Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at Kappa Tablescapes, Benjamin Moore’s color of the year, and Guo Pei’s collection for The Rug Company. Written by Natalie Aldridge.

Kappa Tablescapes

Last week the Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma hosted its highly anticipated annual fundraiser, Kappa Tablescapes.  The two-day charity event brings together Dallas’ finest designers, florists, and retailers who create magnificent and imaginative table decorations to help raise funds to benefit a group of non-profit agencies carefully selected each year.  This year’s beneficiaries include Behind Every Door, The Center for Integrative Counseling and Psychology, Magdalen House, and The Senior Source.

Kappa Tablescapes begins with an elegant candlelight evening cocktail reception for guests to mingle and view the beautifully decorated tables. On the following day, a lifestyle expert or interior designer, inspires guests with a presentation at the luncheon and offers a book signing. Held at the Dallas Country Club, this year’s luncheon featured the designer and Dallas native Lela Rose, whose clients include former first families, British royalty and Hollywood celebrities. Let’s take a look at a few of the incredible table creations by 2022 participating designers! Photography by Melissa Macatee, Macatee Photography.

We spy our beloved Bauble Stockings at the gorgeous table by Taylor Turner, founder of Hazen & Co.

Benjamin Moore’s Color of the Year

Drum roll please.. the color of the year is Raspberry Blush (2008-30). A vivacious shade of coral tinged with pink, Benjamin Moore’s announcement for the 2023 color of the year pleases The Glam Pad. After years of cool tones and earthy hues, Raspberry Blush marks the beginning of a shift towards warmer colors and a nod to the inspiration from 80s and 90s we have been enjoying lately, particularly inspired by the Grandmillennial movement.  Vivacious chintz and floral patterns we adore often incorporate bright pinkish tones. It seems they are making a comeback meanwhile they have never left the hearts and homes of TGP. Below are a few rooms we love channeling Raspberry Blush…

Raspberry Blush

Guo Pei for The Rug Company

Couturier Guo Pei, hailed as China’s “Queen of Couture” rarely puts herself in the spotlight. Her name does not have the recognition as other couturiers yet her work has been engrained in fashion history through red carpet and museum moments around the globe. Most notably, her “Yellow Queen” gown worn by Rihanna at the Met Gala set shock waves across the globe. Pei’s work is highly meticulous often taking multiple years to complete one garment.

Translating the same craftsmanship and attention to detail, Pei has now paired with The Rug Company, an industry giant in their own right, for a capsule collection of rugs and pillows. The collection, entitled Opulent Nature,  incorporates traditional Chinese skills and techniques creating sumptuous patterns and textures.

All of the rugs are hand woven in Nepal using only the finest of wool and silk. While The Rug Company is known for their high quality products, this collaboration proves to be the most laborious and luxurious of their work yet. Moreover, the collection perfectly bridges contemporary design, femininity, and history. Take a look at the divine collection!

Tempest Day

Empress Gold 

Secret Garden

Splendour

Secret Garden

Shop this week’s inspired finds!

x Natalie

Follow TGP on Instagram: @theglampad

Follow Natalie on Instagram: @natalieealdridge

Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at de Gournay’s newest showroom and print, the 2022 Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Home for the Holidays Designer Showhouse, and Sister Parish for Minnow. Written by Natalie Aldridge.

de Gournay San Francisco

Ask any interior designer about their go-to luxury wall covering and they are likely to utter “de Gournay.” Founded by Claud Cecil Gurney in 1986 in the basement of his home, Gurney sought to create hand-painted wallpaper of superb quality after struggling to find skilled artisans to restore antique wallpaper in his home. Inspired by the historic painting techniques of mainland China and the influence of Chinoiserie on Europe, he journeyed to China to enlist highly talented craftsmen.

Years later, de Gournay still produces in China out of their Shanghai studio using original production techniques. On average, six artisans work on a single wallpaper that can take up to 150 hours to produce. The company’s vision and reach have also expanded. With numerous showrooms around the globe, a notable book filled with their work, and an ever-expanding collection of prints, it is no wonder de Gournay is an authority in the design world.

In August, de Gournay opened a San Francisco showroom just a few blocks from its previous location. The new location boasts soaring ceilings with greater display space. It is truly a marvel!

