A LITTLE OVERCAST today, which means searching for colour anywhere we can find it — the bright pink roses from P. on my desk at the office, a dash of red lipstick, and a glimpse, for old time’s sake, into Iris Apfel’s three-bedroom Manhattan apartment, from the June 2011 issue of Architectural Digest.
A ROMANTICALLY OVERCAST MONDAY and a little obscene how we’re rushing about so, and in the spirit of multi-tasking and to inspire the beginning of the work week, a few favourite pins have come across recently . . .
GILDED CROWN MOULDING, crystal chandeliers, gold-embroidered lace evening gowns and butterflies around the world — just a few things in thoughts and daydreams on this late-January Friday . . .
TODAY’S INTERIOR INSPIRATION comes from the home of fashion designer and Wheels & Dollbaby founder, Melanie Greensmith, and her husband, Divinyls co-founder...
MORE INSPIRATION FROM FRANCE, this time, a wonderfully ornate château in Normandy, with beautiful styling by New-York based, Glen Proebstel, and photography by...
THE WORK OF PHOTOGRAPHER Karen Knorr first appeared here a few years ago. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and raised in San...
THESE WEEKEND WISHES come to you from Paris, after a spectacular and golden-pink sunrise from the window of an airplane,...
THIS WEEKEND there were things to celebrate, and so beneath the fairy lights there was champagne; there were also walks...
AS YOU KNOW, will forever and always be a maximalist, in décor and otherwise, [but especially the former], but can...
a f e w l o v e l y l i n k s * belle de jour :...
AND WHILE ON THE TOPIC of the beautiful work of photographer, Derry Moore, serendipitously came across this elegant and impossibly chic...
THE ROSES ON THE TERRACE have been clipped and moved to the garden, and there is no turning back...
FOR THIS WEEK’S [PLACES], it’s away and off to La Socelière, a 17th-century chateau in the Loire Valley. Resting on nearly 20 acres of gardens, forest, and pasture, it is a wonderland of 1940s Italian rococo sofas and armchairs upholstered in purple velvet...
A FEW STOLEN MOMENTS here & there, of what has been happening around here lately . . . snakeskin pumps and marble staircases, quaint narrow laneways & romantic cobblestone streets, castles and antique china and white wicker baskets at favourite florists, gilded chairs and bedroom toile and roses, roses, roses, and it’s all in a day’s work . . .
A FEW YEARS AGO, Laily interviewed India Hicks for TIG, and we discovered that she was a bridesmaid at Princess Diana’s...
