Layla: Adornments for Home and Body
Powerful color for your home. When Alayne Patrick was opening Layla many years ago, she asked us for help (we had a friend in common). She didn't need it. Alayne's sense of style and attention to d...
Powerful color for your home. When Alayne Patrick was opening Layla many years ago, she asked us for help (we had a friend in common). She didn't need it. Alayne's sense of style and attention to d...
When looking for bar stool, the search can go on and on. Our current list is here. When looking for the vintag-y, chrom-y, retro kind the usual suspect all have four legs and look like the Happy Day's...
Look at this snug little Lovers' Breakfast Table at Amazon UK. The space-saving table is fitted with two chairs that close in tight around the tabletop and base......
More from Montreal. Fine home linens and decor in an inspiring space. That's what we found in Le Baldaquin, a shop located in the historic Old Montreal......
Green by Design. Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog is a source for green goods that has been around for a long time. With over two-hundred new products "for simple self-sufficient living," and temptingly...
Sleep naked and natural. We met Carmel Campos, the founder of LOOP last night at the Feist concert and quickly went into blogger mode, asking her questions about her company. Surprisingly, not many ...
When Alayne Patrick was opening Layla many years ago, she asked us for help (we had a friend in common). She didn't need it. Alayne's sense of style and attention to detail are so refined that we ha...
So, which one is it? An art supply store or lighting shop? Well, it's both. Lee's Studio is a huge lighting showroom on West 57th Street in Manhattan. They've got a large selection of lighting and c...
Doctor T.J. Eckleburg's eyes were neon. Romance, drama, brawls....all of these things happen because of neon. It is actually small amounts of neon gas leaking out of neon signs and being inhaled by p...
Just like they do it in Venice. Well, maybe not quite. But what a handy web catalog, nonetheless. AT reader Gary tipped us off to Lifestyle Clotheslines.com, an online catalog of clotheslines based in...
With a newly opened shop in SoHo, Lumas is now both online and off, which is good because a bird in the hand is worth two in the online bush. We stopped in over the holidays and found the work so te...
You live in it, why not chill on it? Tina came on down to the party on Wednesday night and showed us her latest pillow designs. It is high time we give her a shoutout. Laidback is Tina's creation ...
Highly functional products for around the house. Leifheit provides it all from step ladders to kitchen scales. They're known for well-made, simple products that do the dirty work without any frills....
(Here's a second post from Amara, one of the finalists vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:The Nursery. Comment away.) As an antidote to the big box retail experience when shopping for my...
Talk about color! Trendir tipped us off to Buffalo-based Legno Veneto. Legno Veneto sells wooden flooring from Italian flooring company Berti and is the exclusive sales distributor in the US. Running ...
We got a call yesterday from a reporter wanting our take on Pier 21's new offshoot, Loft 21 (What is it about the word "Loft" that doubles for style? Hasn't "Loft" jumped the shark yet?). While not f...
We picked this hot tip up in the Flou Bed thread. If you want a hydraulic lift storage bed and don't want to go the high class route, then this is for you. Lift & Stor Beds makes a simple, strong pla...
Must all art be still? This fresh tip for Art Month is a shout out to Levitated, an online gallery for Flash art. It is a bit complicated to figure out the breadth of what these New Mexican webby fo...
If you're in midtown and need some framing done, we have a recommendation that Lee's Art Shop is a "a viable, albeit volume (and sort of hit or miss) alternative on the lower end of the framing dollar...
We saved Liora Mann for the very end of Fall Color's month, as her Soho store is perfectly colorful blend of home accessories and furniture. Well known for her pillows, Liora Mann's colors are vibr...
Madeleine Guedj, the owner of La Cafetiere, will tell you that color is good and mixing colors is even better. Having opened her Chelsea store 5 1/2 years ago, she has single handedly made a mark in ...
Walking down Park Avenue South past the Ligne Roset store, you can't NOT turn your head and look in at the inventive, elegant and (dare I say it?) comfortable modern furniture on display. A favorite ...
Last month a reader was looking for simple steel tables, this month we got the tip where to find them. From Kalamazoo comes Local 59, a small company with a desire to design good stuff and make it lo...
If you are nuts about gardening and want to get sucked in by some French gardening chic, we recommend combing through the webpages of Le Prince Jardinier or stopping by one of their shops when you are...
Dept. of Hospitality. Sent to us by a reader, LB Furniture is a company up in Hudson NY, that specializes "in dining, banquet, conference, function room and common area seating environments." Which i...