a social week

During the last week I met, shook hands with, chatted with, gossiped with, shopped with, shared lunch and/or cocktails and/or dinner and/or tea with the people above: NYC artist and totally cool downtown girl Michele Varian, shopkeeper and lover of patina John Derian, textile wizard and Buffalo-native John Robshaw, lighting designer Jamie Young, chic Upper East Side designer and Montrealaise Amanda Nisbet, House Beautiful editor-in-chief Newell Turner, DC designer Darryl Carter, COO of Darryl Carter Inc Charles Grazioli, House Beautiful publisher Kate Kelly Smith, CEO of furniture design firm The New Traditionalists Philip Erdoes, style guru and potter Jonathan Adler (and even more!)

On one hand I call that a very good week, on the other, well...where's my anti-bacterial hand gel (it is cold & flu season after all).

designers i admire: amanda nisbet

Thanks to Twitter I found the dazzling portfolio of Amanda Nisbet today. I of course recognized so many of the photos. Her press section is packed and she has been published in all the big books -- and it's no wonder! Just feast your eyes -- and really study these pictures. The decorating details she employs are amazing -- and colour, well -- Deeee-lish!

source: Amanda Nisbet