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On Assignment with Jeffrey Moss The Art of Living Santa Barbara California
I'm Jeffrey Moss on assignment in central California for Pottery Barn's Fall season.
Pottery Barn celebrates the Art of Living.
And while prepping for Fall photo I encountered much that would convey a sense of this art.
I visited the home furnishings shop William Laman in Montecito
A verdant enclave right next to Santa Barbara.
Well that's what's so special about Santa Barbara.
Everything just has that kind of earthy feel to it right now,
and I think people are really relating to that.
This is a wonderful table from France
The base is 19th century oak and the top is pieced Belgian bluestone.
It's just so soft and organic looking.
Yes it's wonderful!
Stools are something that I really gravitate toward when I'm propping.
This, in particular, is so gorgeous
because it's got this woven top to it made of gut.
This is clearly and old stool here,
it has the benefit of years and years worth of patina.
This is great. Look how this is kind of just hacked from wood.
I was especially thrilled to discover Lotusland,
a collection of gardens created by a woman
who was celebrated as much for her beauty and glamour, 0:01:23.750,0:01:26.800 as for her visionary approach to landscape.
Madame Ganna Walska was an opera diva.
She was married six times.
Her last husband was Theos Bernard, but they did not stay together
and after that she stopped collecting husbands and started collecting plants. Haha!
What she did was really start an aesthetic for gardens that no one's ever seen before.
Wow!
This is a lovely place to be in the evening
because as the sun sets, then the spines start to glow
and you get all these colors, and you can see
as you look. that some of the spines are going to glow
white and yellow and red and orange
and so the whole garden lights up in a different way
when the sun moves through the garden
This place is magical. It is magical!
This is our Theater Garden!
It's a great space, small but really intimate and wonderful.
I love these set pieces that are the hedges that are coming in,
just as an old-style stage would be.
You know, I think it takes really eccentric people to dream up stuff like this, and aren't we lucky for it.
Very much so!
Sometimes the Art of Living means little luxuries.
When I'm looking for uncommon and special things to prop a Pottery Barn set,
I love to visit my friend Kimberly Phillips' store, Maison K.
Whether it's me as a buyer or a person in their room, they have to learn to edit, (Yeah)
because not everything needs to be shown at once
and if you're able to pare it down and pull something out another time
and rotate your collection of things I think that's important.
That's a brilliant idea.
I'm a little bit rustic, I'm a little bit Chateau Versailles
I mean, I really like it all, it's true. (Haha)
These are my favorite things in the store right now and there's just a few of them left.
Suzanis are a dowry textile that families make for the women
before they get married and they are passed down through generations (Ohhh)
and these are really an unusual palette.
These pieces here are so, so, dramatic!
They are Ethipian crosses and they are now mainly decorative items.
They're stunning!
I feel like today we've travelled the world and I'm really hungry
and we made plans for dinner so I am looking forward to that.
I don't know where we're going though...
My favorite place in town is called The Hungry Cat. (The Hungry Cat!)
Fantastic food every single time, it's really my favorite.
Hi, table for two please!
I've really been looking forward to this, I'm so glad you suggested it!
Oh! Well it's the best place in town so you can't go wrong.
So it's about cocktails and seafood?
Amazing oysters from all over.
I'm gonna try and talk to the chef.
So I'm here with my friend Kimberly tonight, we're having dinner.
So what do you recommend?
The gem lettuce salad is really good.
Gem lettuce is a small, petite lettuce we get from the local farmers' market.
We've got pan-roasted Alaskan halibut.
On the bottom is a spring onion purŽe, then we have a ragout of asparagus
and then pickled ramp and kumquat relish on top of it.
Drake, thanks a lot! Thank you Jeffrey.
I appreciate speaking with you and I can see you're busy
so I'm looking forward to the meal! All right, enjoy!
Ooohh! Beautiful!
Yummy! Can I get you anything else?
I think we'll be perfectly happy. Thank you!
Needless to say, Kimberly and I had a great meal.
Cheers, to the Art of Living.
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