Sunday, January 13, 2008

I think I want to live in a parallel universe that looks exactly like an Anthropologie catalog.

Why? Teacup waterfalls! Floating umbrellas!

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Anyway, isn't everything too perfectly shabby chic, adorable, and slightly surreal to be of this world?

38 comments:

Cedar said...

Beautiful!! I want to live in that house!

Sarah said...

haha I wrote about the catalogue too, it is amazingly shabby chic. The last picture with the umbrellas under the bridge is my favorite

Christine said...

I always fall in love with the Anthropologie world each time a catalog comes out/I go into the store. I'm not the biggest shabby chic fan, but the surreal/precious/straight-out-of-a-book qualities win me over. Their visual merchandisers must be geniuses!

Charming Heart said...

I was just in Anthropologie yesterday and it was amazing! Going into that store is like stepping into an alternate universe full of random knicknacks and everything beautiful and slightly quirky. I can't exactly afford anything in the store, which makes having to come out of there all the more depressing, but I sure can enjoy the scenery. The catalog pictures are lovely! And so creative! I too want to live in an Anthropologie catalog!

stupidcupcake said...

I went to live there too!!

Lauren said...

It's so adorable and fairy tale like. I went to New York last spring and I fell in love with the displays in the window of the store, it was so beautiful.

alexgirl said...

totally! it's way too perfect to actually exist. Kind of like something out of Alice in Wonderland. Only I guess it's Anthropologieland.

bigglassesgirl said...

I love vintage wallpaper. And old suitcases. And umbrellas. Ooh!

Tessa E said...

we don't have anthropologie in canada and i hadn't even heard of it until a few days ago (a few people have blogged about it recently). but i wish there was one nearby, it seems like such a fun, whimsical store!

Miss J. said...

The umbrellas are fierce! They looked like lotus.
Thanks for visiting my site girl. Hope to see you there again soon.
beso!

Ninja said...

I've always loved Anthropologie, I really need to take a trip down to the states to go shopping.

mushroommeadows said...

me, too! Those are amazing images, and the clothes is fantastic. :D

Dahl said...

I looove those pictures, especially the house. The bicycle! The ivy! The bridge! I cannot wait to move out on my own and start my demi-derelict existence in some pretty cottage.

Jelenie said...

So beautiful!! I hate Anthropologie. I've e-mailed them countless times to send to Australia but still nothing. :(

whimsical nerd said...

It is such a lovely store...I live right across the street from one and I have to avoid it so as not to wind up destitute.

Joanna Goddard said...

i love that amazing house.

the iron chic said...

Why did they throw the books all over the place like that though?
A frenzied reading fit?
A pillow fight but with books instead of pillows?

Jen (MahaloFashion) said...

Oh those pictures are amazing, I love vintage luggage..you've made me want to go out and look for some!!

Wendy said...

Why does Anthropologie have to be so expensive?! Its my mom's favorite store.

fashionfix said...

I've been feeling the same way lately!

I'm going to make my new place as whimsical as possible.

-RM said...

I like the teacup waterfall...I have one in my backyard though, so unreal? I think not.

Sister Libby said...

I want to live in a whimsical paradise too! Weird, huh? It seems like everyone here does....

Tiana said...

I'd love to live in that world.
Thanks for the comment. You know, I try. :D

Suzanna Mars said...

And I have NEVER been in an Anthropologie store, thanks in part to my being too severe in dress to appreciate the pretty girlishness of it, and thanks in part to their carrying some frag I really want to try and am afraid I will purchase without due consideration.

However, I always appreciate good catalogue art, so I thank you for posting this. I love draped open doorways--there is a house down the street here, a stucco house, with dark maroon drapes and medieval outdoor lighting. It makes me rue the day I dropped out of that perfectly decent PhD program and decided to write freelance.

Mash said...

ohhhh that's cute ! home sweet home :)

Hayley said...

Hee, my room looks a lot like that photo with the books strewn everywhere (except less artistically arranged and more "dear god, the librarian's gone on a demented, destructive rampage!").

AlicePleasance said...

I fell in love with the catalogue too! Wonderland, fairy tale world...

susie_bubble said...

I always want to live in Anthropologie surroundings but I'm never keen on the clothes.... it's very odd!

Miss Woo said...

Oh my, I wish that was my house. If I ever have the money I would want to start collecting tea pots. Pref. floating ones.

MAds said...

We dont have Anthropologie here. Pity.

Ps. Thanks for stopping by!

Andy said...

omg i really like this post ! :) haha anthropologie is simply A.M.A.Z.I.N.G :-)

The Clothes Horse said...

I love Anthropologie magazines, they take me to a different world--a delightful world.

Chelsea Talks Smack said...

Oh Anthropologie is my perfect little world. It is what my heaven will look like. Maybe with a few more men.

Ceci n'est pas une blogger. said...

Well, I'm going to live in the store so that you means you can have the catalogue :) By the way, do you want to exchange links?

In Yr Fshn said...

Breathtaking. I am forever eyeing those umbrellas.

enc said...

I just want to live in the Anthropologie Universe. They have one near my house, and it's all I can do not to go broke every week in that place.

The catalog looks like the exact incarnation of my imagined life in a bucolic, 300-year-old antiques left behind in a crumbling Italian villa.

Let's all move there, shall we?

the t-shirt girl said...

these are all beautiful....anthropologie is amazing

LML said...

how whimsical - i would love to live there too!