tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36307119671505101452024-02-07T02:42:53.069-05:00Flint and Kent Notebookalex bates: creative director. design & brand consultant. traveler. gardener. notes and inspirations for the well-lived life. random musings about art, design, and travel FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-32699728969076482512015-02-04T12:25:00.001-05:002015-02-04T12:26:32.227-05:00Highland Lodge : Wanderlust Wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Researching last minute spots to spend my birthday watching the Northern Lights...Iceland? Greenland? or Northern Scotland? Check out this incredible home in the Scottish Highlands with interiors by UK designer,</span> <a href="http://suzyhoodless.com/project/highland-lodge/" style="color: #45818e;" target="_blank">Suzy Hoodless</a><span style="color: #45818e;">.</span> <span style="color: #444444;">I wonder if they mind if we drop in...</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444;">'</span><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; font-family: 'Plantin Infant W01', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;">This incredible lodge is constructed out of granite, steel and glass, designed by leading American architect </span><a href="http://www.msafdie.com/#/projects/corrourestate" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Moshe Safdie</span></a><span style="color: #444444;">, sitting in a 57,000 acre estate in the Scottish Highlands. The project was years in the planning, an initial meeting with Moshe at The Metropolitan Hotel, London, on Christmas Eve and many years of travelling to and from Scotland on various modes of transport.'... more</span><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://suzyhoodless.com/project/highland-lodge/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #45818e;">here</span></a>. </span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: left;">One of my New Year's resolution is to expand my vocabulary, so until I lose steam on this endeavor I wake up to a new word everyday thanks to my handy little dictionary app. Imagine how appropriate it was to wake up one morning in our cozy spot in Telluride to a beautiful snowfall outside the window and the word of the day is:</span></div>
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<span class="hw" d:dhw="1" role="text" style="font-family: Baskerville;" syllabified="niv·e·ous"><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1"><b>niveous</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="gp tg_hw"></span></span></span><span class="pr" style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="pr" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">|<span class="ph t_respell" d:pr="US" style="margin-left: 0.3em; margin-right: 0.3em;">ˈnivēəs</span>|</span><span class="posg" role="text" style="font-family: Baskerville; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="pos" d:ps="1" style="margin-right: 0.3em;"><span class="gp tg_pos" style="margin-right: 0.3em;"><span apple_mouseover_highlight="1">adjective: literary. snowy or resembling snow</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">A few years ago, I had the good fortune to stumble into an exhibit of overwhelming beauty at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Titled </span><i style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/sensing_nature/" target="_blank">Sensing Nature</a></i><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">, it was a sensory exploration of the Japanese perception of nature in winter. Three years later, the stunning images from this show still haunt me, particularly the work of Tokujin Yoshioka. His installation, </span><a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2010/07/26/the-snow-by-tokujin-yoshioka/" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><i>The Snow</i>,</a><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">involved a mesmerizing fifteen meter glass tank of blowing feathers. Like staring at the ocean, the various waves and patterns created in that tank were transporting and peaceful.</span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> </span><i style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">More about his work and inspiration<a href="http://www.tokujin.com/en/" target="_blank"> here</a>. And the video <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2010/07/26/the-snow-by-tokujin-yoshioka/" target="_blank">here</a></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">"The most beautiful things I believe in this world is what is irreproducible, accidentally born, and disorder that cannot be understood by the theory. I believe the nature is the ultimate beauty in this world." -Tokujin Yoshioka</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I am a cold weather girl and always happiest in the middle of a snow storm, so what's not to love in an exhibit like that? </span></div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-87911506444283419552014-12-21T16:41:00.002-05:002014-12-31T12:14:21.706-05:00Friends in Good Places<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The best part of working in the design industry for as many years as I have is all the amazing creative people you get to meet and work with on a daily basis, and it's even better when many become dear friends. Over the years some have started their own inspiring companies. So in gratitude to those friendships, old and new, and in the holiday spirit of counting one's blessings, I am officially declaring it a Friend's Christmas and am doing most of my shopping with them. #shopsmall #shopfriends.<br />
