We did some scouting several weeks ago at the offices of Roman & Williams, the design team responsible for two of the city’s biggest hotel openings this year, The Ace and The Standard. What we found was a work space full of inspiration. Partners Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch have surrounded themselves with reference material of objects from a bygone era. You can literally spend days sifting through all the books, art, objects, and materials that are perfectly cataloged in the studio. The purpose for the visit was to scout the space for our shoot. Roman & Williams will be the second subject in our documentary series on craftsmanship. Stay tuned, these still images will be supplemented with moving pictures. More photos after the jump.

There are only a handful of TV shows that we watch, No Reservations being one of them while Gossip Girl on the other hand is not. Though it did pique our interest when we saw this post on Dwell Magazine’s blog of InStyle’s Get the Look section. Did the set designers actually reupholster the Eames lounge in a Missoni fabric? Oh yes they did, snap, snap

Stephen Coles is a graphic designer and mid-century modern enthusiast. His passion for that era lead him to The Mid-Century Modernist blog. It is one of the best archival sites out there documenting not only the past but the present in mid-century modern design. Fortunately for us, Coles was able to capture many of the photos of Finn Juhl’s home in his August 2007 post, the original site from which they came from has taken them down. Updates are infrequent but the quality in the post make that forgivable.

Beautiful Losers has quietly left New York and is moving westward. LA Times features Aaron Rose at home in last Friday’s Home & Garden section.