t last night’s House Beautiful Kitchen of the Year event Ina Garten said that she sees the kitchen as the living room for the way we live today and I couldn’t agree more. This year’s kitchen exemplifies her philosophy.
Like the Barefoot Contessa I’m a rather relaxed hostess and love to focus on my [...]
Monday evening launched the 2nd Kitchen of the Year on The Rock (in Rockefeller Plaza, NYC). House Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Stephen Drucker, and Executive Publisher Kate Kelly Smith hosted a party celebrating this year’s House Beautiful Kitchen of the Year designed by the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten.
Ina was there and was absolutely gracious as she [...]
I am always on the lookout for something affordable to brighten and refresh my space (and life) . Last weekend I was inspired by both a trip to Jones Beach and a stroll along Columbus Ave. to my eventual destination - the Jonathan Adler store.
I last went into the J Adler store (my Mecca of sorts) and [...]
Dwell, the magazine dedicated to modern design and eco-friendly living has created four distinctly chic color palettes using Ralph Lauren paint. With their modernist audience in mind, founder Lara Hedberg Deam begins the series with colors inspired by the master of modern himself- Corbusier.
Based on the revolutionary Le Corbusier- Polychromie architecturale, the first palette follows [...]
Colors and personality are a funny thing. You may love a particular color for one purpose in your life, but find it completely inappropriate for another. You may stroll about town happily in a cherry red coat but the thought of breaking bread in a crimson room makes you itchy- a bedroom dressed in layer [...]
‘FREE’ is a very popular color these days: No I did not make up that great tag line- it’s just one of many on Glidden Paints habit-forming ( love that the last nun is in white heels) website. The paint company is doing a little revamping these days, all with the intent on inspiring consumers [...]
A quick trip past the fresh flower depot at my local Costco and my ‘only what I truly need to buy’ mantra went flying by the wayside. Oh, well- we all do need fresh flowers surrounding us, don’t we.
First I thought about which vase I would use ( a traditional blue and white vessel brought [...]
‘A Minute On The Lips A Lifetime On The Hips’ gets a colorful makeover- Angelina Jolie watch out because a new lipgloss is promising that by the end of the summer we all might look just like you ( okay as a disclaimer they are not actually promising that but Angie just happened to be [...]
When you think about your reaction to a particular color you might straight off the bat list that your reason behind your ‘love, like, indifference or loathing’ of a hue as being rooted simply in your personal color preference. ” I don’t like the color orange..thus I do not like this orange pillow” ( okay [...]
warm weather black on this week’s red carpet, studded accessories from Intermix and Lady Dior Marion
Black Is Cool This Summer: I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who took the initiative to scientifically prove that the darker a color is the more light it absorbs. All it took Mr. Franklin was a few fabric swatches, a [...]
