The New Classics

Summary

Podcast Summary: Dear Alice | Interior Design

Episode: The New Classics

Date: February 26, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the Alice Lane team—Jessica Bennett, Suzanne Hall, Corey, and Jules—take listeners behind the scenes of their newly released furniture collection, The New Classics. The hosts discuss the inspirations, design decisions, and stories behind some of the collection’s most iconic pieces. They offer insights into modern classic design, practical utility, and timeless style, all infused with their signature wit and penchant for high design. Each highlighted piece is explored for its function, aesthetic, and place in a well-designed home.

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Key Discussion Points

1. The Making of The New Classics Collection

• The collection is described as a response to real design needs encountered over 20 years of practice. Many pieces resulted from wish lists and client requests, including solutions for awkward spaces or untapped potential in homes.
• Design and R&D for each piece can take years, and the line continues to “grow a family,” with new pieces evolving from customer and designer needs.
• Quote:

  “We just continue 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.” —Corey [03:36]

2. Key Pieces from The New Classics Collection

Bruno Burlwood Pedestal

[04:33]

• Inspired by vintage and historic design, particularly the resurgent 1970s, this dark stain-grade pedestal fills a void in their previous offerings.
• Burlwood is celebrated for its dimension and ability to tie disparate wood tones together.
• Quote:

  “Burlwood is the wood that blends all the other wood tones together... historically, you see burl because it was just such a beautiful wood that showed a real elevated lifestyle.” —Suzanne [06:06]

• Design tip: Use pedestals to fill corners or create artful displays—all you need is a great piece on top.

Cocoon Swivel Chair

[08:49]

• Years in development to achieve the ideal “sit,” shape, and mechanism—a luxurious, tactile piece made from an alpaca and wool blend.
• Features both swivel and glider action, aiming to be equally stylish and comfortable for all.
• Quote:

  “I'm so excited for you guys 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.” —Corey [12:01]

• It's described as the answer to “swivel chairs that don’t look like they belong in an old woman’s nursery.”

  “Every dude wants swivel. It has a swivel and a glider. High five.” —Suzanne [12:48]

Nicholas Daybed

[13:17]

• An expanded “family member” from the popular Nicholas Bench, now a low, chic, biscuit-tufted daybed with bolsters.
• Designed for room flexibility—works under windows, in the middle of large spaces, or as a U-shape breaker.
• Quote:

  “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.” —Corey [15:46]

Constance Center Hall Table

[19:16]

• Created to solve the problem of underused space in grand entryways, stair landings, or oversized closets.
• Stands out with an octagonal top, mysterious taupey-green French finish, and an inlaid gold detail.
• Quote:

  “It’s so stately. I love this piece so much... A favorite design trick: If 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.” —Corey [21:31], [22:14]

Luca Center Hall Table

[22:47]

• A modern, organic complement, with a plaster-like finish and hand-planed texture—described as “California cool” and flexible for varying home aesthetics.
• Also a solution for display and utility in large closets:

  "Put all your tall boots underneath it in a circle facing out... 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." —Corey [37:04]

Chagrin Lacquer Tray

[23:32]

• Developed as a high-quality, heavy tray with faux stingray texture, glossy finish, and brass lion head detail.
• Designed for organizing and elevating daily clutter, the tray is described as “furniture too.”
• Quote:

  “A tray can either pull your furniture game down if it’s not a quality, or… even uplevel an old piece by having a really chic tray.” —Corey [24:32]

Colette Curved Sofa

[26:18]

• An answer to the ongoing hunt for the perfect, symmetrical curved sofa—a rarity in the market.
• “Old Hollywood glamour” meets everyday livability, covered in a durable, cleanable indoor-outdoor velvet.
• Quote:

  “It just feels like a classic made modern. I don’t know. I’m just absolutely taken with this.” —Corey [27:46]

• The symmetry is highlighted as essential for a refined, organized look.

