Acorns to arabella8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The collection also touched on evening, which clients are coming to the brand for more and more. In this vein, Smith whipped up wardrobe staples for cozying up: a fringed blanket coat (perfect for sitting next to a bonfire) a crisp white boyfriend shirt with New York wildflower motifs gingham knit dressing leather fisherman sandals knubby, luxe shearling, and an après-ski cashmere and camel hair jumper with sleek black leather trousers, to name a few. “It’s not really about colors that are associated with nature, but the colors that nature gives.” “Like a nerdy science experiment,” she said. Additionally, she peppered in soft hues of purple-blue and brown - derived from dyeing cabbage, avocado pit and acorns. Using materials that actually are the natural colors of those materials,” she said of the mostly neutral palette, with shots of black - to bring forth that urban New York-y vibe. “We wanted to celebrate nature and all the luxuries that it gives us. While camel, both the material and hue, became a base of the collection (as seen in the form of the ideal camel coat or sharp suit), Smith offered an eye-catching contrast with sharp metallics (inspired by Anish Kapoor sculptures) through an excellent silver foiled leather car coat and silver foil-printed cashmere camel sweater. You’ll see hints of that coming through with artificial, man-made materials against natural things,” she said of the collection. “Within it is the idea of celebrating art in nature, like Dia Beacon or Storm King. When she does, we’ll document that, too.For resort, Emily Smith channeled escapism à la an upstate New York getaway. In a five-year span our fans have watched trees become a boat that will cross oceans. ![]() All of the goals we put here five years ago, we’re pretty much doing: uploading a video once a week and making frequent Facebook and Instagram posts. This page originally said, “If we can inspire you, convince you to follow along and help us out a little, then maybe, just maybe, we can leave our jobs and build full time.” And we’re doing that now. ![]() We started with bi-weekly videos, but we’re now working on the boat full time and we are releasing one video a week to document it all. If we had continued working full time and building part time we expected to take a total of 6-10 years to build Arabella. That is the why and how, and whether we can continue depends on you. We showed a bunch of people that you could weld bronze into the prettiest (and mighty strong) jewelry one can put in a bilge. YouTube went absolutely bonkers when we made a smelter and poured that lead into a mold on video. Almost 100% of the lumber will be harvested from our property we mill boards on a small portable sawmill. We’ve foraged for and handled 12,000 lbs of scrap lead for a ballast keel. Everything for Arabella will be sourced as locally as possible, this is very important to us. When we say “build” we mean just that, from scratch, in our front yard, with our own hands. Thanks to people who document what they do, we all learn that new, difficult, apart-from-the-norm things are worth doing. We are documenting every aspect of the build as we go-we hope to inspire people through our videos on YouTube because we’ve been inspired by others who chose not only to do difficult things, but to also share how they did it. Once she’s launched, we intend to take her to the most far-flung corners of the world. Atkin calls this design Ingrid (when marconi-rigged) and Stormy Petrel (when gaff-rigged) and our boat will be named Arabella. We are building a 38’ wooden sailboat designed in 1934 by William Atkin. The challenges of building a boat are real, the journey will be long, but the rewards will be magnificent! What’s going on in Western Massachusetts, two hours from the ocean? When we started, our idea was met with healthy doses of skepticism, admiration, and even envy. ![]()
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