Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style.
Billy Baldwin

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
Sister Parish

11 October 2009

A Signature Flair-Charlotte Moss' Halcyon Days


The silent muse does speak. She speaks to me everyday, an inner voice coaxing prodding, pushing urging. "live for today...today is all there is." Learning how to really live, to cultivate a flair for living in all you do, is a lifelong process. Charlotte Moss


Charlotte Moss: A Flair for Living

When Charlotte Moss closed her West Village shop she did not leave us high and dry without her "Flair for Living". It seems that you cannot open a design magazine without seeing her featured and she has just been included on Traditional Home's 20 Top Design Icons of our Time List.


Pickard


The Charlotte Moss style and signature is now showcased through her partnerships with homeware manufacturers such as Brunschwig and Fils and Fabricut for fabrics and wallpapers, Pickard for China and table accents, and Seibert-Rice for Garden accents.

Seibert-Rice




Brunschwig and Fils


All of her design work starts with the people and places that have been inspirations to Charlotte Moss throughout her life. Her travels,a good book, gardens, special treasures she has found for her collections... are all reflected not only in her design work, but also her philosophy for living.


Just introduced is her new Muse Collection for renowned enamel treasures retailer Halcyon Days, suppliers of "Objets d'Art" to the Royal Family and specializing in antique and current collections that are created in the same manner as 18th century English enamels. Halcyon Days is known for their precious hand painted enamel and gilt edged boxes and clocks. Charlotte Moss' Muse Collection is a group of "forever" items that belong on a dressing table, powder room, bedside chest, entry table and even in an evening bag. I love these for perfect gifts as each piece expresses an individual personality.

The creation of this group of Travel or "Bedside" clocks, Compacts (Love that someone is making compacts worth pulling out of your purse a la table!), Atomisers, Ring Boxes, Spill Vases and Accent Trays reflect the "spirit" of women who have been "muses" for Charlotte, and for many of us! Women who will forever be icons of style, grace, intelligence and vision-Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn,Jacqueline Kennedy,and Elsie de Wolfe.

Hollywood is a bow to Audrey-all pink and pearls with great with words of wisdom to carry with you---"Dreaming is underrated" and Life is a daily Event...Live in the Present...just make sure to live" Keep these by the bedside to see them first thing when your eyes open







The Nantucket Collection is a an embrace of Jackie Kennedy's legacy---styled with Nantucket baskets and Daisies. I love this compact...carry Summer with you all year round.



The words to cherish from this group---"If it is worth doing,it's worth doing right" and one to sit by my desk-"Enthusiasm, passion,determination and a dash of fearlessness, will generally result in something original."

The Paris Grouping---Coco Chanel of course! Thanks to Coco "...simplicity became the new luxury, and perfume an absolute necessity!" Charlotte Moss

Reflecting a Chinoiserie theme and expressing that "Living is a Luxury" I can see these pieces on any desk.


Last but not least The Muse collection celebrates New York and Elsie de Wolfe. Elsie de Wolfe and I believe in "plenty of optimism and white paint!"- she has always been an inspiration for me as well.




This collection expresses the de Wolfe esprit with her love of treillage and gardens. Keep this group in a sunroom or garden room and always remember...to do it Elsie's way "Decorate luxuriously...live passionately...entertain beautifully, and always maintain a sense of humor..."

06 June 2009

A Note of Regret-The Closing of Mrs. John L. Strong




I love getting mail...not email, though sometimes that can be nice...usually I spend more time hitting delete than reading. The mail I love to receive is handwritten, in an envelope, with a stamp. Like most of us, I live my life typing emails. To open the mailbox and receive a handwritten note on lovely stationery is so rare but such a joy and the ultimate gesture. For someone to take the time to sit and actually take pen to paper to write me means they care.



I grew up with a love for beautiful paper and will always believe that handwritten matters! So it was with sadness that I learned of the closing of Mrs. John L. Strong. Since 1929 the stationer created paper for royalty, presidents, world leaders, socialites, icons of style such as Jacqueline Bouvier, The Duchess of Windsor,Diana Vreeland, Anna Wintour,celebrities and people who just wanted to make that special impression.



Mrs. Strong began selling engraved papers, invitations, calling cards, etc. to her New York social register clientele from her sister's trousseau shop and eventually grew to take her own atelier at 699 Madison Avenue. Mrs. Strong also sold through Gump's and Henri Bendel's and was considered THE source for occasions, announcements, invitations and that important daily note.


