I was invited by the government of Egypt to shop in Cairo.  Not sure what I was thinking when I accepted to travel to the Sahara desert in June!  I now know what cookies feel like in the oven!  I was a chocolate chip, melting.  

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The New York Times sheds light on granite countertops and the potentially hazardous levels of radon associated with them. High levels of radon has health risks so this is not to be overlooked if you have granite in your home. 

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Coming in every color of the rainbow, the Voltaire 1 Chair from The Conran Shop looks like it was plucked straight from the Mad Hatters Tea Party. I’m not sure if this is funky and cool or should be sent back to it’s Alice and Wonderland origins. I’m curious to here your thoughts… Read all about the Voltaire here.   

There’s a hidden treasure on the campus of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Morningside Heights. Tucked away inside the Gothic Revival Town building at the south crossing is the world-renowned Textile Conservation Laboratory. Inside the cavernous space, a team of conservators is not only restoring the cathedral’s historic tapestries, but will put their skilled hands to work on private collectors’ textiles, upholstery, needlepoint and costumes. So if your favorite textiles need a little TLC, you might want to make an appointment at the lab, and while you’re their make sure to stop by the restored nave of the Cathedral, which was recently reopened, eight years after a tragic fire almost destroyed it.