/THE EDIT
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.
Juxtaposition and Irony.
The more the world falls apart around us due to terrible leadership and climate change (and both go hand in hand by the way), the more I fall back on design as a way to soothe my brain on fire. Exterior manifestations of quietude quells inner turmoil. Take this...
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...
Fresh off the press from the New YorkTimes.
Fresh off the press from the New YorkTimes: my kind of news. The young couple Zoe Chan and Merlin Eayrs, both architects in their 30s, have pulled off a serious style coup recognized with this titan nod. Their conversion of this shoe factory in Shoreditch into a...
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...
“Haute Austrian”
There are a few sad things I see in hopeful but hopeless design and one of them are mantelpieces that go nowhere. A fake is a fake is a fake to riff on a quote by the lovely Gertrude Stein. I would like to briefly talk about indirect lighting too here. This type of...
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.
Juxtaposition and Irony.
The more the world falls apart around us due to terrible leadership and climate change (and both go hand in hand by the way), the more I fall back on design as a way to soothe my brain on fire. Exterior manifestations of quietude quells inner turmoil. Take this...
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...
Fresh off the press from the New YorkTimes.
Fresh off the press from the New YorkTimes: my kind of news. The young couple Zoe Chan and Merlin Eayrs, both architects in their 30s, have pulled off a serious style coup recognized with this titan nod. Their conversion of this shoe factory in Shoreditch into a...
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...
“Haute Austrian”
There are a few sad things I see in hopeful but hopeless design and one of them are mantelpieces that go nowhere. A fake is a fake is a fake to riff on a quote by the lovely Gertrude Stein. I would like to briefly talk about indirect lighting too here. This type of...