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Grime Waves

(Photo: Harper’s Bazaar)

Did it all start here? Or is this just the expected fallout?

Grime, scruffy chins, ripped jeans, ink… where did we go wrong? I used to look forward to the warmer months when sundresses hit the streets of the city and sunkissed skin signaled the arrival of summer. Nowadays, the “dangerous” tan has been [...]

Mrs. E.’s Shrimp Risotto

Mrs. E. has returned to the kitchen in fine form…. So if you’re wondering what to have for dinner this weekend, I cannot recommend this highly enough. We were celebrating and she even made it in our red Le Creuset Enameled Heart Pot

Mrs. E. cut the measurements by about a third to make just enough [...]

Late Summer Early Afternoon

A few random thoughts today and hope for the future.

Waiting for an afternoon meeting a couple of things occurred to me. One, it’s very difficult to type on the keypad whilst wearing cufflinks. I suppose that when cufflinks were very popular the “wrist rest” wasn’t a part of any sort of typing device or men [...]

Luxe, calme et volupté.* That sounds wonderful. In today’s world, I find that there is a disturbing lack of all of the above. Maybe it’s the speed at which we live our daily lives, multitasking during each measured moment of the day and well into our nights. Whatever the reason, I think that we’ve lost something that our parents and grandparents took for granted. Not just an ease in society or how to throw an intimate dinner for six or write a thank you note, but an everyday elegance. Easy and Elegant Life is my attempt to define what makes up an elegant existence and to pass along a few easy (and inexpensive) ideas for bringing back a little elegance to our everyday lives. Here you will find ideas for living, decorating, entertaining and dressing with an easy elegance. Not just my ideas. To help point the way, I intend to seek out all sorts of people -- professional lifestyle experts and those who seem to have been born elegant -- asking them what they believe constitutes elegance and how we can best achieve it. So to those whom Honore de Balzac called “elegantologists” I dedicate this site and the good fight. * From “L’Invitation au voyage” by Charles Baudelaire. The whole line reads: “Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté/ Luxe, calme et volupté.”

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