She tried her hand at tapestry, rugs and bookbinding.
In the rooms, it's wall-to-wall junk shop (old leather suitcases, standard lamps, snow-white bedspreads, vintage fabrics, tapestry rugs on wood floors) but it's all spotless and full of thoughtful touches: homemade cake, fresh milk, feather duvets.
Arike Logan, sitting poised on her powder-blue sofa, glanced at the gleaming ebony piano, the vases and tapestry rugs decorating her comfortable Ladera Heights home, smelled the frying bacon wafting from the kitchen and felt haunted.
Sotheby's estimates that the 139 paintings, tapestries, rugs and furnishings that it will auction will total at least $5.4 million.
The inside space is adorned with antique tapestries, rugs and a solid oak throne, all rescued from a past life in an old French manor house.
Evelyn taught girls to weave tapestries and rugs, Lily oversaw embroidery, and Elizabeth established a fine press.
Ms. Frecon's paintings have a sleek, modern elegance and could be translated into appealing tapestries or rugs.
As the inside title page indicated, the offerings consisted of "Old Masters, the Arts of Asia, Silver, Objets d'art, A Collection of Tobacco Jars, Furniture, Tapestries, and Rugs".
Only inside, where tapestries and rugs by his wife, Loja, set off his handmade furnishings, do his disciplined color and texture harmonies resound.
Grill's spare text is harrowing enough, but it's even more emotionally elevated by his colored pencil drawings, which he has said were inspired by the scenery of New Mexico as well as Native American tapestries and rugs.
