#shagreen leather drawers

[benswift-eyeskull]

Kitchen Dining A picture of a medium-sized eclectic l-shaped kitchen with a medium-toned wood floor and brown walls, an undermount sink, dark wood cabinets with recessed panels, quartz countertops, a white backsplash, quartz countertops, paneled appliances, and an island.

[eternallyphan]

Dining - Eclectic Kitchen Medium-sized eclectic l-shaped eat-in kitchen with recessed-panel cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartz countertops, white backsplash, quartz backsplash, paneled appliances, an island, and white countertops is shown. The room also has a brown floor and medium-toned wood floor.

[analogveins]

Kitchen - Eclectic Kitchen A picture of a medium-sized eclectic l-shaped kitchen with a medium-toned wood floor and brown walls, an undermount sink, dark wood cabinets with recessed panels, quartz countertops, a white backsplash, quartz countertops, paneled appliances, and an island.

[nomanwalksalone]

ON NEEDLESS THINGS

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Long ago when I first began writing on #steez, I began one essay urging readers to stop me if I got too wrapped up in the needless fetishization of possessions. Today, I stage my own intervention, albeit a small one, in preparing to get rid of this beautiful, luxurious, quite functional and completely useless antique flask.

Why did I buy it? I guess I discover esoteric and useless must-haves that I never knew I needed in my moments between more pressing obsessions. I still have my leaky old shagreen Unique lighter around somewhere although its main use for years has been lighting candles at children’s birthday parties. I have an antique box from the defunct Old England Paris I picked up after learning it was identical to the one Marcel Duchamp used in his Box of 1932 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but I rationalized that purchase, as well as that of a 1930s shirt box from Sulka Paris, since I’ve written a book about them, my true obsessions of a vanished Paris.

A flask is the logical next step in needlessness after a lighter, particularly as I don’t smoke. Like any excessively nice accessory, it promises a twinge of smug satisfaction every time I use something that otherwise could be a commonplace. That’s the thing though. The only people who actually use flasks regularly are people with severe drinking problems. And, I suppose, some living clichés pulling them out of their Brexitwear while they stand on a grouse moor. I’m usually the designated driver when I go out, and I’d feel like a creep keeping this in a drawer at work the way George Lazenby’s 007 does when he apologizes to the Annigoni portrait of the Queen before taking a pull in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

I admit, in retrospect, I wish I’d had it on me, full of Laphroaig, an hour into an interminable wedding when a Christian rock band began to play (and this was in the church the middle of the ceremony itself, not at the reception). But other than that occasion, I can’t really think of when I’d have wanted it weighing down a jacket pocket. I’ve only spiked my coffee when I was snowed in at home, and if I’d needed a drink while shoveling snow, I just had to come in.

The usefulness of a needless object is a set of pleasantly finicky details on which we construct our rationalizations: it’s wrapped not just in leather, like many flasks, but in genuine crocodile. The flask body itself is glass, not metal, so it should be easier to see if it needs cleaning. To keep the glass from breaking, the lower half of the flask is sheathed in a silverplate cup, which comes off if the owner is too prim to take a pull directly. The hinged stopper is also silverplated, and screws to the side to stay closed. The mechanisms still work. All these details bring their own complications – the fragility of the glass, and the delicateness of the leather. You can’t wash this thing under a tap – I destroyed another one when warm water caused its ancient crocodile (despite its aquatic origins) to shrivel right up and come off. Rather, I bought a fifth of the cheapest, strongest clear liquor I could find and used a funnel to pour it in and rinse out the insides of the flask to dissolve and wash away any traces of whatever had been in there before.  

For I was not its first owner. As the reader can see, the initials are not my own, nor does it bear the de Mans family crest (chat couchant on a field of antidepressants). This is a century-old flask made by a company called James Dixon of Birmingham, England, which also made some flasks for Asprey and other West End jewelers. I don’t know if anyone’s making flasks similar to this new, but they’d be certain to be unaffordable. Rather, this is one of those old fetish items my colleagues in the blogocracy and the leading men’s magazines advise us to buy secondhand, themselves having already scored their silver-trimmed crocodile cigar cases and such before prices shot up. Those cases, too, are beautiful things, but I’ve learned my lesson. Better to collect items closer to my real obsessions than to acquire, through osmosis, those I am told to.

Quality content, like quality clothing, ages well. This article first appeared on the No Man blog in January 2018.

[modernfurnituredesign]

5 Contemporary Coffee Tables You’ll Love to Have for Your Modern Home

When people move into a new home, they enter the premise with new dreams. One of them is to decorate the interior of the house with furniture that best complements the style and the feel of the space.

An iconic coffee table is something that a well-furnished home should never lack. Homeowners often think about buying modern living room coffee tables that would fit their budget and at the same time, make the house look aesthetic.

This blog will help engage readers with the details of vintage as well as contemporary coffee tables that would make any guest compliment them on their home decor skills.

