Worth Noting Courier 23

The monthly Worth Noting Courier, delivered every first Sunday, is where I gather the things that have delighted, inspired, intrigued, or distracted me throughout the month… from beautiful homes and thoughtful articles to stylish people and brands, internet rabbit holes, and a few personal updates along the way. Enjoy!

Hello, readers. I had a blissful weekend to myself in DC and spent most of it turning my dining room into a packaging and shipping station for my summer zine. It feels like every inch of the past few weeks has been dedicated to finalizing this issue, updating stationery, getting everything printed, ordering shipping supplies, fixing printing issues, and bringing my storefront back online. I cannot tell you how excited I am about this issue.

I’ll share more on launch day, but paid subscribers will receive an email first with an opportunity to snag a copy before I announce the official launch here and on Instagram - as with last year, the batch is small! Assuming all my ducks are finally in a row, that early access email will go out this week (fingers very crossed).

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Anyhow, July is well underway and summer seems to be flying by. In about two weeks, I’m heading off for my annual family beach vacation, and I need it badly. I simply cannot wait for a full week offline. No laptop. Just hours with people who make me belly laugh, in the sand and ocean, boardwalk fries and ice cream, salty hair, flip-flops, cold showers after the beach, the smell of sunscreen lingering in the air, and all the small joys that come with an East Coast summer. Something to look forward to.

This month’s Worth Noting Courier is arriving a bit later than usual, but I still had so many beautiful things saved away that I wanted to share. I hope you enjoy all the finds, home tours, and goodness below. Heavy on the home tours! SWOON.

Daisy Edgar-Jones for British Vogue
I’ve become increasingly enamored with the work of photographer Szilveszter Makó, particularly after his dreamy editorial with Elle Fanning earlier this year, so I was delighted to see him behind Daisy Edgar-Jones’s latest British Vogue cover story. The photographs are absolutely exquisite: romantic, painterly, and suspended somewhere between a period drama and a fever dream. I enjoyed the interview as well, particularly Daisy’s reflections on perfectionism, creativity, and her upcoming Sense and Sensibility adaptation, but it was the imagery that truly stopped me in my tracks.

The Eternal Appeal of Jane Austen Adaptations
As someone who will happily watch yet another grand house fill with yearning, misunderstandings, beautiful dresses, and emotionally repressed men, I loved this look at why Jane Austen remains so endlessly adaptable. The piece makes a lovely case for the particular magic of these stories, from the wit and romance to the exquisite world-building and comforting promise that order will eventually be restored. Speaking of Sense and Sensibility (and the new Pride and Prejudice) on the way, it also considers how each generation reshapes Austen in its own image.

A Venetian Fantasy in The World of Interiors
This house stopped me in my tracks. The World of Interiors visited the Venice home of Gian Carlo Bussei, who has spent decades building what can only be described as an elaborate domestic fantasy, imagining his rooms as the temporary quarters of a Napoleonic officer posted along the Giudecca Canal. The entire home feels layered with memory, imagination, inherited objects, and collected fragments from past lives.

Remy Renzullo’s Tuscan Hotel
I’ve loved Remy Renzullo’s work for years, and even the little glimpses he shares on Instagram tend to send me into a decorating reverie. His first hotel, Le Lappe, looks every bit as layered and romantic as I hoped, with antique beds, hand-painted walls, botanical details, and rooms that feel collected rather than designed. I especially love that the whole place seems to embrace a quieter, less polished corner of Tuscany rather than the usual postcard version.

Queen Margrethe’s Collaged Worlds
I was delighted to learn that Denmark’s former Queen Margrethe spends her time creating elaborate découpage interiors and theatrical sets from clipped images. This profile explores her lifelong fascination with storytelling, decoration, and the art of building entire worlds from fragments. I found the whole thing impossibly charming. A queen who designs costumes, translates Simone de Beauvoir, and spends her evenings cutting out chandeliers from magazines is exactly the sort of person I’d like to know. It has me so inspired to create my own little interior rooms from cutouts!

Why Romance Is Everywhere Again
This piece argues that our current fascination with romance has less to do with love stories and more to do with a growing desire for beauty, slowness, and emotional depth. I was especially taken by the idea that romance is the opposite of efficiency, a little rebellion against optimization, productivity, and the pressure to treat every moment as useful. Perhaps that helps explain why so many of us are suddenly drawn to grand houses, sweeping novels, elaborate tablescapes, handcrafts, and lives that feel just a little more cinematic.

Schuyler Samperton’s Connecticut House
If ever there were an argument for collecting what you love without worrying where it will all go, this house is it. Textile designer Schuyler Samperton filled it with inherited furniture, textiles, portraits, books, and years’ worth of treasured finds, creating rooms that feel personal, eccentric, and entirely unforced. I was especially charmed by the room reserved solely for “chatting” and the fact that she chose the house only after confirming her beloved four-poster bed would fit.

Lydia Millen’s Countryside Home
I’m already such a fan of Lydia Millen and look forward to her wonderfully cosy YouTube videos each week. They’re always beautiful, thoughtful, and genuinely enlightening, not to mention a very welcome escape into English country life. So when she recently shared a full tour of her home, garden, greenhouse, library, kitchen, and all the lovely corners she has shaped, I naturally ate up every minute. The home feels deeply personal and still evolving, filled with books, collected treasures, seasonal rituals, and the pleasure of making a life slowly and well.

Maria de la Orden’s Paris Townhouse
I loved this look inside Maria de la Orden’s Paris townhouse, where French refinement meets the warmth and color of her Spanish roots. The house has beautiful bones (the bathroom!!!^^), but it’s the mix of Louis XVI antiques, 1970s pieces, Andalusian plates, raffia baskets, art, and wonderfully odd little objects that gives it life. Nothing feels overly styled or precious, just deeply personal and as though it has accumulated naturally over time.

Jean-Louis Deniot’s Watercress Farm
Jean-Louis Deniot looked at a crumbling nineteenth-century watercress farm and decided the logical next step was to restore it, build a folly, and launch a vodka distilled from watercress. A country retreat, a fantasy project, a love letter to collecting and craftsmanship, the entire property feels like it was dreamed up by someone incapable of doing anything halfway. The resulting world is wonderful, layered with history, beauty, and enough absurdity to make it utterly charming!

The Dreamy World of Andrew Ferolla
I recently stumbled across the art of Andrea Ferolla on Instagram and have been swooning ever since. His illustrations feel loose, glamorous, and transportive, populated by elegant figures and little scenes that seem plucked from a very chic dream or picture book. Chez Dédé itself, created by Ferolla and Daria Reina, extends that same sensibility across art, objects, fashion, and interiors. I’m now completely enchanted by their entire world and mentally arranging my next trip to Rome.

Designing a Life You’re Obsessed With
I found this piece such a bracing little reminder that a full life does not simply appear around the edges of work. Tisha writes about treating hobbies, rituals, movement, rest, and cultural curiosity as part of the architecture of a life rather than optional embellishments. I especially loved the idea of asking whether you would buy a ticket to your own life. Slightly confronting, yes, but perhaps exactly the question many of us need!

Have a fabulous week!

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