WILLIAMS SONOMA COLLABORATES WITH DESIGNER BILLY REID

by John Russel Jones

What’s that saying? Dress British, think Yiddish…and bartend like a Southerner!? Just in time for holiday cocktail parties, CFDA award-winner and Alabaman Billy Reid has partnered with Williams Sonoma on a stylish collection of bar tools, glassware, cocktail napkins, and linens, as well as an oyster knife and apron. The Billy Reid Collection for Williams Sonoma incorporates Reid’s signature “lived-in luxury” look, including thumbprints featured on glassware and pops of copper, wood, and leather throughout the collection. Retails range from ice tongs for $17,a cocktail mixing glass for $35, to a set of four highball glasses for $76. The cocktail shaker and strainer set is $97 and the apron is $60.

For more information on the collection, check out www.williams-sonoma.com/billyreid.