Rose Quartz

Pink is having a major moment right now. We’ve been spotting the soft hue on the runway (hello, dreamy Jason Wu and Max Mara pantsuits) and envying the way people are incorporating blush tones into their homes. It’s…

Winden

To support her love of slow fashion, jeweler Rebecca Mapes started her blog To Know Wear to highlight independent designers who value local and eco-friendly manufacturing processes. She recently launched a capsule collection of ever so dainty…

Erdem Pre-Fall 2016

Leave it to Erdem Moralioglu to breathe such refined beauty and modern romance into demure silhouettes inspired by the Edwardian era, flowers as basic as carnations, and something as overplayed as ostrich feathers. Everything he touches turns to pure gold. If only my…

American Textiles

I’ve always been fascinated by the manufacturing process – the maker in me has an obsession with seeing how things are made. Christopher Payne‘s photographic series Textiles gives us a rare peek inside the few remaining textile mills in America’s…

Annie Costello Brown

It was a pair of oversized, oxidized blue earrings that first drew me to LA based designer Annie Costello Brown‘s warrior-like earrings. Each piece is hand cut and hammered out of burnished brass and silver…

Layered Rugs

I’ve amassed an excessive collection of small Turkish kilims and ethnic, handwoven rugs over the years – all of which are just piling up in a storage closet. I can’t help it, I’m addicted to textiles! And now that…

Haphazardly Wrapped

These are paintings. Yes, paintings! Super hyperrealistic oil paintings by Swedish artist Yrjö...

The Big Easy

I can’t remember what inspired our entire family to take Thanksgiving on the road this year, but all of us were thrilled to spend the holiday in New Orleans – a first for all of us.…

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday! I’m personally looking forward to turning off my computer for the next couple of days . . . so we’ll catch you next week. xx

Becca Stadtlander

There’s something about Becca Stadtlander‘s illustrations that seems to fit in so nicely with...