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I encourage all you last minute Santas to check out these beautiful sites for unique gifts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bellocq.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Bellocq photo by Gentl&Hyers</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bellocq.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Bellocq Brooklyn Tea Salon by Gentl&Hyers</span></a></td></tr>
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Michael Shannon, one of the brilliant co-founders of Bellocq, and I worked together years ago at Martha. His elegant taste and unerring eye for detail and nuance are evident in the beautiful company he has built with another Martha alum, Heidi Johannsen Stewart and Scott Stewart. My personal favorites of their teas are <a href="http://www.bellocq.com/collections/teas/products/chai-collection" target="_blank">Afgani Chai</a> and <a href="http://www.bellocq.com/collections/teas/products/chai-collection" target="_blank">Hindu Holiday</a>. The silver-plated canisters make a sweet gift with a handmade tea strainer at <a href="http://www.daraartisans.com/products/bellocq-tea-stainer-deep-basket-silver-plated" target="_blank">DARA Artisans</a>. </div>
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If you are looking for a nice respite in your afternoon shopping in Brooklyn, stop by their tea salon at 104 West St in Greenpoint, or check out a local retailer<a href="http://www.bellocq.com/pages/about-us" target="_blank"> here</a>.<br />
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Peter Hofmeister is a new friend I met this year through old friends at <a href="http://www.aestheticmovement.com/about/am-shop/" target="_blank">Aesthetic | Movement</a>, but as it turns out we ended up knowing many of the same old design friends. The NYC creative world is actually a very teeny tiny world, especially when you slice it into the photographers that shoot it and artisans and designer|makers, it gets even smaller. This lucky red-string charm necklace is a collection we created together for DARA Artisans.<br />
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<b>MARIA MOYER</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.mariamoyer.com/" target="_blank">Maria Moyer</a> is a woman of many talents from running her communication and strategy consultancy, Wink Communication, advising many of our industry's most influential designers and Fortune 500 companies's, to her work as an ardent social entrepreneur and accomplished ceramist. We met many years ago when our paths first crossed at GAP. She was leading GAP, Inc.'s environmental and sustainability efforts and I was trying to create an organic newborn collection. Kindred spirits from the start, we were able to reconnect years later and have some fun collaborating on a project at west elm that benefited <a href="http://oceana.org/en" target="_blank">Oceana</a>. Support Maria and one is likely supporting an important environmental cause. More about Maria at <a href="http://handeyemagazine.com/content/honoring-visible-and-invisible-waves" target="_blank">Hand/ Eye.</a></div>
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<a href="http://mpatmos.com/pages/about" target="_blank">Marcia Patmos</a> is an award winning, CFDA certified, innovative designer with a passion for artisan work and sustainable methods and materials. Her chic modern designs are found at the coolest and the best from Barneys to many fabulous independents across the country and in Europe and Japan. Our's is a longtime friendship that started when we were working together right after she graduated from RISD. I have been very fortunate to work with her at our shared retail alma maters and on many different projects since. You can find her work on her <a href="http://mpatmos.com/" target="_blank">website</a> and at these <a href="http://mpatmos.com/pages/stockists" target="_blank">stores</a> as well as a few of her goodies at DARA Artisans.<br />
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<b>RTH SHOP</b></div>
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Meeting Rene Holquin of <a href="http://rthshop.com/" target="_blank">RTH Shop</a> a couple years ago was one of those amazing intersections of different people and places from my past ( here's a link to that <a href="http://www.flintandkentnotebook.com/2013/03/la-notebook-rth-isnt-world-amazing.html" target="_blank">story</a>). Rene's style compass is always well ahead of the pack and is an inspiration to all those in the know. Check out his beautiful RTH shop in LA on North La Cienega in this <a href="http://www.remodelista.com/posts/shoppers-diary-rth-shop-in-los-angeles" target="_blank">Remodelista</a> article and this recent article about his collaboration with Paulo Solari's Arcosanti in <a href="http://www.gq.com/style/blogs/the-gq-eye/2014/03/rth-shop-arcosanti-portraits.html" target="_blank">GQ. </a> </div>
