Chris Nordquist
Yes, again. About two and a half years ago, you helped us with a new color for our foyer in Southampton, and we chose the beautiful marigold color we have now. We’ve enjoyed it, but we’re ready for a change, and I’d appreciate your advice again. We’re in the mood for a change because we’re [...]
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We love it. It came in early and under budget –a rare bird in the world of interiors– but most importantly, when we unrolled it late one Tuesday night (I couldn’t wait until morning), we knew it was perfect, or at least perfect for us. A lot of the credit for this — for the [...]
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It was bound to be a cold, snowy, mostly indoor weekend for our outdoors-loving daughter, and so I thought I would brighten up Julia’s room with an early Valentine’s treat. On Friday morning before the first flakes flew, I went to New York’s flower district (28th street, mostly between 6th and 7th Avenues) to get [...]
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Sometimes it’s the little things –both that bring great satisfaction, and that drive you crazy. Just inside the door of our New York loft is the entrance to our home office, and it’s there that anything we’re carrying –mail, packages, keys, glasses, phones, and our bags– tends to land. Mostly, this works as our desks [...]
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Last summer we refreshed the decoration of our Southampton family room, mostly due to wear and tear on the upholstery. In the fall, we turned our attention to the living room, but for a different reason. We had moved a favorite piece of furniture, a vintage leather Arne Jacobsen Egg chair, to help furnish our New [...]
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All of our Holiday cookie packages have gone and, I think, have also been received, so our slightly crazy annual cookie project is done for another year (apart from some gingerbread I’ll bake tomorrow for our gingerbread tree .) Gingerbread is still Julia’s and David’s favorite, and my grandmother’s Date Nut Rolls are still mine, but [...]
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The cookie factory was in full swing this weekend. Each year David and I (and now Julia helps a bit so she can nick cookie dough) bake and send over 60 dozen holiday cookies to friends and family all over the country. Midway through the process (around now, actually) we feel like we should have [...]
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Yes, it is a bit small. Of course, that’s not actually our new dining room rug: it’s a sample made to test the colors we had chosen for the custom rug that we’ve now ordered –about a year later than we had planned. The delay is almost completely the result of our own indecision. The [...]
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Located just of the open kitchen, it’s the room we really live in, and, after five years or so, it was looking a little too lived in. The chocolate brown upholstery on the sofa wasn’t exactly worn out, but it was starting to look pretty tired, and the off-white linen (what were we thinking?) on [...]
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I made my Memorial Day weekend deadline to pull together our master bedroom in Southampton, but only just. On Friday morning I was still sewing the buttons on our custom Marimekko comforter cover (which I sewed myself! — but more on that later). By Friday night, though, all three of us (David, me and Eva [...]
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Smitten Ice Cream’s “Brrr.” Smitten in San Francisco makes your ice cream on the spot using its “Brrr” machine that freezes your order with liquid nitrogen –in 60 seconds. It sounds like a gimmick, but the super fast freezing produces and incredibly smooth treat. I’m hoping for a home model.
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. I make most of our ice cream at home, but Jeni’s Black Coffee flavor is better than mine. And (unlike Smitten or me) they ship.
Ultima Thule dessert bowl by Tapio Wirkkala for IIttala. An icy bowl for your ice cream.
Alfred Dunhill linen and silk scarf. For breezy beaches, airplanes, cinemas and other chilly places this summer.
Grady’s Cold Brew. Add this delicious handmade coffee concentrate (brewed with chicory and spices) to milk and ice to make a refreshing New Orleans-style iced coffee.
