The New Classics

0:00Hello, everybody. Welcome to Dear Alice. Today, we are going to be taking you through our brand new collection called The New Classics. we just launched this a couple days ago and we thought we'd take you behind the scenes and the thoughts and just talk about the pieces there it's much like being pregnant with something that you're really excited about and we just want to tell you our closest friends about the making of these pieces and why we're doing it and how and all the things quick appreach for our home furnishing design program they're all designers with degrees that work in autocad to help you figure out the perfect furnishings for your home.

0:36So all you have to do is go to our design services tab, go down to home furnishings, fill out the application, and they'll get to you within that day. This is a complimentary service. You don't have to pay them hourly, but they will help you figure out the sectional math, the rug math, help you get your room to where you want it to be, and then get the furniture coming and your dreams are coming true. Congraduritos. So yeah, Yeah, so definitely go take advantage of that in 2026. So exciting. I love that program so much. And people just go crazy for it and just rave over the designers. Can't believe it's available.

1:08And it's a fantastic way to get a look and just be able to put all your money towards furniture. We created that to share the love, honestly, so that everybody would like not do furniture mistakes. Yeah, it's so expensive to do a furniture mistake. And it's painful and it's expensive. And you want to measure twice, cut once, and they help you do that. They do. Yeah, they definitely do. Thanks, Suze. Also, if you guys aren't following us on Instagram, give us a follow at Alice Lane Interiors. That's where we're working on all of the big remodels and builds, and you can be on the front lines of all the projects that are happening.

1:42If you want to give us a follow at Alice Lane Home, that's our showroom, our furniture store, and it's all of the pieces that we're making. So this new classics collection just launched on Alice Lane Home. So you can see some of that in the making of it there. Both of them are a great follow. So we'd love for you to join us on those communities too. Okay. Should we get into it? We should get into it. Whenever we do these launches, I get so excited because you guys are in the weeds of designing the products, the R &D and getting everything to the exact right pitch, the perfect finishes and everything.

2:14But we're over here working on homes and, you know, oftentimes I'm telling you this, we need more of this. This is what every home needs. And you know this because you've worked, we've done this for 20 years. Yeah. And so the most exciting thing about these launches is that I get to hear the back end story and how you got there and the why of why these pieces were in the final cut. It takes years. Yeah. It takes years for each of these products to actually get revealed. And so and launched out to you and produced everything. So anyway, I'm really excited to go into the new classics with y 'all.

2:48We can't wait to take you through it and all of you through it. I was just going to say so many of these things, like Sue said, we're tapping into needs that are out there. So it is practical based because we know what's happening since you're on the front lines of design. Also, the HFD program is on the front lines. And because people know we make stuff, they're like, you should make an X, you know. And we used to do that when we go to market. We're like, you know what you should make? I used to remember we would tell people all the time, we need some sort of step stool in the closet. We're doing all these beautiful closets and the ceilings are 10 feet tall now in homes.

3:18and we need the closet tree, the closet cabinetry to go to the ceiling. This isn't the eighties. We're not stopping that. I can't reach my purses. Yeah. So we need all of that footage. We got to get up there further. We got to get the suitcases, the winter clothes down, whatever. And finally, we were like, gosh, dang it. We'll just make it ourselves. So six years ago was born this beautiful Lucite footstool and then it just kept going from there. And we just continued to make the things we wish existed. And now the things that do exist, we're starting to find that, oh my gosh, we could make, for instance, we're going to talk about the Nicholas daybed today.

3:52We have a Nicholas bench. We love it. And we were like, we could really do a daybed version of this. It would be so beautiful and iconic and, you know, a slightly lean, a vintage feel and take up a little more space with bolsters in it. And so now we're starting to see the family grow and have kids yeah yeah and see that dna spread in in through the line so anyway a couple pieces within the collection are that they are just the line getting bigger the family getting bigger yeah okay so should we just dive into each of them okay we're gonna just highlight a few on this podcast we won't go through every single piece in the new classics but i think some of the favorites of cory and mine yeah that we wanted to make sure and cover in today's podcast okay the first one is the Bruno Burl pedestal.

