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Posts tagged: golf

Apr 22, 2024 • #architecture #boca grande #golf #interior design #washington

Magnificent Places, Beautiful Spaces 4/22/24

We talked last Monday about classic style. Yet we just scratched the surface. Let's pick up again with classical design. A friend of mine wrote a book about the physical response you get from seeing beauty, “Feeling Beauty”, by Gabrielle Starr Harpole. While I can't do justice to paraphrasing the neuroscience she lays out in exquisite detail, I do intimately know the physical feeling she's describing. You walk into a magnificent building or a beautiful room, and your involuntary response seizes control - you take a pause, an audible deep breath, then emit a sigh, while a smile takes form.

One of my favorite spaces in Washington is the National Building Museum. I get that pause/big inhale/sigh/smile every time I walk in. READ MORE

Jan 29, 2024 • #golf

Golfy 1/29/24

I just got back from the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando (where I was showing my custom line of bangle bracelets). I think it might be safe to say that I knew less about golf than 99 percent of the people there - of which there were more than 30,000 (!!).

My idea of a good afternoon of golf is taking my clubs on a nice walk with some girlfriends, and just maybe my ball will actually go into the hole a few times. I spend much of the nice walk trying to avoid close encounters with real golfers, in whose way I might accidentally tread. Golfy I am not. READ MORE