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Salted Butter, Please!
Yes, Dear Reader, I use salted butter. Because I like it.When I was growing up we didn't use unsalted butter in the Darling household. It would have never occurred to MD to use anything but salted...
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Reggie Out & About: Brian McCarthy Book Signing Party and the Irish Georgian...
Reggie is a social animal. He likes gadding about town and country, meeting up with friends and making new acquaintances. He finds it stimulating and, more often than not, amusing. And it is a...
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Reggie Throws a Dinner Party, Part I
Today's post, the first of two, discusses the planning and preparations for a dinner party that Boy and I hosted at Darlington House last weekend. I thought it might be of interest—at least to one or...
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Thanksgiving at Darlington House
I have much to be thankful for, Dear Reader. Every moment of every day.Sometimes in the rushed and frenzied world of obligations and deadlines that I live in, though, I forget to take a moment to...
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A Reggie Roadtrip: Atlanta, Part II
Today's post is the second part of my two-part series on Reggie and Boy's whirlwind visit to Atlanta, the Biggest, Boomingest City of the South. You can read the first part here.After an evening spent...
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Brussels Sprouts Redux
Today at the Farmers Market in the nearby town to Darlington I was pleased to find that fresh Brussels sprouts were still available, even though there is now a dusting of snow on the ground in the...
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Basil's First Darlington Christmas Begins . . .
Boy tells me that I am wasting too much time and too many images by posting on my Facebook page instead of here at Reggie. He thinks I've been neglecting you, Dear Reader.So I'm going to do something...
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Reggie Recommends, Again: Agraria's Bitter Orange Potpourri
I received a package the other day, Dear Reader, containing an unexpected and thoughtful gift from the owners of Agraria, a home fragrance company based in San Francisco. It was a box of their Bitter...
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Christmas Traditions at Darlington
Every family, however you define it, has its own Christmas traditions. At least those of us families who observe Christmas, which we do at Darlington House. I celebrate Christmas for the enjoyment of...
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It Is All Rather a Blur . . .
Christmas came somewhat late to Darlington this year. Not after the fact, mind you, as we observed the appropriate dates as they occurred on the calendar. No, I'm talking about when the psychology of...
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A Round Hill Reverie
Now that the madness of the Christmas season is over, Dear Reader, I'm planning on posting a series of essays that have been in my queue for some time. Today's post, a review of one of the Caribbean's...
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Reggie Is Having Fun Over At Privilege
Reggie is thrilled (and tickled pink) to have collaborated with LPC, the writer of the marvelous blog Privilege, on a post analyzing and discussing the sartorial style of the East Coast Grande Dame....
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Antiques Week At Last! The 2014 New York Ceramics Fair
Tuesday evening marked the official beginning of the 2014 New York Antiques Week with the opening party of the New York Ceramics Fair and the arrival of a massive snowstorm that brought the city to a...
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Antiques Week At Last! The 2014 Winter Antiques Show Opening Party
This past Thursday Boy and I attended the opening party for the Winter Antiques Show ("WAS"), held at New York's Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side.A spectacular...
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Duncan Phyfe Games Tables at the Sotheby's and Christie's Important Americana...
There are very few known pieces of furniture that carry a label from the workshop of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), one of the leading cabinet makers in America during the early part of the nineteenth...
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Winning Bid: Reggie Buys a (School of) Duncan Phyfe Games Table
In today's post I reveal which of the five school of Duncan Phyfe games tables I bought during the Important Americana auctions held in New York this January. Of the forty-three Dear Readers who...
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Ella Fitzgerald Saved My Life
In my early teens I spent a lot of time by myself, alone.As I have written before, as the youngest of four children I was the only one living at home with my parents during the several years leading up...
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Reggie Out & About: Glenda Ruby Book Signing Party at Olana
Not long before the Holiday Season Madness descended upon us, Boy and I were invited to and attended a book signing party held at Olana, the celebrated, exotic fantasy of a stately home built by...
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Remembrances of Things Past
Have you ever found yourself in a place, far, far away from home, that reminds you, quite vividly, of another time and place in your life?A chartered plane at one's disposal is a most addicting...
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The Old Gray Barn Is Getting a Facelift
One of the joys (and responsibilities) of Darlington is that it has a number of buildings on the property. Four, to be specific. In addition to the brick and clapboard main house there are two wooden...
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More Barrels of Darlington
Several years ago I wrote a post about my affection for barrel-shaped objects. I'm drawn to them, Dear Reader, and have collected them for as long as I can remember. I find objects made in the shape...
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Watch Your Language, Please!
I've got to get something off my chest, Dear Reader. I am supremely weary of hearing people drop the F-bomb. It seems that almost every place I go these days I hear someone using it over and over in...
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Reggie Out & About: Maureen Footer's George Stacey Book Signing Party at...
As many readers of this blog well know, Reggie has a penchant for attending book signing parties, particularly ones that celebrate the authors of beautiful design books.Last night he attended one in...
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The Great Marmalade Exchange
I grew up in a house where marmalade was a staple of the table. My mother, MD, was mad for marmalade, and she would heap it on hot buttered toast at breakfast or at afternoon tea, or on crackers...
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Reggie's Return
Hello Dear Reader. After a one year and one month absence, I am pleased to return to the Blogosphere, and to pick up with you where I left off. It has been an event-filled period in my life, with...
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