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I'm not getting any exercise. After the terribly long and cold winter, I made myself promise to run several miles a day. Now that spring has arrived, I still haven't upheld this declaration. I've been walking. Slowly. There are too many glorious tulips to see.
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Cut tulips don't seem to last that long and there isn't enough impact when potted for the indoors. And then I came across this:
Emily Wettstein's Table.
The 25-year old Brooklyn resident created this reclaimed timber and metal dining table she designed for her graduate school application.
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A pair of reclaimed walnut planks raised in 1/4" sheets of steel. The sinuous, elliptical shaped opening between the planks reveals a Lucite planter underneath -- very unexpected. (And very feminine.)
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I love the rough rigid rusted steel sheets (very masculine) juxtaposed by the warm patina of the curving wood, and then finished off with the textural lushness of the grass.
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This is where I'd plant my tulips. See more of her stuff
HERE ; (all images from her site). Down, down kitty!