Fern Dot Box

[29:35]

• Handcrafted in India, each box is one-of-a-kind, heavy, green, and versatile for organization—think jewelry, supplements, bathroom supplies.
• Highlights the importance of “beautiful boxes” for everyday luxuries and tidying up visually.
• Quote:

  “This is for the artist and the lover and the poet.” —Corey [31:53]

Simone Slipper Chair

[32:28]

• A sculptural, armless accent piece praised for its comfort, side profile, and distinctive pinkish woven fabric.
• Works as accent seating in bedrooms and living spaces, tested by people of all heights for universal comfort.
• Quote:

  “It feels so iconic... it just looks so lifestyle y and looks so put together all the time.” —Corey [35:18]

Greenwood Stem

[38:37]

• A faux branch offering: tall, voluminous, and convincing enough to pass for real. Used throughout Corey's home for drama and cohesion in styling.
• A new favorite for effortless, year-round greenery.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On why they design their own pieces:

  “It is practical based because we know what's happening. Since you're on the front lines of design... we're tapping into needs that are out there.” —Corey [02:57]

• On perfection in designing the Cocoon Chair:

  “We could have done it a year ago and not had it be perfect, but it's perfect. Yeah, we completely nailed it.” —Corey [12:01]

• On polyvalent use of furniture:

  “Engineering. In a room configuration... a daybed completes the conversation circle. You can have people on every surface and everybody can be facing the middle and talking.” —Corey [14:52], [15:46]

• On entryway design:

  “If 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.” —Corey [22:14]

• On decorative boxes and living beautifully:

  “Once you start to live more beautifully, you want to corral beautiful things in a beautiful way. This is how you do it.” —Suzanne [26:00]

• On the goal of the new collection:

  “Color is what we’re trying to invoke more of in our interiors today.” —Corey [31:04]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:33] Bruno Burlwood Pedestal
• [08:49] Cocoon Swivel Chair
• [13:17] Nicholas Daybed
• [19:16] Constance Center Hall Table
• [22:47] Luca Center Hall Table
• [23:32] Chagrin Lacquer Tray
• [26:18] Colette Curved Sofa
• [29:35] Fern Dot Box
• [32:28] Simone Slipper Chair
• [38:37] Greenwood Stem (decorative faux branch)

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Design Tips & Inspiration

• Pedestals and center hall tables are powerful tools for filling voids, refreshing spaces, and creating gallery-like interiors.
• Furniture in multipurpose spaces (bedrooms, large closets, under-windows, entries) can be both utility-driven and visually impactful.
• Investment in quality materials, artisanal details, and modular design translates to timelessness—not just trend.
• Small accessories, like trays and boxes, can “up-level” or rescue older pieces and organize daily clutter beautifully.
• Don’t be afraid of color—even subtle, sophisticated greens and pinks have a place in the new classic home.

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Tone

The discussion is conversational, full of mutual admiration, humor, occasional design nerdiness, and a clear love for details. They express pride in finally releasing a collection that answers genuine design needs and encourages listeners to elevate their environments with both big statement pieces and small accessories.

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For Further Engagement

Listeners are encouraged to follow the team on social media (@alicelaneinteriors / @alicelanehome) and to send in episode ideas or questions. The hosts emphasize their willingness to share advice and their ambition to become the number one design podcast.

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Transcript

[Corey]

Hello, 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

[Suzanne]

appreciate for our home furnishings design program. They're all designers with degrees that work in AutoCAD to help you figure out the perfect furnishings for your home. So 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 you get the furniture coming, and your dreams are coming true. Congratulate. Yeah. So definitely go take advantage of that in 2026.

[Corey]

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. And it's a fantastic way to get a look and just be able to put all your money towards furniture.

[Suzanne]

Really. We created that to share the love, honestly, so that everybody could, like, not do furniture mistakes.

[Corey]

Yeah. It's so expensive to do a furniture

[Suzanne]

mistake, and it's painful and it's expensive, and you want to do measure twice, cut once. And they help you do that.