Very little changed at Mrs. Strong. The bespoke line included luxury papers that were all hand crafted in the New York workroom- hand engraved, hand lined envelopes, hand cut borders and beveling, artist engraved steel dies, hand painted invitations, hand monogramming with custom mixed inks on Mrs. Strong's signature Strong's Vanilla hand cut cotton archival paper.


The company was sold to designer Nanette Brown in 2002...the traditions were brought up to date with "ready to write" collections designed in fashion forward colors and style to appeal to a younger modern audience.



Facing the economic turmoil and an inability to finance expansion or find a buyer Mrs. John L. Strong has closed and with it the last of an age when attention to detail and luxury were important.


Yes, we live in a very different world, white gloves and hat boxes are of a different age. Economy is what we all work toward, but manners and grace and precious details should always be in fashion. A note to say "I am thinking of you", "Thank you", "Love to come", or to announce life's occasions, changes and events should still be handwritten, on beautiful paper, with care and thought.


You don't have tro spend $1500 for a box of notepaper...Here are some wonderful resources to express yourself with pen and paper:

Bernard Maisner

Horchow

Cavallini & Co.


Crane & Co.


Gumps

Smythson of Bond Street



Dempsey and Carroll

William Arthur

Wren Press


Tiny Prints



American Stationery



My Gatsby

Paper Source

Etsy

15 December 2008

Send me a Card...Pop it in an Envelope!

Victoria and Albert Museum


I live my life surgically attached to an email box. I think at last count I have 6 email addresses that actually get used, you can get dizzy hopping from one to the other and sometimes I forget which box I am in. Strange life for someone who loves all things paper. I still have the very first birthday, holiday and Valentine cards I ever received. I have cards from so many who are no longer with me but I have their notes and their love in an envelope forever, can't get that with an email!



Victoria and Albert Museum


There are some fun e-card sites-Do visit Ojolie, Jacquie Lawson and someecards-quick, easy and a good way to say "Hi I'm thinking of you"...but remember you cannot put an e-card on a mantle!



I know Hallmark has the monopoly but go for the art of the card. I adore Letterpress, hand printed on antique presses like these from Museum Facsimiles



I love shopping for cards and start my holiday card shopping in the summer...there are so many fun, art inspired, elegant, charming and wonderful options. So what is so difficult about signing your name with a gorgeous pen, licking an envelope and placing a fun stamp and dropping it in a mailbox-remember those?? You may just remember how nice it feels to write full length sentences again... MOMA



Art Institute Chicago



Here are some more favorites all from MOMA's Museum Shop that I love, and you are doing a good thing by supporting a wonderful museum and you get cards too! You will notice a theme... I am leaning toward Pop-Ups this year...Have fun and go write a card!


MOMA














07 December 2008

Window Shopping-Design on Display

Santa too is in search of Holiday Spirit..Selfridge's London

Oh how I love to window shop! If you don't go into the store you have a better chance of not spending anything! OK you can go on-line but ... This Holiday Season perhaps more than any other in many years we are all simply Window Shoppers. If you "need a little Christmas, right this very minute" but you know that your credit card has been locked in the deep freeze why not just press your nose against the glass and soak in some Holiday style.

If you are a Shopper then beautiful store windows are your museum exhibits-no entrance fee required! Holiday store windows are probably how many of us became SHOPPERS. We bundled up and strolled mitten to mitten along downtown streets sparkling with lights and animated dolls, teddy bears and trains. The windows captured our imagination and filled our heads with dreams. Visiting department store window displays also became a tradition of family holidays and a signature of American retailing.

Our memories may have made those windows more special than perhaps they were but it seems as if window designers have tried each season to capture the nostalgia and reach for our heartstrings. Window displays I feel are an art. You need to grab passersby, make them stop and most especially entice them to want to visit inside and shop! all while creating an expression of style.

Bergdorf Goodman

Shopping has changed so much, there are fewer and fewer downtown areas and "click and ship" is the way we cross off our lists. I know it is not very "green" but I still love shopping bags!!

