Current Obsessions: The Poet and the Surfer

The week in finds.

• Inside the Paris house of the founder of Merci. (“The rooms look like 19th-century paintings,” Margot says.)
• Wish we could be there: iFuji’s made-to-order furniture for Arts & Science is available now through August 20 in their Tokyo shop, At the Corner.
• Do Izabella’s new favorite ceramics look familiar? You may have spotted them on the tables of top Danish restaurants, or in collaboration with Norm Architects.
• Margot is admiring the perfumed allumettes from apothecary Buly 1803, Cleopatra-esque packaging included.
• How to clean your bedroom, bedsheets to blinds.
• Living in a time capsule: houses unchanged for decades, via The Wall Street Journal.
• Happening now.
• New Yorkers: Stop by, now through Tuesday, for finds from Felt + Fat, The Primary Essentials, and more.
• A Swedish surf shack in Sri Lanka, guest accommodations included.
• Over on Gardenista: a poet’s home and gardens in the Berkshires.
• You can now submit your DIY or remodeling project directly to the Remodelista editors. Here’s how.
• We want to see where you’re spending the last weeks of summer: Tag #RMsummerhouse and @remodelista on Instagram.

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