[Corey]

They do, yeah, they definitely do. Thanks, Suz. 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. If 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.

[Suzanne]

Okay.

[Jules]

Should we get into it?

[Suzanne]

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 and D and getting everything to the exact right pitch, the perfect finishes and everything. But we're over here working on. On homes. And, you know, oftentimes, I'm telling you, we need 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.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

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.

[Corey]

Yeah, it takes years for each of

[Suzanne]

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.

[Corey]

We 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.

[Suzanne]

So.

[Corey]

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 a 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 10ft tall now in homes. And we need the closet tree, the closet cabinetry, go to ceiling. This isn't the 80s. We're not stopping that.

[Suzanne]

I can't reach my purses.

[Corey]

Yeah, so we need all of that footage. We gotta get up there further. We gotta get the suitcases, the winter clothes down, whatever. And finally we were like, gosh dang it, we'll just make it ourselves.

[Suzanne]

You know, listening to us.

[Corey]

So six years ago was born this beautiful Lucite footstool. And then it just kept going from there. And we just continue 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 gonna talk about the Nicholas Daybed. Today we 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.

[Jules]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Yeah. And see that DNA spread 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.

[Suzanne]

Okay, so should we just dive into each of them? Okay.

[Corey]

We're going to 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 Corey and mine that we wanted to make sure and cover in today's podcast.

[Suzanne]

Okay. The first one is the Bruno Burrow pedestal. You had me at Burl. Yeah, exactly.

[Corey]

I mean, 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. But Burlwood, 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. You'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.

[Suzanne]

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.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

And so that's when you employ a ped. A pedestal. And so I'm just so happy that we have Burlwood. Right. Yeah. Because.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

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 blondes in There you have the depth. And again, 1970s. But historically, I mean, you go back to historic furnishings of the 18th, 17th and 16th century, you see burl because it was just such a beautiful wood that showed a real elevated lifestyle. Just the wealthiest had it.

[Jules]

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.

[Corey]

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, so 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. And 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.

[Suzanne]

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. You 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. And the world just does 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.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

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.

[Corey]

Totally, totally. And you have a pedestal, an old brass pedestal that you had a vintage shop 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 plant in it or put a fern on it. That could be a really great placeholder until you find this precious object. Yep.

[Jules]

Agree. I love it. That's cool.

[Suzanne]

I love it. Okay, so from Bruno, let's go to our cocoon swivel.

[Jules]

This might be my favorite.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Jules]

It's also the hardest for me.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Okay.

[Jules]

I definitely lost sleep over this one.

[Suzanne]

When we're shopping, 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. Jules is always a great set. It's become noun that everybody in the industry knows is the jewel chair. Iconically, 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.

[Corey]

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 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 stack side by side. These 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. Your thoughts behind it, because I know it's taken forever to get to get the sit right and the mechanism right.

[Jules]

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.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Jules]

And so then we had. 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. It 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. Into that. Literally two years at that point.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Corey]

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. Yeah, that helps stabilize it, but it's. It's a lot of natural fiber, and it is hearty. 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 COVID 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.

[Jules]

Yeah. We had to pitch it to finance because it was insane.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Jules]

So we literally went to bat for this chair for years, and I think we made the right choice. It's amazing.

[Corey]

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 Cocoon swivel chair today. We could have done it a year ago and not had it be perfect, but it's perfect. 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 gotta come sit in this care. It's just.

[Suzanne]

It's a ride.

[Corey]

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.

[Jules]

I agree. I've never sat in anything like it, so.

[Suzanne]

Yeah, that's cool. No, I was just 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 swivel. It has a swivel and a glider. High five.

[Jules]

Amen.

[Suzanne]

And a swivel and a glider that doesn't look like it belongs in an old woman's nursery. That's hard. So enter cocoon. That does both of those things. A dude can feel very, very confident and a 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.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

In my living room. Yeah. That gets the gold award.

[Corey]

Yeah. It's so great.

[Suzanne]

But then enter the Nicholas David.

