Save Domino has gone blogspot!

Hi there:

There is now a blog dedicated to saving Domino magazine: savedomino.blogspot.com. Click on the button on the right and you will be directed there. You can vote, find out how to help or just leave a comment on this new site. It's great to finally have a localized place to do what we need to do. Now, go do it!

Domino's Poll

I have taken my poll down because we have a central blog we can all access now. You can find it here. So, go there! Now!

Hi there!

Thank you for all your interest in saving Domino magazine. Please feel free to register your thoughts on the poll to the right on my sidebar. If you would like to post the poll on your own blog, please feel free to use this one

If you post a the poll, please remember to send your poll results back here or to Claudia at theparisapartment.wordpress.com

Eveything we can do matters! Thank you in advance!

United we can win

I have composed this letter to Conde Nast. You can use it or create your own. I am not going to let this go down without a fight. If we, as bloggers unite, they will see there is money in numbers. I have sent this to the New York Times and will send it other news places as well.

You can e-mail Cande Naste at :http://www.condenaststore.com/SupportHome.aspx

I am working on getting a more direct e-mail address for Conde Nast.

Or send your letters to:

Corporate Communications

The Condé Nast Publications

4 Times Square

New York, NY

10036212-286-2860

Lets flood their inbox and post box with our requests!

To Whom It May Conern:
I am heartbroken that you have chosen to stop the publication of Domino magazine. I am one of many of your readers on line and in the subscription world who feel that way. We all know and feel the results of an economy that has taken a drastic downward turn. We understand the position it puts you in with your advertisers. I would like to tell you a different story., one many of your readers will agree is their story, too. It is the story of how Domino made a real difference in the lives of real people not only in the Untied States but across many continents. If you don't believe me, enter Domino's name into any search engine of any blog host and you will see what I am talking about. You will see our tributes to your lovely glossy.

What Domino has done and should continue to do is to tell and show regular people, who make up the majority of our country and the world, how to make their lives beautiful and esthetically pleasing without breaking their bank. It is pages of the attainable. It is pages of escape in a world where escapism is highly in demand. I personally have never known anyone who turned to the pages of your Vogue magazine to figure out what to wear to their next party. We can't afford that dress. We can't afford that lovely watch with all the diamonds you advertise. We read Vogue to see how the other half lives. Today, we don't really care how they live. We don't have that kind of time or daydreaming energy. We are trying to keep it all together. That being said, it doesn't mean we don't have disposable dollars to decorate our lives with. In hard economical times women will always find a way to stretch the budget to afford the latest shade of lipstick, a new pair of shoes and to decorate. We find treasures in alleys. We find treasures at flea markets and garage sales. We find treasures where ever we are. Domino showed us what we could do with them. Domino showed us what to look for when we were out on the hunt. Domino showed us that no matter how much money we had or didn't have we could still live with beauty around us. It is hard for me to believe that a magazine that showed us how to save money would fold at a time we all -really- need to know how to save money and where the best design deals are.

I know you have laid of much of your staff. I know you won't print the magazine again. What you do have is a fabulous website that could become a money making venture for you. You didn't charge enough for your magazine. What you don't understand is that we would have paid more for it. You forgot to ask or didn't believe enough in Domino it to ask us to do that. You have at least 800,000 subscribers. Don't let that source of income go. Make your website a monthly or annual subscription site and we will all show up! Your overhead would be almost nonexistent. You have the IT people in place and if you charge us $4.99 per month you have an annual operating budget of $47,904,000. You could even charge more and we will pay if you continue to deliver the quality we have come to know, love and cherish. Your advertisers would no longer have to off set the cost of publishing.

I am really struggling with what your reasoning could be to keep magazines in circulation that truly do not represent where the majority of us are or will be anytime in the near future. I realize that there is a small majority that can afford what those magazines have to offer but I will venture to guess that the longer we feel the ever tightening strangle hold of an economy out of control, even those who have the ability to attain what those magazines have to offer will not be exercising their buying power and your advertisers will pull back.

Domino is still a viable entity and can continue to provide a revenue stream for Conde Nast. Please don't forget who you created the magazine for. We are telling you we will still pay for what you have to offer if you will continue to give us what we want through your website. Please tell me what you need to see from your online community that will convince you this is a a worthy idea.

Sincerely

Domino's "Sites We Love"

I have loved seeing all the amazing pictures captured from the pages of Domino on all the blogs that have done tributes to this little love of a glossy. However, for me? Of all the pages at the Domino's website that could be gone shortly, this is the one page I would have missed most. I use the words could and would because I believe we can do something through the blogosphere to stop it. Until I know otherwise, I will remain hopeful. Should I be wrong, I have saved all the lovely links they shared with us.

Sites We Love
Our favorite sources for decorating, entertaining, gardening and more.

