I stayed outside Westminster Abbey and spent my time looking up. Here is what Westminster’s carved stone shows from the pavement: Gothic towers, martyr statues, a royal charter, Big Ben and the figure of America.
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Curated Living with French Soul
Where beauty becomes part of everyday life
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On a recent visit to London, I kept stopping to look at the front doors around Regent’s Park and Chelsea. A closer look at color, architecture, and the details that make an entrance feel welcoming.
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The Cotswolds had always been on my bucket list. In a single October day, I wandered through Broadway, Snowshill and Chipping Campden, saw the rare Cotswold Lion sheep, and shared a pub lunch with fellow travelers I met along the way.
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My mother never wrote down her chicken stew. She made it from memory, the way her own mother had. Here it is, finally written down for my daughter.
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After years of carrying work, family and a house to run, I had lost the quiet creativity that makes me feel like myself. This is how I found it again, through memory, nature, my mother's recipes and my home.
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My mother made baked beans every Saturday in the fall, with bread rising at the back of the counter, and she never wrote the recipe down. Here it is, measured for the first time: navy beans, molasses, and salt pork, baked slow in a covered pot.
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The centerpiece on my summer table is a soup tureen. Not a vase, not a footed bowl bought for arranging.
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Setting a table for my daughter is not unusual in this house. It is one of the things I most like to do, and I look for every chance I get.
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Why linen is the most important choice on your table, the story of flax and Libeco's Belgian heritage, and how to layer and care for a linen table beautifully.
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The formal dinner party is coming back, but not the stuffy kind. Here is how to set an elegant, vintage-layered table worth lingering over, and why the good china was always meant for tonight, not someday.
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A French berries-and-cream mille-feuille made from scratch for a summer gathering, homemade crème pâtissière, all-butter puff pastry, Connecticut strawberries, and violas from the garden. The slow way, and the better one.
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A French-inspired Fourth of July, less about the holiday and more about the gathering. A summer grazing board, watermelon feta skewers with honey and garden mint, caprese on blue and white, shrimp cocktail, and fresh watermelon juice, all made with intention for the people at the table.
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An elevated take on the new coastal: a French-inspired tablescape designed around the jewel tones of the sea, teal, sapphire, and sea glass green, layered with candlelight, natural texture, and French linen, no nautical motifs in sight.
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A French-inspired kitchen, handmade stoneware bowls, antique French confit pots, Belgian linens, and the everyday beauty of cooking as a way of caring. A reflection on intentional living and the handmade things that turn an ordinary table into an act of love.
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