Beautiful Abodes: February 2012

Notable new Cake Stand at A+R

Fun, functional, contemporary cake plates that can high-light your dessert with its own pop of color. These porcelain plate and stoneware pedestal are produced by 6 year old Dutch design house Jansen+Co., founded by Anouk Jansen and Harm Magis where the goal is to produce products that are fun and functional. Fun you can see it is, functional? Even more so. With the separate pedestal and cake plate you can collect all or a couple and mix and match to your liking.

Home of: Aerin Lauder

Name: Aerin Lauder

AKA: Estee Lauder's grand-daughter

From: New York

Date of birth: Unknown

Specialty: Cosmetic company heir

*Pictures from Vogue Home

Simplehuman's new touch-free Sensor Pump

Simplehuman Compact Sensor Pump $34.99

When you cook you get your hands dirty, garlic juice sticky fingers, greasy meatloaf mixing hands, olive oil slippery fingers, you know this kitchen messy hands I speak of, and when I go to the sink to wash my hands I end up fiddling with my soap pump so that I'm not getting the soap pump all slimy and greasy - this too, I know you know what I speak of. And now that it is all out in the open and we all know what I speak of, we can all together sigh in relief that Simplehuman has probably come out with the best touch-free sensor soap pump. Not only is it touch-free but also features a no-drip valve which means no leakage and runnage!

Naturally the next step after purchasing this sensor soap pump would be to get a sensor sink faucet to go with it! But we'll leave that for next time. In the meantime a no hassle touch-free soap pump for $35.00 is a dream to have for any cook, amateur or pro.