Passamos do Rio Grande do Sul para o Rio Grande do Norte, onde mora a Cinara. Nossa visitante apresenta suas duas tatuagens, uma delas bastante divertida.
"Olá pessoal, tenho 28 anos e moro em Natal - Rio Grande do Norte.
Tenho duas tatuagens (por enquanto). A primeira que fiz, a do "anjinho maluquinho", significa pra mim um "mix" de paz e liberdade. As pessoas não entendem o que é quando olham de longe, acham que é um polvo, um E.T. e até um prego de pernas (risos)! Mas quando olham de pertinho, adoram! Fiz com Marcelo, da Tattoo Brazil, aqui em Natal.
A segunda, o símbolo do Ohm, foi feita por meu amigo Ruy mas ainda não está terminada. Doeu muito e não consegui terminar, mas estou preparando-me pra fazer isso agora e partindo pra terceira (e não última) que farei em homenagem a uma pessoa extremamente importante na minha vida!
Não temam em fazer a sua, mas pensem com carinho, afinal é pra vida toooooooda!!!
Beijos a todos."
Cinara Bezerra de Almeida
Participe do quadro Minha Tattoo.
The light fixtures are made from cold rolled steel which is hand fabricated and fitted with restoration glass. I think you can see it best in the photo above in another Thom Filicia interior. Each one is custom designed for the space it is to occupy. The restoration glass throws a spider web pattern on the walls when lit.
The line started when the husband and wife due of Matthew Larkin and Elaine Grant of Grant Larkin, designed a house up in the country where they live and had the notion of doing the lighting in a Japanese/modern aesthetic. The architect Gray Davis of 
They admit that they were total rubes and didn't even know what a CFA was at the time but it seems like they used it to their advantage by having almost everything custom designed and fabricated which set them apart. They used blacksmiths, bronze foundries, textile artists etc. Matt admits that it has "gone uphill (and sometimes down!) from there and says that "a great part of the satisfaction of my job is dealing with all the trades. Lainie, who has a theatre background was as ignorant as to the "workings" of the business, but has an inherent style sense that is off the charts." So the two country rubes jumped in and learned as they went and their interior design business continues to grow to this day.
If that wasn't enough to keep them busy, Matt Larkin started designing topiaries! He admits, "that came about because I was looking for an excuse to be outdoors more." A friend of his became the director of Green Animals in Newport about 15 years ago and during a visit in the winter he saw the topiary in the snow and it was just one of those moments he said. He took an adult education class in welding and figured out how to make frames which led to House and Garden naming him one of the "New Tastemakers" in 2005 for his topiary work. Are you starting to get the feeling that Matt doesn't do anything halfway?!
After that he was commissioned to do the exterior decoration of 
