Category Archives: Hubert de Givenchy

Chez Givenchy: Le Jonchet Revisited

Posted February 18, 2016. Filed in Chateaux, French Country Houses, French Style, Hubert de Givenchy

Like many of you my mind has been drifting to Springtime, the season when everything begins to appear dew fresh and full of promise. The greens are greener, the days longer, and the light stronger. While falling down the rabbits hole that is Pinterest I discovered photos I had never seen before of Hubert de […]

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Henri Samuel for Susan and John Gutfreund, Paris

Posted January 29, 2015. Filed in French Style, Henri Samuel, Hubert de Givenchy, Susan Gutfreund, Uncategorized

The salon featured above is quite possibly one of the most beautiful rooms I have ever seen, for many reasons. Unquestionably French by design, it succeeds in balancing fine 18th-century boiserie, antiques and objets d’arts with comfortable, if not humble, statements including loose linen slip covered furniture, a tone-on-tone checkerboard patterned carpet, the contemporary curve […]

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Great Outdoor Rooms: Plein-Air Living

Posted May 22, 2014. Filed in Fisher-Wiseman, François Catroux, Hubert de Givenchy, John Saladino, John Stefanidis, Michael S. Smith, Outdoor Rooms, Steven Gambrel

Summertime has nearly arrived and there’s no better time than now to put the finishing touches on your outdoor living spaces. As a native Californian living in Houston I miss my home state’s indoor-outdoor quality of living – to be able to throw open the windows and doors and blur the lines between inside and […]

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ROMANCING THE TABLE

Posted February 13, 2014. Filed in Alidad, Andrew F. Tauber, Axel Vervoordt, Bruno de Caumont, Craig Wright, David Hicks, Dining Rooms, Fisher-Wiseman, François Catroux, Geoffrey Bennison, Hubert de Givenchy, Kalef Alaton, Manuel Canovas, Miles Redd, Nicholas Haslam, Thomas Britt

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Have you booked that enviable cozy banquette set into a discreet niche in your city’s most romantic restaurant? If not, sorry Charlie, you’re too late! At this point in time you will be lucky to score a booth at Applebee’s, which in all directness won’t score the points you’re aiming for. […]

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Riviera Style: Le Clos Fiorentina

Posted September 5, 2013. Filed in David Hicks, Hubert de Givenchy, Mediterranean Style, Riviera Style, Rory Cameron, Uncategorized

In the last post, Riviera Style, I extolled the sun-kissed charms of the French Riviera’s heyday and inception as playground to the rich and famous, beginning in the early 20th-century, stopping along the way to visit The Gerald Murphy’s at their Villa America in Cap d’Antibes, Coco Chanel at Villa La Pausa, Lady Kenmare and […]

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