Theodore Alexander Classical Gathering Cocktail Table

If archaic is classy, then this coffee table will stand out in your living room. It can complement other vintage furniture in your old home, or become a symbolic object to look at in your new apartment.

This exquisite coffee table is made up of mahogany wood. It has expensive flame veneer cuts on it, giving it a regal look. The top is a square-shaped polished cut, and the front has chests of drawers with intricate paterae decorations.

The four legs of this enchanting coffee table are made of brass and resemble a flute. These are attached to the concave of the coffee table.

This antique looking contemporary coffee table costs $7518.

Theodore Alexander Brigham Cocktail Table

For a slightly inexpensive modern living room coffee table with the same look and feel, one must behold this table.

Priced at just a thousand dollars this elegant table stands with poise in the corner of your room. The maze-like stainless-steel legs of this table give it the perfect balance and a sleek look. The tabletop is wrapped in a circular, high-quality leather that never stains or wrinkles.

This cocktail table is suitable for studio apartments. Anyone having a small living space but looking for a fancy contemporary coffee table can buy this.

Theodore Alexander Fisher Round Cocktail Table

A coffee table that suits the needs of young men and women living in small apartments is the one you are reading about. It is luxury at an unbelievable price of just $1036.

It has stepped edges and a circular tabletop wrapped in shagreen leather. The legs are attached and shaped in a trigonal geometry. They are made of brass and have a shiny polished surface making it look sovereign.

This coffee table can be a gift to yourself or your close ones who appreciate the beauty of ornate furniture.

Theodore Alexander Merton Cocktail Table

This coffee table in your house will bring back the royalty and sovereignty of kings and queens from yesteryears. If you have a big living room, get ready to feel like you are in a place.

In walnut-brown colour, this piece of magnificence can be your best buy of a modern living room coffee table at $1600. This triple line strung cocktail table bewitches the spectators with its ebony glare, ebonized banding, the cartouche top which beautifies the veneered frieze.

The reeded tapering legs can aptly support the rectangular piece of art pretty well.

Theodore Alexander Claiborne Cocktail Table

Another mid-range modern contemporary coffee table is the Claiborne Cocktail Table.

This table will give a country house vibe to your living room. It feels like the bark of a giant oak tree that has been cut out to make this outstanding coffee table. It is pretty rare to find an oak heartwood coffee table, with a circular top, cobbed finish, and a recessed base.

Welcome this 20th-century European style coffee table to your home and boast about your buy.

EndNote

There are many impressive and attractive living room coffee tables to choose from, but the finest ones are mentioned here for your ease. So, which one are you planning to buy?

[samuelmmarcus]

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: New-construction Home

  As most of you know I have been blogging for many years and I can tell when a home is well-built by a mile away and I can tell this builder is one who doesn’t cut corners. The attention to detail in this home built by Biltmore Co. is truly exceptional. Here, the designer and owner, Liz Amar, shares more details about this new-construction home:

“Honored to showcase our 2020 Boise Parade of Home “The Coronado” with the Home Bunch crowd.  The Coronado’s footprint is the same footprint as our 2019 Parade of Home “The Adalaise” that swept all 1st place awards. We had such an amazing response to this style of home that bridges a calm California vibe with Idaho’s desire for a sprawling one story floor plan and we wanted to create that same easy feeling with a totally different layout that checks all the boxes for all sizes of families. This home is great for a growing family or a retired couple who loves to entertain. We were asked several times this year for a multi-generational floor plan that could easily be made smaller where clients needed it to shrink and equally easy to expand for larger lots. The result was “The Coronado” which again won Best Kitchen, Best Master, Best Interior Design, Best Decorating and Best Overall.

Our floor plan goals were to design an overly impressive entrance suitable for both modern & traditional tastes and have a separate entrance to the guest suite. Our three main design goals were: #1: Light. Light. Light.- Let the light in and place lighting fixtures where they’d make the most visual impact. #2: Create a home for our 4-legged friends- We wanted to introduce a dog feeding station at the end of the island as well as a dog wash area in the laundry room. #3: Create many spaces for entertaining and family centered around the kitchen. It’s difficult to pack a punch on a standard size lot when designing a one story floor plan to make it memorable, functional and crowd pleasing and this home does all that. And as you can see from just the kitchen island standpoint, there are 6 different conversational areas to move around to: the island, the kitchen table, the conversation area off the island near the wine fridge, the great room, the back patio off the great room in front of the exterior fireplace, and the outdoor patio off of the kitchen table. Now that’s a lot of entertaining space! We wanted these important spaces to feel extra roomy so we gave them 12′ ceilings. The entry drops down to 10 feet and continues with 10 feet through the rest of the home.”

  Make sure to share this house tour with your friends and pin your favorite interior design photos!

  Beautiful Homes of Instagram: New-construction Home

Exterior Color: Classic Gray OC-23 by Benjamin Moore on all garage doors, body & trim.

