Incredible and humbling fabric sculptures of birds by Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters. Isn’t there something so personal about some of these portraits?
(*via always-so-great Honeyed Figs)
How did I go so long without knowing this song? Nancy Wilson’s biggest pop hit: “(You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am.”
Photographer/filmmaker Dustin Cohen started a video series entitled Made in Brooklyn, documenting different Brooklyn makers and creators. This is one of my favorites, documenting Sam Zygmuntowicz and his hand-crafted violin shop. Dustin invited me to be a part of this series as well, which I’ll be sure to share when it’s finished!
This Saturday I leave for Big Sur with my Tim for an anniversary holiday. Can’t. wait.
Any tips for must see/eat/walk spots?
Jen Huang has the magic touch. Her photographs of the evening’s scenes capture the rustic elegance of the Foundry, the relaxed and jovial energy of the group, and overall make everyone-and-everything look incredible.
Kenan of Les Loups providing seriously quality music all evening:
Us ladies:
And like any good party, we finished the night with our shoes off on the dance floor.
Check out the short video created by Megan of Hello Super 8:
All photographs by Jen Huang.
Check out the other spring dinner posts:
Part 1 (invitations), Part 2 (event design), Part 3 (calligraphy), or Part 4 (the meal).
This was SUCH a good meal by Michael Stuart NY. And a really fun experience. The “Ode to Salt” was a nine course tasting menu. Each course was a small and delectable treat, accompanied by a distinct salt pairing, which we sprinkled onto the bite ourselves. It was interactive, educational and so so so so delicious.
More beautiful images by Jen Huang.
Passed hors d’oeuvres were served on salt slabs.
Shell Co served yummy mini doughnuts and cake pops for dessert.
All photographs by Jen Huang.
Guests were welcomed with an original “Bombay Drop” cocktail, with hand-calligraphed labels.
Signage and place cards were all written on zinc signage, to tie in the zinc tags used in the invitations.
The menus:
Favor boxes for each guest, which included a custom address stamp by Paperfinger along with other edible treats:
And a beautiful favor display by Poppies & Posies:
All photographs by Jen Huang.
Sierra and Juliet of Poppies & Posies are straight up amazing. They create entire scenes and moods, sourcing all the antiques and textiles, building out structures, stringing lights — all along with choosing and crafting beautiful floral arrangements.
Here’s their description of the event concept and details:
We were inspired by the region of Provence. Not only the unfussy approach we associate with a traditional Provencal kitchenscape, but also the emphasis that is placed on the quality and choice of ingredients that are utilized in the making of a dinner. That theme carried over not just to the food, appropriately an ‘ode to salt’ by Michael Stuart-NY, but also to the design…
Instead of amassing huge amounts of decor to overwhelm the already beautiful setting of the Foundry’s greenhouse, our aim was to keep things fresh, simple, and well executed. We sourced a vintage, grain sack table runner from a seller in Austria to drape the long dinner table and instead of building gargantuan centerpieces, the most beautiful blooms of the season, local spirea, hellebores, garden roses, parrot tulips, and sweetpea, were arranged in delicate compositions and placed on handmade, wooden, pedestals along it. Deep burgundy clematis vine peppered the arrangements and added just the slightest pop of color to an otherwise delicate palette. We were so excited when we came across a collection of vintage oil lamps to use on the table for candlelight. Simple, clean, and elegant: they we’re the perfect finishing touch to our cozy dinner table.
Jen Huang captured all these beautiful images.
All photographs by Jen Huang.
You’ll often find me collaborating with my dearly beloved wedding/event posse: Sierra and Juliet of Poppies & Posies, Jen of Jen Huang Photography and Michael of Michael Stuart NY.
This year marked our second annual editors dinner, hosted along with Jules, Jose and Allison of the incredible Foundry in Long Island City, Kenan of Les Loups Pictures & Songs and Megan from Hello Super 8.
It’s a wonderful, creative and freeing process. We come together to build out a concept and then each of us goes off to develop our own contributions. Naturally, I created invitations, miscellaneous paper goods, place cards, menus, stamp favors and other signage.
All this week I’ll be sharing the beautiful photos taken by Jen Huang of the different elements from this magical dinner. And unlike most parties and weddings we work on, this one we get to attend!
I created a brand new, hand-lettered design for the invitations. They were letterpressed in a french blue ink by Cordes Printers on white 100% cotton Cranes paper. A zinc tag was tied onto each invitation with twine, individually addressed to each guest with white ink.
Once the tag was removed, it revealed the list of contributors to the evening. They were placed inside white envelopes, lined with pewter grey paper, and hand-addressed in a salmon-peach ink.
Rainy week. Perfect for Django Reinhardt. One of my very favorite versions of one of my very favorite standards, “Solitude.”