Ever since I spotted a pair of Chinese porcelain cranes at the uber chic drawing room of Ann Getty’s Parish Hadley decorated San Francisco home I have been obsessed. Their graceful lines and gorgeous turquoise bases lend the most perfectly elegant quality to any interior. As you might imagine I was thrilled to come across [...]
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City Safari
It may look like I’m at a bazaar in Africa, but this is actually the flea market on West 25th St. between Broadway and 6th Ave. in New York City. One can find a great selection of hand crafted textiles here, and I often have pillows made from them for my clients. This sort of [...]
Susanna Salk
Much of my aesthetic inspiration comes from all the books I have read and collected over the years, and so I was quite thrilled to go to a book signing by the brilliant author and style maven, Susanna Salk. Salk’s book, Privileged Life: Celebrating Wasp Style, is a true testament to an enduring legacy. Her [...]
Lofty Dreams
I have never been one to settle for small fantasies – I prefer to dream big! One of my long standing dreams has been to acquire a town house in New York City like the one featured here. Almost every day I pass by this magnificent house and visualize myself living there – I have [...]
A Fortuitous Collaboration
My dear friend and fellow blogger Ronda Carman has partnered with Vicente Wolfe to act as an online gallery through her excellent “All The Best” blog. Ms. Carman will be featuring a very limited edition selection of Wolf’s stunning photographs titled “Trees of Nambia.” The blog medium really does offer exciting possibilities for collaboration between [...]
Magnificent Met
A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art never fails to inspire – the Wrightsman Galleries and their period rooms, the costume exhibitions, the English rooms and of course the huge collection of exquisite paintings and sculpture – all feed the soul and ignite the imagination. I’m stopping for a moment to admire an almost [...]
