OK. It’s final and official. We have completed the set-up of our new permanent showroom at the Dallas Market Center featuring the excellent Terrecotte San Rocco for Texas to see, touch and “kick its tires”. There is no question that this terracotta embodies contemporary as well as timeless classical design that will last until the next…
Contained in our blog, Eye on the Garden, you will find interviews with garden professionals, landscape architects, designers and contractors discussing topics ranging from water conservation, how they choose a particular planter, to their design aesthetic. We also often include a story on one of our manufacturers or a new shipment that has arrived at Eye of the Day. We like to showcase garden related books in a monthly review and share a seasonal recipe and cocktail. Brent shares his wanderings in and out of his garden and we’re always on the lookout for new topics to discuss in Eye on the Garden.
Dallas? Texas?
Just when we think we’ve arrived at our final destination… Just when we think we can concentrate on the project at hand… Brent takes a little side trip on his way home from visiting Daisy in New York and… Voila! An exciting, new appendage for Eye of the Day: DALLAS! The idea was to work…
Freeze, thaw. Freeze, thaw.
If you have ever been to Paris in the winter (and we LOVE Paris in the Winter), you will see that all of the major and even the minor public fountains are drained and remain dry until the threat of freezing is gone. Believe it or not, even some areas of Santa Barbara County experience…
Eye of the Day Goes Cosmopolitan
After the flood, our Great Flood, we were awarded a small business loan thanks to FEMA. Though we weren’t able to salvage the MANY barrels that floated down the Santa Ynez River to Buellton, Lompoc and beyond, we moved forward (or southward) to our new home in Carpinteria. And to us IT WAS HUGE! First,…
Daisy? Day’s Eye? Eye of the Day?
It is thought that the name “Daisy” is a corruption of “day’s eye”, because the whole flower head closes at night and opens in the morning. Chaucer called it “eye of the day”. You have been wondering, right? Why we are called Eye of the Day? When we started our business, after moving from the…
Eyes in Tuscany
Inventory at Eye of the Day in 1994: 1. Wine barrels cut in half 2. Wine barrels cut in quarters 3. Wine barrels cut in three-quarters 4. Whole wine barrels 5. Mexican pottery 6. Potting soil Inventory at Eye of the Day in 2010: Okay. No lists. But LOTS MORE than in 1994. When we…
