LAST WEEK we watched a documentary called Twin Sisters, by Mona Friis Bertheussen, about twins separated at birth and raised...
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TODAY’S DECOR INSPIRATION is a two-bedroom from the 1930’s, located on the Left Bank of the Seine, Paris. The owner, an avid contemporary art collector, had wanted the heavy plaster cornices, marble star on the floor and gilt of the apartment’s “old-fashioned grandeur” removed for a “light and unpretentious interior”. While it may never, ever occur to this maximalist to remove the grandeur from the bones of a paris apartment . . .
HAVEN’T THE FAINTEST idea why am so very drawn to the bedroom, powder & dressing rooms in the home of Miriam...
THE BEAUTIFUL WORK of Christine Dovey has been featured here before, most recently her stunning chandelier & Carrara Toronto home,...
FIRST, THERE WAS Joseph Dirand‘s Seventh Arrondissement apartment; then there was Gaia Repossi‘s Eighth Arrondissement one, followed by Giambattista Valli‘s, each of which...
BACK IN THE OFFICE again after being around & about, appointments and errands and such, and while mine is a...
AND IT HAS BEEN a working weekend, the kind where chocolate and popcorn is brought in and scented candles are...
. . . and the weekend has begun with cherry blossoms and clear blue skies, sea salt caramel macarons, and...
WE FIRST FEATURED the home of husband and wife design duo Dorothée Boissier and Patrick Gilles way back in November 2013, but have just stumble upon new-to-us (and more casual) photos of their newly renovated Paris apartment and couldn't resist revisiting this beautiful space once again.
The last few days I have been watching the beauty of fall from my cosy rustic cabin back in my home town. Being back in Paris now, my mind keeps drifting to the emerald lake we visited and the colourful forests I have seen during the time I’ve spent there. Here there is no crackling fire, but certainly these two places are a perfect choice for a cosy lunch or dinner with some incredible Parisian views between the working days ...
. . . have been very nearly living in a soft chambray top and sexy white jeans lately — the perfect late-spring and leading into summer outfit, it’s crisp and chic, with a touch of rock & refined . . .
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