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When I first met Dana a few years ago we realized we shared a very funny family connection, but more about that later. <a href="http://www.dbohome.com/about.html" target="_blank">Dana Brandwein and her husband / partner Daniel Oates's </a> designs are informed by their natural surroundings in bucolic Sharon, Connecticut. We first met professionally, when we collaborated on a project at west elm, where proudly they they are about to embark on their third collaboration.<br />
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<b>DAVID STARK</b></div>
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The perfect hostess gift for all your friends who love to throw parties or if you need some inspiration for your own New Year's Eve fete just around the corner. Check out this inspiring and practical book from the the most creative event planner, <a href="http://davidstarkdesign.com/" target="_blank">David Stark</a>, whose <a href="http://davidstarkdesign.com/" target="_blank">clients list</a> reads like the list of the hottest events of the year, from Cooper-Hewitt's annual NDA Awards to the Robin Hood Foundation and the Metropolitan Opera Anniversary. DSD events are really elegant and fun art installations disguised as parties. His team is also Target's go-to genius behind their insane pop-up shops. David was a fellow RISD grad of Marcia Patmos' who brought him in one day, a lifetime ago, to help us meet a design deadline. Since then I have been fortunate to work with him on lots of projects and have loved watching his company soar. Thank you, Marcia!<br />
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And finally, a fitting last word from the incredibly talented and thoughtful ladies at <a href="http://www.readbetweenthelines.com/" target="_blank">RBTL (Read Between the Lines)</a>, a passionate and positive crew that will go to the end of the world to exceed expectations in delivering super-duper, over-the-top customer service ( I speak from experience). They have fabulous art prints, greeting cards and hysterical, dare I say it, the ubiquitous holiday wine sock, though their's is super cool and graphic, of course. <br />
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As I look back through these images I have to give a special shout out to Andrea Gentl and Marty Hyers for their amazing work, it's incredible ( and fortunate) how many times our paths and projects have crossed over the years, lucky me!<br />
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<i>Have a happy happy everything, now go finish up that list!</i> </div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-10523466653845483432014-12-20T15:34:00.000-05:002014-12-20T21:50:37.199-05:00 Favorite 2014 Design Books : Friends & Design Heroes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This year has produced a bumper crop of stunning new design and style books. Here are some great last minute gifts for the design junkies and style divas on your list. I am proud (and half-bragging) that a few good friend's work deservedly made it to the Top Ten. I think bragging can be forgiven in the spirit of celebrating a friend's talents and accomplishments!<br />
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Good friends (and official design heroes) Fritz Karch and Rebecca Robertson just published a stunning book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Living-Things-You-Love/dp/1419713957/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419106713&sr=1-1&keywords=Collected+Living+Fritz+Karch" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Collected: Living with the Things You Love</span></a>,</i> that celebrates many different collector's aesthetics and inspirational displays. <br />
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Some highlights from the book below : </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Leslie Williamson has delivered a literary one-two punch. Her first book,<span style="color: #45818e;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Handcrafted-Modern-Home-Mid-century-Designers/dp/0847834182/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419106635&sr=1-3&keywords=leslie+williamson" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Handcrafted Modern:At Home with Mid-century Designers</span></a></i><span style="color: #45818e;"> </span></span>set a high standard for the design voyeur's peek inside the century's most iconic designer's homes. Her second book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Originals-MidCentury-European-Designers/dp/0847842231/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419106635&sr=1-1&keywords=leslie+williamson" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Modern Originals: At Home with European Midcentury Designers</span></a></i>, is the result of her intrepid kick-starter funded trek through Europe to capture the homes of thirteen of the most important mid-twentieth century architects and designers before they disappear. Suffice it to say, it does <span style="color: #0f2105;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">not disappoint. </span></span></span></div>
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<i>Wanderlust Wednesdays: </i>Greece has been at the top of my travel list for awhile, and this hotel has definitely accelerated my desire to see it soon. Love everything about it, especially the low-key simplicity and artisanal, handcrafted details. Dreaming about one of those rooms looking out over the Aegean. Read more at <a href="http://sangiorgio-mykonos.com/en/sangiorgio-hotel/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">San Giorgio-Mykonos</span></a></div>
