Orange-Red has long been a fixation of mine, it began with my best friend’s style icon grandmother, “Bama” and her orange-red lipstick, worn slightly askew with chunky gold jewelry. It always feels old fashioned and new at the same time, like these timeless showstoppers, african violets, gladiolas and carnations. There is something defiant and fiery …
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This month we were finally good and swamped with holiday decorating and events, which I have been wierdy exempt from for the past 10 years in the business. It was something I have been wishing for forever; red gold and green- what could be better?? After wrestling with a massive, rogue tartan bow in 1 …
Had the great good luck to spend Thanksgiving in the U.P. at a family friend’s 500 acre farm near the wilds of Escanaba. The landscape was so staggeringly gorgeous I was afraid I’d drive the car off the road. An orchard of frozen apples, a field of dried sunflowers, wild clematis puffs…all miraculous to my …
This holiday party was held in a special boardroom at the Shedd Aquarium, which juts out on to the lake and affords the most amazing views. It is replete with an aquarium featuring a dizzying array of sea anemone. These “marine ornamentals” are named for the terrestrial flower just now coming into season. My favorite was …
‘Mitzvahs are totally the most fun parties, both to design and to attend. I’m not afraid to say my social life peaked in 7th grade- those we THE BEST PARTIES EVER! It’s such an honor and a stellar mission to impress pre-teens today- and what with the helium cliff and all we almost had to …
Carnations made a such a big comeback in the early 2000s New York flower scene that Vogue ran almost monthly editorials heralding the news, with gorgeous bowls of them priced at $300 and stars in the field bitterly feuding over who was responsible for their redux Now the show stopping chrysanthemum is officially back. ( Joy! …
Bringing honey to the Green City market with our dear friends from the Chicago Honey Co-op last weekend, my hustle went something like this: “Have you tried the summer honey from the Chicago Honey Co-op? We are the most local vendor at the green city market, with hives in Humboldt Park, Back of the Yards and …
For this corporate dinner we expressed the company’s signature blue with dutch hydrangea, delphinium and nitiya vanda orchids. Throwback 80’s style ferns and naga foliage along with these massive variegated alocacia leaves and fragrant bay laurel were also in effect. Our clever client chose these clear acrylic Versailles chairs and federal blue silk shantung tablecloths …
We were honored to provide flowers for the public debut of a house done by our favorite interior designers, Norra C. Marra Interiors recently. Best of all, it was to raise money for Rush Hospital as part of the Winnetka Cooks’ House Tour. The house is a hushed haven of meta luxe textiles, timeless, almost nonchalant …
We spent a super-fun afternoon decorating the barn at Elawa farm recently. A “gentleman’s farm” built in 1917 for Watson Armour, it is essentially a glamour farm, making it the perfect setting for the winning and ever so glamorous Skirt PR’s 10th anniversary dinner. It is quite the dream scape, boasting a chicken coop …