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Music Can Soothe During Pandemic
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Music Can Soothe During Pandemic

By Carleton Varney

I've been thinking about music and how it soothes us.  Let it fill the air during these days when we're quarantining inside.  Music lately has become my new friend, and I am revisiting the repertoire...
Key Lime Perfect on a Plate and as a Happy Room Color
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Key Lime Perfect on a Plate and as a Happy Room Color

By Carleton Varney

As I’ve written before, Key lime — that creamy soft yellow tinged with green — is for sure a Palm Beach color. Many is the house on the Florida coastline painted Key-lime green with white...
Hollywood Recalls Island's 1920's Architecture
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Hollywood Recalls Island's 1920's Architecture

By Carleton Varney

Before the coronavirus pandemic grounded us, the year had started with lots of travel for my associate, Brinsley Matthews, and I. Among our destinations, we found ourselves working on a project in Beverly Hills. The...
Gallery Exhibits the Sporting Life
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Gallery Exhibits the Sporting Life

By Carleton Varney

Palm Beach means polo — even if the current worldwide health crisis put a stop to the sport of princes this season in Wellington. When I heard the news, I thought about how polo is...
Collaborating With Like Minds is Always a Pleasure
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Collaborating With Like Minds is Always a Pleasure

By Carleton Varney

I love decorating projects that involve a true collaboration between the decorator and the clients, and I’m lucky to be involved right now in such an endeavor. It’s a fun project, and filled with decorating...
Joyous Spring Holidays and Colors So Welcome Now
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Joyous Spring Holidays and Colors So Welcome Now

By Carleton Varney

To those who will celebrate the holiday Sunday, I say: Happy Easter. And to my Jewish readers, I hope you have had a joyous Passover, which began Wednesday at sunset. Easter, as longtime readers know,...
Time At Home Can Be Well Spent
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Time At Home Can Be Well Spent

By Carleton Varney

Home alone or with others in your household?: Such is life in these troubled days. And even the most ardent game-board enthusiasts among us have likely realized we’ll go stir crazy playing Monopoly every day....
Flowers Provide Colorful Cheer in Stressful Times
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Flowers Provide Colorful Cheer in Stressful Times

By Carleton Varney

These days, we need all the cheer we can find. And for me, the floral colors associated with the arrival of spring are helping provide that cheer in a stressful world.
A Dash of Retail Fun with Sherry
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A Dash of Retail Fun with Sherry

By Carleton Varney

Where can you find a shop in Palm Beach that is filled with love and fun? Certainly at Sherry Frankel’s Melangerie, 256 Worth Ave. in the Via Amore, where Sherry and her beautiful black poodle,...