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How to make a kids' room feel special, not temporary
Kids' rooms get decorated last and least. How to make one feel special without a theme or a full redo: real art, good light, storage worth looking at, and hooks...
How to choose a vase for the flowers you actually buy
How to choose a vase that suits the flowers you actually bring home: height, neck shape and when a low bowl beats a vase, worked through with new pieces from...
A Collected Room, Not a Matching Set: How to Choose What Comes Next
A room can be entirely functional and still feel unresolved. How to work out what it is actually short of, choose between contrast and continuity, and decide what comes next...
A hundred years of Ukrainian linen
Hundred-year-old Ukrainian deadstock linen, woven on narrow looms and stored for a century. What it is, where it came from, and what the last of it became.
Harriet Allure and the idea that home is not one place
Two friends, raised in Germany with roots in Ghana, built a candle brand around the idea that home can be assembled more than once. Who makes Harriet Allure, what goes...
What Zeina Nahas is making in Toronto
Zeina Nahas works in stoneware and silver: ceramic vessels from the Melancholy collection and pure silver rings shaped by hand without molds. Both made in Toronto, both one of a...
How not to make it look precious
Handmade objects look precious when they are arranged, not used. Five principles for living with handmade things in a way that feels natural.
What a Senufo stool is, and where it comes from
A Senufo stool is hand-carved from a single piece of hardwood by the Senufo people of West Africa. What they are, where they come from, and what makes a vintage...
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