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  1. A weekend, an always of La Dolce Vita

    A weekend, an always of La Dolce Vita
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    This weekend we're eating mini cannolis and walking around the neighborhood, buoyed by a very close read of The Remnants of La Dolce Vita in Brooklyn’s Italian Williamsburg. Pictured above, local cannolis eaten in the very intensive R&D for our own Holy Cannoli

    xo Leigh

  2. The Dalai Lama on a treadmill/our weekend (and on an on) mission.

  3. This weekend we're...

    WAVE HILL

    Calder on exhibit at Wave Hill in the 70s

    going to Wave Hill to see the flowers in early blossom (magnolias! spring snowflakes!) and then driving to Arthur Avenue for Italian sandwiches, arancini, and affogato. Bedside table heaving with new books to thumb through including but not limited to As They Were by M.F.K. Fisher, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley, and Alexander Lieberman's The Artist in His Studio (a title that would not fly today).

    And what are your plans, dear swans and kittens?

    xo Leigh

    SHOP THIS WEEEKEND

  4. In celebration of trivia

    In celebration of trivia

    There is a place for the small and the shiny, the frothy and flowery; the tiny and trivia-ish need not be trivial. Do read "Of Dragons and Garden Peas", Alice Trillin put it best.

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  5. I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

    I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel

    I went in search of a favorite Chelsea Hotel apartment and found along the way this list I love (full of pre-critical enthusiasm). Also, what a sure hand she had in answering. 

    The Selby: Hi Sally! What are 4 characteristics of authenticity. 

    Sally: 1. pre-critical enthusiasm, 2. a sure hand, 3. a touch of myopia , 4. a good heart 

    xo Leigh

  6. Muscari!

    Muscari!

    I've got a penchant for flowers shaped like shower caps — have gone back to look at Brittany Asch's photo one two so many times.

    xo Leigh 

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  7. Breathless

    Breathless

    Read Gertrude Stein's "Sacred Emily" in one straight shot, like a rush of helium; you'll float, breathless, and "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" will too.

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  8. Great Danes in the winter

    Great Danes in the winter
    We are back from a break, it is a New Year, the sun is shining, burrowing season is here. I've ordered a Noguchi lamp, and have a pile of books newly nicely arranged on my bedside table; I'm reading The Idiot, Elif Batuman wears a You are My Moon and Stars Necklace, I'll send her a note when I'm done, until then — this note is for you.
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  9. A circus, a cabaret, a party dress

    A circus, a cabaret, a party dress

    Dear swans & kittens, please someone buy this party dress and email me a photo at leigh@catbirdnyc.com. xo Leigh

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  10. Tradition!

    Tradition!

    '“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.' — Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

    And Christmas wouldn't be Christmas at Catbird without me trotting out this quote. The heart wants what the heart wants, and my heart wants old favorites. xo Leigh

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