4:37You had me at Burl. Exactly. We've talked about it here with the 1970s being so hot. And I also think vintage stores being so hot and vintage is just like, they just don't make it like they used to. Burl wood, as you all know, is very expensive. This is a very expensive veneer to get, but the look is just so figured and handsome and sort of leathery. And we are known for our pedestals. We have the gallery pedestals, two heights in white, as well as the Luca pedestal, which is sculptural and beautiful, but also white, high texture white. So it's time to do a handsome, dark pedestal for the living room or, I don't know, maybe his office.

5:17You've got some sort of old bronze that you want to put on something handsome. This piece is going to fill that need. Yeah, you're going to put it in a corner of an office or float it between, you know, windows. I don't know. It's just going to fill up a really great small little space to have something incredible on it. We do this in ALID all the time, and we haven't had a dark one that's stain grade and just a really nice strong stance to hold something precious. I feel this way with any project that we're working on. There's always vacant corners. We already have a tree in the room. We've already done a big planter with a big growing tree, but there's other areas where you're just like there's a void where even if you have a big piece of art, that you need something on the ground to show off something yeah and so that's when you employ a pedestal yeah and so i'm just so happy that we have it in burlwood right yeah because yeah and it really is it's kind of like the rug that blends all the things together burlwood is the wood that blends all the other wood tones together because you have you know you have light blonds in there you have the depth and again 1970s but historically i mean you go back to historic furnishings of the 18th, 17th, 16th century, you see burl because it was just such a beautiful wood that showed a real elevated lifestyle.

6:29Just the wealthiest had it. So it has a lot of dimension and a lot of interest in it. In my opinion, if us doing a true stain grade pedestal, it has to be burl. If you just put a flat grain on it, it's just not going to be intriguing enough. Yeah, it wouldn't be high design enough. And if you have something so precious as a sculpture to put on it, you've got to have it be sitting on a foundation that's really exotic and sophisticated. So this piece is just, it's just the thing. I really love considering the vantage points of a room, like when you're coming in and what are you looking at? And so here we shot this in my home office and I put it in that first corner that you see.

7:09So you'll see it from the entryway. I see it when I come down the hall, it's higher than the furniture. And then it has a beautiful sculpture on top of it. It really is just such an exclamation point in the room. And for designers, I just think this trick is so great. Not leaving a corner empty or a vantage point left unlayered or without something beautiful to focus on. The burl pedestal, any pedestal will do this, but the burl is just, I think, so, so good. I love that you mentioned that thing about the height, because we'll do this a lot of times if they're like, I don't want to take care of a real tree.

7:42You do a pedestal with as far as like some green planting or branches or something up there just to kind of give height give life in the world this is such a beautiful job and it's a cool way pedestals in general if you want to refresh your room and you have a pedestal you're going to get one yeah you switch out what's on top of there and all of a sudden you have this curated art gallery that's just in rotation and just being refreshed with the time so that is the glory of a pedestal it's so fun to play with totally totally and you have a pedestal an old brass pedestal that you had a vintage shop that you put a house plant in and then you can put it in a corner between two windows and plants just love living in the light plants house plants have been really popular you know the last several years still are so even if you're looking for that perfect sculpture or something to put atop it you could start with you know a big beautiful chinese bowl or portuguese bowl or something and then have some sort of tree planted or house planted or put a fern on it that could be a really great placeholder until you find this precious object yep i love it that's cool i love it okay so from bruno let's go to our cocoon smoke this might be my favorite yeah it's also the hardest for me okay i've definitely lost sleep over this one when we're shopping and we're sitting at market and we're going to antique stores in addition to all the new vendors we're sitting in things and being like this is a great set jewels is always a great set it's become a noun that everybody in the industry knows is the dual chair.

9:08Iconically, we look at famous designers to sit in all the frames and what is good, what is bad, really study it out. And I feel like you guys studied the hell out of this chair. Definitely. We wanted to get a mechanism that would not be a swivel glider. We wanted something that would not just swivel, but also tilt back because that's just so comfortable. You want to lean back and sort of cross your legs. And we love this sort of a tub shape in a chair. There's no hard edges. It looks good if it's some sort of half swiveled in a space. If somebody gets up, it's just sort of, I don't know, slightly on an angle or if it's straight on or straight across from each other or stacked side by side.

