SAY IT WITH STYLE: EMAIL STATIONERY SENDS ME

When creative stationery brands and designers I love got together to make sending emails stylish and personal, I took notice. MeebleMail takes the designs you know and love and makes them inbox ready. Jack and Lulu, Trina Turk, Kara Ross, Thomas Paul, LA Plates, Hammocks and High Tea have created the borders of personalized e-stationery. For $4.99 per design, you can send endless invites, work emails and friendly missives from email to email for a year. With over 600 designs to choose from, it is hard to decide which one to choose. Add an address, motif, initials and you are good to go. It is like taking your favorite paper stationery and scanning it into your email and writing on it, without the bother.



Acapulco from Dabney Lee



Ikat in turquoise by La Plates



Flowering Field by Trina Turk



Golf Gals by R. Nichols



Gray Shagreen by Celerie Kemble



Guava Filigree by Susy Jack



Anchor by Linda & Harriett



Orange Herringbone from Thomas Paul



Provence Rose by Nandini



Mod Lattice in red by Boatman Geller



Jack and Lulu's Lattice in navy

Some other kinds of hanging | turning paper mobiles

Something new for me

NYIGF BLOGGER'S CHOICE PICK

It was so fun being asked by the NYIGF to pick my single favorite item out of 200 companies showing in Accent on Design for the Blogger's Choice Awards. The request, to highlight a product that has “urgent, odd and delightful design,” was made easy when I came across this multi faceted high design piece:

My pick: Serene House (Sturtevant, WI) for Donut. “It is a new take on home fragrance that provides a sensory experience. Shaped like a donut, the piece releases a fragranced water vapor, has LED lights that change color and plays music from your ipod. It is a great way to unplug and escape everyday stressors. It is a modern clean design in a product that helps well being and appeals to the senses. The piece looks great, while performing a variety of functions, proving a luxurious escape.”

They call it "air care" I call it awesome.

The Pears Encyclopedia

JULISKA FETES COUNTRY ESTATE

Photo courtesy of Juliska

To launch their newest collection, Country Estate, a collaboration with England's Isis ceramics, Juliska threw quiet a party. The pattern, designed by the lovely Deborah Sears, is of an an idyllic English pastoral scenic, a charming depiction of country house life a with painterly hand.



Juliska held an intimate dinner party before the gift show to fete the new patterns. By setting round tables for 8, they mixed their glassware, ceramics, stoneware, flatware and vases together. It was a testament to how well their products mix.



I loved spending time with the festive founders Dave and Capucine Gooding and creative Elaine McMcLeary- -who can believe it has been ten years since Juliska began?



It was a gorgeous, glittering celebration, with lush seasonal flowers and many take aways about setting the table with style.



The Country Estate Platter and Pitcher in grisaille.



Napkins were made for the event with the signature motif.



A plum and green arrangement is stacked on books covered in white.



Country estate mixed with silver footed goblets and pewter plates.



Pink and green flowers work well with an all white and clear glass setting. Each table had a contrasting tablecloth that picked up the dominant colors. Details people!



Pillar candles add to the glow of soft pinks.



A crisp place setting with Berries and Thread in white.



Glorious sunflowers en masse stacked on books.



A tight bouquet of dahlias in orange and yellow.



The bright beauties are the centerpiece arrangement for the bamboo pattern place settings.



Bamboo, a classic pattern of theirs, with their bamboo flatware.



A tall arrangement at my table with purple Irises.



White flowers and limes in scattered footed green vases.



A chic grey and white palette.



I sat at the table with the new Country Estate pattern, mixed with their Pewter Footed Goblets.



Shades of green mixed with their classic Berries and Thread pattern and green glassware.



Mixing tones of green with the pop of a white napkin create a many hued palette.

The Oxford Tree

I do love the perspex box framing

These works are going to Entropy in Jo'burg

MOLTO BENE: MISSONI FOR TARGET

Believe the hype. This collection by Missoni for Target is going to knock your socks off. The Italian knit line that my mom rocked in the 1970's (and my sister and I took time to warm to at the age of 10), is hitting American shores in a major way with Target come September 13th. The Missoni collab is major, with over 400 items from socks to cardigans, and promises to amaze even the persnickety with both quality and style. I have seen it all with mine own eyes and it is pretty amazing.

New Yorkers will have access to a Pop Up shop because we are Target less and others can pounce at retail and the website. Get some molto Italiano zig zag knits in your life while you can!

A swirled glass bowl makes a great gift and it looks handmade

Zig zag down the leading edge of a knit pillow and a felted wool textural pillow are so poppy



File in groovy style



Ride on with this killer cruiser



Serve it up tray chic



Towels in an array of brights



Get your caffeine on with their Espresso Cups Set



Give great gift: wrap wine with flair



Get framed to look good

Store stuff with a riot of color

Even your laptop gets the treatment





Your desk does not have to be bland

Tote it all with Italian charisma. Whether you are hitting the Amalfi Coast or staying stateside you will recognize your bag on the conveyor belt.