T MAGAZINE FEATURED Jenna Lyons‘ new Soho loft yesterday, sending décor enthusiasts’ hearts aflutter. No longer with J.Crew after 27 years (ten of those years as creative director and eight as president), Lyons has been taking some time off in her newly redesigned apartment, a 3,500-square-foot loft on the fourth floor of a 19th-century cast-iron building in SoHo
ON FRIDAY NIGHT, by the golden glow of hazy street lamps, we followed the strains of jazz to a clearing in the park to discover couples swing dancing. It was unexpected and utterly perfect for a midsummer’s night, and really rather romantic. On Saturday night, again in the park, we happened upon a full jazz concert, white garden chairs set around an outdoor stage in front of the water fountain filled with late-night revelers, some with children in tow, late-arriving tourists on bicycles and circles of friends on blankets on the grass, sharing a bottle of rosé. Summertime here is the very essence of joie de vivre and we’re lucky to be a part of it. This week’s links include Living with Pink and London’s 30 Most Instagrammed Restaurants, a blue & white beach house and much, much more …
WE FIRST CAME ACROSS The French Manoir on Julie Huh-Currie's Instagram page of the same name, @french_manoir, where she documents the restoration, renovation and decoration of her château in Pays de la Loire. Victoria magazine recently ran a feature on the place, telling the story of how Currie's first thoughts of purchasing an estate in France can to her from her home in Australia, a grueling twenty-two hour flight away. She had never ever even been to France at the point, nor could she speak the language. The feature describes Currie's story of crossing ten thousand miles from the capital city of Melbourne to the village of Chevaigné-du-Maine ...
IMAGES features the work of commercial and editorial photographer and art director Jen Kay, whose sun-drenched glimpses of life in San Francisco have a bright, hazy and dreamlike quality to them. There are also travel adventures in Paris and Tulum, ruffled little white dresses and oysters and rosé . . .
THE MARBLE is the startlingly lovely star of this Notting Hill kitchen by interior design firm Blakes London from the London...