Home Inspiration With Julie Carlson
Beyond the big-box stores: our favorite independent shops with wedding registries (interestingly, several are owned by husband/wife teams).
March
Above: A selection of registry items at March picked by Julie and Sarah.
Our favorite kitchen store in SF also has a wedding registry; go to March for more information. N.B. This coming Sunday, May 17, March is hosting an all-day Bridal Event, with an 11 am to 12:30 pm gathering and an afternoon session from 1 pm to 2:30 (R.S.V.P. required). Experts like Traci des Jardins of TDJ events and Cynthia Warren Calligraphy will be on hand to discuss all facets of wedding planning, from wine selection to floral design; plus, Sarah Lonsdale and Julie Carlson of Remodelista have curated a registry, which will be on display. Join us!
Fitzsu
Above: Norm Dinnerware from Fitzsu.
Fitz and Su Sazama founded Fitzsu, with a focus on contemporary design, shortly after getting married and "becoming disappointed that there was no single store offering the modern design pieces we wanted." Brands include Alessi, Holmegaard, Vipp, and When Objects Work. To date, Fitzsu has hosted more than 1,000 registries from all over the world (see an album of photos here).
Food 52
Above: Hand-turned Wooden Spice Jars from Food52.
Good news for Food52 fans: The site is launching a wedding registry in June, offering everything you need for the kitchen (and more). Go to Food52 for details.
Kaufmann Mercantile
Above: A starter kitchen essential: Mason Cash Mixing Bowls from the UK.
NY online retailer Kaufmann Mercantile stocks a good selection of household essentials: everything from German-made household brushes to Orrefors crystal. See their Wedding Gifts and Wedding Party collection and sign up at the shop's Universal Gift Registry.
Horne
Above: Recycled Glassware from Hawkins NY.
Founded by Ryan Walker and Alissa Parker-Walker, a husband/wife team who met in college, Horne offers a well-curated selection of "thoughtful modern design essentials" from all over the world, plus a Wish List feature for the newly betrothed.
Heath Ceramics
Above: The Chez Panisse line by Heath Ceramics.
Husband/wife team Cathy Bailey and Robin Petravic, the proprietors of SF-based Heath Ceramics, offer a range of dinnerware options for the modernist as well as flatware from UK legend David Mellor; register here.
MoMA
Above: The 43-piece Malle W. Trousseau, available at MoMA.
The MoMA Store stocks a good selection of household wares, including the ultimate starter kitchen set from Malle Trousseau, and has a wedding registry. N.B. We especially like the Heritage Kitchen collection, featuring classics such as the Chemex Handblown Coffee Maker and the trio of Swiss Vegetable Peelers.
Garde
Above: The Shift Teapot and Cup & Saucers by Apparatus Studio of NYC; photograph via La Gent.
Scotti Sitz, the proprietor of one of our favorite LA stores, is a genius at sleuthing out hard-to-find pieces by global design stars such as Michael Verheyden, Piet Boon, and Vincent Van Duysen. Garde also offers a Gift Registry.
ABC Carpet & Home
Above: Astier de Villatte designs. Photograph via Balletti Design.
Located in the Flatiron District of NYC, ABC Carpet & Home offers among other things an extensive range of Astier de Villatte ceramics (a favorite with brides everywhere).
Didriks
Above: Alessi Tonale DInnerware at Didriks.
Boston resource Didriks sells top-of-the-line kitchen and tableware brands from all over, including local favorite Simon Pearce. Didriks has locations in Cambridge and Newton Lower Falls, plus a well-established online registry.
Go to our Tabletop & Dinnerware, Flatware, and Glassware archives for more suggestions. And for present ideas, browse our Gift Guides.
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Design Travel With Cheryl Locke
Hidden in the middle of LA's Koreatown office buildings and karaoke bars is Commissary, a produce-focused restaurant co-owned by renegade chef Roy Choi, who got his start selling street food. It's perched on the second-floor roof deck of The Line Hotel, a place with fastidiously curated amenities (a Poketo boutique in the lobby, another Choi eatery Pot, custom Linus Bikes, a roof-deck pool)—and yet Commissary manages to trump them all. Its big attraction? A 1,700-square-foot greenhouse designed by Sean Knibb of Knibb Design, potting tables included.
Photography by Art Gray.
Above: "My idea was to capture the feeling of a working greenhouse, without looking overly staged or themed." Enter a masterful mix of vintage pieces (including the potting table turned communal dining table) and organic materials (the driftwood chandelier and webbed John Vogel Chairs) that are punctuated with machine-age accents: industrial stools, fans, exposed ducts, and a chrome espresso machine.
Above: The greenhouse overlooks the hotel pool.
Commissary is the sophomore collaboration between Knibb and Choi. They had worked on transforming a derelict IHOP in Culver City into hot spot A-frame, which was Choi's first restaurant after building his Kogi BBQ Taco Truck empire.
Above: Ivy, ferns, and cyclamen hang from the lofty ceilings. "The mix of plants changes monthly; we rotate the plants around the hotel," says Knibb.
Above: Communal tables are surrounded by topiaries, cascading ivy, and palms.
Above: The eight-seat bar serves cocktails made from farmers' market ingredients. Pimp's Cup (not a typo) is a mix of rhubarb, cucumber, shiso, and ginger. Gin & Juice comes served with your choice of fresh-pressed beets, carrots, watermelon, or pineapple juice.
Like the look of the striped wood? See Trend Alert: 10 Rooms with Color-Washed Wood
Above: Barware and alcohol are put on display in flea market wooden crates.