[Corey]

Yes. Nicholas David. So I was teasing you guys about this when we first started the podcast. This is an expansion on our Nicholas Ben is just really beautiful, chic. I'd say vintage modern. In the silhouette, we'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 look to it. It made it more transitional, and I love so much what this silhouette and the low, sort of low stance of it did. It gave it some confidence and I think made it feel younger and chic.

[Suzanne]

Feels like a gallery.

[Corey]

Nicholas is offered right now in sort of a bone leather with a walnut

[Jules]

stain on the frame, which is a solid ash frame.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Jules]

The frame of this one was really the hardest part. It's more leggy than our Gwen Day bed, which is, you know, a normal sofa foundation to it. This has more of a bench foundation, but the size of a daybed, 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 we felt good about the frame and how it was reinforced. And obviously 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.

[Suzanne]

Engineering.

[Jules]

Yeah.

[Corey]

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 U formation. And then it's like looking at a focal point. It's looking out the window, the daybed. 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. You 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.

[Suzanne]

The Grand Bridge. Yeah, it really is.

[Corey]

And it's such a designer trick.

[Suzanne]

So.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Jules]

Right.

[Corey]

It looks like a collector would. Would do this also. I mean, I. I considered this for my home office. Put 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.

[Suzanne]

I love when you introduce the Nicholas Bench. I fell in love. 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 on 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, we still have the Nicholas Bench that can facilitate and vice versa. You 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, though, probably would. Most people would ignore between your family room and Your kitchen, where you place a day bed. I always see somebody sitting there, whether it's a person or cat or dog or some.

[Corey]

Something's always just like the perfect lounging 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.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Also, 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, 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.

[Suzanne]

Jesse. I just got a new comforter from Cozy Earth and it is my favorite new thing. You know how much I love to get into my bed at the end of the day. I am tired.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Suzanne]

And their comforter, like everything that they do is cool. It's like a cloud. And like when I put it on myself at the end of the day, it's just like, it's perfectly like regulating but the temperature for not only me, but for Tom as well. Like, it is the perfect weight and it looks so pretty. The construction on it is perfect. The stitching is lovely. And I just, I cannot tell enough people about this and I want to give it to all my friends and family.

[Corey]

Oh, I love that. You know what's great about Cozy Earth? I just feel like the quality is so great. I've never, I've never been disappointed in anything, ever. The comfort, the hand, the drape. I know that this comforter is got to be the most beautiful thing. I cannot wait to see it in your bedroom. You got to show it to me tonight when I drop you off.

[Suzanne]

Okay. I'm so excited.

[Jules]

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[Suzanne]

Okay, next, let's go to the constant center hall table.

[Corey]

Constant Love a center hall table.

[Suzanne]

I know. I do too.

[Corey]

I do too. And we people need these for projects. You know, if you have that big sweeping staircase right when you come in your home, people often don't know how to quite treat that area where the wall comes down and the staircase goes up. It'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 dot of green in this sort of taupey gray. But that little splash of green makes it so mysterious and really neutral. But not.

[Suzanne]

It's not boring and it feels historic.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Like anything that you see that weathers and antiques with years and years it usually 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. 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. So jazz that you did give it these angles because it, it looks. Because so much, 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. You never get to see the base. But when you have a center hall table and nothing, nothing's hanging out there. So you really get to clout what that base looks like.

[Corey]

Yep.

[Suzanne]

And this, like we paid attention to the base, so.

[Corey]

Sure did.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Corey]

And one of the key details of Constance is about 4 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. It's so good. 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 and the green olive. I love nesting ottomans under a center hall table. The 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 fifis. Two fifis there, which be really cute

[Jules]

if you're a little bit deadly.

[Suzanne]

Yeah, yeah.

[Corey]

A little bit more playful or feminine or even eclectic. 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. If 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 Lucas 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're 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 2 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.

