Valentine Collection

A conversation starter, a tabletop showstopper this handbuilt fruit bowl features a hand carved and hand panted intricate pattern inside out. Colors white majolica/blue. 

9.5 x 10 x 3”

A knot between each stone prevents the stones from rubbing against each other, and protects them from chips and damage, and in the unlikely event that the silk thread breaks, the knots prevent all the stones from sliding out. The necklace is also back-knotted, increasing its security and reducing the chances of the necklace coming undone.

Care: As the necklace is threaded with silk, it important to avoid excessive moisture from activities such as swimming, showering, and exercising. Excessive moisture will cause the silk to stretch. Wipe the gemstones with a damp cloth, if needed. If you take care of them, they will last many years.

-19.25" long
-Hand-knotted on jade silk
-4-4.5mm faceted peridot
-14K gold-filled -Lobster clasp

A knot between each stone prevents the stones from rubbing against each other, and protects them from chips and damage, and in the unlikely event that the silk thread breaks, the knots prevent all the stones from sliding out. The necklace is also back-knotted, increasing its security and reducing the chances of the necklace coming undone.

Care: As the necklace is threaded with silk, it important to avoid excessive moisture from activities such as swimming, showering, and exercising. Excessive moisture will cause the silk to stretch. Wipe the gemstones with a damp cloth, if needed. If you take care of them, they will last many years.

-18.5" long
-Hand-knotted on jade silk
-Graduated 4-6mm natural Mexican fire opal
-14K gold-filled Lobster clasp

A knot between each stone prevents the stones from rubbing against each other, and protects them from chips and damage, and in the unlikely event that the silk thread breaks, the knots prevent all the stones from sliding out. The necklace is also back-knotted, increasing its security and reducing the chances of the necklace coming undone.

Care: As the necklace is threaded with silk, it important to avoid excessive moisture from activities such as swimming, showering, and exercising. Excessive moisture will cause the silk to stretch. Wipe the gemstones with a damp cloth, if needed. If you take care of them, they will last many years.

-15" long
-Hand-knotted on jade silk
-4.5 - 5mm multi-colored aquamarine
-14K gold-filled -Lobster clasp

Aquamarine translates to 'color of the sea'.  Legend has it that aquamarine is the treasure of mermaids and that sailors carried them around for luck and protection while at sea. It is said to be a stone of courage and letting go, bringing calmness and support to its wearers.

A knot between each stone prevents the stones from rubbing against each other, and protects them from chips and damage, and in the unlikely event that the silk thread breaks, the knots prevent all the stones from sliding out. The necklace is also back-knotted, increasing its security and reducing the chances of the necklace coming undone.

Care: As the necklace is threaded with silk, it important to avoid excessive moisture from activities such as swimming, showering, and exercising. Excessive moisture will cause the silk to stretch. Wipe the gemstones with a damp cloth, if needed. If you take care of them, they will last many years.

-17" long
-Hand-knotted on blue silk
-5-8mm aquamarine chip
-925 sterling silver

Hand painted ceramic fish with gold luster on 14k gold plated chain.  Handmade in Brooklyn NY.

11.5”

The perfect everyday accessory, will look great on it's own or layered. The 1.5” charm is made in small batches in speckled stoneware and finished with highest quality gold luster.

17” Gold plated chain included   

Handmade in Brooklyn.

Vintage beads and a new porcelain shell charm strung by hand with silk thread. Made in Brooklyn, NY.

Height 7 inches.

Green Onyx & Gold Vermeil sticks on chain on gold fill earwire. These unique earrings offer a captivating combination of natural beauty and stylish elegance! Crafted with exquisite attention to detail, these earrings are sure to become one of your favorite accessories. Enjoy the eye-catching combination of colors and textures every time you wear them! ECST4

Matte white glaze and geometric shape. 

8” h x 5.25” w x 4.5” diameter

8 Glass Hand Vases, blue, milk and frosted
Dimensions: 6 1/2" H to 10 1/2" H
Property from the Litchfield Estate of Tracy Griswold

Experience the perfect combination of modern and classic style with these statement earrings. Crafted from gold and blue, they feature a unique grid pattern for a unique look. Ideal for both casual and formal occasions, they are sure to add charm to any outfit.

