Oh, you heard me. I’ve been thinking that silver’s getting a bad rap on the 24K-clad pages of our beloved Design Crisis. Okay, maybe not a bad rap so much as completely ignored. Uh-huh, talk to the hand, silver. Well, silver’s feelings are hurt. Gold is an attention whore but silver is not the homely stepsister. Not today anyway. Today is silver’s day to shine.
Greetings D. C. junkies, I’m Hello Gorgeous, former advertising copywriter and blog raconteur. I was heavily into retail both in home and fashion but home is really where my heart is. Now, onto the glittering goodness.
Foil-covered wainscoting? How clever. How Warhol-esque. You know you’ve been looking for just the right symbol of your disdain for the bourgeois ethic.
The only thing more fabulous than aluminium foil-covered paneling is a slinky, Medusa-like mercury glass chandy, compliments of the room next door:
If you are not into tentacles sprouting from your ceiling, you may be interested in a glistening wad of balls (oh, don’t be coy; you know who you are).
The silver ball chandelier from Graham and Greene appears to have nipples, which would make it porny perfect for this blog but, alas, I believe it’s an illusion and is merely cut glass detail.
Speaking of nipples and porny perfection, Dancer by Jimmie Martin. Perfect if you’re looking to give a special room a certain luster.
More traditional tastes will love this sunburst mirror from 1st Dibs. (Perhaps if we call it mirror flambe, Raina and Molly will like it. 
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It would go perfectly over this carved marble fireplace flanked by the incredible edible Arne Jacobsen silver egg chairs.
Edible, maybe if you’re this guy:
You’d like to be a fly on the wall of that room, you say? Rob Wynne’s oversized ode to Kafka might be just what the Orkin man ordered.
How can I let this post go by without a shiny horsey for Karly: heigh-ho silver, away!
I am undecided about these Sau-sage chairs by Jimmie Martin. Half of me likes them and half of me doesn’t.
Will somebody please put this lamp on a table between those two chairs? Because crocky looks like he may need a dog morsel or two for lunch. From the land of overpriced fug, Vivre, $2500.
If you are still suffering from delusions of market grandeur, behold the bull stapler for dazzling office dreamz. Ironic that Bullshizzle should be the symbol for Wall Street, no? Vivre, again.
And finally, a bit of gratuitous room decor compliments of the silver-tongued Silver Fox himself:
Just turn on your TV and add him to whichever room you wish.
See? That wasn’t so bad now, was it? In fact, I’ll bet you’re thinking that silver’s quite the hot commodity after all.
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by Jim Cramer Hello Gorgeous on this blog are solely HG’s opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Karly, Erin, the staff of Design Crisis, its parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by HG on television, radio, internet or another medium.
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Thanks for a good laugh to start the day!
You crack us up! Fab post!
Joy & Janet
heh heh heh!
Excellent post! You find the oddest, most interesting things and they fit right in at Design Crisis.
Thanks, guys. Karly – I don’t know why the photos and captions aren’t centered. I can’t fix them. Sorry.
lol! this was So inspired and sharp!
Woo hoo, great post! What a treat to see you over here!
How can you be undecided on the Sau-sage chairs they are the best thing in the entire post. I was not feeling gold when you first told me about it, but this post may have brought me over to team silver. Man I love those weiner dog chairs, wonder if I can get Hope to paint me a pair.
You’re never going to convince me to cheat on gold, but i do love that horse head and the alligator lamp, and most of all… ANDERSON COOPER!!
No worries on the centering, I fixed it all up
Thanks for joining us today, I love this post!
Ha! Ha! Thanks, Karly for the fix and the love.
Jennifer – You have to visit Jimmie Martin’s website. A visual feast of ideas from dog heads to graffiti. Mostly in gold and silver gilt. Very interesting. There is a cabinet in particular that I loved: gold on the outside and hot pink on the inside. Obviously, I couldn’t use it here.
Thanks, everyone else. This was so fun. Except for the WordPress part.
HG, that was fab. And which half of you likes the weiner dog chairs? Just asking. High-O-Silver, away.
Finally a solution to the no pets policy in my building! Those chairs are coming home with me, where I will name them ‘linus and otto, the von puppenstein brothers’. wunderbar!
Woot! Hi Ho SILVER! I must say HG, you make a strong case for silver! How does the song go … make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver, and the other’s gold! I loved the weiner dog chairs too. They match my own weiner dog quite nicely. Lovely to see you over at DC! Smashing post!
Great post! You may have persuaded me to take silver as my mistress.
Gorgeous stuff, HG! I’m still not sold on those mirrors even if they are flambe-ed.
I would be really upset when I peeled off that foil wrapper to uncover wainscoting where chocolate with almonds should be.
And who is this Jimmie Martin you speak of?!! I’m gonna have to check him out. His chairs are the cat’s pajamas.
I have always been all about silver. I never even considered gold til I read yoru blog. Glad you gave some silvah props. And Anderson Cooper ta boot. Nice post.
yoru equals your to people who type better.
You guys are AWESOME!! Thanks for coming to see me.
Again…genius! Man, do I love Mr. Silver Fox xoxo
Heck ya, I’m all over your silver post and can the doggie chair come home with me? I promise to feed it and walk it and give it a good, loving home! ;0)