Slow and Steady Wins the Race

With the warmer months approaching, our calendar has been filling up at a rapid pace.  Before we know it, the long lazy days of winter will be replaced with summer garden parties, barbeques and weekend retreats.  It’s as we’re gearing up for the season that we really begin to appreciate the luxury of operating at a slower pace, which is exactly the lifestyle a cabin should celebrate.  With this leisurely attitude in mind, we turn to Mr. Tortoise from Aesop’s Fables for inspiration.  

1.  Bunny Williams

2.  Grand Tour nesting tables, Century Furniture

3.  Retrosuperfuture

1.  The Tides South Beach, by Kelly Wearstler

2.  Pony hide porter's chair

1.  Victorian Falls Venetian Mirror, Ralph Lauren Home

2.  Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles.  Architecture by Peter Block, interior design by Beth Webb.

1 & 2.  Nate Berkus

3.  Steuben Glass Tortoise Collection Ice Bucket

1.  Windsor Smith

2.  GQ Style UK

1.  Banana Republic

2.  Nicky Haslam

3.  French Art Deco tortoise glass perfume bottles, Douglas Rosin

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Only in New York...

We've recently returned from New York and couldn't have had a more perfect trip.  We stayed with a friend in a fabulous 5th Avenue apartment, waking up every morning to a view of Central Park from our bedroom.  Our next trip has a lot to live up to.

Below are some of the highlights:  

*We hit the Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea flea markets, where we spotted a bargain hunting Nate Berkus.  We found a wonderful c. 1920's large silver bowl with lion feet and my monogram engraved in the bottom.  It was the find of the century!

*The Ralph Lauren Women's and Home store was absolutely gorgeous.  The building is brand new, but looks as though it has been standing for over a century.  We were a little intimidated to snap our own photos, so please enjoy Habitually Chic's recent post...this is just as it looked when we were there.  

*ABC Carpet and Home is truly a one stop shop.  With the gift floor on the main level and carpets on the fifth, there are boutiques by every major furniture designer sandwiched in between.  P.S.  We spotted James Andrew of What is James Wearing shopping on the second floor.  If only we had taken a photo, we could start a blog called, "What I Saw James Wearing".   

*While the overly commercial aspect of the neighborhood is not our thing, Soho was a remarkably enchanting place.  The streets were paved with bricks and the shops had a very English sensibility.  Some of our favorites were Paul Smith, Jack Spade and Thomas O'Brien's workspace, Aero Studios.

As we're always thinking about the cabin, we were definitely stimulated everywhere we went in New York.  Below are some of our favorite cabin and lifestyle inspirations from the trip:  

1.  The newly redesigned Rhinelander Mansion on Madison Avenue 

now exclusively showcases the Ralph Lauren men's collection

2.  We couldn't resist these saddle shoes from Cole Haan

1.  ABC Carpet & Home

2.  The Color Reform line at ABC, brilliant concept! 

3.  Pipa, a wonderfully decorated tapas 

restaurant on the ground floor of ABC

1.  We relaxed with a couple of cocktails at The Campbell Apartment.  Designed in 1923 and inspired by 13th-century Florentine palaces, the space was recently renovated by English designer Nina Campbell (of no relation)

2.  A detail of the original hand-painted ceiling

3.  Our drink of choice:  Prohibition Punch  

We followed this recipe at home and it was equally delicious

1.  Henri Lloyd's Spring/Summer 2011 collection

2 & 3.  These preppy Soho shoppers have it together, 

courtesy of trashness.com 

4.  Henri Lloyd's Spring/Summer 2011 collection


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