“We used two exterior stones from the same family – Coronado Sawtooth Ledge in Silver Ash and Coronado Sawtooth Ledge in White. Drystacked for a modern look.”  – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Garage Doors are Amarr Carriage Court Pinetop with a closed arch. Handles are Amarr Canterbury 10.5″ handles.

“The Coronado” by Biltmore Co. Home Details: Bedrooms: 4, Bathrooms: 3.5, Garage Size: 3, Square Feet: 4,421, Year Built: 2020, Lot Size: .451

Inspiration

“A home built by Killowen Construction was our source of inspiration for our entrance wall.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Front Door

Front Door Details: “We used Knotty Alder solids, stained in our own custom stain and lacquered in Minwax Helmsman Spar Urethane in Clear Semi-Gloss.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Planters are from Frontgate.

Exterior Lights: Visual Comfort.

Foyer

“We wanted a large entry to show off art and set the style for the rest of the home. We wanted to use this large rug by McGee & Co so there was no use wasting precious installation dollars on setting flooring in a herringbone pattern or something special when we wanted the rug to be the focus against the soft playful painted brick wall. The sconces were an immediate YES to our plan – We love this line for Hudson Valley and placing such a tall vertical mirror drew your eye up to the Currey and Co Chandelier. The wood tone of this chandelier was the basis for the hardwood and stains throughout the home.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Painted Brick Wall: Creative Mines Paint Grade Loft Brick painted in Benjamin Moore Classic Gray Semi-Gloss.

Sconces: Becki Owens for Hudson Valley Lighting.

Console Table: here – Other Beautiful Options: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Mirror: Pottery Barn Brinkley.

Chandelier: Currey & Co.

Poufs: Home Depot – Also available here – Other Options: here, here & here.

Rug: Estonia Wool Rug – similar here – Other More Options: here, here, here & here.

Picture Light: Mitzi for Hudson Valley.

Hardwood Flooring

Hardwood through the house: Kentwood Brushed Oak Gravelle – Other Beautiful Flooring: here, here & here.

Ceiling Fan: Monte Carlo.

Great Room

“Symmetry. Symmetry. Can you ever get enough? Visually we knew this room would have so much going on with the surrounding seating and 36 linear feet of sliding glass doors that we wanted to keep the eye focused right in the middle of the room, but keep it simple. There’s so many different ways to trim out a fireplace and looks you can create with mantle, hearth and stone looks but we went with a clean stucco finish and tapered the top in framing for a fresh open look. The last thing we wanted was a heavy focal point. We used a fiberglass mesh to reinforce it from cracking. We don’t miss the mantle one bit because the eye goes directly to the open stained shelving backed by vertical shiplap.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Sofas

Sofas: RC Willey Furniture Contemporary Natural White Sofa – Pia – Other Sofas: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Beautiful Sofa/Console Tables: here, here, here, here & here.

Fireplace

Fireplace: Stucco in Classic Gray OC-23 by Benjamin Moore.

Quartz Hearth: Pental Blue Savoie Honed 3cm.

Bookcase Accessories: Woven Grass Box, Shagreen & Brass Box, Wrapped Leather Tray, White Terracotta Jar, Rectangle Brass Boxes, Backroads Artwork, Fields of Green Artwork & Rolling Hills Artwork.

Vase: here – similar.

Eucalyptus Steams: here – similar.

Bookcases

“Classically styled, we used so many different looks to get a curated feeling. Books, vases, baskets, wicker, greenery, decorative wood objects, ceramic pottery, brass bins and the Visual Comfort sconces just add the right brite look we wanted.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Interior Paint Color

“We wanted to keep it consistent through the home so we played off of two colors keeping it calm and airy.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Interior Paint Color Walls & Ceiling- The entire house is Benjamin Moore Classic Gray OC-23. Walls are eggshell and trim/shiplap/base moulding is semi-gloss.

Floor Lamp: McGee & Co.

Rug

Rug: Zaragoza Rug 9×12.

Ottoman: Gatehouse Orem Utah – similar here – Other Options: here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Chairs: Available through the designer – Others: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Conversation Area

“Right off the entry centered in the room is an 18″ Sub Zero Wine fridge and right in front of that is the best conversational seating area. Perfectly placed to keep your host involved in every conversation as you sit and chill before dinner time.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Furniture: Local store.

Custom Cabinetry

The custom cabinetry with classic hardware is flanked by professional panel-ready appliances.

Chairs: Bay Isle Home – similar here – Other Beautiful Options: here, here, here & here.

Backplash

Backsplash: Tile Shop Stow Bianco 4×4.

Cabinet Hardware

Kitchen Cabinet Hardware: Jeffrey Alexander Rhodes Pulls & Knobs. Kitchen pulls has backplates.

Cake Stand: ETU Home Cake Stand – Others: here & here.