Above: The concept behind this tableau: "simplicity and utilitarianism, as if the gardener left them behind," says Knibb. That explains the garden hose at the end of the bar.
Above: Vegetables are the star but the menu is far ranging.
Wedding, anyone? The Line Hotel has a Party Department on standby. Take a look at the guest rooms in our post Concrete Chic.
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Kitchens With Margot Guralnick
Newly discovered, and currently at the top of our wish list: Cantine tableware, a collection of updated 1950s French dinnerware in a palette of seaside colors. Featuring a combination of glazed and unglazed surfaces, the pottery is made by Jars Ceramistes in the South of France, stoneware specialists since 1857.
Above: Ceramics with the power to transport. Jars' Cantine designs are modern interpretations of midcentury silhouettes. Each piece is hand molded and glazed in a proprietary 17-step process.
Above: Jars specializes in "grand feu" firing, which vitrifies the clay and results in chip-resistant wares in exceptionally rich colors. North London shop Future and Found, where we first came across the line, offers the lipped Cantine Dessert Bowls, shown here, for £13 ($20.46) each and Cantine Plates for £15 ($23.61). They're available in two colors: chalk and zinc.
Above: Cantine Cereal Bowls are £11 ($17.31) each. All of the wares have glazed interiors and partially glazed exteriors with a two-tone look. They're dishwasher and microwave safe.
Above: Sized for water, wine, and espresso, Cantine Cups are £7 ($11) each.
Above: The Cantine Jug is £25 ($39.35)
Above: Cantine Serving Dishes are £32 ($50.37).
Williams-Sonoma offers a selection of Jars Cantine ceramics, including a Jars Cantine 16-Piece Dinnerware Set for $384.95 (marked down from $427.80). Didriks and Terrestra carry a range of other tableware by Jars. Go to Jars Ceramistes to see more and to find shops around the world that sell the wares.
More everyday favorites? Take a look at 10 Easy Pieces: Basic Drinking Glasses and Object Lessons: Iconic Cafe Ware from Duralex.
On Gardenista, see The Ultimate Indoor/Outdoor Tableware.
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Kitchens With Meredith Swinehart
We first spotted Lauren Snyder and Keith Burn's white-tiled kitchen in a house tour on Refinery 29 and were immediately drawn in. We saw it again in indie book Faculty Department, admired the Knife Rack, and had to take a closer look.
Tucked into their Fort Greene, Brooklyn, home, the kitchen is a complete remodel that the couple designed and managed themselves. Burns is an architect with his own solo practice, and Snyder, who studied interior design, has developed her own design cred through her Brooklyn store and online shop, The Primary Essentials, which stocks well-edited staples for home and pantry from Clam Lab, Fort Standard, and Wary Meyers, among others.
Snyder and Burns cook at home often and like to entertain. They lived with the existing kitchen for some time before customizing it to their needs. And, like everyone, they had to prioritize their desires against their budget. "Our old kitchen was charming but wasn't our style," says Snyder. "We had been in the apartment for a while, so a change felt really good."
Photography via Refinery 29 and Faculty Department, except where noted.
Above: Snyder wanted the kitchen to feel as open and light as possible, and to have open shelving. She chose ebonized walnut facing on custom cabinets; the refrigerator is hidden behind the cabinet at the farthest right. She and Burns oversaw the project themselves, but hired someone to do the demolition, electrical work, and custom fabrication.
Above: Burns wanted extra counter space, so the pair chose 30-inch-deep counters over the usual 24 inches. Snyder reports: "It's been amazing." The extra depth allows for an additional six inches of counter space behind the stove, allowing room to store tools and ingredients. The countertops are Carrara marble and the faucet is from Grohe; for details, see Remodeling 101: Marble Countertops and High/Low: The Dornbracht vs. Grohe Faucet.
As for budget, Snyder suggests the most common problem is that people are unrealistic from the start about what they want and what it costs to get it. She says it's critical "to understand all the items that are going into your renovation, and if you're new at this, ask a friend or someone who can help you." Then get estimates for everything, prioritize your spends, and have a reserve fund for the oh-shit moments that occur in any renovation.
Above: Snyder chose white subway tile with white grout for the back wall, and has no regrets: "Even the backsplash really doesn't get very dirty—we've had no issues keeping it clean." The cabinet with the wide rail handle hides the dishwasher. The pendant light is from the Brimfield flea market.
Above: Snyder's genius knife storage solution is a magnetic strip—priced at around $10—wrapped around the edges of the glass shelving.
Above: Snyder's tabletop collection includes pieces from Humble Ceramics. The leather-wrapped glasses on the left are vintage. For similarly simple ceramics, browse Tabletop at The Primary Essentials.
Above: The steel-and-glass shelving unit was fabricated by a good friend Ben Duarte. (The shaggy cactus on the top shelf is now gone and the shelf holds Snyder's ceramics collection.) Photograph via Ben Duarte Build/Design.
"In any good renovation, there are things that are worth splurging on and things that are not," says Snyder. Put money into a few key items, such as the counters, she says, and leave the rest standard. The splurges "will shine through."
Above: The pair chose a Bertazzoni range and a hood from XO Ventilation—they found a good deal on the hood, and felt the Bertazzoni was "a really well-designed range at a medium price point." On the storage shelf above the stove is an oft-used Dutch oven from Le Creuset.
See the Bertazzoni and others in 7 High-Style Kitchen Ranges and 10 Easy Pieces: Freestanding 36-Inch Ranges. And if you're in the market for a new range, read Decoding BTUs: How Much Cooking Power Do You Really Need?
Above: The couple's dining table sits opposite the now open kitchen.
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