Giambattista Valli‘s PARIS APARTMENT is an intriguing mix of traditional and modern, or perhaps best described as the new modern. The bones...
IT HAS BEEN A RAINY TUESDAY, and after the past few days of spring sunshine, it is quite lovely to have the romance of rain, for rainy days make the best work days . . .
HAVE BEEN MEANING to tell you about the Paris apartment of heiress & jewellery designer Gaia REPOSSI for a while. Located in the...
YOU MAY REMEMBER the term ornate austerity used here quite a few times before, sometimes referring to the work of Gilles et Boissier or Andrée Putman, but most often referring to Joseph Dirand, and so was thrilled to come across a recent article in The New York Times featuring the architect’s elegantly spare Seventh Arrondissement apartment.
WHILE DRAMA IS CERTAINLY something you will find here, modern is something that is in far shorter supply, especially when...
IT IS A BRAND NEW WEEK and one that has begun with bright blue skies and warm spring sunshine, and...
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.
TODAY, IT’s WHISKED AWAY to Paris, and the 16th arrondissement, to a refurbished duplex apartment in a listed building on Place de Colombie with its own...
AND ON THIS BLISSFULLY balmy January day, a glimpse into the warm and bright mid-nineteenth century Madrid apartment belonging to interior designer, Luis...
AND THIS WEEK seems to be flying by, and yet, all around, there seems, at once, to be a stillness in the air, the calm before the holiday madness begins in a flurry of egg nog and last-minute shopping. Here, there are a million and one things still left to do...
AN OLD FOUR-STORY MANSION that was only opened as hotel in April 2010, the House Hotel in Galatasaray was originally...
AND WHILE ON THE TOPIC of revisiting the things we love, recently stopped by Rive Gauche Rehab, a Parisian company that...
STILL THINKING ABOUT the home office from this past weekend’s links, and somehow, through a little bit of sleuthing &...
. . . a few site updates to follow, but first, a glimpse into a beautiful beaux arts apartment on...
. . . and for today, because it is so very late, an enchanting and intoxicating intermingling of insanely lovely wood floors, chandeliers, waterlilies and topiaries, settees and staircases and one breathtakingly beautiful gold étagère . . .