Artwork: Backroads Artwork.

Planter: here – similar

Faux Fern: here – similar.

Appliances

Refrigerators: Sub-Zero.

Speed Oven/Microwave: Wolf.

Convection Steam Oven: Wolf.

View

View of Conversation Area, Kitchen and Dining Room.

Kitchen

“A 14 foot island is nothing to mess around with. That’s a long run to design a kitchen around so the eye doesn’t get bored. We opted for a simple straight run even though there’s an invisible seam behind the sink because our perimeter is nothing but plain.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Appliances: “We went with  Wolf/Sub Zero appliances and love the coffee maker’s convenience.”

Coffee Maker: Wolf 24″ Built-In Automatic Coffee Machine with Integrated Water Tank.

Custom cabinetry is by @greylochcabinetry.

Lighting

Pendants: Hudson Valley Lighting, Large.

Barstools: Lee Industries Custom Stools – Available through the designer – Other Options: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color

Cabinet Color: “The painted white is Pure White by Sherwin Williams SW7005 and the stained is a custom stain we mixed called Ever Classic.”

Kitchen Runner: Available through the designer – Other Options: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Pull Out Drawers

Cooktop: 48″ Sealed Burner Rangetop – 6 Burners and Infrared Griddle – Stainless knobs.

Appliances: Wolf/Sub Zero through the whole house.

Pull-out Spice Organizer: Rev-A Shelf.

Pull-out Base Cabinet Organizer: Rev-A Shelf.

Vase: Dipped Flower Pot.

Wooden Easel: McGee.

Backsplash Tile

Backsplash: Tile Shop Stow Bianco 4×4 NRSWBO/44 – similar here, here, here & here.

Pot Filler: Delta.

Countertop

Countertops are Daltile Carrara Capezio 3cm.

Pantry Door: Jeld-Wen 6 Light.

Sink

Kitchen Sink: Kohler.

The kitchen island also features a custom paper towel holder. I told you… this builder does not cut corners!

Faucet

“Baking up your favorite desert and need the exact amount of water in a flash? Ask Alexa! It’s not only a touch faucet, it’s voice activated. Just say “Alexa, tell Delta 2 cups of water” and out comes 2 cups of water. Your alexa needs to be close in proximity but makes measuring so fast and convenient!” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Kitchen Faucet: Delta Cassidy Touch with Voice IQ Module IQ91977-CZ-DST.

Designed with Everyone in Mind

“This kitchen has not one, but two pot fillers. Can you see where the 2nd one is? Yep for our 4-legged friends. Normally a pot filler fills pots quickly with a lot of output but we added a flow regulator so the only splashes this dog feeding station makes is from happy lapping up of water in their bowl!” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Kitchen Island Pet Feeding Station

“This dog feeding station has been a huge huge hit nationally and went viral on Josh Altman’s Million Dollar Listing, Bravo TV, and OddityMall.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Dog Feeding Station Tile: Bedrosians Magnifica Porcelain Tile.

Pot Fillers: Delta 1177LF-CZ.

Dining Room

The Dining Room features plenty of natural light and gorgeous decor. Sliding doors lead to a large deck.

Chandelier: Hudson Valley.

Furniture

Dining Table: Bernhardt Santa Barbara Extendable Dining Table.

Side Chairs: Hooker Furniture – similar here – Other Beautiful Choices: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Host Dining Chairs: Local store – Others: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Butler’s Kitchen

“Who says the Butler’s Kitchen has to be smaller than the real kitchen? We say it should be larger! Make all your messes in here! This is the mixing room, the rolling out of cinnamon rolls room and the room to rummage for healthy snacks! My family would have quarantined here teaching all my kids how to make our favorite family recipes. All this room needs is Grandpa’s Heirloom Butcher Block Island he made Grandma 60 years ago here in the middle. This is the prettiest room, trimmed from wall to wall, ceiling to floor in vertical 8” shiplap. Still keeping that Modern Classic vibe in check, we chose a floor tile traditional in style with its traditional parquet look and neutral color. It’s 24×24 size is so affordable for the look and was absolutely beautiful with every color of painted cabinetry we paired with it. In the end we kept the cabinets cohesive with the interior doors and paired a quartz that blended right into the cabinetry.  And let’s chat about the full swing butler’s door from the main Kitchen into the Butler’s Kitchen. I mean, don’t we all want one? They let you go in and out so easily while holding your precious baked goods. We know that a real chef needs lots and lots of refrigerator space. Most people have a 2nd freezer in their garage so we deliberately made our interior freezer space footprint smaller to make a larger refrigerator impact. The butler’s kitchen has a full glass refrigerator to show off your cakes and organic fruits and vegetables– you know, all the pretty refrigerator items.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Refrigerator: Sub-Zero 36″ Classic Refrigerator with Glass Door.

Flooring & Cabinetry

Cabinet color: Gray 2121-10 by Benjamin Moore (same as interior doors).