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Working on a mood board for a project and came upon these lovelies. All images from the ever so inspiring and talented<span style="color: #45818e;"> <a href="http://www.gentlandhyers.com/#/interiors/interiors/1/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Gentl & Hyers</span></a>.</span> They capture light and mood like no one else. </div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-75563912692848243862014-07-16T08:43:00.000-04:002014-12-20T06:46:12.837-05:00Morocco Notebook : El Fenn Marrakech<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Wanderlust Wednesdays</i>: Planning a trip to Morocco in the fall, part pleasure part business. </div>
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Can't wait. And by the way, mad for those pillows. Read more <a href="http://estmagazine.com.au/el-fenn-traditional-moroccan-riad/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">here</span></a> at one of my favorite's, <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://estmagazine.com.au/magazine-archive/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">EST Magazine</span></a> </span>via <span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://smithhotels.com/coastal-hotels?from_site_region=uk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Mr and Mrs Smith</span></a>.</span> </span><a href="http://el-fenn.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">El Fenn</span></a> was voted in the top 5 hotels for Best Dressed. No wonder.</div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-92233109155776017722014-07-15T05:30:00.001-04:002023-03-01T00:05:12.399-05:00Fire Island Notebook: Painted Floor Dilemma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Apologies for the radio silence. Busy few months, with good stuff to unveil soon. But in some ways I am right back where I left off, trying to finish our little house on Fire Island, yes a year and a half later, post-Sandy. Though most is complete, we just ran out of steam at the end of last summer and said basta to any more decisions, and closed the door and took off for Italy for 2 weeks for a much needed restoration of our own.</div>
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Our last lingering design decision is what color to paint the kitchen floor; white, grey or black? Then this week's visit to Montauk's Surf Lodge got me thinking about turquoise again....</div>
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These are some of my favorites, starting with the ever so chic Citizens of Humanity LA pop-up designed by <a href="http://www.ofakind.com/designers/39--rth" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Rene Holguin</span></a> of RTH Shop in collaboration with <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://mag.citizensofhumanity.com/amy-williams/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Amy Williams</span></a>, </span>CoH president, and shot by <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.peggywongphotography.com/#/pw/PW/1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Peggy Wong</span></a>,</span> ( more about that dream team <a href="http://www.flintandkentnotebook.com/2013/02/la-notebook-be-good-citizen.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;"> here.</span></a>) </div>
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We were originally going for raw, stained slightly grey and distressed:<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">A hundred years ago, back when our house was built, they used whatever materials they could get their hands on, and it turns out that one side of our kitchen floor</span><span style="text-align: left;"> is oak and the other half, hard pine. No amount of </span><span style="text-align: left;"> sanding, bleaching, staining, will give us a consistent color as we now have a grey color blocked floor. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Planning a Bastille Day Fête today or a future trip to Paris? Live like a Parisian and rent this stunning townhouse in the Marais. </span></div>
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Today is the last day of New York previews for the Scandinavian Design auction taking place at Wright Auctions in Chicago May 8th. They are open till 5:00 pm today and I am definitely heading over there this afternoon. Maybe my eye is just currently drawn to all the greens from the past fall runway shows but there is quite a stunning range of this hue in the collection. The complimentary accents of teak and brass all of sudden look new mixed with it.<br />
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<i>DETAILS: <a href="http://www.wright20.com/about#new-york" target="_blank">Wright New York</a> 980 Madison Avenue Saturday, April 26 11:00 - 5:00pm</i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.wright20.com/auctions/2014/05/SGKX/SGKY" target="_blank"> Scandinavian Design</a>: 08 May, 2014 Chicago | Auction Noon EST</i><br />
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due to her integration of fantastic elements into her prints and sculptures.
