Cheryl Katz
Notes From the Field: A Linen Love Affair
By Cheryl Katz I am a linen devotee. Hard to believe, but there was a time when I waited until…
Friday Favorites 11/22/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor In our design studio, Jordan’s desk is two back from where I sit. Quin’s is one…
Notes From the Field: Front is Back
By Cheryl Katz Sixty is the new forty. Biodynamic is the new Bordeaux. Orange is the new black. And Front,…
Friday Favorites 10/25/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor The jewelry designer Michele Mercaldo has been an admirer of the artist Robert Kobayashi since she…
Playing to Type
We’re not sure when our fascination with typography as a decorative device surfaced. Was it triggered by a renewed interest…
Notes From the Field: In Stitches
By Cheryl Katz My maternal grandmother was never without a crochet hook and a ball of yarn. With seven children,…
Notes From the Field: Marble Eyed
By Cheryl Katz As a kid, I opted to spend most of my free time indoors changing my dolls’ clothes….
Friday Favorites 8/30/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor Every August, for over twenty years, my family and I have vacationed in Truro. One of…
Design Destination: Yates & Kennedy, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Our favorite rooms are those with character. Strong character. Created by people who love to be surrounded by things that…
Notes From The Field: Simply Elegant
By Cheryl Katz Many years ago, my husband Jeffrey and I agreed to join friends, whose gustatory appetites were legend,…
Friday Favorite 8/2/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor When my friend Nora told me that she and her husband Jim had “absolutely no plans”…
Notes From the Field: Quilting Tea
By Cheryl Katz What appears to be a stack of carefully folded, sepia toned fabrics sits neatly on a table…
Friday Favorites 7/5/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor Toile de Jouy—a traditional French fabric depicting pastoral scenes—is seductive, but the message it telegraphs is…
Notes From the Field: Maira Kalman
By Cheryl Katz My fascination with the designer-artist-author Maira Kalman started shortly after reading Stay Up Late to my then-toddler…
Friday Favorites 6/7/2013
Cheryl Katz, Contributing Editor When asked what I look for in a piece of furniture I am quick to reply,…