Happy Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day, too. And stay tuned: we’ll be celebrating Black History Month week after next, with projects and products from the community. Here are a few books, paintings, prints, and pajamas we’re loving this weekend:
- Distant yet connected at heart: an apron we love.
- In praise of The Black Artists Print Shop, with luminous works by 10 Black artists, available via Framebridge.
- Revisiting Common Ground: A Chinese-Style Family Compound in California.
- And Bauhaus in Beijing: Craft Furniture from an Emerging Designer.
- On Julie’s nightstand: Artists in Residence from Chronicle Books, with charming illustrations of artist’s homes and spaces, from Donald Judd in New York and Marfa to Frida Kahlo in Mexico City to Matisse in Nice, France.
- Eco win: France is the first country to require tech companies to give their devices a “repairability score”—a first step against planned obsolescence.
- Over on Gardenista: 10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Chinese Feng Shui Masters
- Next Saturday, the Native Plant Trust is hosting a virtual Botany Story Slam, in which “scientists, authors, botanists from New England and beyond share unusual encounters in the world of plants”; get more info and register here.
- New from LA-based designer Estee Stanley: The Eye Agency, connecting top designers and architects with clients.
- Margot loves the selection of artist and writer Leanne Shapton’s floral paintings now available via Picture Room in Brooklyn.
- Also admiring: vintage blue and clear canning jars from Brook Farm General Store (plus, 20 percent off select items with code WINTER20).
- Plant love: 7 alluring houseplants to give and get, over on Gardenista.
- How to get your pantry in order.
- And a Valentine’s Day self-treat, perhaps? Domi is offering 20 percent off select soft sleepwear through tomorrow.
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