[Suzanne]

I feel like the Lucas up, it's kind of like California cool, organic, modern.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Because of the hand planing. I mean, you can play all different ways and different aesthetics, you know, but this one is just so it's classic. Hence 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 lacquer tray.

[Corey]

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.

[Suzanne]

Stingray.

[Corey]

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.

[Suzanne]

Yes.

[Corey]

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.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Corey]

And so we came up with.

[Suzanne]

The tray is furniture too.

[Corey]

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 shitty chic tray.

[Suzanne]

That the truth. Yeah.

[Corey]

There's a lot of. There's a lot of load. That's right.

[Suzanne]

We have a lot of sins guys right here.

[Corey]

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.

[Jules]

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.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

So I love it from what I've got. The thickness on it too. You said well built. No, that perceived value comes when it's not too thin and doesn't look like a piece of paper, but it has that and 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

[Corey]

thing at all there's holes cut in the side, ovals for your hands to go in. And then we put our brass little lion head on the interior, which just looks so good.

[Suzanne]

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.

[Corey]

It really feels like that one. These are fantastic. Oh, they're just so good. I'm so happy to be offering them and that they're finally here.

[Suzanne]

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. This is how you do it. Okay. Huh. The Colette. The Colette curved sofa. It is.

[Corey]

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.

[Suzanne]

End of bed.

[Corey]

End of bed.

[Suzanne]

End of bed.

[Corey]

Yes. This piece is so chic and turned out so incredible. We're just like kind of old Hollywood glamour. Right? It's. It's kind of got a vintage silhouette set.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Corey]

Feel to it. An absolute classic. It takes the edge off. 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.

[Suzanne]

So pretty.

[Corey]

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? Study table.

[Suzanne]

Yeah.

[Corey]

And I just put an Ottom in there. And I feel like I have a whole sitting room with this extra little five or six feet that. 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.

[Suzanne]

It always looks put together.

[Corey]

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.

[Suzanne]

So.

[Corey]

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 appreciation 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. Yeah. I've got messy 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.

[Suzanne]

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 the. The spaces. And you see a lot of curved sectional or curved sofas that are beautiful, but one size side will be curved, and then it kind of graduates into armless. But really, I. I have a hard time finding a symmetrically curved on both edges that comes down that. You just want it to feel organized. It has the organic shape, but it feels organized and tailored and that. So when I. When I saw that we had this coming off the line, I was just like, thank the 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 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.

[Jules]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Because it's just been something that's been a need. And anyway, we have it now. Enter Colette. She's so pretty.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Suzanne]

Such a cute girl.

[Corey]

So good.

[Suzanne]

Okay. For all the artisan lovers, the fern dot box. I want one of these so bad.

[Corey]

Yes. The fern top 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.

[Suzanne]

It's a stone.

[Corey]

It's kind of an exotic bird of a thing. Yeah, it's 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.

[Suzanne]

I'm like, welcome. Spring.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Suzanne]

Or I mean, Christmas. I'm like, it's a year round, girl. Yeah.

[Corey]

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. 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. Yeah. 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 could 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.

[Suzanne]

Yeah, it's kind of fun. When you organize a pantry or an organizer comes into your home, they'll usually put everything into canters, take everything out of their ugly branded boxes and put them into decanter, and you're like, finally, I'm put together. I feel that way about boxes. What do you keep in your box? You know, like, I think it's such a fun thing. Everything becomes a luxury. TOM CLICKS he has, like, rubber bands from work all the time. I'm like, what the hell do I do with all these rubber bands? I put them in a box.

[Corey]

Yeah, there you go.

[Suzanne]

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 at the beautiful box.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Suzanne]

Yeah, it's right there. Anyway, such a good trick.

[Jules]

Love the box.

[Suzanne]

So thank you for bringing that. And it's such a love story that it's all hand applied. I love things that are irregular and perfectly imperfect. So the fact that when you get it, you're like, I have the only one that looks like this. That's. I think that's the magic in it too.

[Corey]

Definitely.

[Suzanne]

Anyway, definitely.

