. . . and intermingled between work and many cups of coffee, emails and emails, topiaries at garden centres...
SUMMER MAY BE OFFICIALLY OVER, but with these sunny, sunny days, we are still not quite ready to let it...
. . . today, a glimpse into one of the eiffel suites at the hôtel plaza athénée on the avenue...
. . . and for all those swept away by yesterday’s feather chandeliers, upholstered walls and chrome consoles, happily happened...
BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN SPENDING the past month in Spain, we have been absorbing much of the Spanish culture (and...
TWO LOVELY THINGS : a glimpse at Karl Lagerfeld’s romantic Paris apartment dining table, dressed in antique 19th-century lace, from...
I’ve been obsessing over marble tables for a while now. While apartment hunting, I fantasize about how I will decorate my new space and have been dreaming about either a dining table, side table, or coffee table in marble, or all of them ...
. . . another summer weekend may have come and gone, but it was filled with french bread and escargots,...
. . . keep coming back again and again to this stunning carved mirror and console — such a beautiful...
[slideshow — if arriving from bloglovin’, click here] It’s the weekend! and after being away for most of the week,...
. . . have always held a special fondness for velvet, and especially tufted velvet, {and anything tufted, really}, and...
SOMETIMES THE BEST PLACES to find inspiring interiors is on the websites of the photographers hired to shoot them. Such is the case with this space shot by Swedish photographer Jesper Florbrant. While am not particularly fond of the rest of the space, this living room, with its pale, pale pink walls, crown mouldings, parquet flooring, deep wall panels and glittering chandelier, is truly inspirational, especially since we're currently in search of the perfect shade of PINK for the master bedroom ...
THERE IS A SPANISH BOOKSTORE that we love to visit that has all the best magazines. It was here, the other day, that had come across the latest issue of Elle Decoration España with the new home of couturier Jorge Vázquez on the cover. Of course, as an unabashed maximalist, it was love at first site. The Spanish fashion designer worked with his friend and decorator, Amaro Sánchez de Moya, who also designed Vázquez's store in La Coruña.
. . . and as you may well know, often most drawn to bright & airy palettes, and especially at this time of year, but there is something about this deep and rich and warm and sultry festive scene, that is nearly impossible to resist . . .