Labour of Love

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Cinderella

Paperwink is a company that began when two talented women discovered they have the same love for paper, design, vintage life and putting letters and colors together. They decided to share their ideas with others by creating invitations, announcements and stationary, among other things. They packed their bags with pens, fonts, textures and inspiration and turned their craft into their own business.

Tara and Darcey's work has been recognised by many top design publications, organizations and museums including HOW Magazine, PRINT Magazine, California Design Biennial and the book Old Type/New Type. The address stamps above are a great way to put a personal stamp on your stationary. See their full boutique here.

Multifaceted Neutrals

Fendi, under the brand Fendi Casa, now has a lux, complete furniture line of leather couches, tables and accessories. Each piece has the same level of detail and quality as their couture. Shown above, the Fendi Crystal Chair. Also shown is an oversized horn ring (handcrafted in Peru) from Vivre. I’d love to sit pretty in this chair wearing this ring!

A Men's Market

An in-the-know friend told me about this pop-up flea market for men going on this weekend. You should definitely go. Although, I would suggest going to La Esquina before eating the Café Select offerings. Click the image to read more.

201 Mulberry Street
b/w Spring & Kenmare
26 -28 June 2009

Katie Did

A mother of three based in Brooklyn, New York makes all of the clothes for her daughters. Katie Did is her website- and I LOVE her creations. Lucky girls!

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. On view now through 23 August 2009, the exhibition showcases sixty-four of Wright’s contemporary design projects.

Some of the exhibited pieces include privately designed residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces as well as unrealised urban structures. There are also more than 200 of Wright’s original drawings on view to the public for the first time.

In 1943, Hilla Rebay, the director of Solomon R. Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting, invited Wright to design the Guggenheim's home as “a temple of spirit, a monument”. Wright moved away from the traditional box-like gallery in his design and the process to create the building went on for sixteen years. Neither Wright nor Guggenheim lived to see it completed. Guggenheim died in 1949 and Wright in 1959, six months before the museum's 21 October inauguration.

During his seventy-two-year career, Wright worked in developing a new type of architecture in which form and function always worked together. Wright also believed that a strong connection with nature was critical to having a spiritual life, and therefore his designs allowed for the seamless integration of interior and exterior. The exhibit hopes to inspire people to implement Wright's ideas on space into their own lives.

Summer Dresses

Poppy is an amazing little store on Mott Street that is perfect for those dresses that will get you through every occasion of the summer. I absolutely love this casual cut-out back dress by the brand new line called Kenny. It's one of those great pieces you'll love to wear and won't find on everyone else. Available in black, navy, natural and aqua. I can't wait to wear this!

The Nicholas Series

I love these books by René Goscinny! The Nicholas series is a collection of very sweet and very funny children’s books about a French boy and his schoolmates who cause mayhem and are then baffled by the despair of the adults. Originally published in France in 1959, these books have been bestsellers ever since. The illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé are just as charming as the stories. Buy them here.

Shakespeare in the Park

Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway is starring in the New York Public Theater’s presentation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” this summer as part of the Shakespeare in the Park series. The play is running from 10 June to 12 July, 2009. Hathaway is starring as Viola in of one of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedies.

The Theater is providing a limited numbers of vouchers that are available beginning 1 PM on each day of the performance and can then be redeemed for tickets at the Delacorte Theatre in New York’s Central Park. Vouchers can be picked up between 1 and 3 PM and redeemed for tickets between 4 and 7 PM.

This is The Public Theater’s sixth production of “Twelfth Night.” Click here to read more.

Blue Hill Update

As a follow-up to the Blue Hill post, Lauren Braun Costello blogged about us! Check it out here.

An Evening at Blue Hill

An evening at Dan Barber’s Blue Hill promises the freshest of ingredients directly from the farm in upstate New York, mouth watering amuse-bouches and a who's-who of culinary luminaries. This couldn't have been more true on an evening this past winter when a very good friend of mine and I decided that Blue Hill would be the perfect restaurant to try in the middle of a recession.

We had just begun enjoying our starters when the couple next to us seemingly began to feud. The woman, sitting on the inside of the table, bolted as if from a visceral need to escape the presence of her significant other. After several minutes, an older woman at the bar seemed to have calmed her down enough to return to the table.

We tried not to look at them, or wonder what was going on. Just before I could no longer contain myself, the couple turned to us and told us that we simply had to hear what was happening. As it turns out, the two were in fact not in the midst of a heated lovers' quarrel, but instead co-authors at Blue Hill celebrating the completion of their new book, which was soon to be released (and the woman she ran up to just happened to be Dorothy Hamilton, Founder of the French Culinary Institute).

The discussion of the book turned into a discussion on food, then a discussion on life, and how to make the right choices. It seems that knowing your way around the kitchen is a great metaphor for knowing your way around the world- or at least New York. Ben and I made sure to buy the book as soon as it was available.

This past Saturday, we were able to attend what was perhaps the first book signing for Notes on Cooking at The Conran Shop in New York. We were pretty sure Lauren and Russell would remember us, but we never expected the reaction we got. Best of luck to both of you!

Be sure to check out Lauren’s website here.