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Gardenista Considered Design Awards: 5 Winning Garden Spaces
Last week Michelle and Erin profiled five winning garden projects; see the verdant victors at Gardenista. And stay tuned for more next week. Above: The Best Urban Garden Winner is landscape architect...
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Current Obsessions: A Heady Summer
We're in the throes of summer entertaining (our theme for next week), and we've become addicted to elderflower cordial and anything else that will keep us cool, including big floppy hats. Here's what...
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10 Essential Tips for Surviving House Guests
I didn't have to get tough on house guests until word got out, a few years back, that I was moving to New York City. When you live in Manhattan, suddenly you become a destination. "I'm coming to you...
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Summer Living in Montauk
Combining the open spaces of modern design with the local gabled vernacular of cedar shingles, New York-based Robert Young Architecture & Interiors pulls off an intimately scaled yet sprawling...
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A Floating Dinner Party in Oslo, Michelin Star Chef Included
On a recent July evening, 20 dinner guests gathered for a lamplit mid-summer feast on floating pallets tethered to a riverbank in the middle of Oslo. They felt as if they'd won a lottery—and in a way,...
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Elevating the Everyday: Huddleson Table Linens
Our friend Scotti Sitz at Garde in LA turned us on to Tim Gledhill, an LA-based Brit and Rug Company alum who launched Huddleson, his line of contemporary table linens, in 2011. "Some of my fondest...
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High/Low: Safari Chairs (with an $1,800 Price Difference)
Who better to turn to than the British Colonial Army for inspiration on lightweight, stylish outdoor chairs? Both Kaare Klint and the Carmel Bay Company did when they each designed a leather and wood...
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Best Reader-Submitted Dining Space Winner: Janna Hymes
The winner of the Best Reader-Submitted Dining Space in our Considered Design Awards is Janna Hymes, who created a Swedish-inspired country dining room with her mother ("I owe my sense of style to...
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Modern Design Meets Craft at the American Craft Council Show
We've been enjoying the return of the artisan and craftsman to the design scene for a while now and noting its impact on the way we live. As part of the upcoming American Craft Council's Show in San...
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Chelsea Miller Knives
A good knife is hard to come by. Ideally a knife is functional foremost, but I hope you can forgive me when I say that I also want my knives to be pretty. We can't have ugly knives marring our...
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Steal This Look: A DIY Tabletop with Rustic Appeal
Since first admiring photographer and stylist Kara Rosenlund's 19th century worker's cottage, we find ourselves frequently lost in her artful account of daily life on her blog. That's where we spotted...
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High/Low: Hammered Brass Lamps
We've admired Tom Dixon's Beat lamps for some time now, but they come with a rather hefty price tag (the Stout version costs $1,425). Looking for something similar? We've found a twin at a fraction of...
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Iced Tea, No Sugar Required
Over lunch last week at the very wonderful Honey & Co. in London's Fitzrovia with Julie and Christine, we cooled off with glasses of orange-blossom iced tea. Very sweet, no ice. And delicious, but...
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Splendor in the Grass: A Summer Baby Shower
"A wonderful spread, fabulous friends, sunshine, great conversation, and some lounging on blankets is obviously the recipe for bringing on labor," says Dee Purdy of She Had Us At Hello. She should...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Dining Plates
During the summer months, we're switching out our china and ceramic dinnerware for hard-wearing, unbreakable plates that we can tote to the beach, pack for picnics, and pull out for backyard...
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A Family Recipe for Elderflower Cordial via Dublin
Our friends at Makers & Brothers, Jonathan and Mark Legge, like to keep things in the family. But they've generously shared their mother's recipe for elderflower cordial syrup, the basis for a...
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Classic Placemats from Margaret Howell
Margaret Howell and Mourne Textiles have produced a small selection of placemats from hand woven cloth, originally designed by midcentury textile designer Gerd Hey-Edie, whose words "for me, out of the...
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Cocktails on Wheels: The Travelling Gin Company
Aside from Pimm's, what drink could be more Brit than a G & T (local parlance for a gin and tonic)? I spent a few glorious weeks working in London this summer, where I got wind of gin being...
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5 Favorites: Outdoor Bars, DIY Included
You know how it goes: Just as everyone in the household (from family members to guests) sits down with their drinks in hand to watch the sunset, someone inevitably needs a touch-up, or some ice, or a...
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Best Reader-Submitted Kitchen Space Winner: Jan Hammock
The winner in our Considered Design Awards, Reader-Submitted Kitchen Space category is Jan Hammock, a design novice who created a spacious and functional kitchen in her family's 1925 Edwardian San...
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