Current Obsessions: Parcels and Packages
In advance, things to read through, wrap, and make whilst you sit by the fire (or stay in mattress) this weekend:
Earlier mentioned: No wrapping paper? No matter. We love the present-in-a-current of furoshiki wrapping for any reward-offering occasion see Zero-Squander Wrapping: How To Wrap a Furoshiki Fabric for a how-to.
- Or, a Diy wrapping paper plan: adorning parcels with the scrolling letters that utilized to be component of penmanship classes, by way of Toast and Edinburgh-dependent bookbinder/paper artist Rachel Hazell.
- A intelligent use for extra trimmings from the Christmas tree.
- We’re next Raini Home, the new home furniture and objects shop by Brooklyn-centered entrepreneur and layout savant Kai Avent-deLeon, opening nowadays (with some of her individual designs, way too).
- And introducing perfect moving-in items through The Modern Property.
- Is cauliflower owning a minute? This 7 days we have been reading the peculiar heritage of a 1780s mahogany chair with carved cauliflower detailing by our mate Eve Kahn—plus Twelve Astonishing Techniques to Use Cauliflower in The New Yorker by Remodelista contributor Ella Quittner.
- Notice Coloradans: Margot’s artist-naturalist sister, Jody Guralnick, has a solo demonstrate opening this Saturday at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ new gallery place consider a seem.
- We like the origami-like canvas experience masks manufactured by canvas bowl go over specialists Aplat of San Francisco (an apt 2020 stocking stuffer).
- “I like this vintage seller’s curious offerings that he posts on Instagram,” writes Margot comply with along @tihngs.
- Moreover, past-minute gift suggestions: the 11 ideal design/architecture books of the year and comfort and ease provides for maintaining quiet and being in.