allo? ALLO!

Paris match. Some pics from last year but the song remains the same (or similar)

I am in Paris, watching Desperate Housewives in French (but I get the gyst) with Coco, happy and shining a duck-fat glow after a long dinner of magret (duck is the chicken of France my Americans and the chicken here, if you can find it on menu, is way special but that's another post) and creme brulée--It was a long night of travel, followed by many coffees, and an afternoon organizing the furniture in the gallery on rue Chapon. The space we are presenting in is: amazing. We are on a street with many showrooms, girls popped their têtes in the door excited for our pop-up boutique and Claudia from Hageli and I just smiled:
Let's open a boutique in Paris! Idées are flying mes petites poulets.

Tomorrow we set up the rest. And buy flowers but most importantly wine. Tonight there is more TV to decipher. Bonne Nuit!

In One Week & One Day

I am Paris, France bound. Looking forward to this intimate showroom we're designing via many skype sessions and the boundless energy of our Paris counterpart, Claudia from Hageli and much marketing help from our lovely Hortensia of Le Showroom.

In the meantime, a few pieces from Hut Up Berlin to show you just a part of what there is to get excited about. So now are you coming?

Paris 9-28-10 and projects like ducks

a few pics from the bonbon goes to paris archives

I am going back to Paris kittens, among other projects all in a row, like little ducks but not as fuzzy and more challenging to wrangle these last few weeks, perfect on the heels of our long August holiday.
This time, preparing a "private salon" of three on at 12 rue Chapon in the Marais where all the little galleries and boutiques will be buzzing with Spring 2011 Collections. I am showing with my friends and very talented designers, Claudia from Hageli in Paris and Christine, from Hut Up, Berlin where we will be presenting our own collections for Spring + Summer 2011 and hosting a little pop-up boutique as well.
Please come?

Bonbon Trunk Show & Fashion Night Out

We're having a trunk show of our new collections at the incredibly irresistible Kill Devil Hill in Greenpoint on Fashion's Night Out. Cocktails will be poured and all of Franklin Street will be spilling onto the streets this coming Friday, September 10th from 6-10pm. The entire city will be filled with fashion this Friday. Free gifts abound and all the shops on the street have something happening. I even hear John Waters will be in the neighborhood giving a reading so really, please come...

Another Beautiful Bonbon Bride

Warning: Total romance ahead.

MJ called on a Wednesday and came by the very next day.
She said, "I kind of need something fast."
I said, "How fast?"
And she said, "Well, we're kind of eloping tomorrow."
And I said, "Yes, that is fast!"
And she showed me her pretty dress and we looked at everything I already had made.
And she seemed to really know what she wanted which wasn't exactly what I already had made but kind of. And she was so damn cute and sweet, what could I do? I set to work on MJ's very own bonbon, and within a few hours she set off with a little veil made of antique mocha colored swiss-dotted tulle topped with a creamy tulle fleur and inlaid with antique silver sequins that could sparkle, all sewn with antique silk thread in pale blue and silver that she could slip into her hair fast, as she got married on a sunny afternoon on The Highline here in NYC. And she picked out a boutonierre for her beloved too. I love the photos she sent. For more go to her wedding site, which perfectly explains why all of us should elope and then have a grand party somewhere else. (Now I'm going to do it again).

And Home Again

taken with jim's iphone

Back to Brooklyn, filled with travel tales and camera packed with photos. We have a new car, our cats have been glued to us (one is above my head, one under this computer as I write), thinking about life on a farm and we have sustained our love for Blue Hill, ME in ways I am surprised at myself. More on that and photos soon but now I am filling orders that are backed up, getting ready for all kinds of September events and throwing a bridal shower here on Saturday. Doh! And it's raining a very new England rain out there these last few days which is a good reminder that New York is kind of New England.

Hello Rainbows

Bonbon update: Maine to New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island, ferry to Nova Scotia, here in
the Cape Breton Highlands, hiking, kayaking, oysters. Lots of oysters. A few rainbows. No unicorns. How are you?
Love,
Deb

Bonbon Fall 2010

A few little looks at the new collection while we're up here at the farm...(but wait there's more...)

The Perseids

Every year, on August 12th, we know we'll be away, far from the city in a dark place where we can watch the Perseids, the meteor showers that graced our wedding ten years ago and celebrates for us our anniversary ever since.
Last year in Yellowstone, we drove out to a dark field, lay on our backs on the hood of the car and watched an incredible show of stars streak across the sparkling sky. This year we'll be way Northeast, probably in Cape Breton, hopefully on the ocean, where it will be very dark and we can disappear in the mammoth night sky, we can be small, we can remember some old friends up there.

A Farm in Maine

We have the chance to buy the beautiful farm inn where we got married ten years ago this August. We're going to head up for a visit to celebrate and maybe just to fantasize. What do you think?
In the meantime, planning for a bonbon kind of fall with all kinds of very bon things...

tables i wish i were sitting at with you

table from: a sweet wedding that my favorite nadia photographed
(see more on la porte rouge)

table from: emily hansen's kitchen via d*s

table from: a beautiful photoshoot inspired by amelie by nonpareil magazine

all these tables via outstanding in the field

"To be a friend is to step into the stream of another’s life."
-Todd May*

I imagine if we could all get together in real life, which when we are geographically lucky sometimes we do, but if we all could, we could hypothetically sit for a long time and enjoy, immerse.

*From today's NYT on friendship in a time of economics. Very good reading.

a little color

credit where credit is (totally) due for brightening my (very wet humid gray rainy) day:
1. pretty dresses in a row via chloé van paris
2. emily henson's pretty office (via design sponge)
3. an iced heath ceramics tea set
4. simply lovely celebration flags and photo (by simple lovely)

First Harvest on Tiny Farm

uno mas rose and some good looking tomatoes etc.

more little things: two figs, some little cherry tomatoes,
green beans and a yellow cucumberer

seriously dudes, that was one big squarsh

mid-summer heat and tiny insectual assholes eating my nasturtium and biting my nicotania.
YOU WILL NOT GET MY ROSES! I'll get you critters.

man blossoms and the second yellow cucumber all gathered on my favorite plate

For weeks I thought I was destined to eat squash blossoms and herbs I don't know the latin names of all summer. Apparently and according to something I happened to read, squash blossoms for fritter-making are the male flowers. And suddenly the other day, I combed through my tiny farm garden and saw it: The biggest squash in the world (probably), growing out of some female blossom's ass! Squash is the ass of a lady flower!

Disregard that if it sounds unappetizing when I say, we shaved that blossom's ass (aka the SQUASH) thin, doused it with olive oil, a few drops of sherry vinegar and chopped garden mint, seasoned with sea salt and cracked pepper, served with thin slices of prosciutto and fig quarters.
Sliced the tomatoes, sprinkled with salt, great olive oil Vanessa just brought us back from Italy, tore some basil on top and served with some justifiably expensive French feta cheese from Whole Foods, which was the only international--read here: not local, dish of the evening. The rest was from Tiny Farm, the new name of my high-yield-for-now garden.