Your Home as a Sanctuary

Think about your home.  What does it mean to you?  Is it the place where you store your things?  Or is it the sanctuary that replenishes you every...

Living is Giving

Well the Archeo pet photo contest proves it.  Our collectors (and admirers) are among the coolest people on earth.  Besides contest entries...

Benjamin

I love the story of Benjamin. Patricia and Daniel started talking about getting a dog.  A puppy sounded adorable – a sweet little pooch they could...

Primitive and Modern

In the early 1900’s modern artists took fine art in a new direction, trying to reduce each element to it’s most pure form.  Mondrian distilled his...

A Gift for Home

I love the holidays. I love to trick my house out like Christmas Disneyland. And who doesn’t love universal permission to have a sugar cookie or...

Judy Blume's Home

Congratulations to author Judy Blume and her husband George Cooper. Virtually visit their piece of paradise in this month’s issue of Architectural...

The Last Inida…Maybe

There are so many more blogs we’d love to write about India. We could expand on the gentle people or the devilishly spicy food. But so many other...

Archeo and the Perfect 10

From time to time someone will ask me how we choose pieces for the gallery.  A buying trip in India seems like the perfect time to ponder this...

Landing in Delhi

Delhi is eye opening.  Opulent, colourful, fast-paced, crowded, impoverished.  Manicured Embassy lawns face wide green boulevards, while starving...

Discovering India

Paris is blatantly beautiful – the art, the architecture, the people. It takes some time to lock on to the beauty of India.  But among the refuse...

French Countryside

Just before leaving France, I had a chance to slip away from Paris into the fertile French countryside.  It is early autumn and the country air is...

The Parisian Flea Market

Well, there is simply nothing like a flea market in Paris! Vintage period furniture, African sculpture, primitive rugs.  We’re in heaven.  We spoke...