I recently spend four days in Highpoint, North Carolina at one of the world’s largest furniture and interior design trade shows. (For a longer narrative on what the week meant to me as a person who’s new to this field, check out my blog post: A New Designer at the World’s Biggest Furniture Trade Show).Continue reading “Newsletter 5: Design Trends”
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Newsletter 4: Your Perfect Stay
Sometimes when I’m trying to gauge a client’s style, I’ll ask them to recall a hotel or AirBnb they loved staying at. Perhaps together we can tease apart what they adored about that cabin in the Montana mountains or that plunge pool villa in Koh Samui and use these elements to design a room thatContinue reading “Newsletter 4: Your Perfect Stay”
Newsletter 3: Using Your Own Inspiration in Home Design
I recently had a joyous day antiquing and popping into art galleries in Lambertville, New Jersey, which along with its sister city New Hope, Pennsylvania, located on the other side of the Delaware River, might be some of the cutest towns in America. A sign next to a painting called “The Rediscovery of Port NorrisContinue reading “Newsletter 3: Using Your Own Inspiration in Home Design”
Newsletter 1: Give a Gift of Good Design and Classic Holiday Movies that Inspire
Hello, happy holiday season, and welcome to the first issue of the Next Dinner Party Designs monthly newsletter where I’ll share tips and tricks and deals and also what’s inspiring me, design-wise. Separately, I’ve maintained a blog called The Next Dinner Party for the past decade and I write about life abroad, travel, dinner partiesContinue reading “Newsletter 1: Give a Gift of Good Design and Classic Holiday Movies that Inspire”
Hiking The Highest Mountain in North Africa
At 4,167 meters (13,671 feet), Mt. Toubkal is the highest peak in Morocco, in North Africa, and in the entire Arab world. And we hiked it last week. It was the hardest hike I’ve ever done. Adam planned this trip right when we first arrived to Morocco back in September. Perhaps he thought climbing aContinue reading “Hiking The Highest Mountain in North Africa”
U.S. Evacuates Embassy Employees from Yemen
I was blow drying my hair on Tuesday morning in the locker room at my gym and half watching CNN when I saw the headline that the U.S. government is evacuating its embassy in Yemen. I practically dropped the hair dryer and for some reason felt the need to explain my surprise to the randomContinue reading “U.S. Evacuates Embassy Employees from Yemen”
My ‘Great’ Great Aunt
My great aunt Jean was truly my “great” Aunt Jean, was the joke we used to say. Not only was she literally my great aunt, being my grandpa’s sister and all, but she was a great lady. She died last year, but a dream I had recently has caused me to think of her aContinue reading “My ‘Great’ Great Aunt”
To Sleep Perchance to Dream Crazy Things
I had the craziest dream a few nights ago. And I really mean it. Not like when people say “Oh man, I had the craziest dream. I was eating nachos in my middle school but it wasn’t my middle school, it was 7-11 and I was talking to my friend Jen and then her faceContinue reading “To Sleep Perchance to Dream Crazy Things”