Over the next week or two I’ll be spending a lot of time ruminating over all that I took in during my visit to the 2011 Kips Bay Decorator Show House.  There were so many palettes, layouts and concepts to take in that spending this rainy morning in the Upper East Side house became an [...]

Kind people all around me keep insisting that I am forgiven for not resuming my usual posting schedule, since if I had a regular office job I would not typically be trudging back to work for at least another week.  However, it has been weighing on me that I missed Friday Beautiful Things (another round [...]

As you can see, CamilleMaurice is getting a little bit of a facelift.  She was in need of a little bit of color and relevance, so if you look around, you will notice a nip and a tuck here and there.  While I’ve been working on this with the help of some of my more [...]

In honor of the arrival of what I like to call “porch season”, today’s Friday Beautiful Things celebrates the life lived out of doors.  A time for languishing chats with friends and books lit by the pale warmth of the sunlight, it’s the time of year that always produces good stories.  The Cloud Sofa begs [...]