Brass - A Current Design Fling

This won't be news to those who are my Pinterest colleagues as they have already noticed that I love brass.

I even have a Pinterest board dedicated to it.

No, not the cockney sort - real metallic brass thank you very much.

I think most of us have a meme that overtakes 

our design, sartorial, or literary psyche.

Please tell me you have this affliction!

A few years ago, it was chevrons among many others.

Mary Macdonald made it so chic! Via

But its place has been cemented by having had a whole feature dedicated to it in the 

February issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine.

A look that goes surprisingly well is gray with brass accessories.