Orla Kiely Baby Journal

A stylish, beautifully produced spiral bound journal to record the milestones of a baby's first five years. Provides a beautifully illustrated keepsake journal to record key events and milestones of your new baby's first five formative years, including family celebrations, holidays, baby's first words, first steps and first teeth. There are guided pages for notes, pockets to store mementos, cards and letters, pages to stick photographs and drawings. Illustrated throughout with Orla Kiely striking and much-loved illustrations and featuring real-cloth quarter-binding. Orla Kiely began her career studying at Dublin's National College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art. She is the visionary and founder of a brand that is appreciated by an audience across the globe. An expert on print and color, she has created her own world that is renowned for its individual voice and unique perspective on both fashion and home ware. Her flagship store in London's Covent Garden is the epicenter of a global business that has won four prestigious UK Fashion Export Awards. Her ready-to-wear and accessories are presented seasonally at London Fashion Week, and her work extends into luggage, stationery and home ware. The Orla Kiely design studio has collaborated with many leading brands including Heal's, Apple and Uniqlo. In 2011 she opened her first US store in New York. Her new Orla Kiely House collection, which includes furniture, lighting, ceramics and textiles, was launched at Design Junction in September 2012 as part of the London Design Festival. Inspired by mid-century modern design, the collection combines Orla Kiely's distinctive flair for color and form with her understanding of function and practicality.

Internationally renowned designer Orla Kiely describes her career as 'a journey in pattern and color'. Her distinctive palette and graphic and stylized motifs in clean repeat constructions, have won her devoted fans across the world, and have helped to turn what began as a small British business designing bags, into a global fashion, accessories and homeware brand. Following the success of her first book, Pattern, Home opens the door on Orla's own house for the first time, and offers inspirational insights into using pattern and color, mixing old and new and turning a house into a liveable home. The book ends with series of beautifully photographed case studies of some of the mid-century modern homes she most admires. 'I have always been inspired by architecture and interiors so the move into furniture and homewares was completely natural', Orla says. 'To me, the home is where we can truly express our style and personality, where we can be playful'.

The world of Orla Kiely is one where pattern reigns. Immediately recognisable, her unique design language and sure sense of graphic control has seen her label become a hugely successful global brand in the decade since its launch. From her early signature bags, the collection has grown to include a complete womenswear line, accessories, travel and homeware, sold in shops and outlets worldwide.Giving a personal account of what informs her work and inspires her designs, Orla looks at pattern in all its manifestations - the impact of scale and proportion, rhythm and texture and the all-important dimension of colour. With her prints applied to a wide range of products, from bags and clothing to decorative objects and soft furnishings, she is in a unique position to comment on all the ways in which pattern can enrich our lives. Illustrated with many examples of Orla's work, along with inspirational images that have shaped her style, the result is both a visual treasury and a thoughtful guide to using pattern with flair and confidence.

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A groundbreaking look at marriage, one of the most basic and universal of all human institutions, which reveals the emotional, physical, economic, and sexual benefits that marriage brings to individuals and society as a whole. The Case for Marriage is a critically important intervention in the national debate about the future of family. Based on the authoritative research of family sociologist Linda J. Waite, journalist Maggie Gallagher, and a number of other scholars, this book’s findings dramatically contradict the anti-marriage myths that have become the common sense of most Americans. Today a broad consensus holds that marriage is a bad deal for women, that divorce is better for children when parents are unhappy, and that marriage is essentially a private choice, not a public institution. Waite and Gallagher flatly contradict these assumptions, arguing instead that by a broad range of indices, marriage is actually better for you than being single or divorced– physically, materially, and spiritually. They contend that married people live longer, have better health, earn more money, accumulate more wealth, feel more fulfillment in their lives, enjoy more satisfying sexual relationships, and have happier and more successful children than those who remain single, cohabit, or get divorced. The Case for Marriage combines clearheaded analysis, penetrating cultural criticism, and practical advice for strengthening the institution of marriage, and provides clear, essential guidelines for reestablishing marriage as the foundation for a healthy and happy society. “A compelling defense of a sacred union. The Case for Marriage is well written and well argued, empirically rigorous and learned, practical and commonsensical.” -- William J. Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues “Makes the absolutely critical point that marriage has been misrepresented and misunderstood.” -- The Wall Street Journal www.broadwaybooks.com

Looks at the interior design of twenty-seven homes of a variety of figures from the worlds of music, fashion, film, design, and art throughout the city of Paris.

Miss Petitfour enjoys having adventures that are "just the right size - fitting into a single, magical day." She is an expert at baking and eating fancy iced cakes, and her favorite mode of travel is par avion. On windy days, she takes her sixteen cats out for an airing: Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdela, Earring, Grigorovitch, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Cothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles. With the aid of her favorite tea party tablecloth as a makeshift balloon, Miss Petitfour and her charges fly over her village, having many little adventures along the way. Join Miss Petitfour and her equally eccentric felines on five magical outings -- a search for marmalade, to a spring jumble sale, on a quest for "birthday cheddar", the retrieval of a lost rare stamp and as they compete in the village's annual Festooning Festival. A whimsical, beautifully illustrated collection of tales that celebrates language, storytelling and small pleasures, especially the edible kind!