Current Obsessions: Outsiders

It was a big week here at Remodelista and Gardenista: Our latest (sixth!) book is out in the world! Read more about it right over here, and find it wherever books are sold. (P.S. We’d love to see your copy. Snap a photo in your garden (or front stoop, sunny window, or fire escape) and tag us on Instagram @gardenista_sourcebook.)

Happy weekend, and read on for 18 more things on our radar lately:

• It’s the last day to catch this exhibition of ink paintings by Okinawa-based Daichiro Shinjo and ceramic works by Wonder Valley-based Jonathan Cross at Blunk Space in Point Reyes Station, CA.
• Annie, Margot, and our marketing manager, Adam, attended a screening of The Harvard Five at the Architecture and Design Film Festival this week, about the revolutionary architects who brought modern design to New Canaan, CT. Two things that stuck with us from the Q+A with filmmaker Devon Chivvis, a filmmaker who grew up in one of the glass and steel houses: “We were never just inside or just outside,” said Devon. “It was always both.” And also: “The house was like a sibling.”
• “Fishs Eddy, the beloved NYC seller of diner dishware, has opened a new outpost in Dumbo that’s a combo café and shop,” reports Margot. “A cup of coffee is only $1.95.”
• Wouldn’t you love to wake up here? Now open for stays, courtesy of our friends at Marston House.
• Just out: stripey aprons and table linens designed by chef of the moment, Flynn McGarry, for Gem Home x Autumn Sonata.
• And love these printed percale sheets, perfect for autumn (hat tip: Laura).
• Annie was in NYC this week; among the highlights? Popping into Toast, shopping at Goods for the Study, and drinks at the wood-paneled Eel Bar.
• Your plates aren’t scratched; they just need this.
• Would you try this house-swap site?
• Hope!
• New Yorkers: Elizabeth Street Garden’s 5th Annual Halloween Pet Parade (and “rigorously judged costume competition”) will be held next Saturday, Oct. 25. Details here.
• If you’ve always wanted to tour Sissinghurst, here’s your chance to do it virtually: Create Academy just launched a new gardening series featuring its head gardener.
• “Claverton Cloches has launched a hose reel that is a thing of great beauty! I have their hose, which is beautiful—really weighty so it doesn’t kink and with beautiful brass fittings,” says Clare.
• And new goodies from ORCA: gorgeously patinated copper planters. “I’m genuinely obsessed! I love how ambitious ORCA is with their product offerings,” writes Laura.
• Planting bulbs? Make sure you read this.
• Finally, Kendra makes the case (10 cases, actually) for a lawn-free front yard.
• And in memoriam: Diane Keaton, our fairy godmother. We will miss her.