So many stores we relied on, stores that were part of our lives forever, stores that we marked special occasions with, are now gone and of course there is the very real fear that so many more will go in 2009. In Boston we don't have a downtown shopping district to show off any longer...the cornerstones of Boston retailing are no longer. Filene's and Jordan Marsh have been replaced with Macys and that sadly is it. You need to travel along Boylston, Newbury and Charles streets,where the stores are wonderful, to find some fun window shopping, but there is no longer a Department Store with a capital D that you get celebrate the season with...Saks and Lord and Taylor and Neiman's and even Nordstrom's and Bloomingdales are close by but they are anchor stores or are encased in malls. Not a lot of windows to admire-elegant,snowflakes, ornaments, white and silver...but nothing really new, fun or imaginative and nothing that I would consider an Event to go and visit.

Saks NYC

That leaves the capital of American shopping, New York City, to show off a shopper's Christmas. For this year anyway some of the pillars of traditional department store retailing are still there to comfort us...we don't know who will be here to brighten the holidays next year, though I cannot imagine Christmas without Saks, Lord and Taylor, Macys, Bendel's, Bergdorfs, Tiffanys...Let's not think about it!

Bendel's

This year Macy's, the Granddaddy of holiday windows as they have been doing it since 1862 so they should know how, has tried once again to out do them all while celebrating the Wonder of the season. For 2008 Macy's goes "behind the scenes" to find how all that Christmas Magic is created...
Where do the snowflakes come from??...It is a busy scene with touch screen technology to find how the Wonderosity happens .

Lord and Taylor has gone once again for the warm and fuzzy. Traditional Christmas, ice skates and hot chocolate and scenes of Christmas in the moment,
albeit a Victorian moment, with favorites like the Nutcracker and snow globes and A Christmas Carol in the mix.

Bloomingdale's has designed simply wonderful windows reminiscent of pop-up books and nostalgic greeting cards reflecting the 1950's and 60's almost a "Dick and Jane" style.


Inspired by Tony Bennett's new holiday CD A Swingin' Christmas
the windows are a bit kitchy but filled with fabulous detail...
I cannot help but think of Mad Menand am reminded how truly different America "looks" today.

On to Saks Fifth Avenue...love Christmas at Saks... along with their fashion windows celebrating Swarovski

Saks has windows featuring their new children's holiday book by Mike Reiss, A Flake like Mike, with proceeds going to St. Jude's Hospital.

Bergdorf Goodman, often the first store I run to in NY, obviously isn't reading the newspapers or watching CNN this year. Their windows miss the warm and cheer but are each a work of art. Although they may in fact be my favorites there isn't a Teddy Bear or Ice Skate in view. Inspired by a Calendar Girl theme where each window depicts a seasonal muse with a Winter White reflection.

Bergdorf's windows makes you stop, look and think as they feature gorgeous white fashion ...Stunning! but Holiday 2008 is ushering in a new world and though I love these windows I am not sure they are not in touch with the mood... but maybe Bergdorf's is staying above all the bad news this year!

Barney's on the other hand goes back to maybe not simpler time but certainly another era of change, the 60s. They also chose to look back with the 50th anniversary of the peace symbol
(see Political Woman) for its theme-Have a Hippie Holiday!


Put your mittens on, take a stroll and Window Shop!!!

30 November 2008

Wild for Anna's Flora-The New Anna French Collection

I know I know...it is Thanksgiving weekend and I should be making lists, shopping on line, decorating the gardens...still time for all that! Watch this space!

...but today is the first truly bleak looking New England day, snow flakes are forecast and the clouds have enveloped the gardens in a chill of things to come...I need flowers,color, and light today. Hello Anna French!

Anna French's new collection Wild Flora

is filled with Fresh Vintage Florals



Delicious Damasks

and Look Twice Toiles

that Anna has infused with contemporary twists. The printing of each of these new papers is reminiscent of the the elegance of classic venetian chests and mirrors while her use of subtle foils,

tarnished mirror effects,
rich flocking,


and white on white

make them all new and contemporary with hints of glimmer,reflective images and fiber optic illusion.

Go play in Anna's Rich, Elegant and Wild Flora

07 September 2008

A Place at the Table-The Art of the Detail

(Herend Queen Victoria All Blue Tureen)



I inherited my love of table details from my Grandmother, like so many gifts she gave me. I still have pieces and pieces of her many sets of china still snuggled tightly in their bubble wrap that I have yet to unwrap---each time I open a teacup it is like opening another gift from Nana... so I suppose it will be a long time before I get through all of those packages.




