HERE WE ARE, on the very last day of the year (and the decade!) and there's a feeling of calm and thoughtfulness as there always is at this time of year. Having spent the past three New Year's Eves in Spain, we're back celebrating in the UK and it's a very different time than it was before we left ...
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Bunny Williams' new Manhattan apartment is pure maximalist perfection. Located in the same 1920s French Gothic Revival building that she's lived in for over twenty years. the new space features new arrangements of her old things, and the result could not be more spectacular. Like with all of her work, there are truly exquisite details such as custom mercury glass ...
WE’RE A LITTLE SLOWER with the Holiday Gift Guides this year due to the many projects that we’ve taken on in the past few months and are currently in the middle of completing, but so far, we’ve brought you these...
A LONG TIME AGO, I was once given the advice, "Find the thing that you want to do most with your life, and then do one thing every day to get yourself closer to that goal." I remembered and repeated these words to a friend recently, hoping it would help with what she was going through at the moment, to which she replied, but sometimes we get stuck.
Badminton House is a large country house and Grade I Listed Building in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, and the current home of the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. It has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century, when the family moved from Raglan Castle, which had been ruined in the English Civil War. The house gives its name to the sport of badminton...
THIS WEEKEND WE watched two films: Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) and Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) and both were really good. Knives Out was fast-paced and funny and great fun to try to figure out, while Marriage Story was deeply moving and heartbreaking and made me cry several times.
THERE ARE ONLY two days left until the General Election and for the past two weeks, flyers have been dropped through our mail slot and canvassers have been ringing the door bell.
HAPPY DECEMBER! It is scarily already the very last month of the year and it's rather shocking how quickly it all has gone. Of course, we made a major move half-way through the year, which may have made things seem to fly by more quickly, and have been spending the rest of the time caught up in a flurry of things―major projects and undertakings, new site and product launches and big plans for the new year ...
THIS MORNING, THE entire countryside was covered in a layer of frost—the rooftops, with their wisps of white chimney smoke, the well-manicured hedges in front gardens and each red and fallen leaf on the sidewalks. And on the hills in the distance, a softly rising mist...
Daniela and I often talk about Mini Trends, the most recent being tracksuits with blazers, and she noticed at the same time I did that everyone seemed to be wearing big, fluffy white coats lately. Whether faux fur or shearling, they look so warm and cosy and perfect for a winter's day. Here is a round-up of a few of our favourite long white winter coats and ways to style them...
THERE ARE late summer whites and early autumn whites, but perhaps our most favourite are the Winter Whites. Here is a beautifully curated moodboard of a few things we love this holiday season—coats and cable knits and cosy cardigans; table settings and turtlenecks and tufted headboards; boiserie and leather totes and so much more...
Our Lifestyle Editor sent along a photo this weekend of the cosiest living room with a crystal chandelier hanging above a roaring fire that was published on Livingetc in late March of this year.
Christina Cole Abboud is a designer and LEED AP, based in Austin, TX with more than 12 years of experience working in the design industry. Before launching her design firm, Christina Cole and Co., Abboud had an academic career teaching Architecture, Urban Design and History, at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC and Barcelona, Spain.
IF YOU HAD THOUGHT that the athleisure trend wasn't going to last, you're probably beginning to realise, five years along, that not only is it here to stay, but it's only just beginning...