. . . built as a school in 1889, the washington school house hotel is now a luxury boutique hotel with twelve rooms/suites, a roaring fire and chic ski lounge, a heated pool terraced in the hillside, even; silvery velvet settees and gilded footstools, carerra breakfast tables and powder rooms too, chandeliers at every turn, and most of all, it promises wine, aspen trees and stars . . .

r e c e n t p l a c e s :

* hôtel plaza athénée, paris
* notting hill
* brooklyn botanical garden
* backstage at elie saab
* at the apple store, paris
* champagne aftertoon tea, the dorchester
* backstage at valentino
* at the gallery
* at the ballet
* at the greenbrier hotel
* in the kitchen
* at the salon
* at an oceanside cottage

[images: washington school house hotel via eclecchic via laura]