Photo by Mary Kathryn Paynter For today’s “Flowers under $50,” I’m looking to ferns — workhorses of the landscaping world — to create a formal, architectural tablescape when arranged simply to show off their silhouette. Sword ferns are most common here in the South and can be found everywhere from back alleys and breezy porches to…
Photo by Mary Kathryn Paynter For the first time, today’s Wild Love is dedicated to a fictional couple with amazing style: My Girl‘s Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) and her best friend, Thomas J. (played by good ol’ Home Alone-era Macaulay Culkin). It’s hard to understate how much I loved My Girl when it came out…
Spring is that particular time of year when I’m constantly second-guessing exactly which flower is my favorite. One week I’m dying over fritillaria, another I’m charmed by watercolor-like ranunculus, and yet another I’m pining for peonies. But one that really knocked my socks off this year is delphinium. Its long stalks of gorgeous blue flowers…
Image by Kari Rosenfeld While romance abounds in Hollywood, it’s rare that it fosters lasting, steady relationships, which is why the story of Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward is so heart-warming. The two actors celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2008, shortly before Newman passed away. They chose to eschew the Hollywood lifestyle to live in…
[One of the things I love most is to help my clients throw a party, but in these economic times, flowers are often the first thing to get cut from a budget. In my new column, Flowers Under $50, I'll show you how to create flower arrangements for your event that make a big impact...
Image by Jessica Pages I’m so thrilled to dedicate today’s Wild Love column to the wonderful talents of Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan, a true power couple whose joyful vision has invigorated contemporary design. While Adler and Doonan have separate, independently strong careers of their own makings, it’s clear that their styles have greatly informed…
Image by Julie Cope [Editor’s note: I’m thrilled to introduce both a new column and contributor to Design*Sponge. I met florist Mary Kathryn Paynter of Loretta Flower in Austin and instantly fell in love with her floral designs. So I was delighted to hear her fantastic idea for a new column called Wild Love dedicated…
