Monthly Archives: July 2015

Easy, Breezy Summertime Escapes

Posted July 30, 2015. Filed in Albert Hadley, American Country Houses, American Style: Retreats, Christian Liagre, Coastal Chic, Cottages, Haynes Roberts, James Huniford, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Mark Cunningham, Ralph Lauren, Tom Scheerer, Vicente Wolf, Victoria Hagan

 A vintage print of Albert Hadley’s handsomely chic barn in Dark Harbor, Maine. Summertime … that heady, sexy time of the year when temperatures rise and the constraints of winter have long fallen away. A time we relax into a more casual pace and welcome the easy, breezy summer season with light-weight natural materials in […]

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American Chic: Vintage Bilhuber

Posted July 28, 2015. Filed in American Chic, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Uncategorized

Long before I was aware that Jeffrey Bilhuber had worked with Tom Scheerer early in his career I discovered his talent and rising star as one of America’s greatest decorators in the May 1990 issue of House & Garden – his first major solo commission, for Judy and Michael Kraynick in the Lanark Upper Saucon […]

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American Chic

Posted July 22, 2015. Filed in Angelo Donghia, Arthur Smith, Benjamin Vandiver, Bill Blass, Billy Baldwin, Bruce Budd, Daniel Romauldez, David Kleinberg, David Netto, Geoffrey Beene, George Stacey, Haynes Roberts, James Huniford, Jeffrey Bilhuber, John Dickinson, Kalef Alaton, Kevin McNamara, Mark Hampton, Michael Taylor, Parish-Hadley, Richard Lowell Neas, Sills & Huniford, Stephen Sills, Thomas Morrow, Tom Scheerer, Van Day Truex, Vicente Wolf, William Gaylord

What is American Chic? For me, it has always been about effortless style. The kind of style that doesn’t shout “Look at me!” A style that is crisp and classic, balanced, often times understated yet always sophisticated, subtle and artfully layered, unfettered by excessive decor and, above all else, timeless. A style that honors the […]

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Axel Vervoordt: The Art of the Room, Part II

Posted July 1, 2015. Filed in Axel Vervoordt, Belgian-Dutch Style, Chateaux, Elemental Design, Romantic Classical Style

Art is as natural to an Axel Vervoordt interior as the horizon is to a landscape. In my last post, Axel Vervoordt: The Art of the Room, Part I, photographs of vignettes taken within the designer’s Belgian castel focuses on his sensitive and exacting curatorial prowess at creating tableau that stirs the mind, soul and […]

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