Love Lately Lifestyle Trends and Ideas Summer Edit

As a Photo Stylist and Creative Director there is not a week that goes by that I’m not researching and keepin' an eye out for what’s new, exciting, fun and fresh!  From the luxury to the whimsical we share them in our Love Lately Weekly Feature.

While sourcing, researching and purchasing, here is what I found this week across the lifestyle market of home, food and fashion.  In styling, we are always a season ahead (oftentimes a year) so I love it when I start seeing the new season arrive and come to life.  Spring finally seems like it has arrived here in New England.  I'm starting to think about summer fashion, going to the farmers market, flowers starting to bloom and this Summer (is coming) Edit reflects all of that.  


HEMINGWAY COOLER

Love this! Available in two sizes. The Hemingway Cooler expresses itself as a blend of classic mid 20th century European car and speedboat design with modern functionality.  It's both elegant and practical. 

FLOWERS ARE BLOOMING

I love a Williams Sonoma Collaboration and this is a great one. Jeff Leatham is a Celebrity Floral Designer and Artistic Director of the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris.  In his collaboration with Williams Sonoma, not only can you purchase his florals, but he is teaching some "tips of the floral trade" on how to style flowers. (Link above has several video floral tutorials) Perfect timing as we are about to see blooms here in the Northeast. Oooooo, what it must be like to have blooms all year round.

SPRING SUIT IN TROPICAL CORAL

This suit. The Alice and Olivia Billie Boxer Blazer and Pants ~ I'm lovin' everything about it.  The Summer Tropical color,  the long one button blazer, the fabric, the pocket details . . . all of it.  It's named deep rose, but it looks a little on the deep coral to me.  Either way ~ it fun, happy and vibrant!  I LOVE it. 

FARMERS MARKET, HERE I COME WITH MY BIG BOWL!

Ahhhhh, I'm ready for the Farmers Market to open and for it to be peek tomato, strawberry, blueberry season.  I'm ready with my big ol' wooden bowl. Nothing better than a big bowl or fresh produce with fresh home-made herb dressing.  I have a little obsession with white washed wooden bowls and this handcrafted bowl from Casa Zuma is so perfect.  It's available in other colors, but I think salads just pop and look so great in the white. And the Stylist in me will multi-purpose this bowl. Think the bath for hand towels, vessel for Floral centerpieces . . .


A MOOD, A THOUGHT, A FEELING

Love Designer Young Huh's new book and how she has divided book into three distinct sections. As included in book overview, her designs include touches of "wanderlust". Love that.   Part One looks through lens of A MOOD. (joyful, peaceful, romantic)  Part Two, A THOUGHT, features full homes designed by Young, including forever home, old house full of whimsy, and Park Avenue penthouse. Part Three, A FEELING, is about Young’s own recently completed historic country house in upstate New York. I included this in a Summer Edit post, because we oftentimes look at styling and refreshing our home by the seasons and by our MOOD of the seasons and how we want to FEEL in our homes, how we live, how we entertain family and friends.  It's a mood, a thought and a feeling . . . This book is a great style inspiration as we head into summer.

Bonnie ~


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