(Bernardaud Eden Turquoise)


I have more place settings than I do people to invite for dinner, but that doesn't stop me from scouting new patterns and being drawn to the precious details that a pattern can hold.



(Herend Windsor Garden Sugar Bowl)


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Delicate and elegant of course, but the place settings I love best have my family's history ingrained in their wear..holiday dinners and recipes, gatherings and memories It is no wonder then that I am drawn to gracious,timeless patterns. I think china should be used and new memories made as the light shines through and that unmistakable ping is heard when a teacup kisses a saucer.



(Bernardaud Pensee)



I love collecting special pieces and mixing and matching them...when I fall for a plate, I fall hard and then play to put it together to create a table.




(Gien Fleur de Chine)




As much as I treasure pieces that hold history I think it is wonderful that in this toss away world new traditions can be started and cherished. For me the real attraction is the art of the piece and as much as I adore the exquisite hand painting I also am stopped in my tracks by the "architecture" of porcelain in simple white.




(Bernardaud Louvre Coffee)(Bernardaud Naxos Covered Sugar)




There are very few "industries" that I can think of whose names have survived and thrived through not just decades but centuries. China artisans and manufacturers who designed for Kings and Presidents and Czars are still gracing tables. They are also maintaining a commitment to their classics, timeless patterns ,so that tradition can continue, the tradition of art at the table...Meissen, Gien, Spode,Haviland,Herend, Bernardaud,Mottahedeh,Royal Coppenhagen...all surprise with new elements of grace and art while holding to their history of art and detail.



(Meissen Dragon)


(Bernardaud Chateaubriand Creamer)

(Raynaud Cristobal salt and Pepper)



(Gien Mille Fleurs Pitcher)




For me, it is in fact all about the details! How often I exclaimed "I don't need service for 12...I just want the teacups! "




(Rosenthal Butterfly Garden by Versace)




(Anna Weatherley Morning Glory)

(Bernardaud After Dinner Frivole Cup)(Anna Weatherley Fancy Teacup)

I am drawn to the shape of a plate, the accent on the side of a mug, the detailed fluting on a plate, the curve of the handle of a teacup, the accent finial on the top of the coffee pot, the feet of a tureen, the cover of a sugar bowl, the grace of a handle on a coffee pot, the shape of a soup bowl...
(Herend Rothschild Bird Covered Tureen(Herend Queen Victoria Butter)(Bernardaud Constance Teapot)


(Herend Queen Victoria Coffee) (Haviland Amaryllis Coffee)

(Herend Rothschild Bird Soup and Serving Plate)


Dinner plates may be the largest piece at a place but they have a meal to distract. Serving pieces and table accessories have purpose but they most importantly "finish" a service, a service with grace and style.

(Herend Queen Victoria Blue Leaf Dish)









23 August 2008

The Polyvore Playground



When I was growing up my favorite after school activity was art class. In camp it was always arts and crafts... that got me through archery! One of the projects I loved working on were collages, pulling bits and scraps and cutting pictures out of magazines. Later I went on to decoupage and took the images and covered anything that didn't move with everything from the cover of Vogue to greeting cards to strips from the funny pages. So you can imagine how excited I am about this site...Polyvore is the playground I have been waiting for but could never have imagined. If you love design, shopping, style, trends, art,color... GO! but don't say I didn't warn you... this could get addictive.

Here's the idea...type in a search word or phrase and up pops an image library pulled from sources all over the web -from shopping site to blogs. You can narrow your search by site or color scheme, pull the image and then decide where it goes on your set, and play with each image you add. For example, I typed in..you got it... Strands of Pearls and this is what I did


Next I started playing with some vintage Vogue covers, a work in progress but so much fun...

...there are some amazing sets posted to inspire your work-

You can design an outfit, like playing with paper dolls only better, a room or a piece of art. Of course this is also a very cool way to shop.

Let's say you want a new sweater...type in sweater, narrow the sites you like to shop on, pick your sweater. Now you need jeans...then boots...maybe a scarf..hello earings...bracelet..belt..outfit! and you can click on any of the images to get to the sites to buy what you put together.

I thought why not a few things for the season ahead???
So... I went shopping...first the shoes,how much fun is this!..Manolos anyone? Next a coat...Burberry works for me. Need a bag or 6...Gucci, Valentino, Tory Burch,Hermes??? Stopped in at Netaporter.com,Neimans,Gucci.com,Burberry.com...all in my bunny slippers and look what I got without once taking out the plastic!!