• Hand cut and sculpted with porcelain, shape and size may vary slightly

• Lightweight

• Sterling silver studs and back, details in liquid gold

Porcelain is fragile, be mindful when handling over hard floors. If good care is taken it can last a lifetime.

Unglazed areas can become dirty overtime, you can clean with a damp cloth and mild soap.

 

These Medium Round Brown+ Gold Grid Earrings offer a unique combination of brown and gold for a captivating and eye-catching accessory. The gold metal reflects the light to create a beautiful intricate pattern on the brown plastic. Perfect for casual or formal occasions!

• Hand cut and sculpted with porcelain, shape and size may vary slightly

• Lightweight

• Sterling silver studs and back, details in liquid gold

Notes or additional information about the work. 

Porcelain is fragile, be mindful when handling over hard floors. If good care is taken it can last a lifetime.

Unglazed areas can become dirty overtime, you can clean with a damp cloth and mild soap.

 

A whimsical accesory that will spark joy and optimism throughout your day.

At the heart of this joyfull bracelet lies a carefully crafted daisy shaped charm handmade in porcelain and finished with 24K gold.

The charm is set on waxed thread that is adjustable in size thanks to its clever sliding knot, fitting almost any size of wrist or even ankles.

Note: Each piece is lovingly handmade, and due to the unique nature of the materials and craftsmanship, slight variations may occur, making your piece truly one-of-a-kind.

These Medium Round Green Porcelain Earrings add a subtle yet stylish pop of color to any wardrobe. Crafted from high-quality porcelain, these earrings are durable and easily transition from day to night.

• Hand cut and sculpted with porcelain, shape and size may vary slightly

• Lightweight

• Sterling silver studs and back, details in liquid gold

Notes or additional information about the work. 

Porcelain is fragile, be mindful when handling over hard floors. If good care is taken it can last a lifetime.

Unglazed areas can become dirty overtime, you can clean with a damp cloth and mild soap.

When traveling keep your earrings inside a box to avoid pressure and preferably carry in your personal bag.

 

• Hand cut and sculpted with porcelain, shape and size may vary slightly

• Lightweight

• Sterling silver studs and back, details in liquid gold

Notes or additional information about the work. 

Porcelain is fragile, be mindful when handling over hard floors. If good care is taken it can last a lifetime.

Unglazed areas can become dirty overtime, you can clean with a damp cloth and mild soap.

When traveling keep your earrings inside a box to avoid pressure and preferably carry in your personal bag.

 

Smart, thoughtful, and sophisticated, this is part of a series of small books ((5" x 7", 36 pages), which offer cooks a creative menu to share with a small group of friends or family (four to six people depending on how heartily they eat).

The books themselves are simply designed and printed, though the recipes show flair. The menu the recipes comprise is never routine. In this case the core ingredients of shrimp, corn, pumpkin, chili, orange, and vanilla become:

• Applejack and maple cocktail
• Pumpkin soup
• Shrimp Mozambique with cornbread
• Sauteed cauliflower with pepita-chili paste and cotija
• Grand marnier souffle with creme anglaise

Almost everyone who has bought one Menu has bought another and then another.

Paperback.

This is part of an imaginative series of small books, each of which offers a charming seasonal dinner menu. There is a confident, thoughtful unpredictability about them which we greatly admire.

They truly are small (5" x 7", 36 pages), but composed with care. Author Brian Voll is a home cook who enjoys having friends over to give himself an excuse to step outside his usual boundaries.

Voll provides a shopping list and is careful not to ask you to buy an ingredient only to use two snips of it. In this volume, for instance, the parsley, cilantro and pineapple will be used in three recipes, the radishes, carrots, ricotta, and orange in two recipes, and the indispensable lemons in five recipes. There's also a page called Get Ahead which tells you what can be done in advance.

Menu No 6 offers recipes for:

• Mezcal cocktail with tepache
• Radishes with anchovy butter
• Raviolo al'uovo nel brodo di Parmigiano
• Green harissa rice pilaf
• Asparagus and roasted-pickled beets
• Cod broiled in chermoula
• Carrot cake with cardamom and fromage blanc

Paperback.