[Corey]

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, I mean, it's going to just look great sitting on a shelf, but when you really admire it, you can see that it's perfectly imperfect. Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Even 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. And that's the beauty of the fern dot box.

[Corey]

And I think boxes are classic, and that's why we felt like this belongs in the new classic. Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Okay. Amazing. Next, the Simone slipper chair.

[Corey]

Simone slipper chair.

[Suzanne]

That's a hot damn for me.

[Corey]

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, Seuss. What do you love about Simone?

[Suzanne]

You had this whole untapped. In a bedroom, you could fit a full sofa. Yep. 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. That's what this is for. And this is so, so dope. It 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. 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 back. Oh, snap. And you get to see that when it's at the angle.

[Corey]

So good, you guys.

[Suzanne]

It's so good. And the fabric is dope.

[Corey]

How about the sit.

[Suzanne]

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 just had a 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. I was just like, try it out, try it out. I look away, I let her sit, and then we make eye contact. 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 grandmas that are 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 fact, just the adaptation of like fibers and fabrics to different spaces. I don't know if that fabric might be too buried. 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?

[Corey]

I agree. Every room, it will just. It's almost like adding blush to your face. It's going to freshen up.

[Suzanne]

Fresh cut stem from a tree.

[Corey]

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.

[Suzanne]

It feels so iconic.

[Corey]

It does feel like it's kind of

[Suzanne]

the same way that Nicholas does that stack. Just like you're just organized, you're edited, you're disciplined. But you love, you love a good piece.

[Corey]

You can sit on this sideways and put your arm up. I just think it's so lifestyle y and looks so put together all the time. It never will look messy.

[Suzanne]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jules]

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 ness.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

So you're like, wow, that's in great condition because surely that was upholstered in 1952.

[Corey]

Like, you know, it's, it's a woven, it's a weave. But the pink isn't so little girl pink. It's like a neutral pink pink. 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?

[Jules]

100.

[Corey]

I mean, as a man, you would choose a pink chair.

[Jules]

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 for my front room so I'm just arm free.

[Suzanne]

Yeah, I love that. Okay. All right. Simone, you saucy girl. I love that one. Okay, and then that. We talked about the Luca center hall table a little bit.

[Corey]

Yes, we did.

[Suzanne]

Any other. Any other notes on that?

[Corey]

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. And so we recently were giving design advice to a good friend and we were like, you need. 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, 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. I just think it's such a beautiful application to also use this. 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.

[Jules]

Absolutely.

[Suzanne]

Yeah. Fun when you have, like, beautiful pieces of furniture. How displaying utility.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Suzanne]

You know, become chic and not cluttered.

[Corey]

Yes.

[Suzanne]

If the Piece is beautiful and, like, it's arranged by beautifully. I don't have normal closets, whatever. So I have to display things in a little bit more boutique hotel way. If I had room for Lucas and her hall table. Stop you.

[Corey]

Oh, my gosh.

[Suzanne]

Imagine what I could do with that thing.

[Corey]

No, it would be amazing.

[Suzanne]

Oh, my gosh.

[Corey]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

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.

[Corey]

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. Incredible. Maybe throw a dresser under the window and suddenly you've got yourself a department showroom.

[Suzanne]

I don't know exactly.

[Corey]

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 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. It 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.

[Jules]

Wow.

[Corey]

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, soft, natural look if you get them out and just start bending. Doesn't that look incredible?

[Jules]

Yeah.

[Suzanne]

Thank you for. I thought you forged them. When I first walked into your house is the perfect. Where did you forage branch in December?

[Corey]

Amazing, right? They look so good. They're so voluminous. I look like Steve Cordoni. 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 use them on my kitchen island during the shoot. I use 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. Anyway, 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 Dear [e-mail] 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.

[Suzanne]

Share this episode with your friends.

[Corey]

Definitely.

[Suzanne]

Okay.

[Corey]

All right, we'll catch you next time. Hey, thanks for listening. If you like our show, please leave a five star rating.