The Last Layer by Colin King

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If You Want People to Compliment Your Home, Stop Trying to Impress Them

The Basket That Learned to Behave

Still Life, Stillness, and the Relief of Looking

The Vases I Loved Before I Knew Their Name

“Timeless” Is Just Code for “I Haven’t Looked Closely Enough”

Light From Below

Maximalists and Minimalists Are the Same People

In Praise of Containers That Lie for You

So What Is an Interior Stylist Anyway?

The Chairs That Hold the Corners

On Stripes, and Why They Hold Everything Together

The Gesture of a Tassel

What We Get Instead

A Science of Stacks

The Ministry of Little Tables

There’s Something in the Curtains and It’s Hot

294,434 Photos (And What They Taught Me)

On Pedestals

Thoughts at the New York Flower Market

Let There Be Tapers

Oops, It Doesn't Reach (Perfect)

A Few of My Favorite New York Sources

A Shelf Life

My Bidding Habit (and Other Tender Acts of Self-Delusion)

The Untrained Arrangement

The Big Blanket Theory

Time Is the Best Stylist

The Lamps I Always Come Back To

Against the Potted Plant

Faux Pas That Are Actually Fritz Bernaises

You’ll Never Look at an Egg the Same Way

The Quiet Pursuit

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