Current Obsessions: Design Forecast

An unlikely rooftop oasis, ’70s florals, a wood-burning hot tub collaboration, and more signs of spring ahead:

• “If a tiny, depressing roof can be transformed into a private urban oasis…then anything’s possible.”
• One of our all-time favorite stores, Maison Empereur in Marseille—the oldest hardware store in France—won the Global Innovation Award in the housewares category for French retail excellence this past week in Chicago. (Margot recently stopped by and can confirm its treaure-trove reputation.)
• Paging the seventies: The Togo sofa has been everywhere of late…and now it’s available in the original Floraly fabric from 1973.
• Earth tones in the office, blues in the bedroom: what color theory has to say about picking paint.
• Margot is browsing this springy new ceramics collection by Momoko Otani, via Anzu New York.
• We’ve previously admired the wood-burning hot tubs by Goodland—and now their collab with Anthony Esteves of Soot House fame (and yesterday’s house tour, too).
• Good news for the lazy gardener.
• And coming up on Quick Takes: an event planner extraordinaire (on Remodelista) and the duo behind a cult-favorite workwear shop (on Gardenista). Check back Sunday.