Aside from participating in the expected niceties—like bringing a chic hostess gift and not drinking all the rosé—what exactly can one do to ensure a smooth and pleasant stay?
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Gosh, weddings are fraught with emotion, aren’t they? There’s the joy of deciding to officially share your life with another, the gravity of that commitment, the excitement of joining two families and two sets of friends—and, of course, the pressure of creating an event that reflects the significance and wonder of it all.
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“I think about their advice a lot,” Piazza admits. “I consciously wonder if I am putting in enough effort. I didn't really think about some of these things until I talked to the somewhat terrifying French ladies about it.”
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Though the history of this heady day—like so many other counterculture references—is a bit murky, legend has it that the phrase “420” was originally police code for “Marijuana Smoking in Progress.” Other rumors state that it all started (where else?) in a parking lot before a Grateful Dead show.
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As with any interpersonal exchange, the relationship should always be taken into account.
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“Minimalism to me is quite boring,” Selby readily admits. “When I started shooting people and their spaces in the early 2000s, that super-clean look was the dominant aesthetic. What I did was so embracing of maximalism and real life and messiness, it was a slap in the face to that whole thing.”
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The slow exploration of these roads yields a trove of discoveries: An oasis where the mouth of an underground spring feeds a grove of palm trees, or, a secluded beach where cerulean waves crash along a craggy, mermaid cove.
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The practice has long been considered terribly uncouth—like something only someone who slathers their well-done steak in ketchup might do.
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“They said they liked my personal interior style and wanted to create something which felt like an intimate gentlemen’s club—dark and intimate and a little bit sexy,” the designer explains.
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The designer was adamant about maintaining the integrity of her new home. Thus, the original stone fireplaces, the tin ceilings, and even the clawfoot bathtub in the second-floor bathroom remained.
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“I have always enjoyed the idea of cooking, but have spent quite some time over the past few years stepping up my game,” the designer explains.
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A cozy, contemporary home filled with custom-built California furniture, artworks created by family and friends, and vintage finds.
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When Brynn Jones and her fiancé, Ness Saban, first set foot inside their Hollywood Hills house, they felt like they were stepping into another era.
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To wander through a deserted place is to confront a past that is forgotten but not gone, to touch something that is alive and dead at the same time.
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Copenhagen’s famed restaurant, Noma, has had an outsize influence on interior design.
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“We seem to have an unforgettable experience every time,” says Saturdays New York’s Colin Tunstall. “The landscape really stands out.”
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It started out—like so many failed things do—as a beautiful dream: a sprawling wonderland at the edge of a lake, a hedonistic playground the likes of which the area had never seen.
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Amidst the steep bluffs of southeastern Wisconsin, in a shallow valley where three rivers join before flowing into Lake Michigan, lies an unexpected gem.
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Take a Zen-like approach to dressing for the season by embracing the fleeting beauty of the in-between.
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It is the drink that gets you a wink or nod from the bartender, and has them thinking ‘This person knows their cocktails.’
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