Bonita Ahuja’s new pillow collection is called Festival, which is why it makes me think of kites flying high in the summer sky. The 19-inch-square pillows are made of wild silk and entirely hand embroidered.
Their triangle motifs are designed to be paired with three colorways – jester, gypsy and patriot.
Adam & Viktoria have done it again for Holly Hunt by bringing in spring with custom sizes and colors in Niwa and Japatch.
The sparkly oranges really sip the sunshine in!
It’s always a joy to see how clients use my favorite pieces. Each one takes on added meaning when it finds a new home. In this case, a chandelier by Marie Christophe ended up hanging out in a house in a small rural community called Wellsville. (That’s such a great name, isn’t it?) It’s about an hour and a half north of Salt Lake City, and the home sits in a valley in the middle of 25 acres. You can see farmland out the windows, and at night, the chandelier gives it a low glow.
Lily Latifi’s latest project – to dress up three huge halls and to create custom shades for 28 floor to ceiling windows for the new French Embassy in Beijing. Whether you’re looking in or out, the view is magnificent. Leave it to Lily, to let the light in…..
The Paris showrooms of designer/architect India Mahdavi recently got the Marie Christophe touch. After Marie Christophe created the custom sculptures of owls, and pompei lamps, Vogue Paris and Cote Sud Paris got into the act by featuring the owl sculpture and lamp in the most recent issues.
One evening after dinner, I decided to take a stroll along the fabulous Rue de Poitou in Paris. Among the clothing and home accessories shops, I found a boutique called Les Fees. The window caught my eye because a Marie Christophe mobile was the center of attention. I’d like to think the shop put it there just for me.
Fancy this: Marie Christophe’s wirework floor lamp got a starring role in Cote Paris Magazine, where it was seen lounging in the corner of a chic Paris loft with a pair of mod chairs the color of freshly squeezed orange juice.
Let’s just say that her lamp bouteille was the belle of the ball!
Holly Hunt loves Adam & Viktoria just as much as I do.
The design company commissioned the duo to create these custom pillow designs:
the 25″ x 16″ Dragonflower in Hazelnut; the 21″ square Acanthus in Taupe; and three versions of the 18″ x 12″ Wishbone – Chalk Grey, Galliano Ochre and Orange Taupe. They are available exclusively through Holly Hunt showrooms across the country.
My beloved mother passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
When I arrived Saturday, and she saw me, my mother’s first words were, “There’s my beautiful daughter.”
And I cried because I knew that these might be the last words I ever heard from her.
When I was a little girl, she read me “The Children’s Hour“ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and introduced me to poetry, dance and music.
I realize now, in my grief for her passing, that it was her vibrant spirit, and love of poetry that led me to my career and empowered my own soul for creating my passionate life, business and success I’m profoundly grateful for.
Poetry is special to me; it speaks to me just as my mother did. It has its own healing powers. I feel them now that I need them so much more.
In my mother’s final hours, I read her “The Children’s Hour” every night. She told me that she remembered it; that is a great comfort to me now and will be for the rest of my life.
Before she left, my mother said these words to me again, “There’s my beautiful daughter.”
Again, I cried.
(Poem #1396) The Children’s Hour
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall-stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence: Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall! By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall! They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine! Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old moustache as I am Is not a match for you all? I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeons In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away!
I love you, Mommy, and your beautiful spirit will live on in me forever and ever and ever….
I’ve always collected art — photography and sketches, particularly nudes. The real excitement – aside from finding just the right piece – is deciding how to display it in my home. I’ve gathered some interesting arrangements to inspire!
Actor and shop owner Tori Dixon- Whittle’s home in Australia.
The fabulous home of interiors writer/stylist Beatrice Rossetti and her partner Piero Gemelli, prolific artist and fashion and beauty photographer, Milan, Italy.
Interior designer Ryan Korban’s NY pad.
Interior designer, Frederic Mediche’s loft, Paris.