Tile floor: DalTile Cinematic CM44.

Sink: Signature Hardware 30″ Curington Farmhouse Fireclay Sink with flutes.

Large Basket: Verona Vintage Basket.

Pie Cabinet

The pie cabinet with mesh metal door fronts is a great place to store your vegetables and breads. They deserve a cute cabinet too, right?

Countertop

Countertops: Pental Coastal Gray.

Floating Shelves: Custom – Other Options: here & here.

Bottles: McGee & co.

Faucet

Faucet: Brizo Rook Articulating Bridge Faucet with finished hose in Luxe Steel.

Pantry

Pantry Storage Bins: The Container Store, White Nordic Storage Baskets with Handles & Cases of Water Hyacinth Storage Bins.

Beautiful Cutting/Charcuterie Boards: here, here & here.

Powder Room

“We searched for a floor tile and a pattern on the walls that wouldn’t compete for attention in this beautiful powder bathroom. The Bedrosians Blomma was the answer with her soft lines that didn’t fight with the lines in the trimwork. We loved the vertical lines in these Hudson Valley Brookville Pendants that played off the vertical lines in the trimwork.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Floor: Bedrosians Blomma in Bianco – Others: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Grout: Mapei 101 Rain.

Countertop

Countertop: Pental Quartz Avenza.

Splash: Pental Quartz Avenza with Scoop Edges.

Pendants: (2) Hudson Valley Brookville HUD2384-AGB/WH.

Faucet

“The Delta Dorval wide spread faucet is so playful and classy with their white porcelain handles that played off the white ceramic of the pendants.”

Paint Color

Paint color is Classic Gray by Benjamin Moore in semi-gloss.

Baseboards

Baseboards- We used a taller 7 1/4″. Taller ceilings need taller baseboards from Home Depot.

Family Room

The Family Room is perfect to curl-up with a good book or have the entire family for a movie night.

Rug: Odesa Woven Rug 8×10.

Black & White Artwork: Sketched Seascape & Melancholy Sea.

Get Comfy

Poufs: 24″ Wool Pouf.

Sectional: Available through the designer – Others: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Beautiful Artwork: here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Similar Pillows: here, here & here.

Paint Color

Paint color is BM Classic Gray.

Beautiful Media Consoles/Cabinets: here, here, here, here & here.

Console Table

Console Table: here.

Mirror: Uttermost.

Master Hall

A hallway accentuated with vertical Shiplap leads to the Mater Bedroom.

Master Bedroom

“We knew that a standard vaulted ceiling wasn’t going to be enough of a visual impact in this stunning master bedroom ceiling so we framed for a 24” high coffered ceiling then vaulted it. The trimwork is art, keeping behind the bed and the ceiling classic and visual. The furniture is a blend of Alice Lane and McGee & Co with accessories from Feather and Twine Home in Boise, Idaho. Keeping the color palette neutral and soft with black accents on the nightstands, chandelier and barn door was just the right movement for the eye. Oh, that barn door! Love!!! Yes, it’s pretty much the most beautiful master in the world.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Rug: McGee & Co Zaragoza 8×10.

Paint Color

Paint color is Benjamin Moore Classic Gray.

Master Bed: Alice Lane Home Francis King Bed – Other Beautiful Beds: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Chandelier: Hudson Valley.

Decor

Baskets: Ilia Baskets Large & Small – similar here.

Artwork: Grayscale 4.

Mirror: Anthropologie.

Settee

Master Settee: Alice Lane Home Abigail Settee – Other Options: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Coffee Table: Sold Out – Other choices: here, here, here & here.

Barn Door

Barn Door: Rustica Barn Door – similar here, here & here.

Nightstand

Nightstands: Marshall Nightstand – Other Popular Options: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Alabaster Table Lamp: here.

Mirror

Wall Mirror: Dawson Floor Mirror.

Master Bathroom

“Affordable luxury was the name of this bathroom, with a Sub Zero warming drawer, stand alone tub, polished nickel plumbing and a shower large enough to dance in. We were in love the minute we saw Tile Shop’s Garzinnin Marquinia tile line and knew that was how we were going to carry the black into the bathroom.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Vanities

The custom bathroom vanities and mirror frames are stained is a custom stain the builder calls “Ever Classic“.

Countertops: Pental Quartz Venoso 3cm.

Large Wood Dough Bowl: here – similar.

Warming Drawer

Appliances: Sub-Zero/Wolf Warming Drawer.

Faucets: Brizo Rook in Polished Nickel.

Tub

Tub: Signature Hardware Sheba 72″ Acrylic Double Slipper Tub.

Tub Filler

Tub Filler: Brizo Rook.

Rug

Rug is one-of-a-king vintage rug from Feather and Twine Home – Other Beautiful Rugs: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Layout

The Master Bathroom leads into a large walk-in closet.

