As promised, I am infusing Belle Decor with more bits of design from the New York International Gift Show.

Here's a company that always stops me dead in my tracks: the Sandor Collection.

They make everything from table runners to Christmas stockings but handmade, felt applique pillows are what they do best.

We've all seen the happy, technicolor pillows of a similar ilk from Hable Construction (if you haven't, you must go to hableconstruction.com), but this entire collection is a foil to that all-American look.

Based on vintage Hungarian embroidery patterns, the Sandor pillows feel old-world and delicate, but not at all stodgy or stiff (my favorite pattern, Madeira, follows below).