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crafting<span style="color: #45818e;"> <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="https://artsy.net/gene/biomorphic"><span style="color: #45818e;">biomorphic</span></a>
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the body as experienced from within. Bourgeois’s suggestive organ-like contours
and early use of unconventional materials (like resin, latex, and cloth) allude
to a tension between quintessentially male and female forms. This recurrent
interrogation of the male/female dialectic aligns Bourgeois with the Feminist
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I am getting excited about moving into a new office tomorrow. Tribeca, flooded with light, surrounded by fun, passionate people working on beautiful products and ideas that help others...pinching myself at my good fortune. Looking for a little design inspiration I stumbled onto <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.drythings.se/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Dry Things</span></a>'</span> incredible office/showroom, beautiful and quite apropos. </div>
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<a href="http://www.drycreativeprojects.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Dry Creative Projects</span></a> is a Swedish creative office with a focus on creative direction, art direction and product design and they launched their own brand called <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.drythings.se/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Dry Things</span></a>.</span> Their philosophy is equally inspiring:<br />
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">We like things that makes a difference, that someone has put their heart into. We create things from our own way of living, from a genuine interest in beautiful sustainable objects. Things that we like to have around us. Things that can be inspired by the past but created for the future. We will constantly present new things in our web store. Many things. But we let them take their time. Slow things.</span><br />
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We are a creative design team that work by ourselves or together with our friends that share our philosophy. Our ambition is to produce locally and use only ecological processes and sustainable materials. <i>Dry Things, handle with care</i>"</div>
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The full article is here via <span style="color: #45818e;">Emmas Blogg. </span><span style="color: #444444;">All photography is by</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> <a href="http://mikaelcreative.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Mikael Axelsson. </span></a></span></div>
FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-88403386844544586272014-03-03T16:24:00.001-05:002014-12-20T06:54:58.603-05:00Nairobi Blue + Steven Gambrel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Of course you know that every designer is adding <i>Nairobi Blue</i> to next spring's collections after <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-lupita-nyongo-whats-next-12-years-slave-685564" target="_blank">Lupita Nyong'o's</a> stunning dress at the Oscar's last night. What an incredibly articulate, moving and joyous acceptance speech. She is absolutely the epitome of grace and has set a new standard of Hollywood elegance.<br />
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That gorgeous blue has turned my head in my search for a new color for my hall, though perhaps it is a little sweet for an entry. From full on rooms of moody blues or just as an accent, there is no one who decorates with blues better than <a href="http://www.srgambrel.com/" target="_blank">Steven Gambrel</a>.<br />
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<i style="text-align: left;">All images are from Steven's website <a href="http://www.srgambrel.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">SR Gambrel</span></a></i></div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-40865715971936357452014-03-02T17:32:00.001-05:002014-12-20T06:56:51.083-05:00 The Perfect White Shirt & The Lean Closet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444;">It's the perfect trifecta: a looming snow storm, the Oscars and a long overdue date organizing my closet! But who wants to go out in yet another blast of winter so, I am canceling all plans, putting up a pot of soup and finally tackling the long avoided task of ruthless culling. As a nod to the Oscars, I thought I might look to some of the greats to inspire me to edit my white shirts, my biggest challenge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I have to say that I am a little embarrassed at this state of my closet since I probably only wear twenty percent of it. Lately I have been inspired by the idea of editing one's wardrobe (as well as life and home) to that which is essential and classic. In the end it creates a calmer atmosphere and makes it so much less stressful when one is in a rush as is my frequent state.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">This has always been the Parisian woman's approach and it is actually the way I was raised by frugal midwestern Scot's, but I clearly wandered off that path when I moved east and ended up with a career in NYC's design world. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"> <a href="http://www.cuyana.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Cuyana</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444;"> is a beautiful website with a no nonsense mantra of </span><i style="color: #444444;">FEWER, BETTER THINGS </i><span style="color: #444444;">and refer to their philosophy as creating </span><i><a href="http://www.cuyana.com/leancloset-series/intro" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">the Lean Closet</span></a></i><span style="color: #444444;"> : </span><i style="color: #444444;">"</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: inherit;">We want to love every item in our closets. We want to revel in the tactile beauty of the world’s finest materials and marvel at consummate craftsmanship. We believe in style, not fashion; in quality, not quantity. We celebrate fewer, better things and strive to live a life of inspired simplicity." </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">"Sometimes you don't have to try so hard, just be yourself and let it come." - Gene Kelly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #444444;">More fabulous white shirt icons</span> @ <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/HistoiredeMode/chemise-blanche/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Chemise Blanche </span></a>Pinterest board</span></span></div>
FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-80987763326988130722014-02-28T10:49:00.001-05:002014-12-20T06:57:37.836-05:00Designers at Home: Tom Scheerer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Writing about my friend <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://melaniogomez.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Melanio's</span></a> </span> home yesterday inspired me to think about how other designers live. It's a particularly interesting peek behind the curtain when you see an interior designer's own home. So I started browsing through one of my favorites, <a href="http://www.tomscheerer.com/content/projects/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Tom Scheerer's</span></a> Grammercy Park apartment.<br />
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Tom has "cultivated a more restrained brand of chic" and I particularly love how his rooms are understated, relaxed and so cozy. Poring over his recent book,<span style="color: #45818e;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Scheerer-Decorates-Mimi-Read/dp/0865653054" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Tom Scheerer Decorates</span></a>,</span> I feel like someone just got up to make cocktails and left the room with the music still playing. They feel more collected than decorated and well loved and lived in. <br />
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A successful relationship between an interior designer and their client is one of a great collaboration. In the best of circumstances, the client hired their designer for his/her aesthetic style and the designer listened well to their client so that their individual personality came through. While Tom's work always seems to reflect that delicate balance I do love seeing his simple and elegant style without the filter of a client's requests. Once again, it's always nice when the good guys are successful. <span style="color: #76a5af;"> </span><span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.tomscheerer.com/content/projects/" target="_blank">More of Tom's beautiful work <span style="color: #45818e;">here</span></a>. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">All photography by <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.pieterestersohn.com/int/int_thumbs/i_thumb1.htm" target="_blank">Pieter Estersohn</a>. </span></span></i><br />
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-5937094026045967012014-02-27T07:23:00.002-05:002014-12-20T06:58:48.992-05:00Belgium Notebook: Eclectic Home in Brussels <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://melaniogomez.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;"> Melanio Gomez</span></a> and Chris Kangas's beautiful and welcoming home is featured in Elle Decor's March issue. What a great spot and a great story. Love it when good people end up in nice places. I definitely need to find out the color in the guest room above, gorgeous. Congrats, Melanio!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">" Most of us dream about pulling up stakes and moving to another country, but Melañio Gomez and Chris Kangas woke up and actually did it: They traded Manhattan for Brussels. The story began eight years ago when, while vacationing in Tuscany, the couple discovered a shared desire to one day live in Europe. Soon after their return to New York, they began to toss around the idea in earnest. Six months later, Kangas was felicitously offered a position with MasterCard International in the Belgian capital, and Gomez left his job as the wunderkind home editor at </span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Martha Stewart Living</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">." </span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><br />Read more: <span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/interiors/eclectic-brussels-home#ixzz2uRKxAldq" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s linear; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s linear;">An Eclectic Home in Brussels - Brussels Interior Design - ELLE DECOR</a> </span></span><br />
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-71806196428110218432014-02-23T14:29:00.002-05:002014-12-20T07:01:12.705-05:00Vinatería: A Restaurant in Harlem Where Everything Old is New Again.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #666666;">There is an egregious omission in this morning's NY Times' article </span><i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/travel/36-hours-in-upper-manhattan.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">36 Hours in Upper Manhattan</span></a></i><span style="color: #666666;"> in the travel section. They completely left out any mention </span><span style="color: #666666;">of</span> <span style="color: #76a5af;"><a href="http://www.vinaterianyc.com/" target="_blank">Vinatería</a>.</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> </span><span style="color: #45818e;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">Pilar Viladas wrote a great article about it in T-Magazine and I am sure you will agree with me once you check it out. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Vinateria's owner, Yvette Leeper-Bueno's vision to hire the brilliant </span><a href="http://saltylabs.