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Process makes the perfect projects
A big part of my journey is meeting clients who fully embrace the process of design. The process makes the perfect. This longest of phases is a whisper and a wail, a full throated siren call to the gleaming jagged rock that can easily shred our destiny into a million...
How to Hustle 101
Part of any business is the hustle. I believe great MBA schools should all have « How To Hustle » 101 all the way to 401. I believe some believe a hustler is born not bred. I believe our children have a leg up on us already. I believe in exploding the square and...
How to Cuckhold Covid
How do I start this post. I love writing because I love words. I possibly love words because as a child I was told “children are to be seen but not to be heard”. The written word is still silent. Unless you read out loud. This humbling but warmly coated paternal...
Like a Pig in Mud With a Long Life Ahead
Little did I know, while sitting pretty at the Ludlow in Lower East Side NYC last autumn, how many things I was taking for granted in this captured moment. The freedom of flying and ease of entering a foreign country, the comfort of an avocado toast served in a...
Let’s talk about space
Let’s talk about space. We North Americans have more than we need while our European counterparts fit three rooms in the size of one of our garages where we have parked...our stack of empty Tupperware. Half a lifetime ago as a young influenceable actor in New York...
I was the only person in color
I was the only person in color at Restoration Hardware. Until our new home is built I will be wearing our home’s colors. Yes I am going to the dark side and doing beige...but really, did you not get the safari memo? Touches of burnt mud, Masai ochre, Gobi sands, cream...
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an all green restaurant before.
Balls out design requires suspension of fear and doubt. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an all green restaurant before and there may be a legitimate reason that floated in my mind to spook me every week on this job: green gives us a sickly pallor when misused. At the...
I’m known to pick a book by the cover
Luxe Magazine has really elevated the game in the Capital of Canada with their Christmas Cover. Absolutely love the chocolatey canines and crisp pops of red. Over the next days I hope to entice you to buy and share the issue as well as visit the Clarendon with my...
Loving one’s self is a blood sport
Wouldn’t you know yours truly has made a Joni Mitchell splash in Luxe Mag. Being a centerfold at my age is harrowing but I will give you all the tiny ways to get through it: first, put lots of clothes on; secondly choose mostly black; thirdly have a nice editor to put...
These books are sentinels to my spirit
Remember the childhood book where this very large family of bears each lived in tree trunks with different interiors? I would pore over it page by page stressing over the fact I couldn’t pick out a favorite and the fact that Henrietta was the only bespectacled bear...
Process makes the perfect projects
A big part of my journey is meeting clients who fully embrace the process of design. The process makes the perfect. This longest of phases is a whisper and a wail, a full throated siren call to the gleaming jagged rock that can easily shred our destiny into a million...
How to Hustle 101
Part of any business is the hustle. I believe great MBA schools should all have « How To Hustle » 101 all the way to 401. I believe some believe a hustler is born not bred. I believe our children have a leg up on us already. I believe in exploding the square and...
How to Cuckhold Covid
How do I start this post. I love writing because I love words. I possibly love words because as a child I was told “children are to be seen but not to be heard”. The written word is still silent. Unless you read out loud. This humbling but warmly coated paternal...
Like a Pig in Mud With a Long Life Ahead
Little did I know, while sitting pretty at the Ludlow in Lower East Side NYC last autumn, how many things I was taking for granted in this captured moment. The freedom of flying and ease of entering a foreign country, the comfort of an avocado toast served in a...
Let’s talk about space
Let’s talk about space. We North Americans have more than we need while our European counterparts fit three rooms in the size of one of our garages where we have parked...our stack of empty Tupperware. Half a lifetime ago as a young influenceable actor in New York...
I was the only person in color
I was the only person in color at Restoration Hardware. Until our new home is built I will be wearing our home’s colors. Yes I am going to the dark side and doing beige...but really, did you not get the safari memo? Touches of burnt mud, Masai ochre, Gobi sands, cream...
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an all green restaurant before.
Balls out design requires suspension of fear and doubt. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an all green restaurant before and there may be a legitimate reason that floated in my mind to spook me every week on this job: green gives us a sickly pallor when misused. At the...
I’m known to pick a book by the cover
Luxe Magazine has really elevated the game in the Capital of Canada with their Christmas Cover. Absolutely love the chocolatey canines and crisp pops of red. Over the next days I hope to entice you to buy and share the issue as well as visit the Clarendon with my...
Loving one’s self is a blood sport
Wouldn’t you know yours truly has made a Joni Mitchell splash in Luxe Mag. Being a centerfold at my age is harrowing but I will give you all the tiny ways to get through it: first, put lots of clothes on; secondly choose mostly black; thirdly have a nice editor to put...
These books are sentinels to my spirit
Remember the childhood book where this very large family of bears each lived in tree trunks with different interiors? I would pore over it page by page stressing over the fact I couldn’t pick out a favorite and the fact that Henrietta was the only bespectacled bear...