9:46These just look so good and add so much softness to a space. I shot these in my house, so I'm the only one at the table that's gotten to live with these. They actually, we just barely got them on the showroom floor. So not very many people have experienced this yet. But Corey, I know you're about to share your thoughts behind it, because I know it's taken forever to get the sit right and the mechanism right. Two trips to the factory to do it. Yeah, this chair, every time we would solve something on it, that solution would cause another issue. And so then we had it finished and then took it all the way back down to the frame to readjust the sit, because it just wasn't, we had this vision in our head and we had to do it.

10:26It was difficult. Then after we get the sit right and, or the mechanism, right, then the sit, right, then the shape of it, right. Then it's like fabric. And it's, we put so much effort into that literally two years at that point. Yeah. I'm not putting microfiber on it. I'm not putting polyester on it. It's, we worked so hard on this chair. And finally we were able to, to find a fabric. It was very expensive alpaca and wool and one other thing in the blend that helps stabilize it but it's it's a lot of natural fiber and it is hardy I mean wool is so so extraordinarily hard wearing and the alpaca gives it softness and it even has a sort of brushed hair like finish micro hair if you will it's like really plush and soft and it's the perfect shade of camel the cover is so gorgeous we had to do it we worked so hard on it we're like we've got to dress this impeccably well yeah we had to pitch it to finance because it was insane yeah so we literally went to bat for this chair for years and i think we made the right choice it's amazing it's extraordinary it's dressed to perfection the shape is right the arm is right the pitch is right the mechanism's perfect i could not be more excited to be able to offer the cuckoo and swivel chair today we could have done it a year ago and not had it be perfect, but it's perfect.

11:44Yeah. Yeah. We, we completely nailed it. And every little part about it, the arm height, the back height, just the seat depth, all of it just sits and glides and it's so smooth. It's been so fun to live with. And anybody that comes in, I'm like, you got to come sit in this chair. It's just, I think this is going to become a bestseller and a real icon for Alice Lane. And I just, I'm so excited for you guys to get to, to get this home to use it in your projects and just to really really have your clients live like this or for you to live like this it's fantastic i agree i've never sat in anything like it so yeah that's cool no i was gonna say every single home that we do if there's a man involved he always wants motion i mean that's been like the highest selling category for any furniture company in the last decade is things that move we want to swivel we want to rock not only to just like facilitate multiple space you know spaces in a big room but to look out the window to go back to this conversation and just it's so comforting and soothing every dude wants to swivel if it has a swivel and a glider high five amen a swivel and a glider that doesn't look like it belongs in an old woman's nursery that's hard yeah so enter cocoon that does both of those things a dude can feel very very confident lady very very confident sitting in this frame because it's so stylish it is so stylish you guys I'm so proud of you I'm proud of this chair and I want two of them yeah in my living room right now yeah that gets the gold award yeah it's so great but then enter the Nicholas David yes Nicholas David so I was teasing you guys about this when we first started the podcast this is an expansion on our Nicholas bench it is just really beautiful chic I'd say vintage modern in the silhouette.

13:29We're a really beautiful biscuit tuft and we've got two bolsters on each end. You can layer a pillow on it. I did that during the photo shoot. You can throw toss a throw on it. It's really low and lean and it'll take a room. I put it in my living room, which sometimes feels kind of serious and somewhat traditional. And it really gave it a more modern look to it. It made it more transitional. And I love so much what the silhouette and the low, sort of low stance of it did. It gave it some confidence and I think made it feel younger and chiker. It's like a gallery. Nicholas is offered right now in sort of a bone leather with a walnut stain on the frame.

