Quality. Not Quantity.

I totally believe that buying a few pieces of really high quality, well-made furniture and decorating around them with the rest of the junk you've got lying around is the way to go. Well, not junk per se, but you know, like the cool chandelier you found at the flea market for twenty bucks, mixed with an amazing charcoal gray corduroy sofa like this one from Ochre. This is the sofa for me - it just makes me happy. One day people, one day.

There's been a clip going around the design blogs of the ever-stylish, eternally en vogue Kate Hepburn talking to Dick Cavett on the quality of a good piece of furniture and how happy it can make you feel. But, because I'm a geek, but apparently not enough of one to know how to load a video clip onto blogger, you can check it out on either The Mid-Century Modernist, where I believe it was originally posted, or on ATSF's Slinks. I could probably listen to Ms. Hepburn talk all the live-long day about something as dull as radial tires and get excited, but this is a fun classic you might like to take a look at. Kate's your afternoon style maven fix with some excellent advice.