabulous but so wonderfully different too!

Jamie said...

I want those books!

north pal said...

I ENJOYED EVERYONE OF THE PHOTOS. THEY ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION! THAT PLACE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE. bestest,Denise

marysworkshop said...

Thanks for the peak at these beauties!

Elaine said...

Love it all but lately I've been eyeing that fabulous duvet with the script writing on it. I want it!

Susan Freeman said...

I'm lucky enough to have anthro close by too. Such an inspiring store!

Love,
Susan and Bentley
xxoo

Anonymous said...

Love, love, love the doily headboard! Imagine it also as an appliqued doily bedspread if all of them were sewn to muslin....
Hugs, Diane

cheryl kuhn said...

Oh, I so wish that I lived close that store, it would be like a dream come true to be able to browse through there. I can see how it inspires you!!

Paula said...

LOVE Anthropologie - LOVE your blog and aesthetic - the images on your sidebar are fabulous! I'll be back for more and more! xx

PCovi said...

I love that headboard! How creative.

Unknown said...

Hi Laura! I love your anthro shots!! It's so neat how each store looks different...always so much inspiration!

Hugs ~

:) T

Gaia said...

Nothing to add...Anthro i simply fantastic!!!

Lilla Blanka said...

Wow, great inspiration!!!
Thanks!

Wishing you a wonderful evening ♥
XO
Mia

Ange said...

Oooh Ooohh. I have some of those little oyster baskets underneath the wooden letters but I didn't get them from Anthro. I charmed them out of a lovely elderly oyster man in the Charente Maritime 2 years ago for 10 euros. What lovely memories...

SusanLotus said...

I love Flea markets too and I love that bag above :)

courtney said...

OH how I love that doily headboard...if I could sew at all I would love to attempt a project like that with all the antique lace bits I have lying around!