14:11It's perfect. Which is a solid ash frame. Yeah. The frame of this one was really the hardest part. It's more leggy than our Gwende bed, which is, you know a normal sofa foundation to it this has more of a bench foundation but the size of a day bed and so spanning that great of a distance you have to reinforce it so you know it's not breaking in the middle obviously so we went through a bunch of stress tests and finally got it to the point to where uh we felt good about the frame and how it was reinforced and obviously the the balance of that is it couldn't be too heavy so that thing is as solid as a tank it doesn't look like it you know which is the magic to it I think yeah so yeah I'll say this in a in a room configuration in a space plan a lot of people will put their furniture in sort of a you formation and then it's like looking at a focal point it's looking out the window the day bed you can enter into a room and put that under the window that's what I did in my room I think it completes the conversation circle you can have people on every surface and everybody can be facing the middle and talking.

15:16You don't have to leave that one surface. You don't have to leave it as a U formation. You can complete the whole circle. We just often go into homes and it's just untapped potential. This could also be layered in front of the fireplace. It's so low because it's just sitting at seat height, 18 inches off the ground. It's not going to block any vantage points and it's just going to really give you that completed look. There is room. People oftentimes would be like, I don't know what to do with a daybed. Where would I put a daybed? This is going to be that thing that fills in the gaps and makes it feel finished the grand bridge yeah it really is and it's such a designer trick so yeah right it looks like a collector would would do this also i mean i considered this for my home office putting it opposite the desk which would be great because somebody could come perch and sit on it you could lay on it and just like take a phone call if you're like laughing with your sister or whatever it's incredibly versatile but it looks so like tight and chic a perfect pair of shoes to sort of cap off a great outfit I love when you introduce the nicholas bench I found that that's my favorite bench that we've ever introduced because it does feel so iconic mid-century you know but like in an even more elevated way because of the finishes that we did yeah so I'm so glad that we have it now in the daybed because like in projects sometimes you have a small room sometimes you have a large room that you need that attitude in there and now regardless of scale you know if anyone's home they can get a little dose of this you know if If you can't fit the Nicholas day bed, you still have the Nicholas bench that can facilitate and vice versa.

16:42You need an actual bridge between two large seating groups. You have this. I love how you have Gwen in your family room. But again, it's just like kind of that, that lone little plane that probably most people would ignore between your family room and your kitchen where you place a day bed. I always see somebody sitting there. Always. Whether it's a person or a cat or a dog or something. Something's always lounging. It's just like the perfect bridge into the room. It doesn't have a back, so it doesn't disrupt your eye moving into the space, but it gives you another whole surface to sit on, which is so great.

17:12Also, you could take the bolsters off the bench or off the daybed and use it as a cocktail table. You want a cocktail ottoman? We've used the Nicholas bench as a cocktail sort of ottoman in a small space, like a bedroom, just right in front of the sofa. And then it's a soft surface because sometimes in your bedroom, you're in your slippers or your bare feet or your socks. And so you don't really want to put them up on a cocktail table, but being able to kick up your ankles on a leather bench feels really good. And it looks very chic and kind of mid-century. Yeah. I love it. Love this piece. Jess, I just got a new comforter from Cozy Earth, and it is my favorite new thing.

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19:38It's a perfect place for a center hall table. Oftentimes consoles are too small and they underplay the potential and you have a lot of depth to play with. So center hall tables are something that we end up using a lot in our work and we end up usually specifying a dining table to use in that spot and what's interesting is dining tables are are 30 inches tall that's dining height a center hall table is actually a couple inches taller than that and gets the table up where you want it to be able to admire a few of your objects so constant center hall table really is a center hall table it is not a dining table this sits at 32 inches tall and we're about 48 inches wide it's octagonal which is so cool I think so too it gives some dimension to the space and it's this really beautiful it has a really beautiful faceted base which plays into the octagonal top and it's this really great kind of French color that has a little dotted green in this sort of taupey gray but that little splash of green makes it so mysterious and really neutral but not it's not boring and it feels historic yeah like anything that you see that weathers the antiques with years years it usually pulls some underlying hue of whatever it's made of and i think that's what Constance does yeah we're talking about the sweeping stairs and those foyers and the weird landings you know at the top of the stairs where you sometimes have these voids where a center hall table comes into play normally we would use a round it's beautiful the cool thing about it's octagonal right gives it this iconic modern edge you know it still feels classic but in such a reinvented new imagined way totally so jazzed that you did give it these angles because it It looks, especially with the base, so much of the time with a dining table or a center hall table, obviously a dining table gets covered up with chairs.