For room design, I love that I can move furniture around...add in fabric wallpaper, lamps, tables,accessories, a rug...and here's a room. I clicked around with two of my favorite room elements-chairs and wallpaper...I could have played all day!!



Go have fun...you may be up all night!!

Sticks and Stones...Style!


I am a big fan of Viva Terra,the catalogue and shopping website devoted to "Eco Living Style".

(entwined root coat stand)



We probably still have images in our heads of what recyled looks like...muddy, dirty,breige, rough scratchy... but Viva Terra turns that old view into stone

(felted wool rock pillows)



Wonderful finds that are not just inspired from nature but come from nature fill the pages along with products from recycled materials such as Flip Flops! and rulers!

(flip flop bin)

(a chair that rules)

and luxury pieces from yummy pure fibers like Lamb's Wool...

...but when we think Eco we do and should think Nature. Nature's inspiration is nothing new in design but Viva Terra has featured some really fun twists using the the "real thing"...sticks and stones have style!


In the Sticks...these are some favorites using actual twigs, branches,trees...to bring the woods inside...

(branch console) (light in the forest lamp)



(branch side table)







(branch mirror) (twig flower holder)







(twig flatware) (root of the earth baskets)

(twig letters)

Rock your Room!...Pebbles Flinstone eat your heart out!


(river stone placemats and runner with seaglass dinnerware)

(agate plates)



(stone hooks) (river stones mats)

(stone cairn lamp)




(cairn candle holders) (granite owls)

03 August 2008

Iron Clad Gardens

Mrs. Powers Garden Gate-Mackenzie-Childs

Popping up among among the hydrangeas and roses this year are fabulous garden elements that fall into the "everything old is new again" category. We are seeing perfect solutions to seating, planting and design made of durable iron. Many have an antique feel and I have spotted great original vintage pieces at antique marts made of iron go for huge dollars so these new pieces that are reminiscent with great style caught my eye...
Plant Strong!
Singing Frog Planter -Horchow


First, Have a Seat...

Chinese Chippendale Chair-99 Market



Curled Iron Garden Set-WisteriaBean Chair 99 Market

Faux Bois Bench-Wisteria
Red Mandarin Bench-Horchow


Now, Let's Plant...

Curled Iron Planter-Horchow
Urn Planters-99 Market

Vine Pedestal Planter-Wisteria

Pagoda Wall Planter-Horchow


Tuck in Some Accents...

Birdie Bath-Wisteria

Butterfly Wall Art-HorchowBirdsong Garden Spigot-Mackenzie-Childs



Obelisk Hurricanes-Horchow


...and Welcome Them into The Garden-


Emily Garden Gate-Amazing Gates





Monogrammed Door Knocker-Horchow
Personalized Door Mat-Horchow


Mrs. Powers Dinnerbell-Mackenzie-Childs

24 July 2008

In Design Circles

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles?? That seems to be a perpetual state for me these days, but that is a subject for another time. Going in circles can be a good thing sometimes and apparently the design world agrees because we are seeing circles everywhere! Fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, rugs, lighting...all sporting the circular feel. Sure many of the circles make me think of Twiggy and Go-Go boots...but retro is fun and when you can use the same motif with crisp or bold new twists then you are working with an element that fits in pretty much any style room. So let's jump in the circle and go for a round...

When you think circles in design you first think bold...and of course Marimekko does it best...


You don't have to live retro or mid-century or in an industrial loft to go in circles...garden, classic contemporary, cottage,traditional...all will get a lift from the fresh geometric of circles...don't think circles are just for contemporary retro- chic tastes...circles mix in anywhere...




