Looks like The Selby was down in Brasil. The photographer and all around fan of interiors visits the apartment home of fashion designer, Alexandre Herchcovitch, in San Paolo, Brasil. This may well be one of my favorite The Selby profiles in some time. Herchcovitch (and Fabio Souza) left the interior walls of their apartment unfinished. Unlike most white-walled homes that use art and objects as the primary focal point of the eye, Herchcovitch’s are of a rough finished – plaster cracks and chipping remains untouched – which complement the objects. Check that vintage collection as well.

More looks after the click.

Bulgaria’s Vilner gives the Mercedes-Benz G Class AMG an aftermarket re-work on the interior. With the exterior remaining “as is,” Vilner went to work on the interios and overhauled it from top to bottom. Full leather upholstery with embosses elements on the roof liner and door panels… just about every plastic element original to the G Class has been wrapped in leather including the rear-view mirror and seat belts.

More looks after the click.

Brainpickings serve up something special with this video from 1958. Mid century design as it happened. Interior fiends, this one is for you. “celebrating mid-century lifestyle design ranging from dinnerware to public art murals to lawnmowers.”

Featuring images of deserted houses in Iceland, Orri Jónsson’s latest book is entitled Interiors. Taken from 1999 to 2010, he started taking these images after finding an abandoned farmhouse  on a family holiday. According to the blurb the book’s photographs ‘evoke the personal histories of the inhabitants who long ago abandoned their homes.’

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Apartment voyeurism has been our thing for a while now. Don’t ask how or why it started, it just did ‘kay? Cicilia Teng pokes around the couple behind The Fox is Black’s apartment and, as you’d expect, there’s tumblr inspiration at every corner. (Cicilia Teng)

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Located in Clausen, Luxembourg (i.e. the old quarter of Luxembourg City), Skype Corporate Headquarters is part of larger refurbishment of one of the areas existing brewery buildings. Designers WAM were charged with creating a dynamic interior to inspire innovation, but also retain some degree of corporate sophistication. Given the difficult of such a task, Skypes new offices seemed worth posting – we’re interested in knowing if our readers think the space succeeds. (via ArchDaily).

View more of the Skype Corporate Headquarters after the jump.

Books and coffee are old bedfellows. As such, we have all experienced a coffee shop-cum-bookshop, or vice versa.

For the interior of the D’espresso Cafe on New York’s Madison Avenue, Nema Workshop utilized sepia-toned custom photo tiles. Then, they flipped the faux library on its head – turning it upside down and sideways. The resulting interior is surrounded by books, paying tribute to both the nearby Bryant Park Library and the undeniable connection between a good book and a good cup of Joe.

More images after the jump. More information at Contemporist.

Curated recently visited Robert A.M. Stern’s latest edition to the Manhattan skyline, “Located on the Northeast corner of Central Park, 1280 Fifth Avenue boasts design by Robert A.M. Stern and interiors by acclaimed architect Andre Kikoski. As a multi-use building, the structure houses both luxury accommodations and the Museum of African Art – the tenth institution on the famed Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue.”

The location affords some stunning views of Central Park and the model homes are a showcase for Ligne Roset’s latest furnishings. More about the building can be found here.

Never content to let the Harvard crowd have all the fun, Yale’s contribution to digital exhibitions related to student rooms launched this week.

Recently, I discussed the FDR Project and much the same I love There’s No Place Like Home for capturing the spirit of a time through interiors and objects. This particular exhibition was curated by a fellow Winterthur Program graduate, Dana Byrd, whose work I admire greatly.

From the site -

In the late nineteenth century, Yale College students took great care furnishing their dormitory rooms, filling them with personal mementos, artistic objects, and the accouterments of academic life. Between 1869 and 1894, new dormitories, monumental in scale and lavish in design, were built along the New Haven Green on College Street in the area known today as Old Campus, gradually creating a self-contained quadrangle that quickly became the psychological center of campus. The new student rooms provided a marked contract to the austerity and coldness of many of the university’s other facilities. To commemorate their living spaces, students commissioned professional photographers to document their fashionable interiors and to record intimate traces of their personal tastes and habits. The extensive decoration and photography of student rooms was not limited to Yale; it occurred at other elite academic institutions across the country. This online exhibition is dedicated to exploring the ways in which students used objects to create a distinctive home for themselves at Yale.

I have selected a few objects from the exhibition that really spoke to me. These are after the jump.

On the high seas, no ship captured the full Art Deco style as fully as the SS Normandie. A passenger liner, the Normandie was the most glamorous of the early 20th-century “floating palaces.” In Decodecne: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie, South Street Seaport Museum celebrates the boat in full glory. The exhibition includes interiors, photographs, video and more, all with the intent of expressing why the Normandie captured the imagination of people the world over.

The museum has a dedicated site offering a preview of the exhibition. The Telegraph has also published a comprehensive review. Both options have glorious photographs from the show. (via Curated).

Deocdence runs through January, 2011.