Today, de Gournay released a magnificent new print ‘Belvoir.’ In collaboration with the Duchess of Rutland, ‘Belvoir’ draws inspiration from the family estate, Belvoir Castle, and its recent restoration. The interiors of the castle have been completely transformed by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler in tandem with de Gournay to restore its many antique wallpapers (a breathtaking tour can be found here). Belvoir is one of the few estates in England that have remained within the same family throughout its history. Take a look at the brilliant Belvoir print!

Belvoir by de Gournay

Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles’ Holiday Designer Showhouse and Marketplace

This holiday season, between November 17^th – December 11^th, Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine will be hosting their 14^th annual Home for the Holidays Designer Showhouse and Marketplace benefitting Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. This year’s showhouse will feature a 10,505 square foot home located in Buckhead’s coveted Randall Mill neighborhood imagined by KBD Development & Construction, Harrison Design and decorated by a notable mix of interior designers from across the Southeast. Tickets are now available here.

Each year the showhouse not only works to celebrate talented designers but to raise funds for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. For the duration of the showhouse there will be exciting events taking place such as gift wrapping tutorials and table top demonstrations. We cannot wait to see how this year’s designers transform the showhouse’s Buckhead home.

Sister Parish x Minnow

TGP favorite Sister Parish and the adorable swimwear company Minnow have joined forces for an exclusive collaboration. Known for its storied past and enviable prints, Sister Parish has entered a new creative era with Sister Parish’s Great-Granddaughter Eliza Harris at the helm. In the company’s recent endeavor they have paired with swimwear industry titan, Minnow, to create a limited collection of children’s swimwear, clothing, and a few coordinating items for mom and dad. While the weather may be turning, holiday vacations are on the horizon and we are obsessed with these pieces! Take a peek. 

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by minnow (@minnowswim)

Shop this week’s inspired finds!

x Natalie

Follow TGP on Instagram: @theglampad

Follow Natalie on Instagram: @natalieealdridge

Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at The Ultimate Bath, Martinis at the Plaza stationery suite and Schumacher’s new Paris showroom. Written by Natalie Aldridge.

The Ultimate Bath

From the cofounder of Waterworks comes a beautiful new book featuring a curated collection of dream bathrooms designed by today’s top architects and interior designers. Released this month, The Ultimate Bath devotes its elegantly illustrated chapters to the most luxuriously designed bathrooms from a wide-ranging list of contributors, including Gil Schafer, Nickey Kehoe, Brigette Romanek, and Miles Redd. These are baths that, while grounded in timeless elements, surprise and enchant. Let’s take a look inside with images from The Ultimate Bath by Barbara Sallick ©Rizzoli New York 2022. Preorder your copy today!

Martinis at the Plaza

On November 28th, 1966 Truman Capote hosted his Black and White Ball that would go down in the books as one of the most iconic parties in history. Socialites known as Capote’s Swans, artists, politicians, musicians, and everyone in between sported glamorous masks, tuxedos, and black or white ball gowns. An invitation to the Black and White Ball was highly coveted, and Capote famously carried a 10 cent composition notebook with him everywhere, ruthlessly adding and crossing out names of those uninvited.

Inspired by this historic evening and the characters in attendance, stationery designer Laura Vogel and tastemaker Melissa Smrekar have paired up to create a party suite entitled Martinis at the Plaza. Including cheeky place cards, menus, and other surprises, the suite evokes the glamour and humor of a begone era. With a bevy of research on the evening, Vogel and Smrekar even nailed the exact font and color combinations used by Capote.

Take a look at Martinis at the Plaza!

Martinis at the Plaza Stationery Suite.

Original Invitation

Katharine Graham and Truman Capote

Truman Capote’s original Composition notebook.

In perfect fashion, Laura Vogel and Melissa Smrekar hosted martinis at the Plaza Hotel Tuesday evening to kick-off today’s launch of the stationery suite. Guests were dazzling in black and white as the alluring chatter of the Plaza’s Palm Court hummed in the background. Masks of notable party-goers where sprinkled throughout and the table beamed with beauty.

Laura Vogel and Melissa Smrekar

Contributing Editor Natalie Aldridge

Interior designer and influencer Rudy Saunders

Fashion designer and founder of Suite, Jennifer Diederich

The collection is now available to shop here.

