A MODERN RITUAL OF GRATITUDE AT THE TABLE I grew up in a fruit shop. I didn’t work, I ate. When our bucolic family was wrangled indoors, think; lots of boisterous male energy and one baby female in semi-rural New Zealand, we gathered around the table. In our household we had a daily format with […]
HOW TABLE TOP DESIGN IS THEATRE FOR YOUR HOME Look around–what’s on your table? Your dining room table. Is it poppies in fresh bloom. Tiny piles of petals dropping from your thirsty pompom dahlias. Poetry perhaps, or finely chosen candlesticks holding the faint smell of expended wax and cypress oil. Maybe you have a bowl […]
Recently one night, like a spirit had descended on me, I decided I wanted to be a salonniere. Is this even a word? Was my habit of making up words to fill in the gaps of my moth eaten 90’s French playing tricks on me? Unsure, I asked aunty Google and ended up on a […]