Master Closet Storage Boxes: The Container Store.

Pendant: Becki Owens for Hudson Valley.

Floor Tile

Tile Floor: Tile Shop Garzinni Marquinia Porcelain Tile 12×24 (similar here) set in Herringbone Pattern.

Interior Doors

Interior Paint Color Doors: Gray Benjamin Moore 2121-10.

Interior Door Style: Jeld-Wen Monroe.

Interior Door Hardware: Kwikset Milan Round in Iron Black.

Shower Pan Tile

Shower Floor: Tile Shop Garzinni Marquinia Porcelain Tile 4″ Hex (similar here) on a zero threshold shower entrance for ease of entrance.

Wall Tile

Tile Shower Walls: GBI Statuary Polished 12×24 – Others: here, here & here.

Plumbing: Brizo Rook in Polished Nickel.

Guest Bedroom

This Guest Bathroom features vertical shiplap paneling in Benjamin Moore Gray.

Stay Home

Stay home, stay healthy.

Bathroom

Backsplash Tile: Bedrosians Chloe in Green 2.5×8 Vertically Straight Set.

Vanity Lights: Hudson Valley Fleming.

Mirrors: Anthropologie – similar here & here.

Faucets: Delta.

Cabinet Paint Color

Vanity Paint Color: Benjamin Moore Gray.

Countertop and splash: Pental Carrara.

Hardware: Pulls & Knobs.

Floor: Tile Shop White Elongated Hex – Other Geo Tiles: here, here, here, here & here.

Shower Tile

Shower Accent Tile: Bedrosians Decorative Glazed Porcelain Penny, Matte.

Pumbing: Delta.

Muted Hues Bedroom

I absolutely love this bedroom. Isn’t it inviting? Notice the Board and Batten wall paneling and the soothing color scheme.

Bed: Custom – similar here & here.

Artwork: McGee & Co.

Stool: here & here – similar.

Corvelette: here – similar.

Duvet Cover: here & here – similar.

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Pretty Details

Nightstand: Gabby Home Marilyn 4 Drawer Accent Chest – also available here – Other Classic Nightstands: here, here, here & here.

Beautiful & Affordable Table Lamps: here, here, here, here & here.

Mom’s Office

This space is very functional and tucked away. Cabinets are in Sherwin Williams Pure White.

Ceiling

Ceiling Wallpaper: Fornasetti Senza Tempo Nuvolette.

Lighting: Mitzi Ashleigh.

Guest Suite

“Our Guest Suite can be shut off from the rest of the home to give your guests the privacy they want. Having their own exterior door allows them to come and go as they wish without being a burden. The Guest Corridor has it’s own bathroom, living room, storage closet and bedroom. Making your guests feel comfortable is all about giving them the opportunity to feel like they’re on vacation so the palette was calm blues, creams and light grey woods.”

Cabinetry

Cabinet: Ever Classic Custom Stain.

Countertops: Pental Quartz Blue Savoie Honed.

Floor Baskets: Rattan Trunk Basket.

Artwork: 2x Woven Patchwork 2.

Wall Paint Color

Paint Color: Benjamin Moore OC-23 Classic Gray.

Wall Mirror: here – similar.

Built-in Bookcase

This built-in bookcase niche features shiplap and custom shelves in BM Classic Gray.

Woven Basket: Woven Cane Tuscan Box.

Guest Suite Bedroom

This Bedroom feels bright and welcoming. Shiplap adds interest and texture to the space.

Lighting: Hudson Valley.

Bed: here & here – similar.

Beautiful Nightstands: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Duvet Cover: here – similar.

Dresser Styling Ideas

Artwork: Watercolor on Paper 4.

Beautiful Dressers: here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

Tray: Rattan Tray.

Neutral Bathroom

Cabinets: Sherwin Williams Pure White.

Countertops: Pental Carrara.

Floor Tile: Bedrosians Pulpis in Bianco.

Shower Walls: Bedrosians Cloe in Cream 5×5.

Mirror: here – similar

Laundry Room

“Our laundry room is a mixture of functionality from storage, to laundry to washing the dog. An adorable dutch door allows you to keep the bottom closed while keeping an eye on your fur baby. The tile floor from Tile Shop has such a beautiful pattern and pairs perfectly with the Dorian Gray cabinets.” – Liz Amar for Biltmore Co.

Lights: Hudson Valley.

Cabinet Paint Color

Cabinet Color: Dorian Gray by Sherwin Williams.

Floor Tile

Tile Floor: Tile Shop Vintage Decora 7 – Other Beautiful Patterned Tiles: here, here, here & here.

Countertop & Backsplash

Countertop & Splash: Pental Quartz Carrara.

First Aid Box: McGee & Co.

Dog Wash

Dog Wash Walls: Concaved Hexagon tile.

Dog Wash Floor: Bedrosians Gray Gloss penny rounds.

