In the recently released book At the Table of La Fortezza: The Enchantment of Tuscan Cooking from the Lunigiana Region, published by Rizzoli, author and Atlanta-based…
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Atlanta has a thriving design community that I cover often as I write about design. One of the most active furniture manufacturers there is Currey & Company whose blog I manage.
Before I took over Company Said, their corner of the blogosphere, I wrote about their product here on The Diary of an Improvateur. Posts showcasing their events include How to Set a Mood, which introduced a handful of their products about to debut at High Point Market. One the schedule that market was a Mid-century Modern Day that included a talk by Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles editor-in-chief Elizabeth Ralls as a preview of the Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens in Atlanta.
In my post Heaven Shall Be Here, I dish about visiting the substantial library the company is building in collaboration with Clare Jameson of Potterton Books. She is one of the world’s great authorities on historical design books across all spectrums and it is exciting to watch the Currey & Company library grow. And in The Seat of Scottish Power, I review a collection of luxurious bespoke chairs produced by Bruce Andrews Design, one of which was included in a space in the Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens.
Heaven Shall Be Here
In the film A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, who plays an unlikely Louis XIV, declares, “Heaven shall be here.” He’s speaking of a ballroom he…
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As the opening credits roll during the film Her Majesty, Mrs Brown, a Markino marble bust, which has been tossed over a castle’s ramparts, tumbles…
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The 1968 version of The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway is a mercurial mélange of masculine and feminine charisma in equal…
View More How to Set a MoodWhat Is Art?
“It is assumed that everyone knows and understands what is meant by the word beauty,” Leo Tolstoy wrote. “And yet not only is this not…
View More What Is Art?One Special Summer with Jackie O
Hegel’s caveat “history teaches us nothing” may be relevant in cultural and philosophical realities but in the design world the statement is far from succinct.…
View More One Special Summer with Jackie OThe Tides In Our Veins
The Tides in Our Veins One of the most evocative trips I can remember taking as a young woman was a four-day escapade to Carmel,…
View More The Tides In Our VeinsAllegorical Accents from Barry Dixon
Certain aspects of being southern seem to seep into the skin through osmosis. It’s as if the summer heat wriggles into our DNA, the perspiration…
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