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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Sprucing up a Summer Space
Now that Memorial Day has officially passed, many will be making the weekly Friday night trek to weekend homes and seasonal rentals. Summer is the time to entertain with ease and having a place looking casually chic is the name of the game.…
Posted in design, furniture, interior design
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Bringing it Home from Blogfest
What a wild style ride the last few weeks have been. While there is much to report, there are a few touch points to quickly share from the latest design event I attended, Blogfest. The most important concepts are usually the simplest but executing them well is what separates the good from the exceptional.…
Posted in design, furniture, interior design, technology
20 Comments
Stay Tuned
Sometimes even the best of intentions just aren’t quite enough. While I had of course planned to post on Friday, the past few weeks of design events left me with a photo file full of inspiration but no energy to organize it.…
Posted in design, interior design
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Kicking off Design Week at Wanted
Did you know it is Design Week in New York City? Well it may be a bit under the public radar, but this week surrounding the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), which opened last weekend, is turning out to be a blockbuster.…
Posted in art, design, furniture, interior design, technology
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Living Gilt Home
Tom Delavan, the talented designer and Creative Director of Gilt Home, opened up his beautiful Greenwich Village townhouse recently to showcase some soon-to-be -featured Gilt products.
I wish I had better photos of his dramatic entrance painted in high gloss white enamel – it is stunning!…
Posted in design, entertainment, food and drink, furniture, gifts, interior design
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Kips Bay – Charles Pavarini, Chairman of the Designer Committee
Tuesday evening I attended the opening of the 2012 Kips Bay Showhouse. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic event and with Bunny Williams and Charles Pavarini at the helm, the designers pulled out all the stops. It’s a blockbuster round up of talent resulting in a showhouse that is a marvelous example of design excellence.…
Posted in design, furniture, interior design
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New York D&D Building 2012 Spring Market
I am delighted to announce that I will be reporting today from the D&D Building in NYC for Spring Market. Along with twenty other design and lifestyle bloggers, I will be tweeting live from all the fabulous events that the D&D has lined up.…
Posted in books, design, furniture, interior design
8 Comments
Holland & Sherry Bespoke
On a popular street in NYC’s hip Nolita neighborhood, in the most beautiful building on the block, the chicest new lifestyle brand in the city has been born. If you are a fan of elegant fine fabrics, classic enduring design tweaked for modern living, carefully curated collections of the excellent and eccentric, then be sure to put the new Holland & Sherry Bespoke shop at 209 Elizabeth Street on your must-visit list.…
Posted in architecture, design, fashion, furniture, gifts, interior design
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My Amazing Mother
My mother was truly exceptional, but growing up, it somehow seemed normal that we had couture quality Easter coats she made us every year or that my sister and her dolls always had matching outfits or that she could accurately sketch portraits of the children at our summer club in under a minute or even that her hair was in a perfect French twist secured by a million bobbie pins by the time I came down to breakfast every morning.…
Posted in art, fashion, sculpture, Stationery
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Red Cross Red & White Ball Redux
As with many such tabletop fundraisers, it is impossible to feature all the tables in a single post – hence part two, featuring many more of the tantalizing tables that designers created for the Red Cross Red & White ball in Greenwich, CT on April 28th.…
Posted in design, entertainment, food and drink, interior design
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