WE CAME ACROSS the beautiful kitchen of designer Jasper Conran's vacation home on the island of Rhodes on Instagram and instantly fell for its rustic charm. Nothing looks too perfect, and yet everything looks perfect. There are stacks of old pots and pans on lower shelves and large terracotta platters displayed casually above, a pebble mosaic floor (something we had never seen before), irregular white plaster walls and a thatched ceiling. We, of course, were intrigued to see the rest of the home, which once belonged to Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori.
THIS WEEKEND WE celebrated something special and also tried to absorb as much of the last golden days of summer as possible. For this first September week, we're back and forth to Edinburgh for business and to sort a few things out. We've also finally installed some bookcases to the left of the fireplace in the living room and have begun moving the boxes (and boxes) of books and magazines from the storage unit to the cottage. The floor is currently strewn with paperbacks, oversized coffee table books and glossy back issues of favourite magazines in a pile of nostalgia and happy chaos. Everything that we've been working for in the past few months has lead to tomorrow and we're relieved, excited and exhausted all at once...
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh,...
. . . the sultry days of summer have arrived and it has been hot, hot, hot and positively living...
. . . deep into summer and it’s as many wonderfully languorous hours en plein air as possible, an afternoon...
{two lovely things:} there is something about wicker that brings back memories of luxuriously beautiful summer afternoons — perhaps a reminder of picnic baskets and sunrooms overflowing with roses and sunlight . . .
. . . doors flung open to the languor of early evening breezes and petal-laden dreams that begin in hazy...
Overcast skies calls for sunny yellow bedcovers, especially when arranged with a pretty scalloped-trimmed pillow and dreamy mosquito netting ....
“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light . . .“ ~Henry Wadsworth...