Dog Wash Shower: Brizo H20Kinetic Single Function.

Laundry Cart: Steele Canvas.

“Paws & Enjoy the Good Life” Dog Bed: Mud Pie – Others: here & here.

Backyard

This home is gorgeous inside and out! Notice the vegetable garden beds on the right.  How perfect is that?!

Patio Furniture

Deck Patio Furniture: Pottery Barn Sofas, Grand Ottoman/Coffee Table .

Fans: Minka Aire Xtreme H2O 84 Coal.

Chairs

Accent Chairs: Cosette Chair.

    Many thanks to the builder for sharing the details above.

Builder & Interiors: Biltmore Co. (Instagram)

Interior Design: Liz Amar, owner Biltmore Co.

Decorated by: Liz Amar & The Biltmore Design Team.

Photography: Doug Petersen Photography & Sunnyskies Media.

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ON NEEDLESS THINGS 

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Long ago when I first began writing on #steez, I began one essay urging readers to stop me if I got too wrapped up in the needless fetishization of possessions. Today, I stage my own intervention, albeit a small one, in preparing to get rid of this beautiful, luxurious, quite functional and completely useless antique flask.

Why did I buy it? I guess I discover esoteric and useless must-haves that I never knew I needed in my moments between more pressing obsessions. I still have my leaky old shagreen Unique lighter around somewhere although its main use for years has been lighting candles at children’s birthday parties. I have an antique box from the defunct Old England Paris I picked up after learning it was identical to the one Marcel Duchamp used in his Box of 1932 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but I rationalized that purchase, as well as that of a 1930s shirt box from Sulka Paris, since I’ve written a book about them, my true obsessions of a vanished Paris.

A flask is the logical next step in needlessness after a lighter, particularly as I don’t smoke. Like any excessively nice accessory, it promises a twinge of smug satisfaction every time I use something that otherwise could be a commonplace. That’s the thing though. The only people who actually use flasks regularly are people with severe drinking problems. And, I suppose, some living clichés pulling them out of their Brexitwear while they stand on a grouse moor. I’m usually the designated driver when I go out, and I’d feel like a creep keeping this in a drawer at work the way George Lazenby’s 007 does when he apologizes to the Annigoni portrait of the Queen before taking a pull in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

I admit, in retrospect, I wish I’d had it on me, full of Laphroaig, an hour into an interminable wedding when a Christian rock band began to play (and this was in the church the middle of the ceremony itself, not at the reception). But other than that occasion, I can’t really think of when I’d have wanted it weighing down a jacket pocket. I’ve only spiked my coffee when I was snowed in at home, and if I’d needed a drink while shoveling snow, I just had to come in.

The usefulness of a needless object is a set of pleasantly finicky details on which we construct our rationalizations: it’s wrapped not just in leather, like many flasks, but in genuine crocodile. The flask body itself is glass, not metal, so it should be easier to see if it needs cleaning. To keep the glass from breaking, the lower half of the flask is sheathed in a silverplate cup, which comes off if the owner is too prim to take a pull directly. The hinged stopper is also silverplated, and screws to the side to stay closed. The mechanisms still work. All these details bring their own complications – the fragility of the glass, and the delicateness of the leather. You can’t wash this thing under a tap – I destroyed another one when warm water caused its ancient crocodile (despite its aquatic origins) to shrivel right up and come off. Rather, I bought a fifth of the cheapest, strongest clear liquor I could find and used a funnel to pour it in and rinse out the insides of the flask to dissolve and wash away any traces of whatever had been in there before.  

For I was not its first owner. As the reader can see, the initials are not my own, nor does it bear the de Mans family crest (chat couchant on a field of antidepressants). This is a century-old flask made by a company called James Dixon of Birmingham, England, which also made some flasks for Asprey and other West End jewelers. I don’t know if anyone’s making flasks similar to this new, but they’d be certain to be unaffordable. Rather, this is one of those old fetish items my colleagues in the blogocracy and the leading men’s magazines advise us to buy secondhand, themselves having already scored their silver-trimmed crocodile cigar cases and such before prices shot up. Those cases, too, are beautiful things, but I’ve learned my lesson. Better to collect items closer to my real obsessions than to acquire, through osmosis, those I am told to.

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BOOK REVIEW: MADE IN PARIS

by Réginald-Jérôme de Mans

Coincident with the widespread realization in Europe and the United States that almost everything they consume was made elsewhere came a movement to buy domestic production. More recently, as the bourgeoisie of those same areas have found themselves increasingly distanced not only from the means of production but the means of earning a living through the socially accepted credentialing of education, a younger generation has rediscovered the apparent pleasures of buying local and of learning, or at least affecting, a craft.  Closeness to the acts of cultivation and creation have acquired resonance even deeper than the economic anxiety and borderline jingoism which had spurred the earlier movements to buy domestic.  Now, consuming items made, harvested, roasted or cured locally has become through a sort of substantiation the consuming of a kind of truth we deem lacking in our everyday life.

