Things I like to live with

Back to The Journal things i like to live with My list of coveted things. 2026 edition. Updated periodically.   THE BLUE AND WHITE EDIT. TOM FORD ICON BLUE BLOCK NAVIATOR OPTICALS CUTLER AND GROSS AVIATOR OPTICLALS GREAT JONES HOLY SHEET PAN in Blueberry IKEA CHILIFRUKT VASE/WATERING CAN  BEESWAX & LINEN BREAD-BAGS EMILE HENRY SALT […]

Setting The Stage

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 […]

The Ménage á Trois of Interior Styling

Back to The Journal OR PERHAPS YOU WILL PREFER TO THINK OF THIS AS THE THE RULE OF THREES Good news! Your house too, can look like a magazine cover. I happen to have it on good authority from the otherside that our world as we know it would not operate, nay exist, without the […]

Maximize Your Color Vibe

Back to The Journal I’M HERE EVANGELIZING ABOUT COLOR – THINK OF ME AS YOUR COLOR JESUS It’s true that Chat GPT recently described my Instagram feed as a modern art exhibit that forgot to take its ADHD meds, ‘like you’re the Dr Phil of the color spectrum’. I’m not shy, I’ll take it. I’m […]

interviews with creatives: artist amanda billing

It’s one of the most vulnerable things you can do – create stuff and share it with the world.  I’ve always said artists are sharing with you all the things you didn’t know you couldn’t say. Amanda Billing, a New Zealand born actress, artist and photographer, has been doing this for most of her life; […]