We've been saying it for awhile now, but this read from Apartment Therapy by Dana Mcmahon dispelling the industry rumors and inaccuracies when it comes to buying really great bed sheets, is ON POINT! There's a lot of 'luxury' sheets out there, but the truth is, only as an informed consumer, can you spot the 'Real McCoys' from those 'creatively marketed' ones. VW&F boasts the Domi Organic Khadi Cotton brand and are proud they're part of this class :) Learn More about Khadi Organic Cotton ****************** Have you, too, stood in the linens department, eyes glazed as you try to figure out the best sheets? It doesn't help that they tend to be folded up and jammed into a plastic...
“Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber through the chamber of my brain”, wrote Edgar Allan Poe on the curious art of drinking. The seductive hue of an alcoholic concoction, made only more enticing by the glass in which it rests conjures some new memories of recent adventures through the southern California coastline where Jamie and I relaxed into our favorite way to explore a new city: cocktails & Uber. As a designer, writer and perfectionist (my words, not Jamie’s), I’m inclined to notice details, especially small ones and especially ones that I’m particularly fond of. This past week, what I couldn’t escape was the use of the correct drinking vessel; something...
Oscar Wilde once said, ‘This wallpaper is terrible, one of us will have to go’. I’d be inclined to agree with him on that sentiment if we were 5 years in the past; however, today, the wallpaper scene has cast off it’s boring grandma stigma and reinvented itself as a true artist’s palate. Today, finding the right pattern can be as easy as finding or creating an image you fancy and sending it off to be digitally re-mastered and rendered on a 15’ roll. Or as I have found, there’s a fantastic new breed of wallpaper designers who will seemingly stop at nothing to keep us in awe and amazement at how they’ve ushered in a veritable wallpaper renaissance. As...
“The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet”, once wrote H.L. Menken on the subject of the Martini. And while I for one am inclined to agree wholeheartedly, I am far more interested, at least for today’s discussion, to look at the tools to make not only a perfect martini, but any fair and sundry libation. As I’m sure many of our readers already know, we have a penchant for making sure our guests have everything they need, far beyond just the essentials for entertaining and hosting gatherings both large and small; so as the summer season has made it’s entrance, profoundly, in the past couple of weeks, I can’t think of a better time to talk about the...