Schumacher Paris

Legendary textile house and TGP favorite, Schumacher, will launch its first-ever showroom in Paris, France. Set to officially open early in the new year, the showroom will be a creative hub for Schumacher’s growing international market. Born in Paris, Frederic Schumacher immigrated to the United States and founded F. Schumacher & Co. in 1889 following his departure from French textiles company Passavant & Co. In many ways, the opening of the Parisian outpost is an hommage to the company’s roots.

The showroom will be located in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the long-time intellectual epicenter of the French metropolis. Rather than operating like a traditional showroom, Schumacher hopes to make the space a point of collaboration and discovery. With Schumacher’s longevity and history of innovation, it will be exciting to watch their latest foray unfold.

Shop this week’s inspired finds!

x Natalie

Follow TGP on Instagram: @theglampad

Follow Natalie on Instagram: @natalieealdridge

Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at Christian Ladd’s la Petite Gracies, Gucci’s Spring Summer 2023 collection, and the much anticipated new Hermès Madison Avenue store. Written by Natalie Aldridge.

La Petite Gracies

Interior designer Christian Ladd always manages to steal our hearts. Known for her traditional style with modern sensibility, Ladd continually designs homes and products that leave us clamoring for an encore. This week the design darling has introduced three new la Petite Gracies, her coveted Gracie chinoiserie prints, and brought back an old favorite back, Holts Garden.

We adore the look of the new pieces as a grouping on their own, or paired with other la Petite Gracie’s. The collection brings such classicism to any space with just the right amount of punchy color. The new introductions include Mist Blossom, Spring Meadow, and Yellow Peony.  In honor of the debut on Christian Ladd Home, we are giving you an exclusive look at the collection. From feathery pinks, wispy greens, serene blue, and jubilant yellows, we are in love with la Petite Gracies!

Seeing Double at Gucci 

Last week the chic society-set and industry insiders stomped the streets of Milan for fashion week. Showing Spring-Summer 2023 collections, Italian fashion designers took to locations all around the historic Northern Italian metropolis. Known for putting on theatrical shows, Alessandro Michele, creative director of Gucci, had the audience seeing double. Michele’s enlisted 68 sets of twins to walk Saturday’s show and entitled it “Twinsburg.” 

Each set of twins joined hands and took to the futuristic runway while portraits of themselves beamed on the screens behind them. The collection was inspired by Michele’s mother, a twin herself, and point of great fascination for him. Exploring the concept of beauty and the illusion of  symmetry. While each set of twins appear to be identical in look and clothing, upon closer look they are quite different. Michele calls this “cracked symmetry.” Through the same ethos, the show attempted to challenge the idea of singularity in clothing. The magic of individuality within clothing is often shattered when seen when another person sports the same garment. Yet, as presented with the 68 sets of twins, even two alike are not symmetrical!

Take a look at the extravagant twin fanfare.

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by @gucci

Hermès Madison Avenue

After decades of occupying both the North East and North West corners of 62nd Street and Madison Avenue, the iconic men’s and women’s Hermès will join as one in a new flagship store just one block North. But fret not, the iconic Napoleonic equestrian statue perched atop the Women’s store on 62nd will be making the move.

Hermès appealed to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for the right to renovate the historic Neo-Federal style building located on the South West corner of Madison Avenue and 63rd Street. After years of construction, the new store is set to open this coming Monday, October 3rd.

While the new flagship appears to have a dreamy quality and has brought much life into a previously sleepy building, one cannot help but remember the storied history of the original women’s store. Now a forgotten relic of New York history, 691 Madison used to be the home of the candy shop and restaurant Louis Sherry. Opening in 1881, Louis Sherry was once the chicest place in town to grab a bite and pick up a love tin of chocolates. Sherry’s restaurant at first struggled but then became a regular haunt for The Gilded Age elite “Four Hundred” after Ward McAllister deemed it to be a chic spot. Louis Sherry’s bustling candy shop and restaurant moved to Hotel New Netherland, now known as the Sherry Netherland, on the corner of 59th Street and Fifth Avenue in 1919. While the hotel still exists, Louis Sherry no longer does. 

If you have the chance, stop by the new Hermès flagship to shop and get a glimpse at the excitement. Do not forget to pay homage to its original location and Louis Sherry while you are at it. 

Louis Sherry

Shop this week’s inspired finds!

x Natalie

Follow TGP on Instagram: @theglampad

Follow Natalie on Instagram: @natalieealdridge