Everyone is so excited for the start of summer but I am already missing winter. This weekend, 10 friends and I sadly shut down our winter ski house in Killington,...

As you can tell from my last post I am quickly becoming obsessed with the onset of warm weather. Barbecues, picnics and outdoor activities of all sorts are running through...

When New York furniture designer Richard Wrightman told me he outsourced all of his chair production to the Amish of Lancaster County, I couldn’t believe it. “But Richard,” I asked,...

As I write this, it is 85 degrees in Los Angeles and we are looking at a weekend in the low to mid-nineties. It reminds me of how much I...

Like many an editor, contractor, and faucet salesman, I spent last weekend in Chicago at K/BIS (the premier Kitchen and Bath Trade Show in the U.S.). I saw so many...

There are very few things in life as difficult for a designer as designing their own home. The possibilities are endless, the client is impossible, and it hurts to go...