Start slow-toss a pillow like this one from Koo de Kir or place an accent lamp like this Madison Lamp from Williams Sonoma Home one from next to a reading chair or bedside


Place this great side table next to a classic chair or by the entry


(Horchow)

Hang this perfect mirror pair in a dining room or stairway

(Shades of Light)

I love this "Twiggy" chandelier from Horchow in a breakfast room or kitchen for a taste of circles but it would work in an entry hall or high stairway too


...or cover an accent chair in a great circle inspired fabric like this Elysee velvet from Calico Corners



Speaking of chairs, these are favorites and are at home by a Chippendale armoire or a glass desk...love this Frances Elkins chair from Downtown20 pulled up to a writing desk, as an accent dining chair or in a bedroom

and this chair is coming home with me! From McGuire Furniture it is the ideal corner chair ,even by the most traditional fireplace, and I love it in a study or garden room and of course pulled up in the dining room. A simple cushion and it works in any space.

and this Daybed from West Elm will be fabulous in a study or guest bedroom

Maybe you have a large space or high ceiling and you want to warm the room or ground the space but still maintain openness...circles work for that like in this rug from West Elm




If you still are not sold that circles will work for you think garden! yes, garden! Circles are often incorporated in garden design. This perfect Elsie pattern(yes after Elsie de Wolfe)dinnerware from Charlotte Moss takes a classic trellis look



like this one from Walpole Woodworkers






and these wonderful garden maze prints I love in a sun room or breakfast room



(William Sonoma Home)


I adore this coffee table from Z Gallerie reminiscent of a perfect garden seat...LOVE!

and if you still just only want to put a toe in the circular pool...go for this sweet "Molly"dotted look for the bedroom from Neiman's



13 May 2008

Blue and White and Read All Over


It is blue-butterfly day here in spring....Robert Frost



It is 42 degrees here in Boston tonight. We have had teasers of Spring and even some touches of Summer, but tonight is a snuggle in night. I am surrounded by May magazines and catalogues that I have let pile up and they all seem to have something in common-Blue and White everywhere I look. The cover stories of so many design issues have set their eye on the crisp, fresh and summer beckoning of blue and white and I cannot wait to dive in!






Being surrounded by Blue and White is nothing new for me, those are the colors I love best when I design any space, but particualrly my own.








My library is where I curl up to read by the fire, but I knew that in any season this would be a room to snuggle into so blue and white would be the way to go. The loveseat done in a classic Brunschwig and Fils needlepoint is the center I built around. I recently fell in love with the Boston toile from Cape Cod designer/artist Joan Peters and had to use it on the bench seats.

Living in New England the inspiration for blue and white can be found any time by looking to the sky. Skip the paint store, watch a New England sky if you want ideas for shades of blue. My favorite-September sky. Walk the beach along any section of the coast from Nantucket to Acadia and the blues of the rocks, the sea and the spruce will tempt you to grab a paintbrush.





The New England coast I love is a part of my need to live in a blue and white world and to keep summer with me everyday. Some feel that blue and white is cold and sad...must be vision problems!



Perhaps no other color combination can work so perfectly in more styles of rooms-cottage, beach house, romantic, asian, traditional, French country...blue and white fits.


(wisteria)


The combination can be crisp and clean with light that comes from bright white walls "warmed" with blue fabrics and accents or it can be casual with broad stripes and slipcovers and of course it can be classic, traditional and elegant.



(Source Perrier)

I love blue and white in surprising spots-accenting a traditional red dining area or a contemporary grey and white room-it just mixes perfectly.

(Source Perrier)




Whenever I walk into a blue and white space I feel I belong there, it never gets old for me. My first house was a converted mill space with soaring ceilings, a loft bedroom and a roof deck. I grounded the endless walls with lots of blue and white and the moment I added a simple striped rag rug to the white ceramic tiled foyer I was home.



I love to play with color and will often take a room and just do something new and fun but I always come back to my center where I breathe best...a blue and white corner.



Here my dollhouse sized stairway is given a grander air with a roaming historic toile paper from Twigs.





My Papa's chair has been given yet another life in this embroidered fabric with a crewel feel from JAB ,this fabric kept me up at night til I decided where to use it.



You don't have to submerge yourself in Blue and White like I do, play with it...add an accent , upholster a chair, throw a rug on the bathroom floor...you will be surprised how "new' it will make the space.



To play with Blue and White here are some reads that inspire and spots to shop...No need for the blues!



Blue and White Shopping:



Ralph Lauren Home(of course!)

The Source Perrier(Love!!! the precious nesting dinnerware,on my wish list!)

Wisteria-Accents

Horchow-Rugs, bedding and accents-watch for their 25% off sales!

Shades of Light-Accents and rugs..love the cover of the new catalogue

Bergdorf Goodman-take a look at the Estate Collection

William Sonoma Home-Pillows!!! but also check out rugs and accessories

Stroheim and Romann-Fabric and Papers to cover every inch!








The Blue and White Life