Published: January 19th, 2016
“In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone.” Christina Rossetti, approx. 1871 It’s easy to succumb to the Winter Blues when the holiday sparkle gives way to the grim grays of January and February. Here’s a solution: Create a sensual feast to chase those blues away. Here […]
Published: December 7th, 2015
If ever a color scheme evokes a particular holiday season, it’s probably the omnipresent combo of red and green that establishes the season of stockings hung over fireplaces, evergreen trees bedecked with shiny red ornaments and lights, and a mythical figure in a bright red suit whooshing over snow-covered rooftops in a sleigh. But just […]
Published: November 16th, 2015
The tragic events in Paris come only one month after my recent visit there. No city embraces life and culture as fully as the City of Light. It is a place where designers have traditionally found immense inspiration. So I write this with sadness, to be sure, but also with appreciation for the freedom that […]
