Friend [& TIG Contributing Editor], Felicity, has been in search of the perfect bar stools for her new home, after falling in love with the gilded and black leather ones in Rose Uniacke’s London home [below, second from bottom]. After searching for the very same ones and finding those to be rather extravagant, with nothing else suitable, she wondered if you might know of any great resources for the perfect bar stools with shipping to the EU? Thank you ever so much! —TIG
WHERE TO STAY * Hotel de Orangerie : Kartuizerinnenstraat, 10, 8000, Bruges, West Flanders * Hotel Heritage [Hotel] : 11 Niklaas Desparsstraat, Bruges 8000...
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 . . .