We began our heavenly week-long Andalusian and Madrid trip in Seville. The "city of color and light" has an exotic charm that feels straight out of The Arabian Nights. The region's history, shaped by over...

Sister's bedroom at "The Town House"—one of our family's former and beloved Maine escapes. The orange print on the canopy bed was originally designed by Parish Hadley for Brooke Astor. I have loved canopy beds...

  September is a bittersweet time—a shift in the light, blankets come out, "sweater weather" begins . As the last days of summer roll into an eagerness for fall, I find myself at that peculiar...

Ah, May! The very name conjures up images of gardens and that irresistible urge to refresh, renew, make better! There is a song in my parent’s favorite musical, Camelot, called “The Lusty Month of May,”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...