Day {9} New York Twinkle at Treillage

{Treillage, 418 East 75th Street}

My favorite stop in New York this past weekend was the lovely store Treillage owned by interior designer Bunny Williams and her husband, antique dealer, John Rosselli. From the moment you walk into the store {or really when you gaze in through the sparkling window} you are captivated by the little twinkle lights, silver and gold must-haves, blooming paperwhites and lots of things from the natural world.

The store was filled with beautiful gifts for the home and the holidays at reasonable prices!

Bunny Williams started her design career working with Sister Parrish at the famous Parish-Hadley in 1966. She went out on her own in 1988 and recently introduced a fabulous line of home furnishings ~ BeeLine Home. Her latest book, Bunny Williams: Scrapbook for Living was just released and would make a fabulous gift for anyone interested in interior design. The couple was inspired to start this lovely store after a visit to the Chelsea Flower show in London in 1991 with the idea of bringing hard-to-find garden antiques to America.

When researching Treillage for this post, I came across an old article in the New York Social Diary. I was interested to learn about the original origins of the building and the charming neighborhood on the upper east side where it is located:

"The shop itself used to be a blacksmith shop and stable (for horses obviously), and then finally a storage area for John Rosselli’s inventory, etc., up until about fourteen years ago, according to Howard Christian, who manages the business. In the olden days, when New York was a horse drawn city, far east on 75th Street was where the richies housed their four-legged transportation. No horses stalls were allowed west of Lexington Avenue, which is why the Upper East Side didn’t develop its fancy far east addresses until we were well into the automotive age."

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