House & Garden recently featured the Georgian home of Jack Laver Brister, an antiques dealer and interior decorator living in Frome, Somerset. The 1780s home, with he shares with his partner Richard Nares, is the most deliciously maximalist with its blend of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture, prints, patterns, textures, colours, and art.
Beaverbrook Hotel is a late-nineteenth-century mansion set in the Surrey Hills, the quintessential British Country Estate. Decorator Susie Atkinson was tasked with designing something essentially British and romantic, "current but not trendy, comfortable and completely individual" (House & Garden). It is something she achieved brilliantly with tufted velvet and (Bowood) florals, dusky pink walls, cane chairs and Louise Bourgeois gallery walls...
I first introduced Private Choice in October of last year (you can read more about it here). I recently attended the 6th edition of the event, where Nadia Candet had once again asserted her curatorial taste on the Haussmannien apartment where the event is held with a selection of contemporary artists and designers, a wide variety of artwork, furniture and design objects that come together as a unified whole. This year’s theme is highlighting the Current Trends. The great mise en scene is not only an exhibition event but also a private sale event.
This week’s décor inspiration comes by was of the portfolio of London-based Australian photographer Michael Sinclair...
WE CAME ACROSS Interior Designer & Blogger Athena Calderone's living room on Instagram on the Architectural Digest page (@archdigest) and immediately felt compelled to see the rest of the place, which is featured in the November 2018 issue of the magazine.
Architectural historian and interior decorator Edward Bulmer's red-bricked Queen Anne house in Herefordshire is a study in charm with its walls of turquoise, sea green and pink, a Chippendale carved mahogany four-poster bed here, eighteenth-century painted Chinese wallpaper there, silk sari curtains and carefully thought after details...
In school, one of my very best friends was a girl named Kathryn. We did everything together and I would spend weeks during the summer at her family's lake house, swimming, water skiing, sunbathing and reading. These are some of my favourite memories growing up. I mention K because even though we were inseparable, she would still always write me letters for when she saw me next, even if it were the next morning at school, and every letter would include a quotation by someone inspiring. She was obsessed with quotes and with sharing them, and over time, collecting favourite quotes became one of my favourite things as well. And so, from existential thoughts to Pinterest aphorisms to phrases from books by favourite authors, here are ten quotes and sayings that I love at the moment...
