WHEN WE wrote about our holiday table setting inspiration featuring ribbon bows (with a little design history included), we had no idea just how many areas⏤from fashion to food and more⏤the bow (define as a specific decorative arrangement of material such as satin, organza, silk) has been adorning.
IT WAS THE champagne coupes tied in lengths of black ribbon (below) that first caught our eye while searching Pinterest for table setting inspiration for the holidays. For interest, we thought we'd provide a brief history of the ribbon bow to go along with these beautiful images of tabletop inspiration for your upcoming holiday soirées or any dinner party really.
ON AN ESPECIALLY grim day around here, there will always be someone who mutters well you don't live in Britain for the weather. And while that may be true, it's definitely cosy when you're sitting in someone's home for tea where it's bright and warm.
A FEW WEEKS ago we featured Villa Arniano, interior designer Camilla Guinness’s house in the Tuscan Hills, and by some wild coincidence we happened upon Zara Home's latest online catalogue, shot at this very place. It appears that they restyled everything, filling the rooms with their new product line-up and created these beautiful photos which make the villa look perhaps even lovelier...
Filipa de Abreu is a design consultant and brand ambassador for Tory Burch in New York. When she is not there, she spends her time in Lisbon, in this century-old four-bedroom rental with an ocean view in the city's Lapa neighbourhood ...
DEEP, MOODY BLUES always seem to go well with winter days, especially after the holidays are over and things begin to settle back into normal routines again. The winter blues can sometimes get you down, but not when they're used for perfect table setting inspiration ...
Time again for another instalment of our new series, 5 Words to Learn this Month, and for the month of April, we’re looking at the words philocaly, duende, ikigai, pluviophil and shibui.
IT IS BRIGHT AND CHILLY today, and we’re spending some time catching up on work at a café. We’re seated at the window with the winter sun shining through, sipping our cortados watching the world go by through the glass, elderly ladies in long camel coats and men in suits in a hurry. The emails have been piling up and there are too many things on our to-do lists to keep track of, but soon it will be the holidays and time off for a little while. Time for collecting ourselves and our thoughts and to reflect on the year gone by; time for midday glasses of cava and oysters at our favourite place at the mercado and for musing about the places we’ll travel to in the new year. There are new projects and plans for the year to come, but for now, we’re dreaming through these last lingering days of the year.
THIS WEEK’S 10 IMAGES features the Instagram snapshots of Annabelle Fleur (@vivaluxuryblog), the fashion blogger behind The Viva Luxury. There are little white dresses and oysters on the terrace, brown suede mini skirts and glasses or rosé . . .
[Slideshow — if slides do not advance, click here] Antique china in shades of pink & gold, gilded flatware and...
[slideshow — if arriving from bloglovin’, click here] It’s the weekend! and there are plans for catching up and for...
ALONGSIDE LONG LINGERING dinners and Christmas cake, cut-crystal glasses of champagne, Christmas crackers and tissue paper crowns that we, [P...
At many points throughout the year, we may welcome guests to stay in our homes as well as be guests...
. . . lately have been falling back on the always classic and utterly elegant french dots for design inspiration,...
. . . late saturday afternoon, arrived in the countryside for the weekend, and already, there has been dinner by...
