Hostess Gifts for the Holiday Kitchen

November 19, 2015

Hand-made dish towels, new brushes and fragrant soap beautifully packaged will be a favorite of every hostess.Slideshow

Here is the proverbial question: Where does the time go? We are nearing the end of 2015, and that means one thing. It is gift-giving time.

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Very Rich & Handsome

November 18, 2015

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VERY RICH & HANDSOME is the name of an exhibition at the Hirschl & Adler Galleries in the Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. As part of my museum and antiques show hopping in New York in January, I especially wanted to see this extraordinary group of American Neo-Classical decorative arts. The title of the show was extracted from an 1820 document by Abby Breese Salisbury who described a group of furniture she had commissioned from the Boston cabinet making firm of Issac Vose & Son in the early days of the 19th century. While great furniture was made in Boston at that time, other cabinetmaking centers were well established New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The show has examples from all of these centers and each piece is more refined and elegant than the next.

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Cement Tile, Round 2

November 18, 2015

The positive and negative spaces are reversed and it makes this pattern look entirely different.Slideshow

Last week I wrote about cement tile. I wanted to continue that post with some images to demonstrate that one pattern often equals many design opportunities with a simple change of color and a quarter or half turn of the tile to disrupt the pattern flow.

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We're Having a Wallpaper Moment

November 17, 2015

This open pattern is fresh and organic, with beautiful colors. Slideshow

If I were to identify a new trend, I would say that we are in a wallpaper moment. In shelter magazines and showrooms, textures and patterns for walls are everywhere. The only problem with all of these fresh choices is that there are so many wonderful new options, it is difficult to make a decision! Recently, I decided I wanted to wallpaper my laundry room and spent too much time taping potential choices to the walls; I considered everything from linen and grasscloth to stripes and subtle patterns. Unfortunately, I have yet to make a final decision.

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