Decorating
Paint
Benjamin Moore
C2 Color
Dulux Paints
Farrow & Ball
Fine Paints of Europe
Milk Paint
Pantone
Pratt & Lambert
Ralph Lauren Home
Sherwin-Williams
The Stencil Library
Wallpaper
Adelphi Paper Hangings
Brewster Wallcovering
Cavern
Cole & Son
Cowtan & Tout
de Gournay
F. Schumacher & Co.
Hamilton Weston
Holland & Sherry
Osborne & Little
Quadrille
Robert Kime
Secondhand Rose
Studio Printworks
Timorous Beasties
Trustworth Studios
Walnut Paper
Waverly
Zoffany
Fabric & Trim
Chelsea Textiles
Duralee
The Furniture Joint
Kerry Cassill
Lee Jofa
Les Indiennes
Lewis & Sheron
M & J Trimming
Mod Green Pod
Outdoor Fabrics
Purl Soho
Repro Depot
The Silk Trading Co.
Textile Arts
Furniture
American Leather
Anthony Lawrence
Arango Design
Architonic
Atmosphere
Avery Boardman
B&B Italia
BDDW
Bernhardt
BoConcept
Carlyle
Cassina
Colcha
Cool Sofa
Davidson
Drexel Heritage
Elite Leather
Ethan Allen
George Smith
Grange
Hickory Chair
Highbrow Furniture
Highland Park
Hollyhock
HomePortfolio
House Eclectic
Jayson Home & Garden
Knoll
Laneventure
La-Z-Boy
Ligne Roset
Maine Cottage
Mecox Gardens
Mitchell Gold
Natuzzi
Oly Studio
Orange Skin
Plantation
Plush Pod
Retro Modern
Richard Wrightman
Robert Lighton
Room
Sundance
Thomasville
Two's Company
Urban Cottage
Vanguard Furniture
Vitra
Weego Home
White Furniture
Windsor Smith
247 Workspace
Home Accessories
2b mod
Alabama Chanin
Allegra Hicks
Apartment Zero
Anupama
Art Effect
Auto
Bark
Base
Blackman Cruz
Calypso
Charlotte Moss
Cielo Home
Decorative Things
Dutch by Design
Elsewares
FinnStyle
Fitzsu
Gifted
Hable Construction
Hazelnut New Orleans
Home & Haven
Hunter Douglas
Imports from Marrakesh
Iomoi
Jonathan Adler
John Derian
Kartell
Koo de Kir
Larson-Juhl
Lekker Home
Lunares Home
Maharam
Marimekko Interiors
MoMA Design Store
The Museum of Useful Things
Mxyplyzyk
Nova 68
Objects of Design
Ochre
Overstock
Pearl River
Perch!
Rare Device
Shabby Chic
The Shade Store
Sheherazade
Smith + Noble
Superdeluxe
Tortoise
Umbra
Uncommongoods
Velocity Art and Design
Vivre
William-Wayne
XY Decor
Zinc Details
Zipper Gifts
Rugs
ABC Carpet
Angela Adams
Beauvais Carpets
Dash & Albert
Elson & Company
John Rosselli
Karastan
Kravet
Madeleine Weinrib Atelier
Mansour
Mohawk Flooring
Odegard
The Rug Company
Stark Carpet
Sweep Dreams
Lighting
Charles Edwards
Circa Lighting
Galerie des Lampes
Just Shades
Lum
School House Electric
Vaughan
Y Lighting
Bed & Bath
Area
Charles H. Beckley
Charles P. Rogers
Dwell
Frette
India Rose
Labrezel
Leontine Linens
Nancy Koltes At Home
Room Service Home
Schweitzer Linen
Sue Fisher King
The Bathroom
Kids
ducduc
kid o
NettoCollection
Ooba
Entertaining
Tabletop
Clio
eTabletop
Fishs Eddy
Global Table
Home Click
Iittala
Lillie
Lladró
Marc Blackwell
Porte Rouge
Potluck Studios
Stash Tea
Maxwell-Silver
Moss
Mottahedeh
TableArt
Table Tools
Tabletop
Tart
Tse Tse
Villeroy & Boch
Vivi
Cookware
Broadway Panhandler
Chef's
Chef's Resource
J.B. Prince
Sur La Table
Recipes & Foodstuffs
Chocolate & Zucchini
Adagio Teas
Artisanal Cheese
Bloods Groves
Dartagnan
Daylesford Organic
Dean & DeLuca
Diamond Organics
Ethnic Grocer
Food 411
Ideal Cheese
K & L Wine Merchants
Jin Patisserie
Lobels
Olive and Peach
Sweet Celebrations & Maid of Scandinavia
The Olive Press
The Wine Specialist
Zingerman's
Gardening
Furniture & Accessories
Accents of France
Architectural Pottery
L'Atelier Vert
Charleston Gardens
Detroit Garden Works
Fermob
Fire Features
Gardens
Garden Hardware
Grounded
GRDN
Inner Gardens
Jamali Garden
Janus et Cie
Kiybele Copper & Wood
Marston & Langinger
McGuire
Modern Birdhouses
New York Botanical Garden Shop
Plow & Hearth
POT-TED
Richard Scultz
Robert Plumb
Smith & Hawken
Sprout Home
Terrain at Styer's
The Gardener
The Grace Stone Collection
Touched by Dutch
Treillage
Urban Weeds
Wood Classics
Plants & Supplies
Contrary Mary's Specialty Plants
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Earth Flora
Gardeners Edge
Gempler's
Jungle Music
Kinsman Company
Monrovia
Old House Gardens
Online Wholesale Flowers
Yucca Do
Renovating
Building
Armstrong
Be Jane
Build
DIY Network
Dream House Source
