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Talking Heads

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At the DCOTA: 1stdibs.com founder Michael Bruno, decorator and retailer Phoebe Howard, moderator moi, designer-bloggers Brad Ford and Brian Patrick Flynn and Pamela Jaccarino of Luxe magazine. Image by Tom Grizzle.

But we’re so much more that that! Here’s a snapshot of the Evolution of Design panel presented by The Editor at Large at the DCOTA in sunny Dania Beach, Florida, last week. Missed it? Good news—we’re bringing the Revolution of Design to the PDC in LA this spring and Michael, Brad and Bryan are coming with!


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Spoiler Alert! Holiday Gifts Edition

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Portugese toys at Kiosk photographed by Michael Falco for The Globe and Mail
If you’re expected a holiday present from me, it’s likely namedropped in here, my story about holiday shopping in NYC, which published this weekend in the Globe and Mail. And no, you’re not getting the Taytu tie-dyed handbag. (That’s what I want for myself; Santa, take note!) Read it here and here.


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The Little Black Dress of Furniture

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Madame X dons the original little black dress (with regards to Mr. Sargent)
This month for Manhattan magazine I asked designers to name the LBD’s of design. Read what they came up with on pages Pages 42-43 here.


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Chair Jewelry

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Custom molds, Frederick P. Victoria & Son, L.I. City

Handsome father-son duo Tony and Freddy Victoria whirled me around their studio. A highlight: boxes of beautiful embellishments that add j ne sais quoi to French furniture. Also, lounging in a Louis XV voyeuse, which has a little shelf for resting your arm.


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Editor TV Brings the Party to the Small Screen

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Editor TV interviews Metropolitan Home Editor-in-Chief Donna Warner

What’s more fun than attending a party? Working a party! Just ask Joyce Wadler, the NYT scribe whose defunct Boldfaces Names column was recently resurrected in the Home section as Seen. (Yes, the interior-design crowd revels so frequently it deserves its own gossip column.) What’s more fun than Seen? Editor TV, of course! Since hooking up with The Editor at Large, I’ve been hitting fine fetes around town—film crew in tow! Donna Warner, EIC of Metropolitan Home was one of Editor TV’s first interviews, and she’s not the only one to be put on the spot. Boldface designers from Christopher Coleman to Thom Filicia to Amy Lau to John Saladino are among our conquests. Next up: the grand opening of the new Buck House.


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Hooked on Brooklyn

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Photo by Michael Falco for the Globe and Mail

Check out my musings on Red Hook (which neighbors my neighborhood). Home to quiet bike-ride-able streets, killer street-scapes, charming shops and bars and, most importantly, creative people like my friends Amy and Matt—it’s one of my fave spots in the world.


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Empty Nest

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Won’t you be mine? Colonels’ Row, Governors Island, NYC

Dear Governors Island,
You have so many empty houses and all I need is one. Could you spare a Colonial? I promise to love it dearly and rehab it thoughtfully. Love, Sophie


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Geek Squad

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Four eyes, Upper East Side, NYC

Birds of a feather! An impromptu photo by a Patrick McMullan lenswoman at a party for the new Diamond Baratta book All-American prompted decorator Scott Sanders to comment on our bespectacled glory! I pulled in design editor extraordinaire Suzy Slesin whose Pointed Leaf Press published the book—and who always has irresistible specs—for the photo op with my now-famous friend Eddie Ross, his dashing partner Jaithan Kochar and Julia Noran, who just launched The Editor at Large, a fab new site I’m helping out with. Say cheese!


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Wave Your Flag

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School girl, Ashburnham Historical Society, Ashburnham, Mass.

Happy Independence Day from scenic Ashburnham, Mass.


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About Sophie Donelson

I’m a magazine writer and consultant. My stories have appeared in Interior Design, Elle Decor, Departures, and Martha Stewart Living. More details are on the About page.

Selected articles by Sophie Donelson

Gift shopping in New York
Globe & Mail (Toronto), December 12, 2009

The LBDs of Design
Manhattan, December, 2009

Hooked in Brooklyn
Globe & Mail (Toronto), October 20, 2009

Treasures on the cheap? Try Brussels
Globe & Mail (Toronto), April 15, 2009

Not Constaninople
Daily Candy, March 25, 2009

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January 19, 2010 12:02 PM
Talking Heads

December 12, 2009 8:05 PM
Spoiler Alert! Holiday Gifts Edition

December 9, 2009 5:41 PM
The Little Black Dress of Furniture

November 16, 2009 5:17 PM
Chair Jewelry

November 6, 2009 12:25 PM
Editor TV Brings the Party to the Small Screen

October 23, 2009 10:33 AM
Hooked on Brooklyn

September 29, 2009 10:25 AM
Empty Nest

September 10, 2009 10:06 PM
Geek Squad

July 3, 2009 9:55 PM
Wave Your Flag

May 27, 2009 10:16 PM
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