Trolling for Towels

Finds
April 29, 2014

It is beach week here at Lacquered Life, as WWB and I gear up to head to Jamaica on Friday for our anniversary! After yesterday’s post on beach chairs, today we continue with beach towels. I wanted to do a post on towels because these days there is so much more available than the traditional striped terry cloth towel. That being said, I do love a Lands End striped towel. However, today we’re talking non-traditional beach towels, the kind that could just as easily be a sarong or pareo.
First up 8 Knots. I did a post on 8 Knots back in January, so I won’t go into too much detail, but we have two of them, they’re highly absorbent, come in a variety of color combinations, look great wrapped around your waist, and are available at favorite Charleston men’s shop Indigo & Cotton.Next are these beautiful Turkish Towels from Furbish Studio. Again, these towels come in a variety of pretty colors, and would clearly look great as a sarong. One of the things I love about all these Turkish towels is that they are so lightweight. When you’re sitting on the beach during a South Carolina summer, even lying on terry cloth can feel hot. A new favorite, the Amado beach towel and blanket from Matouk! Yes, you heard me right, blanket. So you could have a towel as well as the perfect throw for a beach picnic. What is really special about these towels is that the colored stripes are a flat weave, like the turkish towels above, and the white stripes are in a thin terry cloth. So you actually get the best of both worlds.
And finally, my favorite, the beach towels from Roberta Roller Rabbit. If you follow Lacquered Life on Instagram (you should!), you have probably seen my Roberta towel featured quite often in photos on the beach. One of the things I love about it is its size – at 46″ x 90″ not even your feet are touching the sand. So it is a little big and would not be a good sarong … but let’s be honest, you already have a sarong from Roberta Roller Rabbit so the towel doesn’t have to do double duty. Do you have a favorite towel? Time to stock up for summer!

Sitting on the Beach

Finds
April 28, 2014

Beach weather has finally hit Charleston, and after the long winter we had (yes! it was cold here too) I am so excited to finally get in some time in the sun and sand. Whenever we’re at the beach, at least one person asks us where our beach chairs are from, so I thought I would share it with you. The chairs are from Cape Cod Beach Chair Company, located in Chatham, MA. These chairs are THE BEST. Not only do they look tres chic, but they each have two cup holders, and a handle that makes them easy to carry.What is great about these chairs is that they are completely customizable. There are several different types of chairs to choose from, as well as different types of fabrics. We chose the Surfside Recliner made out of a Balau hardwood and instead of the typical sunbrella fabric, we chose a sailcloth. Cape Cod Beach Chair Company also makes a footrest attachment, tables, towels – comprehensive beach outfitters. So grab a chair from Cape Cod Beach Chair Company, and come join me on the beach!

Photos by the author, as seen on Instagram

The Prettiest Paper

Designers
April 16, 2014

Walking in the door on Church Street, one of the first things people ever ask me about is the wallpaper in the front hall. And I am often surprised when I tell people that it is Meg Braff Designs, and they had no idea that the designer had a line of wallpaper. Launched in 2011, Meg Braff Designs includes both wallpaper and fabrics. When midcentury wallpaper company Philip Graf put their archives up for sale, which included paper from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, Braff purchased every single roll. These timeless patterns have now been updated in new color ways, and look as fresh today as they did in the ’60s. The wallpaper in our front hall is called “Ferns.” The wallpaper in the powder room is called “Grille of Kells”I visited Meg Braff’s shop in Locust Valley, NY last summer, and felt like a kid in a candy store standing at a table covered in beautiful wallpaper samples. One of the best things about Meg Braff Designs wallpaper is that you can customize the colors. So if you like a certain pattern, but wish it could be blue instead of green, you can have it in blue.Meg Braff Designs just put some new patterns up on their website and I am already in love with a number of them. There are so many beautiful papers to choose from, it is almost impossible to pick just one … which is why the two wallpapers in my house are both Meg Braff Designs.

Visit Meg Braff Designs online here, or if you’re in the NYC/Long Island area I would highly recommend a trip to her shop in Locust Valley.

Front hall and close up photos by Francesco Lagnese all other photos by the author