Category: eye candy

• Spruce up the Library with Chic Bookends

  Home libraries don’t have to be quiet, stuffy or drab. We say make them CHIC! If you’re not sure how to infuse style into your library—or any other spaces and shelves your books call home—check out these amazing bookends from Chic Shop: Vintage Marble Cockatoo Bookends Brass Sailboat Bookends Antique Brass Indian Elephant Bookends Antique […]

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  June 15, 2011

  crushing on, eye candy

  Chic Shop, Hillary Thomas Designs blog, vintage bookends

• The Finial Touch: Lucky Madame Chiang Collection

  We’ve just launched our new Asian-inspired collection for The Finial Touch lamp finials…The Lucky Madame Chiang Collection.  We decided to name them after Soong May-ling (aka Madame Chiang) because she was such an inspirational and CHIC woman! Born in China in 1898 and later educated in the U.S, Soong May-ling was one remarkable woman. She […]

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  June 3, 2011

  eye candy

  Asian-inspired finials, Hillary Thomas Designs, Madame Chiang Collection, oriental design, The Finial Touch

• Shopping the Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach

  Hillary recently helped Marlien Rentmeester of Lucky magazine furnish Marlien’s new Cape-Cod-style home. (You may have seen some of it in the Jan/Feb issue of Lonny!) Believe it or not, together Hillary and Marlien hit the thrift stores on the Dixie Highway in Palm Beach and were able to find most of the home’s fabulously […]

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  May 26, 2011

  eye candy, featured, the hunt

  Dixie Highway, Hillary Thomas Designs, home furnishings, thrift store shopping, vintage

• Cheers to Chic Bar Setups!

  We have a thing for vintage barware, and we must say, a home bar to show it off in is an added bonus! (It’s five o’clock somewhere, right?!) Thank goodness home entertaining has come a long way from the days of the stuffy sitting room. We especially love that throwing a fun or impromptu party […]

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  May 24, 2011

  eye candy, featured

  Chic Shop, Hillary Thomas, interior design, vintage barware

• Finials: The Final Touch

  We think of finials as jewelry for your lamps. Just as an outfit looks unfinished without the perfect necklace or earrings, a lamp looks unfinished without a really CHIC  finial to top things off. Since these crowning jewels are often overlooked by the design world—you may have noticed it’s hard to find a great finial […]

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  May 24, 2011

  eye candy, featured

  Chic Shop, finials, Hillary Thomas Designs, lamp finials, The Finial Touch