Chris Nordquist
Yes, it is a bit small. Of course, that’s not actually our new dining room rug: it’s a sample made to test the colors we had chosen for the custom rug that we’ve now ordered –about a year later than we had planned. The delay is almost completely the result of our own indecision. The […]
Located just of the open kitchen, it’s the room we really live in, and, after five years or so, it was looking a little too lived in. The chocolate brown upholstery on the sofa wasn’t exactly worn out, but it was starting to look pretty tired, and the off-white linen (what were we thinking?) on […]
I made my Memorial Day weekend deadline to pull together our master bedroom in Southampton, but only just. On Friday morning I was still sewing the buttons on our custom Marimekko comforter cover (which I sewed myself! — but more on that later). By Friday night, though, all three of us (David, me and Eva […]
What can I say? They’re beautiful. And, apart from having good taste in friends, I can’t take any credit for them. The flowers were for a cocktail party at our New York place last weekend to celebrate Spring and, surreptitiously, David’s birthday. The occasion called for something very special, and so I called our good […]
A couple of months ago, I posted about my project to pull together our dreary master bedroom in Southampton. It’s a nice room, but the furnishings, linens and accessories are all left-overs from moves and remodels, and they don’t work together. Many of you offered very useful advice, a common thread of which, I think, […]
“Well, it’s big.” That’s about all David could say about the master bedroom when we first toured our new loft in Chelsea. In truth, it had other virtues as well: nice brick walls, large windows that let in lots of light and, if not a true view (a sliver of river to the left and […]
It’s time to pull this room together, and I’d like your help. At the moment, it just feels like a room full of stuff –nothing’s working together. The reason it’s in this sorry state is that nearly everything is left over from somewhere else and wound up here without any plan. The cool gray wool […]
Finally. After months of indecision (and some production time too), we finally have our new chairs. Custom upholstery is always a little suspenseful, but I’m happy to say we like them as well as we’d hoped: the chairs feel both light and comfortable, and the upholstery adds warmth and color to the space without disrupting […]
One of the most problematic spaces in our new loft has become one of our favorites. I recently showed an out-of-town friend some construction photos. I was struck by the transformation, so I thought I’d indulge in a little before-and-after here. (Btw, we’re not really sure what to call this space. The realtor’s floor plan […]
I think it was a great success. Last weekend David’s mother Jeri turned 70, and we threw a party for her at our loft in Manhattan. Twenty of Jeri’s girlfriends from her home in New Orleans flew in for the occasion (no husbands, except hers), and around 50 guests from New York joined them for […]
