Chic arsenic hellhole manner decorator Carly Cushnie knows however to outfit her location arsenic elegantly arsenic she does her customers. (Cushnie cofounded the much-adored planetary manner enactment Cushnie et Ochs successful 2008, dressing women similar Michelle Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Beyoncé, and Liya Kebede until she closed her concern successful 2020 and joined the committee of directors of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.) The ma of 2 is present dipping her toed into the satellite of interiors—she’s partnering with the location décor level Lulu and Georgia to redesign a Tribeca flat for a client.
Her Brooklyn brownstone has agelong been the designated office for boozy person dinners and intimate backyard Sunday brunches, not to notation more-ambitious festivities. “Before the pandemic and earlier we had kids, my hubby and I hosted a seated Thanksgiving meal for twenty-seven people!” she laughs. “And I was adamant that it had to beryllium sit-down and not a buffet with insubstantial plates. My hubby wanted to termination me.”
If their parties person lately been a small little full-on, the self-proclaimed “raging foodies” inactive navigator astir each nighttime and entertain with a vengeance. From what to navigator and however to acceptable the array to making definite nary one’s caught wearing socks with holes successful them, Cushnie’s tips are next-level.
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Don’t dispersed yourself bladed with excessively galore courses oregon dishes.
Cushnie astir often goes for one-pot oregon one-pan main courses (she’s a instrumentality of Staub cookware). “I emotion roasting a full food due to the fact that it’s truthful casual but beautiful: a flaky branzino that you conscionable sprinkle with salt, pepper, and olive lipid and past enactment successful a cookware surrounded by autumn veggies similar acorn oregon butternut squash and eggplant. Or my hubby makes an astonishing oxtail ragout. It simmers for thing similar twenty-four hours—it’s fabulous. Either way, you’re relaxed capable that you tin intermission and person a portion with radical arsenic they travel in.”
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Make your array fun,
not precious.
Cushnie loves to question and astir ever comes location with a stuffed suitcase. “My hubby is Mexican, truthful we spell to Mexico a lot. We got immoderate gorgeous napkins there, past immoderate beauteous bowls and copper serving plates successful Morocco,” she says. “A person gave america a vintage greenish glassware acceptable from the 1930s; different gave america a runner from Brazil arsenic our wedding present. And each that large worldly ends up connected the array and makes it interesting.”
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In the aforesaid mode her pieces nail the equilibrium betwixt casual and polished, Cushnie combines precocious and debased astatine home: “I emotion my plates from Crate & Barrel that look large with my napkins,” she says. “I privation the array to look eclectic, not excessively prim oregon refined. If you acceptable the array with crystal glasses, possibly offset them with woven spot mats.”
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Let your obsessed-over cookbook alteration the mode you eat.
“I went connected a large Yotam Ottolenghi kick. He’s celebrated for utilizing truthful galore antithetic herbs and spices—things I don’t usually person successful my pantry. But erstwhile you bargain immoderate the look calls for, you’ve made that investment, truthful you marque your adjacent meals utilizing those caller ingredients,” says Cushnie. “For my husband’s day dinner, I made Ottolenghi’s solemnisation cocoa barroom and his mushroom chestnut sticky rice. I enactment a candle successful both.”
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The extremity of the repast should beryllium elemental and spectacular.
“Maybe due to the fact that I grew up successful London, I bash food aft the meal, not arsenic an appetizer,” Cushnie says. “I emotion ricotta with toasted hazelnuts, topped with a drizzle of beauteous chromatic and salt. It’s mind-blowing and truthful elemental to propulsion together.” Another favourite involves vinegar: “I got a truly large balsamic successful France,” she says. “You conscionable determination it into a spoon and devour it conscionable similar that, oregon implicit vanilla crystal cream, it’s syrupy but a small tart, too—just divine.”
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When she does cook thing sweet, it’s ne'er saccharine. “I effort to marque a healthier mentation and cook a barroom with coconut sugar,” she says. She serves it with mint tea, dessert wine, oregon brandy. “Or cognac,” she adds, “if it’s a spot acold outside.”
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Trick retired the bathroom.
“People are bound to meander to the bathroom,” says Cushnie. So marque it memorable. “I redid our tiny impermanent bath disconnected the surviving country into this small jewel container pulverization country that’s a spot of a astonishment compared to the remainder of the house,” she says of its more-lavish vibe. “The wallpaper has flowers and birds, the level is marble herringbone, and there’s a vintage crystal chandelier that we picked up astatine a marketplace successful Mexico City.” Even if a afloat renovation isn’t successful the cards, dim the lights, acceptable up a elephantine achromatic pump vessel of neroli manus wash, plush towels, a chic bath mat, immoderate flickering candles, and a fewer luxe small beauty indulgences.
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Stemmed vino glasses are much momentous.
“They conscionable consciousness sexier erstwhile you’re entertaining,” says Cushnie, who goes stemless for a low-key weeknight solid of vino astatine home. “I’m a large vino drinker. I was told by idiosyncratic that successful my past beingness I owned a vineyard, and I was like, That sounds right! Food is specified a celebration, and I’m successful emotion with the full experience—the wine, the food, the coming together.”
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Dress up and consciousness fantastic.
“It’s bully to decorativeness cooking and instrumentality a infinitesimal to enactment yourself unneurotic earlier radical arrive,” says Cushnie, who mightiness gaffe into 1 of her ain sleek creations. “I often spell for a dress, thing that looks large but is besides casual to determination successful and comfortable.” As for makeup: “I deterioration a batch little of it lately since becoming a mom. I conscionable privation my tegument to look fresh.”
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Give beforehand informing if it’s no-shoes.
“It messes up your outfit erstwhile you get to a enactment and person to footwear disconnected your shoes,” Cushnie laughs. “The happening to bash is springiness radical a heads up that it’s no-shoes, truthful you tin spell successful with a brace of quite-cool socks, versus erstwhile you’re blindsided and get trapped wearing the ones with holes.” Her caveat to the rule: “If we’re having a large enactment and everyone’s going successful and retired to the yard, shoes-on is easier.”
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Shift the vigor of the country and get people dancing.
Dim the lights—or amended yet, platform the array with candles—to promote freewheeling goings-on. (Cushnie has been known to play British R&B/house/disco radical Sault, arsenic good arsenic Afrobeat.) She goes for debased candles, eschewing sticks oregon candelabras that are truthful precocious that they artifact the look of the idiosyncratic sitting crossed from you. For parties successful the backyard, she gets much creative: “We went to Vietnam for our honeymoon and came backmost and drunkenly bought a clump of Vietnamese lanterns astatine a marketplace successful Queens,” she says. “It mixes it up having those back there.”
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Do a morning-after sage smudge.
“A enactment involves a batch of antithetic energies that radical are coming into your location with,” Cushnie says. “Better to instrumentality retired the smudge instrumentality erstwhile they’ve each left.”
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