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Last Week’s Finds

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Happy Monday, friends! Hope you’re well! Despite a particularly distracting weekend, spent mostly outdoors drinking copious amounts of apple cider and sampling one too many cider donuts, I haven’t forgotten about last week’s finds and how they were supposed to go out to you in a blog post yesterday morning. Oops! Thanks for understanding! Here are a few things I found interesting, design stories & decorative items, that maybe you too will find appealing: video tours of stunning homes designed by Caroline Gidiere and Bunny Williams, a new cookbook by the incomparable Ina Garten, and a couple of pretties for the home thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!

Inside Caroline Gidiere’s Birmingham Home – a video tour:

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A Passion for Lettuce Ware

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Lettuce ware has seen a comeback in recent years thanks to a collaboration between entrepreneur Tory Burch and Palm Beach potter Dodie Thayer. Known as the “Pottery Queen of Palm Beach”, Thayer opened her shop in the early sixties and started experimenting with lettuce and cabbage leaves to create European-inspired plates, tureens, cups and saucers. Her wares were sold exclusively through Harriet Healy’s Palm Beach gourmet food and kitchenware store Au Bon Gout and could be found on the tables of women of stature of Palm Beach and beyond. C.Z Guest, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Bunny Mellon, Brooke Astor were just a few of Thayer’s many fans. Because Thayer opted to hand-craft each piece herself, the waiting period for her wares could be as long three years and therefore her plates and tureens became highly collectable, to be found only in the country homes of the elite. 

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