Art & Design

Bulk Pencil Dispenser

Ok, we're obsessed w/ this idea! How fun to store your pencils in this on your desk + dispense them when you want one. Put it back when you're done. Can totally be used in a playroom or art space too for the kiddos. Options are limitless!

Deer Bed photos by Katherine Wolkoff

We have one of Katherine Wolkoff's glorious deer bed photos -- they're almost life-sized -- and it's one of my most treasured possessions.

Isabella Stewart Gardener

Or as I like to call it, the Isabeller Stewut Gahdnah

70s French Perpetual Calendar

Perfectly practical pop art. It's also functional and doesn't require batteries or power? Swoon.

Jacques Herbin Glow in the dark Phosphorescent Ink

Extremely fun addition to the art supply stash—you apply it with a brush or a dip pen, and it goes on invisible, but pops in the dark or under UV, making it the perfect medium for for secret messages. And Napoleon used Herbin inks, too (they've been making inks since the 1600s), possibly for his secret messages.

Girl Pictures, Justine Kirkland

photos i wish i took. justine kirkland has such a gifted eye.

Spiral olive dish

Seawall by Richard Diebenkorn

Painting is not dead! Not in 1957 and not now. This is one of the best. So perfectly captures the California coast while hinting at the structure and palette of many of Diebenkorn’s later, larger, abstract works. When you’re in SF, go to the de Young and look it up.

The Morgan Library: New York City

One of my favorite NYC places: the one-time private library of J.P. Morgan, tycoon + obsessive collector (I think of him every time I read Edith Wharton's THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY; you can have a pretty mind-blowing time wandering through the cultural treasures in various NYC museums and noting just how many he donated). It reflects the work and vision of Belle da Costa Greene, librarian extraordinaire, who was the director for decades. Usually has fascinating exhibits, Constable clouds, rare manuscripts, and the interior is a book-lover's dream.

Undesigning the Bath: Leonard Koren 1996

A very special book I saw at the JB Blunk shop in Northern California

Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts

there is not nearly enough chatter about the beatrice wood center for the arts on the outskirts of ojai, formerly home to beatrice wood, the last living member of the dada movement who lived there until her death at 105. close friend and contemporary of marcel duchamp and anaïs nin, later became known for these wildly iridescent ceramic pieces she was still making deep into her 100s (!!). the original bohemian baddie. only open on saturdays.

Noah Davis

The first retrospective of the beloved late Noah Davis at the Hammer Museum last summer will stay with me forever. A profoundly moving painter with remarkable range and emotional depth. You feel it before you can fully name it. He was absolutely incredible. Painting For My Dad hits me hard in the heart. If you aren't familiar, get familiar. GOAT.

Camp Snap camera

We impulse-bought one of Camp Snap's screen-free digital cameras during an airport layover for our 10-year-old. He had the best time snapping shots over vacation; the user experience is akin to a disposible film camera, except the images are captured on a memory card. Reviewing them all once we got home was a total hoot, too, because we had no idea what he shot; some were surprisingly terrific. Now I want one for myself for our next trip as an alternative to phone-snapping.

Use A Daily Planner as a Seasonal Recipe Situation

Get a daily calendar and write down the recipes you cook (on or around) when you make them/if you love what you cooked. Odds are you will do this a couple of times in 2026 and forget, no big, the point is to use the same book next year and the year after. Eventually you’ll have a planner filled with your version of seasonal recipes. Bonus if you write down who you fed. And Jesus, ChatGPT just translated my scribble into an actually legible recipe which is a game changer... (2024) Snowy Day Soup Made a large pot + set aside portion for G. Gemma’s portion didn’t have salt and it had an “iron bomb!” — chicken liver. Ingredients 2 carrots 2 onions 2 celery 2 medium turnips 5–8 fingerling potatoes (or any pot.) chicken stock dashi stock (or mushrooms) 1/2 cup barley 1 cup soaking beans (mixed bean) Seasonings: bay leaf salt (later) hot pepper flakes thyme, pepper Instructions Prepare fresh stock, add all veg to pot + beans. Simmer 1.5 hrs. Didn’t even sauté veg! Add barley + cook for another 40 min. Pull out Gem’s serving. (In a sauté pan, fry/cook chicken liver. Add.) Notes make sure there’s plenty of stock for beans and barley. topped w/ pecorino cheese, could use parmesan. used leftover pulled roast chicken to bulk up as an entrée.

Addison Woolsey

one of my favorite contemporary ceramicists. feel lucky to own one of his vases! he moved to japan from la last year, and i can only imagine the excellence he’ll bring back stateside.

TRC Pocket Notebook

an ex boyfriend's mom got me this notebook, and it's maybe the most seen i've ever felt. it's the perfect place to stash small ephemera and mementos you don't want to lose track of.

Bruno Munari: Poster of images from "Supplement to the Italian Dictionary"

*gesticulates wildly* Art for the person who talks with their hands.

Maison d’Art

Maison d’Art has been quietly running the most extraordinary museum-level programming in Los Angeles for nearly a decade. Although you will never encounter a person in-person when you arrive for your appointment, the private gallery space on Melrose is run and funded by Theo Niarchos, lending to a thrilling private encounter with historical and contemporary works like Cy Twombly, Cady Noland, and (new to me, b. 1895) William L. Hawkins, which is up through May 30.

Alicia Dubuis

a still life photographer i recently discovered. i love her styling.

Spike

Probably the best art magazine today

Exhausted Cleo

She's had a long day. Been there.

Rothko in Florence

One of the most important shows of Rothko in recent memory is taking place as we sit here on our phones at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the city that inspired him throughout his career. Up through August 23. I need to see these big boys next to the Fra Angelico frescoes which were his deepest wellspring of reverie and admiration. Insanity!

John Singer Sargent - Fumée d’ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris)

My fave. Big inspo for colors and layering when I went to Morocco a couple years back.

Ditsy Delft Tiles

DeVOL has created a companion tile to their Ditsy Delft wallpaper. So sweet!