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Jonsara Ruth</span></a><span style="color: #45818e;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">was a stroke of genius. Though full disclosure, I am proudly biased, as the </span><span style="color: #666666;">design talent behind the restaurant</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> <a href="http://saltylabs.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Jonsara </span></a> </span><span style="color: #666666;">and</span> <a href="http://saltylabs.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">Fritz Karch</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">are good friends and former colleagues from my Martha days. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Bias aside, it's one of those special places that could easily be habit forming. Chef Gustavo Lopez's food is delicious with a great wine list and a welcoming and attentive staff. Vinatería has a relaxed vibe with great energy. Jonsara's ingenious use of recycled industrial felt on the walls keeps the noise at a very comfortable level, even when </span><span style="color: #666666;">the restaurant is in full swing.</span><span style="color: #666666;"> I love that she sourced it from a PA factory that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;">stamps out felt washers and sells the leftover-lengths of white felt perforated with small round holes.</span></span><br />
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<i style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #666666;">An excerpt from Pilar's article is below and the full article can be found </span><span style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/08/29/t-magazine/making-of-vinateria.html?_r=3&" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></i>
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<span style="text-align: left;">These are definitely my kind of games. I am going to miss the Winter Olympics and shots of those beautiful mountains and incredible skiers. Here is a little inspiration to help with the withdrawal from my all night Olympic bingeing and Johnny Weir's fabulousness. I do love these Slim Aarons shots of the ever so chic skiing back in the day. Wish they would give medals for ap</span>rés-ski!</div>
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<i>Love how everyone is around the bar and no one is paying any attention to the fondue alá tree stumps. And for even more fabulousness in the snow, check out: </i></div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-71514684052917280762014-02-15T14:37:00.002-05:002014-12-20T07:02:56.770-05:00COZY WINTER WEEKEND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While all my friends are off to Tulum or cabins up north for winter break we are hunkering down in the city with lots of family plans. I am probably the last person in NYC that is thrilled about yet another snowstorm this weekend, but seriously what is more magical and dramatic than big, beautiful, twirling, chunky flakes of pure white snow? Let's not even discuss the epic slushy puddle jumping we will be doing in a few days, but focus on a cozy evening at home and if you're lucky, by a fire. Here is a little inspiration and a few favorite handmade resources to pull it all together. </div>
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For more info and recipes check out Kinfolk's <a href="http://www.kinfolk.com/homage-to-cheese/" target="_blank">Homage to Cheese</a> and <a href="http://www.kinfolk.com/recipes-hot-toddies/" target="_blank">Hot Toddy recipes. </a></div>
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I am off to the New York Gift Show ( aka NY NOW) and on the hunt for all things handmade and chic for a fabulous new website. Details to follow soon...promise. But couldn't run out without posting this beauty from <a href="http://lorilangille.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekend_31.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Automatism+%28automatism%29" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">automatism</span></a> that caught my eye this morning. </div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-69769301054078852102013-12-31T12:50:00.002-05:002014-12-31T21:26:45.330-05:00Lucky Black-Eyed Peas for the New Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A dear southern friend introduced me to the tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Years Day for luck and prosperity. It is a tradition that dates back to 17th century Virginia and grew in popularity after the Civil War. However, some say the good luck tradition of eating black-eyed peas at Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, was recorded in the Babylonian Talmud, circa 500 AD. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">It’s possible that the tradition arrived in America with Sephardic Jews, who first arrived in Georgia in the 1730s. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They are traditionally cooked with pork for flavoring ( bacon, ham or sausage), diced onion and served with greens (collard, mustard or kale). The greens represent paper money and the peas represent coins, ensuring wealth and luck. Cornbread is frequently served with the dish and represents gold. <span style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">Adding a shiny penny to the pot just before serving is another tradition. The person whose bowl contains the penny receives the best luck for the New Year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Its easy and fun tradition to start and Martha Stewart Everyday Food has a great recipe <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/313783/hearty-black-eyed-peas" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The old expression, “Eat poor on New Year's, and eat fat the rest of the year.” is a perfect companion to the humble nature of the peas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wherever and however you are celebrating, I wish you all lots of health, wealth and happiness! </span></span><br />