21:19You never get to see the base. But when you have a center hall table, nothing's hanging out there. So you really get to clout what that base looks like. Yep. And this, like, we paid attention to the base. We sure did. Yeah. And one of the key details of Constance is about four inches in from the edge. We did a grooved edge and then we inlaid a beautiful gold paint. And so you get this. Tease. Yeah, it's just so stately. I love this piece so much. I'm using it here in my center hall. We shot it at my house. I've nested under it two of our mushroom ottomans in the green olive. I love nesting ottomans under a center hall table.

21:58The eye likes to graduate up. You don't just want this stark entry with just all of a sudden this 32-inch table being the first stopping point. for the eye. So being able to layer in Ottomans, whether I was tempted to do the Fifi's, two Fifi's there, which would be really cute if you're a little bit deadly. Yeah. A little bit more playful or feminine or even glam. Eclectic. I think the Fifi with the sheepskin would be really beautiful. We also make the guitar pick shape Stevie. Stevie Ottoman with our tiger looked incredible under this. I think we did shoot that also. We have options for Ottomans, but this is a favorite design trick.

22:33If you're feeling like something's missing in your home or that your entry's been underplayed, you might just be missing a center hall table. And actually along with Constance, we decided to develop Luca, our Luca center hall table. I know Luca's been in the line. I don't know how we didn't think to do her in a center hall, but we were like, it's time. We have used Luca dining as a center hall before in 60. Sometimes you just need a 48. We also went two inches taller than dining height so we're that 32 inches high and then that beautiful luca carved base the white plastery finish i think it's going to be a hit i'm so excited to be offering not just one but two center hall tables in the new classics collection it's like the luca's off it's kind of like california cool organic modern yeah because of the hand planing i mean you can play it all different ways in different aesthetics you know but this one is just so it's classic and it's why it's in the classics collection yeah I love it okay let's go to a smaller piece let's go to a chagrin lacquered tray yes so we came out with a set of lacquered trays we've we've offered a sting tray in a faux chagrin and we were like by golly let's stingray yeah faux stingray it was like a beautiful sort of faux leather with brass handles on the side we've had it for five years and we just wanted to come up with something that actually mimicked the real stingray that was lacquered yes so we knew this was going to be more heavy it's it was going to have more of a look to it we wanted it to be done in a bone kind of ivory color and there's just always a million places when we're installing a home where we're like gosh we wish we had a small little high-end looking tray for her cosmetics or for his watches or for by the back door for the mail or all of the sunglasses the nightstands there's just maybe a cocktail table there's always a place where you need a tray but the tray has to be so good because it's furniture too yeah and so we came up with the tray is furniture too it is and it can either pull your furniture game down right if it's not a quality or it can keep you at that level or even up level an old piece by having a really chic tray Isn't that the truth?

24:46There's a lot of, there's a lot of load that's riding on this being good. You can forgive a lot of sins, guys, right here. It can. Or even if like you have a ruined top on a buffet or something, you get this gorgeous chagrin tray to lay on top of it, get a great looking lamp, you know, a few accessories and it's saved. So Corey has been developing this with our factory for a long time. They are so good. They're so heavy. I've loved having them in my home. I can't wait. Yeah. The touch of them to me is the magic part of it. just like it has that texture it's hard it feels you know well built yeah so i love it and what i've got the thickness on it too you said well built i don't know that perceived value comes when it's not too thin and doesn't look like a piece of paper but it has that in the mitered edge on the corner how it all meets up the fact that it's glossy so it feels just like there's nothing that's going to start peeling from this thing at all there's a holes cut in the side ovals for your hands to go in and then we um put our brass little lion head on the interior which just looks so good i love that we've been we've started to add that to our product it elevates everything it's part of a royal collection it really is like that these are fantastic oh they're just so good i'm so happy to be offering them and that they're finally here so even if you're not in the market for something big just even these little details just can elevate something in your home and like again once you start to live more beautifully you want to corral beautiful things in a beautiful way.

