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6 days ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Welcome to May’s Specials, a list of things I’ve been collecting this month to share with you. A HOME TOUR YOU’LL LOVEIf you’re on Design TikTok at all, you’re familiar with the “Home Decor Icks” guys, Ethan Gaskill and Robert Gigliotti.
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1 week 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 is English painter Jack Penny and his chaotic, debaucherous works of dining rooms, dinner parties, and the characters within them. I don’t know much about Jack Penny, but I do know that when a piece of his floats by as I scroll through Instagram, I almost always have to save it.
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1 week ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Last fall I wrote a newsletter that went semi-viral. It was filled with objects you’d find in any ordinary home, but the least aesthetically offensive versions of those objects. I wrote about how so many brands from the last decade have sought to “disrupt” everyday items—pet accessories, cookware, gardening tools—and how, as a result, we’ve all ended up with a bunch of plasticky, candy-colored junk.
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2 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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3 weeks ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
Plus One is a brand new column where we’ll be tagging along with some of the best people with the best recs in town. Think of it like a highly specific city guide!My first Plus One guest is Harling Ross Anton, brand consultant, person with style, and writer behind my favorite fashion Substack, . I don’t say this about just anyone, but Harling has the best taste—yes, in what she wears, but even more so in how she wears it.
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3 weeks ago | 
alilabelle.substack.com | Ali LaBelle
This newsletter is sponsored by West Elm in celebration of their collaboration with Pierce & Ward. 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 collecting, collectors, collectables… The art of searching for just the right thing, no matter how long it takes.
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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 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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1 month 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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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 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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1 month 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.
