Checking-in with a museum reopening, an upstate dream, brown suede, Graydon Carter, etc.
A mixed bag
Hello, things have been busy around here - a good thing - but has left me with little time to tap my musings. I love nothing more than to do so, so I’m excited to get back on the horse with a quickie, sharing a few things of note. And Happy April, here on the east coast we are only two months away from actual warm weather. 🌷 Thank you for reading, more soon! xx
Design related…
Next week celebrates the long awaited reopening of The Frick Collection. I’m taking my friend Leyla and we plan to play hooky Thursday afternoon (don’t tell my boss). It took the museum two weeks to (very apologetically) get back to me regarding my membership, so it’s safe to say the response to the reopening has been, in their own words, ”overwhelming.” It opens to nonmembers on the 17th - a good day for New York City. <3
Turns out Rick not only has a penchant for revenge, but damn good interior design. Actor Walter Goggins and his wife Nadia Conners call a dreamy 1920s upstate property home. Built by an early industrialist in the style of a Scottish hunting lodge, they’ve renovated and filled with vintage furniture and an enviable art collection.
Issue Eight of Neptune Papers is available for pre-order. The latest issue from the Paris-based independent interiors publication features covers with Julianne Moore, Vincent Van Duysen's home, and the Parisian home of Dahlia Hojeij and Augustin Deleuze. Yum.
We are so back. The polka dot is trending. Its hit the street but I want to see more of it in the home. Classics like this and these and this is a good place to start.
Sweet like. A client in Detroit wants a honey bathroom so I’m in the process of sourcing gorgeous mustard tiles and complimentary materials. This color is underrated.
If anyone is going to Rome before July 6th, please check out the Caravaggio exhibit at Palazzo Barberini and FaceTime me. It’s a dramatic quality of mine, but I am reduced to tears when surrounded by the work of everyone’s favorite bad boy of the Renaissance. His genius overwhelms me (in the best way).
Additionally…
I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of Graydon Carter’s memoir When the Going Was Good. I’m hungry for stories during the golden age of magazines relayed by the king himself. This New Yorker review / profile successfully whet my palate. Baby’s first (unpaid lol) internships were at Harper’s Bazaar and W Magazine. 🥲
These are my favorite eye gels. Jelly-like but unusually adhesive, I can manically vacuum my apartment in the mornings without losing one (or both) to gravity. I keep mine in the fridge like a good millennial.
Chicken meatballs are underrated. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack - with eggs, on a salad, over pasta, dipped in greek yogurt - convenient, delicious, protein-rich. (It’s giving Haiku). It took me 10 minutes to prep these last week and I proceeded to pop them like candy.
My friend / stylist Liv helped me score these beauties - my investment piece for spring. I plan to wear with jeans and a white t-shirt on repeat. 🔁
The Karen Read documentary on Max is very good. What is fascinating about this case is that there are only two parties - those that vehemently believe she killed her boyfriend and those that believe she is unequivocally innocent - no one is on the fence. (For those wondering, I don’t think she did it.) Enjoy the accents, they brought me back to my childhood.
OBSESSED with Walton Goggins. Did you know he's from Alabama? Also, I can't WAIT to go to the Frick again.