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What our home is still missing
Breakthrough Covid cases happen and not all of them are as pretty as “a bad cold” or this insomnia produced triptych. I am double vaxxed and will pull through. The theme in the above image is “what our home is still missing”. If you think designers’ homes are...
And so another lockdown begins
And so another lockdown begins... our nest has been layered and padded one loving touch at a time. This breakfast nook took longer than most as perfect bistro tables apparently do not exist. After I had a Vermont wood turner sculpt me three perfect oak legs to make my...
Brutal Incongruity
Brutal Incongruity. Who woulda thunk. She did. That genius Kelly-West-Coast-Woman follows her own path, dares her own dreams, spins her own stunts, and it works. It always always works. How she pulled the Proper Santa Monica off was going to a neutral palette and then...
Bold. Brazen. Beautiful.
Bold. Brazen. Beautiful. These are hard epithets to claim for oneself or one’s work, but today the sun is shining and no humble brag will cast a shadow on what I am so proud of. Our entry is one inch away from being finished. A custom made console personally designed...
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...
The Bliving Room
Every corner is important in a home. Those who have four are lucky. Those who have more are blessed. Those who have none are deserved of some. I am in the business of making these lost spaces count. Cherish them. Comfort them. Create them. This particular corner has...
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...
The side kick of hustle would Chutzpah
The side-kick of hustle would be Chutzpah. The wonderful Yiddish term means “extreme self confidence or audacity”, and if I were you, and you were hiring a designer, I would look, ask and demand for one with storied, historical and deliverable Chutzpah. Every year, on...
On the Power of Restraint
One of ELLE Decor's last covers was titled “The Power Of Restraint: When To Change Everything Or Nothing At All”. It is not often a designer gets hired to accomplish the latter, but here I was, on the « île enchantée », an island that has remained untouched and...
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...