Books revealing the presence of the locally made can no longer simply be anthropological profiles, like Andrew Lawson’s 1978 survey Handmade in London, which described drawers of wire and industrial artisans along with the custom bootmakers of Mayfair without romanticizing one or the other. Instead, they are now inescapably romantic.  Christine Taconnet, the author of Made in Paris: Le guide qui dévoile tout ce qui se fabrique à Paris (The guide that reveals everything that is made in Paris), remarks that the makers now left in Paris include to a large degree small luxury operations making a brand’s most expensive and exclusive pieces – the vestigial workrooms of haute couture labels supported, in general, by perfumes and expensive ready-to-wear made in factories in Italy. Along with those remain a few niche professions – gilders and bookbinders, certain musical instrument makers, and a few random living fossils of other species.  

Made in Paris accompanied an exposition of the same name held at the city hall of Paris last fall that featured a number of the book’s subjects.  I am not qualified to evaluate all of the different makers it names – from makers of Brie cheese or jambon de Paris (literally, Paris ham and allegedly still made in the courtyard of one building in the Eleventh Arrondissement) to workers in tooled leather (cuir de Cordoue, not to be confused with cordovan leather) to braiders and corders (passementiers), and more. I can with some surprise believe that the most prestigious jewelers in Paris still maintain small workrooms in or near their staggeringly expensive showrooms for the custom orders of the oligarchs and kleptocrats who have taken over more and more of the world’s wealth.  In contrast to this acceptance, however, I can apply my own firsthand knowledge and experience, and the information I have gleaned from over a decade of frank discussions with many in the trade, to the entries on men’s clothing and accessories here, and the reader may extrapolate my evaluation of those sections to the rest of the book.

Despite its title, Made in Paris includes makers with Paris showrooms but manufactures elsewhere in Ile-de-France, the region encompassing towns 30 to 50 miles outside of Paris.  As you can imagine, that opens up a far broader set of companies than those that actually do manufacture within Paris city limits. It allows Taconnet to list Hermès’ for the facility in Pantin where it makes many of its leathergoods and Louis Vuitton for the Asnières facility where Vuitton’s custom orders – a tiny percentage of its output  are made. Prepared as Made in Paris was with the sponsorship of the city of Paris, it’s likely that the addresses it features are those developed by the city of Paris’ own communications department, without the participation of other towns in the area to suggest honorable artisans of their own, like shagreen craftsman Jacques Robin’s living heritage company (entreprise du patrimoine vivant) Cuirs d’Océan, which ought to have qualified as Robin’s based in Moisson and thus just within Ile-de-France. 

With respect to menswear, there are unfortunately few good surprises.  The tailors Camps de Luca and Cifonelli get mentions, as do Charvet and Lanvin for their custom tailoring and shirtmaking.  While both Charvet and Lanvin may still do their custom tailoring on site, to my best knowledge as a formerly incontinent customer Charvet’s shirtmakers only create patterns in Paris – all of the making up of the custom shirts for which it is famous takes place at its Saint-Gautier facility in another part of France, the same that makes its ready-to-wear.  As for Lanvin, with whom I also have some history, until some years ago all of its custom shirtmaking was indeed done on site at 15, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, which still stuns me.  However, today at least a part of the custom shirt assembly takes place at a subcontractor elsewhere.  

It is too bad that along with the major tailors above, Made in Paris doesn’t mention smaller respectable houses like Marc di Fiore, Kenjiro Suzuki or Brahim Bouloujour.  The Tenth Arrondissement maker of lovely leather jackets Séraphin deservedly gets a mention, but it’s surprising that Taconnet omits Boivin, the tiemaker in the Paris garment district that really does make ties, pocket squares and silk robes on the top floor of a building in the Second Arrondissement.  (While Boivin did at one point make ties and robes for Charvet, by Boivin’s own admission, it has not done so in a long time, nor do its ties in style, weight or construction bear any resemblance to Charvet’s.) Taconnet’s section on the various men’s custom shoemakers in Paris is better populated, but oddly elliptical about John Lobb Paris, which used to make its bespoke shoes in workrooms on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine (one of the Japanese shoe aficionados had a photoblog of his visit there) prior to supposedly moving to rue Mogador. It certainly isn’t made at the rue François 1er address Taconnet suggests customers visit. For a decade, rumors from those in the trade, and customers like the late Philippe Noiret, suggest Lobb has moved its bespoke operation out of town, to Normandy or elsewhere.  

In all, Made in Paris’ limitations are those of a book based on a publicity exercise rather than empirical and verified research. Its truths are the same emotional truths today’s seekers reach for ordering “hand-foraged” local berries on a dessert menu, or romancing a bearded urban lumberjack.  If you pick it up, it is fun, entertaining, amusing, and deeply flawed, like many another short, exotic dalliance.