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We won't be getting a white christmas in New York, but I am looking forward to a few days of fresh mountain air and snow in Telluride with lots of skiing and family gatherings. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Happy Thanksgiving all! Lots to be grateful for this year. This is my favorite holiday, as it is filled with family, friends, good food and without the crush of Christmas shopping, the quiet before the storm. Hope you can make it an easy one, and in-between the cooking and cleaning, be sure to enjoy everyone's company and blessings. Here are few last minute bits of inspiration,compliments of </span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/alexbates/thanksgiving-table/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. J</span><span style="text-align: left;">ust keep it simple. </span></div>
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FLINT and KENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856475520165267084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630711967150510145.post-29577303250567868582013-11-23T23:53:00.000-05:002014-12-20T07:23:47.220-05:00Remembering Ace Founder Alex Calderwood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Last week the hospitality world lost one of its more colorful characters: Ace Hotel co-founder Alex Calderwood. What follows below is a recollection from <a href="http://magazine.tablethotels.com/en/2013/11/remembering-alex-calderwood/" target="_blank">Tablet Hotels Magazine</a> editor-in-chief John Speranza and a 2009 interview with Alex.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 1.35em;">Traveling as much as I do, </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 1.35em;">I </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">appreciate the times when I can stay at a hotel that is as much comfortable and gracious as it is inspiring and fun. The Ace never disappoints on that front. Hotels, when done well, are 'cultural catalysts' as he describes and an integral part of the travel experience.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Alex's description of jumping into their first project with their entrepreneurial naiveté is also very inspiring and I think an undervalued but critical ingredient in successful start-ups. Not knowing what you're not supposed to do ( as scary as it can be) allows one to to cut new trails and forge ahead. Maybe courage at those times is really just naive passion, but sometimes you just have to follow your gut. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Thank you Alex + crew!</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Breslin at<a href="http://www.acehotel.com/newyork" target="_blank"> Ace New York</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.acehotel.com/london" target="_blank">Ace London Shoreditch</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'I met him only once, over coffee in a booth at the converted Denny’s diner in the newly opened Ace Hotel & Swim Club, in the course of an interview for the Tablet magazine. We talked about a lot of things, including the then-soon-to-open Ace Hotel New York and the particular appeal of Palm Springs for a Seattleite in the depths of a sunless winter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Since then I’ve stayed at the Ace in New York at least a dozen times, and I’ve even moved to Seattle and experienced those sunless winters first-hand. But what stuck with me most about our conversation was Alex’s simple and sincere statement of the Ace philosophy, the humble and generous sentiment that is, for us here at Tablet, the key to the Ace hotels’ special resonance, and the reason the hotel world will be poorer for his absence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From the 2009 interview:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It seems to me you’re just trying to do what you, personally, want to see in a hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That’s a good interpretation, actually. So much of what we do is just led by gut instinct. Just what feels right. There’s not a lot of artifice or a lot of calculated measures to get a certain clientele, it kind of just is us. Like-minded attracts like-minded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Even when we talk internally, even the sales team, it’s not about selling for us, it’s about sharing. In that respect you’re coming from a different intention. I think that is reflected throughout the property, throughout the staff and so on. You’re just sharing an experience, and sharing things that we think are interesting, and people that we think are interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.1em;">What was it that made you want to get into hotels in the first place?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I think we’ve always seen ourselves more as entrepreneurs than hoteliers per se. We were in Seattle, we traveled a lot and really enjoyed hotels, and the experience of travel. So that was on our mind. And a hotel project came available to us. But we never looked at it as doing more than that. We jumped in very naively, just jumped in with both feet. I think our naivety actually was a benefit, in a way, because we just approached it the way we would approach it. We didn’t think about what’s conventional or unconventional.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What I find inspiring now is that hotels are a very interesting vessel, a container, almost, where a lot of interaction can happen. The actual selling of a room is just a transaction, but it’s a point of bringing people together. I think what’s more important to us is all the other things: creating the experience, creating what I like to call a cultural catalyst or a moment to interact. It hits all the senses, and it’s all about people, and it’s all about sharing, and it’s all about a hospitable way of moving through the world with grace.'</span></div>
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