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Shop for Home at HausInterior
HausInterior.com: For a shopping experience which relies on the out-of-the-ordinary gift, start with a blueprint pad for $11 and resin antlers for $38.50 apiece. Wallpapers are subtle in color and tone but amusing: polar bears, ibis, cricket bats, zebras and pink ostriches more »
My Mother’s Cookbook; More Cookies
When I returned to college after a spring vacation spent in my home town, a girl I knew from New York's Westchester County asked if I'd had a good time. I gave her my usual response, saying that I'd had fun. She wondered what could be fun about spending spring break in Iowa. more »
Elsie de Wolfe's The House in Good Taste
I once saw a little serving-maid wearing a calico gown, black crosses on a white ground, and I was so enchanted with the cool crispness of it that I had a glazed wall paper made in the same design. I have used it in bedrooms, and in bathrooms, always with admirable effect. One can imagine a girl making a Pierrot and Pierrette room for herself, given whitewashed walls, white woodwork, and white painted furniture. more »
Mrs. Delany and her Circle, at the Yale Center for British Art
At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland, embarked on a series of one thousand botanical collages, or “paper mosaics.” These were the crowning achievement of a life defined by creative accomplishment. more »