{travel | style inspiration : a walk about nice & a riviera-chic packing list}

words & photography by victoria berezhna



There are very few places that evoke chic summer style quite like Nice, with its long palm tree-lined Promenade des Anglais where one can wander all day along the breezy cafés, parasols in pastel shades and crystal clear Mediterranean waters, watching the relaxed sunbathers get that glowing Riviera bronzed look, whilst Le Negresco towers above the seafront, magnificently reminiscing upon its golden age in the 20s.





 A short walk away is the charming city centre where cobbled streets and bold-coloured shutters contrast with crisp whites and reflect the laid-back attitude that is perceived along the whole coast of the South of France . . .

{table for two | recipe : lilac sugar}

by roséline



Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?  Shame the lilacs are just finishing and that hadn't come across something so gorgeous before, but there is always next spring . . .



Click here for instructions.

recent {table for two} articles :

* avocado, tuna & tomato salad
* manger by mimi thorissen, médoc, france
* fontina & spinach baked eggs with garlic brown butter breadcrumbs
* chicken soup for dark november nights
* last-minute afternoon tea cake
* perfect summer pie
* sparkling sweet tea cocktail
* victoria sponge cake with buttercream frosting

{at the shops : jewelry by mociun, brooklyn}

by roséline




And while we are on the topic of beautiful jewellery, have become obsessed -- obsessed -- with the custom rings by brooklyn-based Mociun -- yellow diamonds and blue saphires, emeralds and tourmaline all dance prettily in the most amazingly unique settings . . .

{happy monday | notes from the weekend & around the interwebs}

by roséline



. . . and we are impulsive and spontaneous and hopeless romantics, and as such, weekend plans to complete interviews and photo shoots and catch up all the half-begun projects large and small, and the staggeringly ever-overflowing inbox, fell away to open roads and dramatic coasts, pink azaleas and gilded chandeliers, lobster and quaint seaside towns, fountains and gardens and castles in northumbria, and that's just what weekends are for . . .

hope you had a wonderful weekend & that your week is off to a perfect start, —roséline xo


a f e w  l o v e l y l i n k s

* décor : a paris apartment | [eclecchic.blogspot.com]
* read : sweet paul summer 2013 issue | www.sweetpaulmag-digital.com
* watch : this adorable video | [free people] -- thanks, @bridechilla]
* pale and pretty neutrals : white & grey | [greigedesign.blogspot.com]
* summer trends : oceanic [houseofearnest.com]
* in the studio with : blanca monrós gómez [lingeredupon.blogspot.com]
* design : rose wallpaper [gardenista.com]
* recipe : seared scallions with poached egg [bonappetit.com]

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& NEW for the week :

* at the shops : beautiful jewellery by surina suriano, sydney
* décor inspiration : blue & white and gilded
* runway : chloé resort spring 2014, new york

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{as always, a few things you may have missed:}

* events : a romantic royal wedding
* take me away № 46 | city guide № 10 : cape town
* fashion : nina ricci pre spring-summer 2014
* at the gallery : beautifully intricate paper sculptures
* places : in the garden
* runway : pre-spring 2014 favourites
* hope you've had a beautiful weekend & a few lovely links




[image : valentino spring 2013 couture by schohaja for t magazine]

{take me away № 46 | city guide № 10 : cape town}

words & photography by emily faulstich








BABYLONSTOREN

This is maybe one of my absolute favorite places on earth. I’ve never had such a great time at a hotel, maybe because it doesn’t feel like a hotel at all.



What it feels like, actually, is your own thatched roof home in a vineyard, where you are given baskets of fruit and breads, bottles of wine, and freshly cured meats to barbecue in your backyard.  I had a hard time categorizing Babylonstoren -- should I put it in “where to stay” or “where to eat”?



The  food here is without doubt some of the best you’ll ever taste, but the experience of staying in one of the few houses is too important to ignore.  We arrived here in the middle of a warm week in January and were taken down a dirt path lined with oak and acorn trees to our house . . .

{décor inspiration | in the bedroom : blue & white and gilded}

by roséline



A very favourite thing these days is to awaken every morning to the sounds of summer birds outside our window, and revel in the sunlight pouring in through the window from the toile-ensconced canopy bed; and so, of course, could not help but fall madly for this utterly romantic carved and gilded bed, from the Wiltshire home of Diane & John Nutting, draped in Colefax & Fowler Charlotte chintz . . .