Chris Nordquist
I had suggested a butterfly, and for a while she was into swimming like a dolphin (on the hall carpet), but by mid-October she had made up her mind: she would be a witch for Halloween. Last week I got a clarification: she still wanted to be a witch, but a good witch, preferably one […]
Ok, I know. Enough already with the dining chairs. But your comments and emails on this have been so helpful that I wanted to go just one more round on this before we make a final decision. To refresh your memories, we settled on these chairs –classic Milo Baughman designs from the 1970s. Their scale, […]
We’re back in New York now, but managed to fit in a short trip to London after our days in Paris. In London our balance between work and play shifted toward work, but we still found time to have some fun. We stayed at Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair, which is one of the oldest hotels […]
David and I are on a short trip to Paris and London, and we’re having a lovely time. It’s full-on fall in Paris — the leaves are turning, it’s a little chilly, and, of course, there’s the daily drizzle. No matter, though. Paris does grand very well, but it does cozy even better. We’re staying […]
One of my favorite rooms in our new loft is finally done. Well, probably not truly done –the art and accessories will continue to evolve– but finished enough to show you. It’s our den, a dark, loungy space where we curl up to watch TV and videos (Wonderpets and Yo Gabba Gabba are in heavy […]
Thank you for all of your emails and comments about our dining chair dilemma. I’ve bought chairs. In your emails and comments, the ones we finally chose had a solid following, but they weren’t the winners. Overall, your favorites were #4, the Finn Juhl chairs, and, on their own, they’re my favorites too. If we […]
Our new Manhattan loft is really coming together –construction is complete (including some finish work that seemed to drag on forever), and all of the furniture that we’d bought or reupholstered in in place. We love it. Except the dining room. Individually, I like all of the furnishings. The sideboard is a handsome vintage Gio […]
Too much? I’ll admit it’s a little Last Days of Disco, but I hope in a good way. The powder room in our new loft was inoffensive but bland — a small windowless box with white walls, beige tile, a Corian sink and a toilet. Our budget and schedule didn’t allow for extensive remodeling, but […]
It just happened one evening in July. Julia announced that she wanted to sleep in her big girl bed, climbed right into it and never seemed to give her crib another thought. Last week we gave Julia’s old crib to friends with a beautiful baby boy, and so her new big-girl room in our new […]
It’s probably our favorite room in our Southampton house. With a dramatically pitched ceiling and windows on three sides, it’s a real beauty. And we never used. it. We planned and furnished it as a home office, but found ourselves (like most people, I think), working on our laptops in the kitchen, or on the […]