Environmental Home Center
Hardwood-moldings
Handyman.com
Jamestown Distributors
Old House Web
Pioneer Millworks
Rust-Oleum
Bath & Kitchen
Ann Sacks
Artistic Tile
Bisazza
Designer Plumbing
Faucet.com
Heath Ceramics
Kohler
Restoration Tile
Urban Archaeology
Vintage Tub & Bath
Waterworks
Wave Plumbing
Flooring
Country Floors
Forbo
Hardware & Tools
Baldwin Hardware
Bolt Depot
Home Decor Hardware
Home Depot
Liz's Antique Hardware
Lowe's
P.E. Guerin, Inc
Rejuvenation
Restoration Hardware
Whitechapel Ltd.
Misc.
Art
20 x 200
Art + Commerce
Artaissance
Artnet
Artocracy
Boundless Gallery
Brooklyn Collective
Cereal Art
Danziger Projects
deviantArt
Edward Thorp Gallery
Etsy
Eyestorm
Galerie Renate Bender
Habitually Chic
Hennessey and Ingalls
Hidden Art Shop
HunterGatherer
Jeff Bailey
Keep Calm
Levis Fine Art
M + B
Margot Stein Gallery
Matthew Marks
Mixed Greens
My Name is Andy
New Image Art
Pretty Darn Swell
Sears Peyton Gallery
Strand Book Store
Tiny Showcase
Village
Antiques/Vintage Finds
1stdibs.com
GoAntiques.com
Home Anthology
1950.com
Turquoise
Treasured Things
Blogs & Ideas
An Aesthete's Lament
Apartment Therapy
Bloesem
Brink Shelter
Craftster
Charles and Hudson
decor8
Delight
Delightful Blogs
designboom
Design Calendar
Design Milk
Design*Sponge
Ecofabulous
Habitually Chic
HouseBlogs Network
Inhabitat
Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting
Katy Elliott
Land + Living
Oh Joy!
Poppytalk
Pure Contemporary
The Sartorialist
Shelterrifc
SketchUp
Style Spoon
Treehugger
You Grow Girl
Fashion & Beauty
Aedes De Venustas
Anthousa Collection
Beauty Cafe
Beauty Habit
Benefit Cosmetics
Bigelow
Castor and Pollux
Caswell-Massey
Como Shambhala
Devera objects
Diptyque
Doe
Dr. Hauschka
Fruits-Passion
Harmonie
Jamu
Jo Malone
Kirini
Korres
L'Occitane
Le Labo
Linden Leaves
Lush
Mistral
NARS
Naturopathica
Red Flower
Shu Uemura
Stitch
White-Starr
Catalogs & Chain Stores
Anthrolopogie
Ballard Designs
Bed Bath & Beyond
CB2
Crate & Barrel
Curran
Design Within Reach
Garnet Hill
Gumps
Horchow
IKEA
Pier 1 Imports
Pottery Barn
Restoration Hardware
Room & Board
Source Perrier
The Conran Shop
The Container Store
West Elm
Williams-Sonoma
William-Sonoma Home
Winterthur Gifts
Wisteria
Z Gallerie
City Guides
Decorating Resources
entertaining resources
fabric calculator
green list resources
paint calculator
renovating resources
shopping resources
sites we love
Wallpaper Calculator

Fridays with The New Yorker

A night at the opera.

The New Yorker cover artists do some of the best caricatures.

what to think about andy?

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. "

Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the first "It girl".

"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment." "

The Factory was located at 19 E32 and 22 E33, between Park and Madison in Midtown, Manhattan, NYC.

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."

Some of my favorite framed art in my house is of Andy's shoe sketches.

In the early days in NYC he was able to figure out how much he would make in a week by how many shoes he had sketched.

Andy was in many ways a superficial personality and never afraid to admit that he was obsessed with fame and money.

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. "

"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink.
As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."

And yet, he decided to make his name creating "pop" art.

He was the first to mass produce art through silk screening.
"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. "

So, what to think about Andy Warhol? He threw away many people he used to get to the top.He created art for the masses and called it all stupid. He made us look at the advertising that bombards us in a whole new way. Was he a genus and a bit nuts? Or was he laughing at us all the way to the bank? Whatever the answer is, I love what he created and left behind.

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. "

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. "

Life's For Sharing

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