Brian Voll's Menu series is a collection of small books (5" x 7", 36 pages), that offer a charming combination of practicality, hospitality, and style, all in the form of, yes, a menu for dinner, with recipes, a shopping list, and a few thoughts on not being wasteful with ingredients while still offering your guests something out-of-the-ordinary.

The core ingredients for Menu No 5 are beef, mustard, fresh chilies, dried chilies, and butter. With some supplemental ingredients, time, and culinary effort, they become:

• Agave cocktail
• Tomato and crab soup with sweet potato and chiles
• Cornmeal molasses rolls
• Bloody beef with arugula, mint, and mustard
• Carrot mash with brown butter and spices
• Paste di Meliga (cornmeal sandwich cookies with Italian meringue buttercream)

The food isn't revolutionary; it's not meant to be. But it's smart and thoughtful and it might just get you out of a rut.

The fourth in a series of small, adventurous books, each dedicated to a thoughtfully composed dinner menu that acknowledges seasonality, strives to reduce food waste, and respects a cook's interest in good food.

Ten recipes comprise Menu No 4, setting the cook on a path to an intimate, practical meal which seems fully apt for late fall. Brian Voll, a self-taught cook who enjoys entertaining his friends at home, doesn't ask you to shop extravagantly—and he thoughtfully provides a grocery list. He also respects your time with plenty of make-ahead advice to reduce your labor the day your company visits.

Menu No 4 provides recipes for:

• Applejack cocktail
• Harcha (a Moroccan pan-fried flatbread)
• Roasted butternut squash with sage yogurt
• Green salad with apples and herbes de Provence
• Chili-roasted duck breast with potatoes and preserved apples
  
• Ginger-poached pears with vanilla yogurt

And there are a few smart follow-up ideas as well, in the unlikely case you have leftovers.

 

The third in an imaginative series of small books, each of which offers a charming dinner menu.  There is an emphasis on reducing food waste by thoughtful use of ingredients, and on careful preparation to prevent last minute fuss.

There are twelve different recipes in this small book (5" x 7", 36 pages). In addition to Voll's notes on shopping and cooking ahead, there is also a short rumination on preserving that may include the first reference to Homer we've seen prefacing a jam recipe.

Menu No. 3 offers recipes for

• Gin Cocktail
• Grilled Lobster with Parsley and Scallion Butter
• Charred Vegetables with Creamy Scallion Dressing
• Hush Puppies
• Green Salad
• Olive Oil Gelato with Tomato Jam
• a bonus

As for author Brian Voll, a self-taught, trial-and-error, home cook, he says,

I was born in Indiana to a mother who loved to cook and considered her kitchen a laboratory to try any and every interesting or unusual recipe that she came across. Her five children were her guinea pigs, and when a recipe turned out, we ate very well. When a recipe didn’t turn out, we ate a lot of pizza.

Since moving to New York ages ago, I’ve been recreating that dynamic among my chosen family in my little kitchen. Each of my cookbooklets is a distillation of a really good night when everybody ate very well, when the recipes I’d been tinkering with finally came together. The series is as much a memoir as it is a collection of recipes. Embedded within each page are the kinds of things I like to cook—inspired by travels around the world and New York City, rooted in my friends and family, and grounded in how I think about cooking: solving the puzzle for maximizing flavor and minimizing waste.

My hope is that these stories inspire people to take pleasure in home cooking with good friends.

The second in an imaginative series of small books, each of which offers a charming dinner menu. The Italian word sprezzatura is mentioned early in this volume, referring to studied carelessness or effortless elegance. It's most apt.

The 7 recipes in this small book (5" x 7", 36 pages), are  accompanied by a shopping list as well as notes on what author Brian Voll calls Get Ahead.  You can make the jam you'll need months in advance, and the panna cotta you'll serve it alongside will hold for two days in the refrigerator. Resourcefully-minded cooks will note that buttermilk, parsley, dill, and lemons, all do double or triple duty, reducing waster

Menu No 2 offers recipes for:

• Gin cocktail
• Spicy mussel soup
  
• Buttermilk-brined roast chicken
  
• Freekeh salad with fennel and chilies
• Green beans with prosciutto and gremolata
  
• Buttermilk panna cotta with fig and orange jam
  

As for author Brian Voll, a self-taught, trial-and-error, home cook, he says,

I was born in Indiana to a mother who loved to cook and considered her kitchen a laboratory to try any and every interesting or unusual recipe that she came across. Her five children were her guinea pigs, and when a recipe turned out, we ate very well. When a recipe didn’t turn out, we ate a lot of pizza.

