Raffia Forever

There are so many books and articles talking about raffia and wicker these days. We have been on that bandwagon too with the recent launch of our stunning new Raffia Collection. I am a business...

Mother's Day Gift Guide

Our mother-daughter-grandmother dynamic brings a unique flavor to our Mother's Day presents. For Eliza, I want to give something passed down to me at every opportunity I can- same goes for what I want from...

What is American Alpine Style?

Besides an occasional ski trip, my familiarity with the West has pretty much been an obsession with Westerns. Yellowstone, 1883, and recently American Primeval have had me hooked for a while. This spring I headed to...

48 Hours in New Orleans

New Orleans is a city of storytellers. It's where my own story took a significant turn as I met my husband there in my twenties - in a bar no less. As a teenager, I inhaled Southern...

A Month in Florida

Our Sister Parish community is not only our clients, our amazing artisans, our team, but also the story of a female-founded and run business that involves multiple family members from Apple (age 91) to Eliza's...

Hosting A Spring Lunch With Style and Panache

During the eighties, my husband and I often accompanied my grandmother, Sister Parish, to Sunday lunches with her friends and clients in " the country." On many a spring Sunday, we would meet at her New...

How to Design a Unique Nursery

I'm often asked a question that I love: "How do you design a unique nursery?" February is my hunker down month so I have had time to think about this and dream. As we like to say,...

Wicker: A Love Story and Where to Shop

My husband gave me a wicker basket for Valentine's day, because he knows I love old wicker and can never seem to have enough. When people say it's not my grandmother's such and such, I can not agree. It is my...

Dollhouses: Tonic for the Soul

Last fall, my husband and I were visiting Amsterdam and stumbled upon the dollhouse exhibit at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. They were unbelievable and fascinating, to say the least. One was oversized - almost a playhouse - and you...