• Have a great weekend!

    Little me with big sisters, 1976 The weather is going to be great. Drink something icy-cold, stick your hands in the dirt, and enjoy the sunshine. Here’s to a productive weekend outdoors!…

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    Garden plan!

    (click to see the garden in context) You guys are great! All of the comments on yesterday’s post gave me the confidence to pull together a new plan for the garden—something that…

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    Garden time: Let’s get serious!

    Okay, so it’s been quite some time since I mentioned the garden, I know. Winter was a good excuse for a few months, but now that it’s warming up (let’s pretend yesterday…

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    Spring!

    What a weekend! Nice weather has finally arrived in New York (I’m going to ignore the rain/cold that’s coming up over the next few days), and the four-legged among us appreciate it…

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    Frédéric Méchiche’s loft.

    I’ve been obsessed with interior designer Frédéric Méchiche’s Le Marais loft for a while now, and I’ve squirreled away a bunch of photos of it from various sources and taken at various…

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    Alvar Aalto + Tom Dixon + white + Marimekko = YES.

    I really like what Tom Dixon has been doing since becoming the Creative Director of Artek several years ago (2nd cycle, collaboration with twentytwentyone, the amazing towers assembled for the 75th anniversary…

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    Rot and decay (AKA the roof and cornice).

    I apologize for the bad quality of these photos (they were taken with a cell phone by a contractor), but to be honest, a higher resolution isn’t going to do our poor…

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    ENJE roller shades.

    I’ve had a lot of problems getting the curtain/shade/blind (I hate the term “window treatment”—it makes me think of a gigantic box valance) situation in our house where it should be. Six-inch…

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