26:11This is how you do it. Okay. Huh. The Colette, the Colette curved sofa. It is. Okay. So I've, I've forever wanted the perfect sofa for my bedroom, but we've also wanted a beautiful curved symmetrical sofa for living rooms, for offices, for end of bed, end of bed end of bed yes this piece is so chic and turned out so incredible we're just like kind of old hollywood glamour really feels like it right it's it's kind of got a vintage silhouette yeah feel to it an absolute classic it takes the edge off um i have mine if you're watching this right now on youtube or spotify i have mine right under my window in my primary bedroom i don't have a big bedroom oh pretty it's so amazing to see that you can just sliver a sofa up against a wall nestle in we have the lucas side table sort of nested in front like a spot table what do you call it when we float it a study table yeah and i just put an autumn in there and i feel like i have a whole sitting room with this extra little five or six feet that i had so i'm just telling you the potential that you have in your bedrooms you might not know that you could just float a sofa in here but because it hovers off the ground it doesn't sit too heavy it's a tight back and tight seat so you're not wasting any room with cushions and it always looks put together always looks put together because it's a tight seat pitch is perfect sits exactly right the arm is just so soft and chic and it's kind of oval in shape which I love an oval I just always feel such Barbara Berry feelings about it so yeah it just feels like a classic made modern I don't know I'm just absolutely taken with this and I just want to give a quick appriche to the fabric on this one we went the rounds and we ended up using a solution dyed acrylic this is an outdoor velvet it feels so fantastic there's nothing outdoor about it but why i'm telling you is because you have kids and you have kids and the cleaning story on anything outdoor is that you can clean it it can really dogs anything which i have i have the dogs i've got the cats i've got for life yeah i've got messy um adult young adults it's just so great the color on it is like the perfect shade of camel it's going to work in every interior and it's it's just so sophisticated i'm obsessed with the colette curved sofa it's really fast you admit you'd said the word symmetrical i just want to say how important that is you guys because not very many people we design homes we're always looking for the right furniture to fit spaces and you see a lot of curved sectionals or curved sofas that are beautiful but one side side will be curved and then it kind of graduates into armless But really, I have a hard time finding a symmetrically curved on both edges that comes down that you just want it to feel organized.

29:00It has the organic shape, but it feels organized and tailored. And so when I saw that we had this coming off the line, I was just like, thank heavens. Because the ones that are available that are symmetrical to get that cool Hollywood feeling are expensive. They're so expensive. And every time I try and like put it in a room just because I love them so much, it's always like a really hard sell. just I want to see it in the space and so I'm just so stoked that we have it because it's just been something that's been a need and anyway we have it now it's your Colette she's so pretty yes such a cute girl so good okay for all the artists and lovers um the fern dot box I want one of these so bad yes the fern dot box this is something that we had artisans make for us in India it's handmade so the dots on it are just at the whim of the artist putting it on this is not made by a machine it's a little irregular but also just so artsy it's the perfect shade of green it's resin kind of looks like malachite or something it's a stone it's kind of an exotic bird of a thing yeah it's it's heavy i have mine on my constant center hall it looks so great with the green ottomans it just feels so fresh i think your branches i'm like welcome spring yes or i mean Christmas I'm like it's a year-round girl yeah I love a box I I love a box in a bathroom on a shelf I've recently started putting like my morning routine of supplements um all you know all the bottles there's so many bottles I could fill up my vanity with just all of the supplements I have to take at my ripe old age and so I'm like you want to know what all those boxes now they fill up with all my ugly stuff that I have to take every day I just grab the box open it take out my stuff, take my pills, put them back in.

