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1 week ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
At The Table With is a monthly interview series that explores the ideas of creativity and personal taste through the eyes of my friends (or people I would like to be friends with). This month’s guest is Alex Mill’s co-founder and creative director, Somsack Sikhounmuong!Something about Alex Mill spoke to me as soon as I saw it.
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2 weeks ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle |Leonora Epstein
Welcome to April’s Specials, a list of things I’ve been collecting this month to share with you. FIRST THINGS FIRSTI’ve found my new favorite influencer and he’s only been making TikToks for *checks phone* two weeks. Alexander Widener is a former-NYC-marketer-turned-coastal-Mainer who just last week posted his first-ever video about Wedgewood pottery. Thanks to the gods of the algorithm it went viral, and now we all get to benefit from Alexander’s love of Delftware, Ina Garten, and Toile de Jouy.
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2 weeks ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Snacks are short-form, midweek drops featuring brands I just discovered, shops I stumbled onto, artists I think you’ll love… little odes to the things I find that I’m sending straight over to you. This week’s Shop Snack is Quail Store, an interiors concept shop based in Philadelphia, artfully curated by owner Ashley Olmstead. I’ve only ever perused the aisles of Quail Store’s online outpost, but it doesn’t take much to see that Ashley has really good taste.
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3 weeks ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Welcome back to Room Recipe, a column on À La Carte where we stare at an image of a room we love for a very long time, then break down its “ingredients” into specific items and themes. The goal is never to copy, but instead to get to the bottom of why certain rooms just *work* and to understand how we can translate that inspiration into real life.
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1 month ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Snacks are short-form, midweek drops featuring brands I just discovered, shops I stumbled onto, artists I think you’ll love… little odes to the things I find that I’m sending straight over to you. This week’s Brand Snack is Dorso, a western-inspired brand making genderless silk pajamas and robes in Rome. Fancy pajamas are my guilty pleasure.
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1 month ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle |Chloe Walsh
This newsletter is sponsored by Jenni Kayne. Thank you, JK, for being a part of this week’s À La Carte!Welcome to Notes Of! Each month I make a mood board as a little creative exercise in thematic thinking. This month’s mood board is inspired by the golden light, rolling poppy fields, and endless orange groves of California, my home state and favorite place on Earth. People seem surprised when I tell them I’m a Southern California native.
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1 month ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
At The Table With is a monthly interview series that explores the ideas of creativity and personal taste through the eyes of my friends (or people I would like to be friends with). This month’s guest is Seen Library’s Jordan Santos!My friendship with Jordan began with a bit of a meet-cute. In early 2020, right before the pandemic, I was invited to a big Reese’s Book Club event at this massive house in Bel Air where I just knew I wouldn’t know a single soul.
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1 month ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle |Kelsey Ann Rose
Welcome to March’s Specials, a list of things I’ve been collecting all month to share with you. A HOUSE I WISH WAS MINEWhile I tend to gravitate towards a somewhat traditional aesthetic in my own home, I do have an affinity and appreciation for modernist architecture, too. In another life I’m living in an angular house from the ‘60s with huge windows and tons of wood à la some of my favorite homes to visit in LA: the Neutra VDL house and the Eames house.
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1 month ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Snacks are short-form, midweek drops featuring brands I just discovered, shops I stumbled onto, artists I think you’ll love… little odes to the things I find that I’m sending straight over to you. This week’s Art Snack features Baghdad-born, San Francisco–based artist Maryam Yousif and her collection of spectacularly dressed clay sculptures. My dear friend and human art hotline Alysia Alex tipped me off to Maryam Yousif’s work back in 2021.
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1 month ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
I have a present for you! For the last few weeks, I’ve been sorting through the depths of Chairish, collecting furniture, lighting, rugs, art, and décor items that are under $200. It’s been a journey, but one I’ve thoroughly enjoyed, and today I’m ready to present my findings—all 100 of them. I love Chairish (and 1st Dibs, and Etsy,) because I do love the hunt, but only if I can do it from my sofa.
