How much do I love the cover this month?? Pink, red, aqua, black and white ... such a great mix of colors.  And I was so excited to Albert Hadley's cotton "Tipper,"  one of my favorite fabrics of all time, in the context of a Josef Hoffmann spread:

If you missed the show at the Neue Galerie a few months back let me take you through it in a little review I did for Metropolis.  (Look, Dad, I AM using my education!)  Seems both Mr. Hadley and Mr. Hoffman loved a simple geometric, so why not copy the classic Tipper (and please comment on how Mrs. Gore earned that nickname) in a Hoffmann-esque painted border, enlarged about 500 percent?  I see these stripes and dots around a window in a white bathroom above subway tile. Break out the blue tape and paint two five inch pink stripes, leaving four inches of white wall in between.  The cut a kitchen sponge in small rectangle (1.5" x 2") and paint bright red dots up the white. This will take some time but trust me, the graphic impact is so worth it!