Julie & Ev Launches Signature Linen Collection

Beautifully designed by Julie Paulino, our hand block printed linen collection is made to celebrate being together again.

Our Floret linen collection as seen here in Villa Mahal in the Turkish Riviera.

It’s been a long time coming and our Julie & Ev signature linen collection is finally available. Our hand block tablecloths, placemats, and napkins are printed on 100% cotton by artisans in Jaipur, India. With three different design styles that range from blue and white to pink and neutrals, Julie & Ev hand block print linen collection is sure to delight everyone around the table.

At the table is when we pass our values to our children, share with them our most valuable advice, and celebrate our joyous moments. This linen collection was made to celebrate amongst our loved ones and friends. Whether it is a promptus Sunday brunch, a formal dinner, or a solo dine-in at home, the designs of this Julie & Ev new linen collection is an appreciation of good life.

23Aug

The Amazon is burning: what we can do

I had a very chic post for today as part as my new series “A Fashionable Life,” but honestly with this international crisis happening in the world, it’s a little silly to talk about anything else. The Amazon produces 20% of our planet’s oxygen, and it’s on fire. On fire! Without any sign of interest from Brazil’s new elected president, Jair Bolsonaro to stop it. The saddest of all is that this is no accident; this burning of the Amazon is set by cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and utilize the land for cattle. This horrendous crime to our environment is encouraged by the country’s populist president and backed by a so-called group “beef-caucus.” No CNN didn’t make that up!

What can we do? Stop eating meat or eat less. Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of beef. I really hope that countries that import meat from Brasil ban all beef from Brazil.

Emmanuel Macron
(@EmmanuelMacron)

Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces 20% of our planet’s oxygen – is on fire. It is an international crisis. Members of the G7 Summit, let’s discuss this emergency first order in two days! #ActForTheAmazon pic.twitter.com/dogOJj9…

NASA
(@NASA)

Smoke from wildfires in the #AmazonRainforest spreads across several Brazilian states in this natural-color image taken by a @NASAEarth instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite. Although it is fire season in Brazil, the number of fires may be record-setting: go.nasa.gov/2zbdf9f pic.twitter.com/4JTcBz9…

Photo via Independent

20Aug

Traditional American Architecture by Gil Schafer

I always wanted to be an Architect. As a matter of fact, I registered under architectural studies in Collage. For reasons I can’t even understand today, I decided to switch careers and went into international business and eventually interior design instead. My dream was to design, build, and oversee constructions of buildings. The most magical thing about design is that it allows us to build the life we always dreamt of. This latter, award-winning architect Gil Schafer does effortlessly. He designs new homes that look as if they were old, but classic and well-designed old houses.

“I design houses to be comfortable, gracious, and understated, and to stand the test of time,” architect Gil Schafer told AD. Good design runs in his family, Gil Schafer is the grandson and great, great-grandson of architects, so Gil grew up experiencing first hand what a well-built, thoughtfully-designed home feels like and what it takes to build it. He’s been designing beautiful homes for the past thirty years. Following undergraduate studies in Growth & Structure of Cities at Haverford College and its sister institution Bryn Mawr, Gil graduated from Yale School of Architecture with a Master’s Degree in 1988. While at Yale, Gil studied under several noted practitioners including Thomas Beeby, Robert Venturi, Josef Kleihues, Frank Gehry, and Benard Tschumi and was the recipient of the H. I. Feldman Prize, Yale’s highest honor for studio work, in his final semester. Gil Schafer served as the President and then Chairman of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art from 1999-2006 as well as in many other nonprofit boards.

This Nashville home was restored by Gil and decorated by David Netto. This entryway has everything I believe in, classic architecture, a beautiful graphic floor that adds a modern touch, ornate furniture and modern expressionist art by Jean-Michel Basquiat. I love everything in this entryway.

16Aug

A Fashionable Life: Lauren Santo Domingo’s Southampton Home

A Fashionable Life will be another regular post of this blog, which I’ll try to post every Friday. For this initial post, we are all super lucky since we get a glimpse into Lauren Santo Domingo’s Southampton home currently featured in the September issue of Vogue. I love Lauren’s style in fashion and interiors, and her Southampton home is like a perfect new home that feels old, classic old indeed. Lauren worked with the distinguished classicist architect Gil Schafer. Unfortunately, Vogue article only shows the beautiful and magical garden designed by Miranda Brooks and the interiors of the barn decorated by Virginia Tupker.

Lauren Santo Domingo's Southampton home, facade

The facade of the colonial-style home.

15Aug

Live Beautiful: 18 Beautiful Makeup Organizing Ideas

I can confess that even when I don’t use much makeup, I’ve been doing the same thing with my makeup application for years, I love to see them displayed on my vanity. Makeup organization can be tricky, mostly because we want them to be functional but we also want them to look beautiful, after all, we are all girls. In this post below, you’ll find many pretty and inspiring ideas for organizing your skincare and makeup.

Make It Look Pretty In Wallpapered Niche

I love what I did with this niche space in our home in New Jersey. I wallpapered the niche, added glass shelves for displaying some of my perfumes, makeup brushes, and a few other toiletry items. This is a more straightforward solution than what it seems, I wrote about it here, and you can see more here.

12Aug

Tour This Charming Stone English Manor House With Lovely Interiors

Who wouldn’t love to have a stone house in the country with climbing roses and charming interiors? There is something incredibly charming and enduring about English country style, and this house in the Cotswolds designed by Joana Wood is entirely English but with a contemporary twist. On this more contemporary version of English country house style, we can find more solid fabrics instead of chintz, bare tables instead of draped ones and exposed furniture legs instead of skirted upholstery yet it still feels classic and livable.

09Aug

Ulla Johnson’s Bohemian Chic Style

I’ve been obsessed with Ulla Johnson’s clothes for a while now. I love everything from the printed, ruffled dresses to the more globally inspired pieces. I recently pre-ordered two pieces from her next Spring collection, and I can’t wait to wear them. Architectural Digest features Ulla Johnson’s Brooklyn townhouse in the September issue, and the interior design embodies the brand’s chic bohemian style perfectly. You can read and see more of Johnson’s light-filled townhouse at AD. For now, I just decided to match some of her dresses and tops to her home.