Since moving to New York ages ago, I’ve been recreating that dynamic among my chosen family in my little kitchen. Each of my cookbooklets is a distillation of a really good night when everybody ate very well, when the recipes I’d been tinkering with finally came together. The series is as much a memoir as it is a collection of recipes. Embedded within each page are the kinds of things I like to cook—inspired by travels around the world and New York City, rooted in my friends and family, and grounded in how I think about cooking: solving the puzzle for maximizing flavor and minimizing waste.

My hope is that these stories inspire people to take pleasure in home cooking with good friends.

 

The first in a series of small books, each dedicated to a thoughtfully composed dinner menu that acknowledges seasonality, strives to reduce food waste, and respects a cook's interest in good food.

There are just 9 recipes in this small book (5" x 7", 36 pages), but they are accompanied by a shopping list as well as what Brian Voll calls distributing the burden.  Make the peach butter a month ahead (you will have several jars, so you can enjoy some of it immediately). The savory granola can be made weeks out, and so too the whiskey cocktail. And when you make the amaretti for dessert, you'll use the peach kernel from the jam.

In exchange for your interest in his modest plan, Voll will invite you to step ever-so-slightly outside your comfort zone.

Charming and smart, Menu No 1 offers recipes for:

• Whiskey cocktail
• Butternut Squash on toast
• Smothered rabbit with buttermilk and cheddar grits
• Romaine salad with roasted eggplant dressing and savory granola
• Sauteed cauliflower with anchovies and parsley
• Amaretti morbidi and sabayon

As for author Brian Voll, a self-taught, trial-and-error, home cook, he says,

I was born in Indiana to a mother who loved to cook and considered her kitchen a laboratory to try any and every interesting or unusual recipe that she came across. Her five children were her guinea pigs, and when a recipe turned out, we ate very well. When a recipe didn’t turn out, we ate a lot of pizza.

Since moving to New York ages ago, I’ve been recreating that dynamic among my chosen family in my little kitchen. Each of my cookbooklets is a distillation of a really good night when everybody ate very well, when the recipes I’d been tinkering with finally came together. The series is as much a memoir as it is a collection of recipes. Embedded within each page are the kinds of things I like to cook—inspired by travels around the world and New York City, rooted in my friends and family, and grounded in how I think about cooking: solving the puzzle for maximizing flavor and minimizing waste.

My hope is that these stories inspire people to take pleasure in home cooking with good friends.

Our "Sending Love Your Way!" card is letterpress printed on a vintage printing press. Card includes a heavy duty gold champagne bottle paper clip. •Paper: Bright White, Tree-Free 100% Cotton Paper, •Ink: Red •Envelope: Metallic Silver •Size: 5.5" x 4.25" •Folded card, blank inside •Sealed in a cello sleeve

Details: Size A2 (4.25 x 5.5); INSIDE: Blank; PAPER: Premium 100lb. Creme Colored Goodness; PRINTING: 4 Color Offset; ENVELOPE: Copper Metallic 80lb.

Our "real-life Tinderella story" funny love card is letterpress printed on a vintage printing press.  Paper: Bright White, tree-free 100% cotton paper. Ink:  Black. Envelope: Coral. Size: 4.25" x 5.5". Folded card, blank inside. Sealed in a cello sleeve.

Our "I Love You and All Your Crazy" card is letterpress printed on a vintage printing press. •Paper: Bright White, Tree-Free 100% Cotton Paper •Ink: Black •Envelope: Metallic Coral •Size: 5.5" x 4.25" •Folded card, blank inside •Sealed in a cello sleeve

Our "Love Love Love Your Face" love and anniversary card is letterpress printed on a vintage printing press. Paper: Bright White, Tree-Free 100% Cotton Paper Text: Shiny Silver Foil Envelope: Silver Size: 5.5" x 4.25" Folded card, blank inside Sealed in a cello sleeve