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Have you had the red velvet waffles at the Clarendon yet?
Have you had the red velvet waffles at the Clarendon yet? As I sit here in Boston my Sunday brunch game is dreaming a little dream of the berry soft waffles coated in whipped cream and fruit coulis.
My mood boards for the “Paper-mill Safari” concept
My mood boards for the “Paper-mill Safari” concept are shaping up. I give you two of these for illustration. Words of encouragement much appreciated. Building permits are being submitted after being approved by heritage and now it is really down to spatial...
See? You only need to ask once
The Clarendon’s “Moules Frites and Makeout” snug pub where last night some very tired parents (Ottawa euphemism for hungover) had a smorgasbord of meatballs, braised beef, lamb skewers and trout, mushroom demi poutine, fried cauliflower, scotch egg, tomato flatbread...
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...
The luxury of luxury is a sentiment to behold daintily.
The luxury of luxury is a sentiment to behold daintily. My trip back to my old haunt, the lower East Side, is part obligation, part work and all fun. I came as a director of the Council of Canadian American Relations but will be leaving as the “Road Warrior” for Luxe...
For all those who think design does not matter in the grand scheme of things.
For all those who think design does not matter in the grand scheme of things: I present Exhibit A. This exuberantly youthful morsel of skittle kitsch served up at Miami’s Airport was just the sunny saccharine pop I needed before a lengthy white knuckle flight home.
No matter how small a space you have. Make it count.
I will always look back at this entryway as the standard I shall forever more try to meet. No matter how small a space you have. Make it count.
Luxe Magazine has me entrenched in their pages as their very own “Road Warrior”
Luxe Magazine has me entrenched in their pages as their very own “Road Warrior”: a nosy globetrotting designer that goes to the succulent part of any city’s heart and then gabs about it in peripatetic prose. Writing for Luxe is a dream that I never dreamt of come...
The family room off the kitchen is the crown jewel of “The Gingerbread House”.
The family room off the kitchen is the crown jewel of “The Gingerbread House”. If you look at the before picture with puzzlement it is because there is no longer a window where there once was. There are pitfalls to a house that was built before any other on the block...
To me my bathroom has become a sanctuary.
Bathrooms are the unsung heroes of our homes and no matter the level of our own vanity we are in them several times a day for various lengths of time. To me my bathroom has become a sanctuary. It is the room where I regain serenity and solace in solitude. A small...
Have you had the red velvet waffles at the Clarendon yet?
Have you had the red velvet waffles at the Clarendon yet? As I sit here in Boston my Sunday brunch game is dreaming a little dream of the berry soft waffles coated in whipped cream and fruit coulis.
My mood boards for the “Paper-mill Safari” concept
My mood boards for the “Paper-mill Safari” concept are shaping up. I give you two of these for illustration. Words of encouragement much appreciated. Building permits are being submitted after being approved by heritage and now it is really down to spatial...
See? You only need to ask once
The Clarendon’s “Moules Frites and Makeout” snug pub where last night some very tired parents (Ottawa euphemism for hungover) had a smorgasbord of meatballs, braised beef, lamb skewers and trout, mushroom demi poutine, fried cauliflower, scotch egg, tomato flatbread...
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...
The luxury of luxury is a sentiment to behold daintily.
The luxury of luxury is a sentiment to behold daintily. My trip back to my old haunt, the lower East Side, is part obligation, part work and all fun. I came as a director of the Council of Canadian American Relations but will be leaving as the “Road Warrior” for Luxe...
For all those who think design does not matter in the grand scheme of things.
For all those who think design does not matter in the grand scheme of things: I present Exhibit A. This exuberantly youthful morsel of skittle kitsch served up at Miami’s Airport was just the sunny saccharine pop I needed before a lengthy white knuckle flight home.
No matter how small a space you have. Make it count.
I will always look back at this entryway as the standard I shall forever more try to meet. No matter how small a space you have. Make it count.
Luxe Magazine has me entrenched in their pages as their very own “Road Warrior”
Luxe Magazine has me entrenched in their pages as their very own “Road Warrior”: a nosy globetrotting designer that goes to the succulent part of any city’s heart and then gabs about it in peripatetic prose. Writing for Luxe is a dream that I never dreamt of come...
The family room off the kitchen is the crown jewel of “The Gingerbread House”.
The family room off the kitchen is the crown jewel of “The Gingerbread House”. If you look at the before picture with puzzlement it is because there is no longer a window where there once was. There are pitfalls to a house that was built before any other on the block...
To me my bathroom has become a sanctuary.
Bathrooms are the unsung heroes of our homes and no matter the level of our own vanity we are in them several times a day for various lengths of time. To me my bathroom has become a sanctuary. It is the room where I regain serenity and solace in solitude. A small...