I spent today’s rainy afternoon with a cup of hot tea and Jan Showers’s new book called Glamorous Rooms. After devouring all 206 pages of design ideas and beautiful photography (you can see all of my bookmarks below) I can safely say that Glamorous Rooms will be a forerunner in my design library that I […]

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While doing some research about historical furnishings for a class at the Met this afternoon, I came across this exquisite Egyptian jewelry from 1887 - 1813 BC. These bracelets belonged to Princess Sithathoryunet and were found in a special niche of her underground tomb. I absolutely love the combination of gold, the orange/red of the […]

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By now you may have noticed an increase in traffic on the roads and kids running around with their book bags filled to the brim. Our fall semester is in full swing and surprisingly it’s a little cooler in New York than our usual Septembers in Houston. My husband keeps telling me, “you just have […]

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