30:42Yeah. Or I mean, you know, TMI, but I also think this in a powder bath, you could put tampons in it for guests, whatever. They're so useful. I love bookshelves, a stack of books with a box on it. I love it in the cocktail table styling. I can have a box for every surface. And I'm just so happy that we've got one that's an actual color because color is what we're trying to invoke more of in our interiors today. Yeah. It's kind of fun when you organize a pantry or an organizer comes to your home, they'll usually put everything in decanters take everything out of their ugly branded boxes and put them in a decanter and you're like finally i'm put together i feel a way about boxes what do you keep in your boxes you know like i think it's such a fun thing everything becomes a luxury tom collects he has like rubber bands i work all the time i'm like what the hell do i do with all these rubber bands i put them in a box yeah there you go now i know exactly where to put them when i find these dumb things you know and the kids when mom do you have a rubber band look in the beautiful box yes yeah it's right there anyway such a good trick love the box so thank you for bringing that and it's such a love story that it's all a hand applied I love things that are irregular and perfectly imperfect so the fact that when you get it you're like I'm the only one that looks like this that's I think that's the magic in it too definitely anyway definitely if you have a client that's OCD this box is not for them no this is for the artist and the lover and the poet and um I mean it's gonna just look great sitting on a shelf but when you really admire it you can see that it's perfectly imperfect yeah you know with like the perfect geometry of the constants and then having those little irregularities and the branches it's just that slice of life it feels like that like humans touched it that's the beauty of the fern dot box and i think boxes are classic and that's why we felt like this belongs in the new classics yeah okay amazing next the simone slipper chair simone slipper chair that's a hot damn for me that is a hot damn i think as Suzanne said this is our favorite chair we've ever made we actually put this in your bedroom Suze what do you love about Simone you had this whole on top in a bedroom you could fit a whole sofa yeah look at my small bedroom it's not big and I fit a chair in there y 'all and it's the coolest because I love a slipper chair even big spaces you kind of always need at least one of these to just be able to just like glide right in sit down not be you know upheld by an arm yep that's what this is for And this is so, so dope.

33:02It has like this walnut beautiful frame that sits low to the ground. So you're like, did you, Sue, did you get that off of first dibs? Surely you did because it's perfect. Anyway, that's how I feel about this. The biscuit tufting on the seat. I love that stacked organization. It's still interesting. I just, I love everything about this. I love like the actual side profile. I love the splay of that back leg of the cushion. I love the indent of where the cushion actually places into that, that fixed back. Like the back just is it. Ah, snap. app and you get to see that when it's at the angle so good because it's so good and the fabric is dope how about the sit i love it and you want to know who's a grand provo grandma mama you she sits in every chair i'll say and she's like oh i'm gonna need a bigger pillow that's gonna need a little you know she's like she should go on your your trip we should research anyway and i'm like mom i got a chair i need you to sit in it she's like it looks deep i might need a i might need a bolster and i'm just like try it out try it out i look away i let her sit and then we make eye context she's like it's good this is really good i don't need a pillow and i was just like oh my gosh that's so great so it's cool that all these things have been tested by guys that are over six feet and provo grandma's they're five foot something i don't know three whatever sits comfortably because the actual construction the fill is paid attention to and the pitch that's so important that perfect pitch so anyway i love this thing and back to just the adaptation of like fibers and fabrics to different spaces i don't know if that fabric might be too very we'll see what happens with the fabric in your room because you're really hot and this is anyway and it adapts that's the beautiful thing about a well-done fabric it has all those living natural fibers that adapt to where you're at and who doesn't need a little pink in their room i agree every room well just it's almost like adding blush to your face it's going to freshen up fresh cut stem from a tree it's going to freshen up so many spaces it's not a huge footprint the simone slipper chair stack two next to each other stack two in an office stack two in a living room family room I just I really really love the silhouette on this this sits fantastic you get a little spot table in between it have the girls come over for cards whatever it's just so chic it feels so iconic it does feel iconic it's kind of the same way that Nicholas does that stack just like you're just organized you're edited you're disciplined but you love you can sit on this sideways and put your arm up I just think it's so lifestyling and looks so put together all the time It never will look messy.

