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Shopper’s Diary: That Flower Shop in Shoreditch
London’s “it” florist Hattie Fox recently moved her Shoreditch studio, That Flower Shop, from a nearby former blacksmith’s digs to a street-front shop at the new Ace Hotel. We can see why: Above:...
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Gray Gardens: A Visit to San Francisco’s Foggiest Backyard
In the years since the General Store SF opened near a surfer’s beach in San Francisco’s foggy Outer Sunset neighborhood, it has been notable for its ability to lure shoppers to a remote outpost of...
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Trending on Remodelista: Hello, London!
Julie and team are in London, ready for tomorrow’s Remodelista Market at The New Craftsmen. How have they spent the week? Yes, there’s been a little shopping. Plus a lot of sleuthing. Design dispatches...
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Garden Visit: Honey Grove Cottage in the Firs, on Vancouver Island
A week at Honey Grove in high summer is a week outside the rush of time. Named for the bees that Nao Sims started tending when she and her husband, Mark Sims, still lived in Vancouver eight years ago,...
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Shopper’s Diary: Fresh from the Farm at Hold General Store
It all started with some organic vegetables. After long days picking produce and tilling the land on her grandparents’ Vancouver Island farm, Marla Ebell would “stay up all night, carefully wrapping up...
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Botanical Art: Portraits of Houseplants from Dutch Painter Maaike Koster
It’s a given that indoor plants require sunlight and water, but did you know they also benefit from some well-placed botanical art? We learned this lesson from Dutch artist Maaike Koster, who has a...
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Shopper’s Diary: The Utrecht Flower Market
The Utrecht Flower Market translates easily enough to English once you know this word: “bloemen.” It means flower in Dutch and “bloemenmarkt” means flower market. And flowers there are in abundance...
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Studio Visit: Botanical Artist Anne ten Donkelaar
To see the botanical collage work of Dutch artist Anne ten Donkelaar is to marvel; to see her collages in person is to be transported to another world. As Anne says, “I see them as planets, floating....
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15 Garden Ideas to Steal from the Shakers
A few weeks back I went to Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire on a frosty morning in search of smart, simple design and storage ideas for the home (and found plenty; read about that here). But...
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Shopper’s Diary: Leaf Shop Végétal in Paris
If browsing for houseplants at Leaf feels like shopping inside a Parisian greenhouse, it’s no coincidence. Architects Hélène Pinaud and Julien Schwartzmann of Heju Studio, who designed the...
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Philadelphia Story: Terrain’s New Shop on the Main Line
With its new shop in Devon, Pennsylvania, Terrain earlier this month opened its doors on Philadelphia’s Main Line. With several other brick-and-mortar locations, including a flagship store and nursery...
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Shopper’s Diary: An LA Store that Sells Rare Houseplants from Private...
All plants have personalities. Anthropomorphized, a fiddle-leaf fig tree is the young urban dweller with a beanie collection, an orchid is the elegant suburban mom, a snake plant is the post-grad...
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Shopper’s Diary: Cabinet de Porcelaine, Paris
The size of a boîte, Cabinet de Porcelaine, on Rue de Verneuil in the heart of the Rive Gauche district, is all that one could wish for in a Parisian shop. The items inside are not among life’s...
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Shopper’s Diary: Lauri Kranz’s LA Homefarm
Lauri Kranz knows how to coax abundance out of the garden. The owner of Edible Gardens LA has been creating and sustaining vegetable gardens for clients like chef Suzanne Goin and pop star Katy Perry,...
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Objects of Desire: Michele Quan’s Painted Planters and Other Haute-Hippie...
Michele Quan adorns her ceramics with images relating to the wonder and mysteries of the universe. “Reading books on Eastern thought and practices is the root inspiration of my work,” she tells us....
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Shopper’s Diary: Heavenly Scents and Forever Arrangements at The Quiet...
Taking a moment amongst the flowers is something that Rebecca O’Donnell mentions often when talking about the inspiration and mood of her transportive store, The Quiet Botanist in Hudson, New York....
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Shopper’s Diary: Clement Nursery, San Francisco’s Oldest Garden Store
I frequent San Francisco most weekends, so when I learned of a very old nursery nestled into two full city blocks, I knew I needed to make a bee-line there. What I encountered was a unique space filled...
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