The word luxury is bandied about so much that it’s started to lose its meaning.  If there is one house that still typifies the word luxury, it’s Hermès.  It’s also synonymous with quality and craftsmanship.  While the Birkin bag may now be ubiquitous, the clothing will always hold down the fort on quiet yet interesting designs. Hermès unveiled […]

We just entered March but April magazines are already making their way to newsstands.  I’ll be stopping by Lexington News today to pick up all my favorites including Elle Decor.  The April issue features the very lovely home of model and makeup artist Jemma Kidd and her family in Hampshire, England. The wet English weather […]

Long time readers will remember my aversion to pink.  Well, this awful winter has left even me longing for the cheerful affect of a little color. I actually fell in love with a pink jacket from J.Crew when I saw it at their presentation last year.  It turned out to be a very expensive Collection […]

The best part of spring, besides the warmer weather, are all the new shows and exhibitions that are opening. One of the chicest is Dries Van Noten: Inspirations at Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on view until 31 August 2014.The first exhibition devoted to the Belgian designer “takes us on an intimate journey into his […]

If you’re looking for something to read while you’re hiding at home from the next polar vortex, run out and pick up the new Spring 2014 issue of Domino magazine.  It’s billed as the “Color Issue” and is filled with new designs from Ryan Korban, Ron Marvin, and even a few places in Paris. You […]

It’s currently 10 degrees in New York right now.  That’s Fahrenheit not Celsius.  It feels like it’s never going to warm up but maybe if I start buying more spring clothes it will come. As usual, I’m loving all the options from Emerson Fry. Although I saw a lot of girls wearing white jeans during […]

I’ve seen fashion designer Jeanne Lanvin’s former apartment in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs but I didn’t realize her office had also been preserved for posterity. Lanvin has opened the usually closed off space in honor of the house’s 125th anniversary. As you can see, it hasn’t changed much since she was painted in it by Edouard Vuillard […]

Just giving you an early heads up that Wes Anderson is profiled in the WSJ magazine that will be available in The Wall Street Journal newspaper on Saturday, March 8, 2014.  His highly anticipated new movie The Grand Budapest Hotel will also be released the day before on March 7th.  I sat next to its star […]

The Selby posted photos of Amanda Brooks‘s idyllic home in Oxforshire, England yesterday and although I’ve posted some before, they were too good not to post again. Especially, since they they are full of green fields and blooming flowers and we’re scheduled for more snow. If you don’t remember, Amanda and her family moved to […]

Almost exactly a year ago I posted a different incarnation of this apartment in Madrid belonging to Santiago Castillo in More to Love in Madrid.  And almost exactly a year before that I posted the home of his brother, the interior designer Lorenzo Castillo, in Chic in Madrid.  Funny how those things happen.  I think this might be […]

A sure sign of the change of season is when Ralph Lauren Home installs the new collections of the Ladies Mansion. The Ile Saint-Louis collection is an ode to the bohemian elegance of the City of Light with a mix of vintage and industrial inspired pieces mixed with muted color palette.  Time to lighten up […]

I’ve been hearing about the new line Trademark for a few weeks but finally checked out their website today. I’m impressed by the initial collection from sisters Alexandra and Louisa Burch which was inspired by American minimalist design.  The look is a mix of chic but not boring basics that are reasonably priced with the […]

There is nothing I love more than finding a photo that leads you down the rabbit hole of discovery.  I came across an image of a French room that turned out to be from a Vogue Living Australia feature on French entertaining tips from cook and author Jane Webster.  Jane is Australian and visited France […]

I was flipping through the new March 2014 issue of InStyle magazine and was surprised to find a feature on Carolina Herrera‘s home.  The photos including more than those here don’t show too much of anything new but are worth checking out anyway.  I especially love the books waiting to be read in the library above. Maybe I […]

When I saw the trailer for The Two Faces of January, I thought it reminded me of the film Talented Mr Ripley. Then I saw the movie poster which confirmed that the firm is based on the 1964 book The Two Faces of Januaryby Patricia Highsmith, the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. The Two Faces […]

Big thanks to my reader Robert in Chicago who alerted me that Michael Bruno’s home in Southampton, New York is featured in the March 2014 issue of British House & Garden. Seeing as we’re due for yet another snow storm, I think it’s the perfect time to visualize that we are escaping to warmer weather […]

Sometimes I worry about the youth of America.  But then along comes a teen like Chaz Rorick to make me regain confidence in our future. The high school student started taking photos of himself dressed as U.S. Presidents on Instagram as a joke but kept up the project until he had completed all of them. […]