35:26Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like going back to the fabric of it, when I saw it, I was like, that has to be the fabric or that kind of adds to the iconic mess. Yeah. So you're like, wow, that's in great condition because surely that was upholstered in 1952. Like, you know, it's a woven, it's a weave, but the pink isn't so little girl pink. It's like a neutral pink. Yeah. Don't you think? It's almost got neutrals in the weave of it. It's just handsome. I mean, I, this, you would put this in your house. as a man you would choose a pink chair yeah absolutely and the fact that it's armless I have a bunch of chairs in my house and so I'll play the guitar everywhere and you can't play in every chair because if there's an arm on it you can't like definitely can't sit back I gotta like sit on the edge of the chair and have you know the guitar in front of me so yeah I want to get these from my front room so I'm just yeah love un-inhibited free yeah I love that good okay all right Simone you saucy girl I love that one okay and then that we talked about the Lucas center hall table a little bit yes we did any other any other notes on that give one more use case for the center hall table because we've already done this we haven't shot it so you'll have to picture it in your minds there are some people that are so lucky to have large dressing rooms or closets sometimes we like to call them dressing rooms if they're you know in the south or something but we've seen these large closets huge perimeter and maybe there's not an island in the middle or they're just such a big space.

36:50And so we recently were giving design advice to a good friend and we were like, you need the Luca Center Hall in your closet. And then you could just load it up. You could put all your tall boots underneath it in a circle facing out with your boot stays in it. You could load up all of your knits on top of your sweaters because they always say don't hang your sweaters because it will stretch out the shoulders. So just fold all your knits and put those around the Center Hall table. Put all your bottles of perfume in the middle. load up boxes, put a stack of Vogues. It will look like a department store and you have all this dead space or nest a couple Ottomans under it, put handbags on it.

37:26I just think it's such a beautiful application to also use this in a beautiful closet. Yeah. So Luca currently is in use in a closet down in St. George and she just barely got hers in there. So I haven't seen it styled yet, but I know it's going to be fantastic. I know she's going to love having another surface in the closet too. Absolutely. When you have like beautiful pieces of furniture, how displaying utility, you know, become chic and not cluttered. Yes. If the piece is beautiful and like it's arranged beautifully, I don't have normal closets or whatever. So I have to display things in a little bit more boutique hotel way.

38:02If I had room for Lucas and an old table, stop. Oh my gosh. Imagine what I could do with that thing. Oh my gosh. But yeah, you do have to like be utility about it so anyway those of you that are just like gosh i need to burn my house down and build a new house so i can have bigger closets think about ways to like display your utility with pieces that you can have forever you could honestly take over one of your kids old bedrooms and and get some sort of shelving on the perimeter get a center hall table in the middle right incredible maybe throw a dresser under the window and suddenly you've got yourself a department showroom I don't know exactly I know it'll be so so great I have to give a quick honorable mention before we wrap up the new classics and that is to our new stem we have been we have been on the hunt for the perfect green stem in case you're not a flower person or in case the flowers skew to one season or another and we have found it we have it I have been using it in my house in not one not two, but three locations.

39:03It is called the Greenwood stem and it is probably 48 inches tall. Here in my house at the center hall table, I had to bend the end of the stem and you can see how grand these branches are. I probably am only using eight here. With the cherry blossoms, I use 24 branches. So you don't need a ton and each one of the stems has a little wire in it. And so you can really get a soft, natural look if you get them out and just start bending. Doesn't that look incredible yeah thank you for I thought you foraged them when I first walked into your house this is the perfect where did you forage branch in December amazing right they look so good they're so voluminous I look like Steve Cordoni um if you guys know his content where he's always bringing in fresh branches from his farm and it's just such a showstopper I also used them on my kitchen island during the shoot I used them in my living room I'm not sick of it it tied the house together I know you're gonna love this I'm so excited to be offering them they're called the greenwood stem and go check those out as well.

40:00Anyway, those are just a few favorite from the New Classics Collection. And I'm just so happy you guys tuned in to hear us go on and on about why we created these and how much we love them. And I can't wait for you to get them home. If you guys have any episode ideas or questions, please send those to dearalice at alicelanehome.com. And if you leave us a review, we'd love to read them. It's one of our favorite things to do. If you'll throw five stars on it, we'd love that too. One of our goals this year is to get to be the number one podcast in the world. Design podcast. Share this episode with your friends.

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