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FLOWER POWER TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY

  My life would just not be the same without flowers. I am lucky enough to receive a bouquet from the local farmers' market nearly every week from my husband, and I am capable enough to grow a bunch on my own. I place them around our house in M+A stone vases, as well as some glass ones that I've collected over the years. I have found that the weight of stone vases enables you to get a little bolder/bigger in your arrangements than glass or even ceramic, without the vases tipping over. Sometimes just a single blossom is all you need to get a boost. Simple and satisfying. But other times it's nice to use long branches for the...

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Think PINK!

(see "We Love Color") When we started concepting this we were drawn into natural materials as well as the simple graphic elements of modern minimalists such as Ellsworth Kelly and  Blinky Palermo while we really do love color, we thought that letting the materials lay the foundation and add color through bits and bobs or letting you bring your own spin to things by adding the color (like this little bloom) by yourself. Or in other artisan practices we were able to inject touches of color by maximizing the unique quality of each artisanal practice. Each wooden block is made by hand  in Jaipur, India - and block printed in the ink of your choice. When items are printed by...

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It's a new day! Cheers!

Happy 2019! It's a new day filled with new beginnings and we're celebrating! Check out our super-deluxe alabaster wine chiller doing it's job beautifully and keeping our bubbly pretty chill! We become mesmerized with alabaster and all of it's luminescent and quite magical qualities.  While alabaster is a soft and porous material and not entirely water tight, when placed in the refrigerator or freezer will retain it's temperature lending it's frosty love to your favorite wine or spirits but wow, what a knockout as well! Made by hand by master artisans in Agra, India, where there is a legacy of stone carving for centuries (hello, Taj Maha!) When not keeping things real cool, our elegant wine chiller can double and even...

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Oh, Hey, Spring!

Nothing feels like spring more than bringing the outside inside and celebrating it with a beautiful object.  Alabaster chalice vase? Meet two perfect, waxy tulips. You both glow from within (as is proof of these photographs)! They can't take a bad one!   Special guest star is our black soapstone round tray! Both made by hand (sans the tulips) and with a lot of love!

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