• The Design Shops and Restaurants Where Actress Jodi Balfour “Romanced Herself” in London
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    The Design Shops and Restaurants Where Actress Jodi Balfour “Romanced Herself” in London

    November 29, 2023 - By 

    Welcome to Design Detours, a series where creative people whose tastes we trust share their well-curated, design-minded travel itineraries. While shooting the third season of Ted Lasso in London for three months last year, South African actress Jodi Balfour sometimes found herself with extra time on her hands. She did “pop back to New York” to visit her wife, comedian-writer Abbi Jacobson (cocreator/costar of Broad City and the 2022 A League of Their Own adaptation), where the two split their time between Los Angeles. “But I was mostly grounded in London,” says Balfour. Having previously spent a couple of months in the…

  • How Clr Shop’s Talia Taxman Brings Color And Whimsy Into Her Berlin Apartment
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    How Clr Shop’s Talia Taxman Brings Color And Whimsy Into Her Berlin Apartment

    August 21, 2023 - By 

    “I met with a psychic a year ago and she told me that my work with textiles was something that I carried with me through ancestry,” says Talia Taxman, founder of woven textiles brand Clr Shop (pronounced “Color Shop”). “Then recently my partner and I were playing around with ChatGPT and I looked up the meaning of my last name and, sure enough, ‘taxman’ has Yiddish and Ukrainian origin and I guess ‘tux’ used to mean textile. People carried last names that had to do with what trade they were involved in so someone with my last name was probably…