Bloom + Bourbon

Eloise Beauregard Whitmore throws the best garden parties in Charleston.

The magnolias are always overgrown — by design, she says, though nobody has caught her tending them. The bourbon is always good. The guest list is always full. She has been hosting since before anyone on it can clearly remember being invited the first time, which they choose not to examine too closely. The cicada in the largest magnolia has been singing the same note since the summer of something nobody can quite pin down. Eloise says it knows things. She says this with a smile that suggests she is not entirely joking.

Bloom + Bourbon is Paperfinch's Charleston collection: sun-warmed and overgrown, in teal, pink, citrus, and cream. Garden parties that run past dark. Bourbon poured with intention. The particular kind of Southern hospitality that makes you feel welcome and slightly uncertain about what exactly you've agreed to at the same time. Art prints, tea towels, coasters, ornaments, and pillows — each piece carrying the language of Eloise's world, from the vintage gin label on the garden table to the ranunculus that bloomed three weeks after it should have. The weather is perfect. The party shows no sign of ending. Nobody is going to be the first to leave.