In need of a pick-me-up? We’ve been counting hopeful harbingers this week, among them: exuberant flower arrangements. Eleven ways to create a romantic outdoor space. A potager-to-table restaurant in France (with a bed for you, should you like to stay). And more:
Above: Spotted: a springy tablescape at Borradill, a Designer’s Scots-Scandi Rental House and Cottage on the West Coast of Scotland. Photograph by Joshua Page, courtesy of Mookerjee Design (@mookerjee_design).
- Registration is open for Perfect Earth Project’s day-long May 7th symposium, Managing Invasives: Mindful Ecological Approaches. (Bonus: there will also be “coffee, what we think are the best muffins in the world, and a delicious buffet lunch made by the Café at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.”)
- LOL. Guess the generation based on the front yard.
- Marie recommends signing up for a Central Park Bird Walk, which starts April 10, to spot birds stopping by on their way back north.
- More of this, please, says Laura.
- Looking to zhuzh up your outdoor space? DWR is having its annual Outdoor Sale now through April 21.
- We’ll take flowering branches over cut flowers any day.
- Whoa, the most beautiful pest deterrent we’ve ever seen. (Hat tip: Margot.)
- And the most beautiful hand-made botanical paper cutouts by Kier’s friend Sara Burgess.
- Something to look forward to: Samin Nosrat’s new cookbook comes out in September and she’ll be touring to promote it. Tickets available now.
- On our TBR list: “a Who’s Who of the midcentury greats, many of them women who have yet to become household names,” reports Margot. (We’re hoping that’ll change.)
- Domi makes some of our favorite PJs—and now they’ve launched pillow slips.
- Coming up at Blunk Space in CA: Urushi: Japanese Lacquerwork by Makiko McDonald, on view April 11-20.
- Best-looking bath towels? Fan’s coveting these graphic black and cream designs.
- We’re surprisingly compelled by this peekaboo shower curtain, inspired by Le Corbusier.
- The hand-hewn French chair we’re seeing everywhere lately.
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