Hazelnut New Orleans

It's my first day in New Orleans and I'm staying outside of Hazelnut, which is Brian Batts store. Brian Batts is kind of a hometown hero, mostly because of his performance on AMC's Mad Men, but also because he has been here his entire life. Hi, how's it going? That's fine, welcome. Hi Nick, I'm Brian. Pleasure to meet you. Welcome to New Orleans and to Hazelnut. Thank you so much. And this is Peggy. How are you? How are you? Very cute. Hazelnut is an elegant home furnishing store that Brian started in 2003 with his partner Tom. We named it after my grandmother. Her name was Hazel and she was a nut. Actually, her maiden name was Nuss, which means nut in German. I used to go shopping up and down Magazine Street as a kid and then in high school and look at all the antique stores and all the art galleries. I knew at an early age what I And then when I was in New York time, I would always come down. When we'd come down, we'd take a day to go up and down Magazine Street. Just to explore, I mean my first adult piece of furniture, my big boy piece of furniture was from Gay Worth, worth more antiques further down. And I just have made a relationship and friendships with all the galleries over the years. The store is just what we You have to do 30% of what you So from my dead body, are we going to have anything that I wouldn't really want or that I wouldn't put in someone's house? Lone at the candle and someone was stealing it. She picked it up to smell it and all the wax on all over her face. Is there anyone there? Anyone there? Hello. We do our own products, which I can show you later. Some of these, these are reverse decapage plates and they serve on them. But this is a white hair and a regret, which I did, I did this whole series because of the Guelphs bill. These are more of the decapage plates, but these are based on antique maps and different things. This is the first Lambo carrier from Mardi Gras. The flambo carriers used to carry the torches in front of the floats and this is one of them. But this is from Harper's Weekly from 1890. So they don't do that anymore? They do. They do. It's And now it used to be just African American. Now it's, Well, the jewellery is a classic French fabric and it's mainly like they'll draw like little pastoral scenes of little, And I said, why not a New Orleans? Here's the Cu00f4te d'Irdreau, the Natchez, the streetcar, you see going up down to the French Quarter patios and French Quarter scenes. And we did it right. We had it for our opening in 2003. This is a book I wrote. I'm calling it a mom war. It's about my wonderful steel magnolia, anti-mame of a mom and growing up here in New Orleans. It's about, But it's really about mother and son. So if you have a mother and you It sounds I mean, there's my mom's from Texas. So I think there's We have a very, very close relationship with her. And we just clicked from early on. We just saw each other eye to eye and she got me. But She said, well honey, you just can't help who you love. You can love, you can't connect, it's necessary to click with them. And there's, It just didn't work. But You just