Chris Nordquist
About a week before Julia was born, I set to work on her first room in San Francisco. She was to be born in California, and our plan was to spend a month at our home there before bringing her back to New York. I wanted her first room to be cheerful, bright, whimsical and […]
When we were planning our kitchen and family room in Southampton, we just avoided the issue of where to put the TV. We knew we wanted one — for after dinner movies and for watching the news or Ina Garten (or now the Wiggles DVDs) while making breakfast or dinner, but we never really focused […]
Brass candlesticks. They’re everywhere and nowhere – such a staple of traditional décor that we don’t really see them anymore. There is probably a pair or two in most of our childhoods (and our cupboards), but page through any of the hipper shelter magazines (no, Traditional Home doesn’t count), and they’re mostly absent. This, I […]
