Small shops, vintage furniture, and collected objects
Long weekends are the perfect excuse to wander through a nearby town you don’t usually visit and pop into the thrift stores, vintage shops and tiny local…
Captain Whidbey: materials and collected objects
I’m always most drawn to spaces that couldn’t just exist anywhere, where the architecture, materials, objects and imperfections tell you something about the…
Washington: cedar, moss, and a sense of place
Every time we visit I’m reminded how much a place can shape the way we think about design. The towering evergreens, weathered cedar cabins, moss-covered…
Cabin architecture and a screened porch
There’s just something about summer in a cabin. Slow mornings, coffee on a screened-in porch, card games that last way too long, the sound of rain on the…
Petra Palumbo Delft tiles, and a trip to the Netherlands
Our goal has never been to create homes that look like our portfolio. It’s to create homes that feel unmistakably like the people who live in them. Visiting…
Handmade tile from Tabarka Studio
That’s why we’ve always been drawn to the handmade tiles from @tabarkastudio . Each piece is crafted using time-honored techniques, resulting in gentle…
Amsterdam, The Frozen Fountain, and Dutch design
One of my favorite stops was the @thefrozenfountain a showroom I’ve admired for years and was so excited to finally experience in person particularly the…
Rotterdam and Delft in one day
Rotterdam completely surprised me. I expected to love the architecture, but I wasn’t prepared for how incredible the @boijmans was! As the world’s first…
Soho House Berlin, down to the switches
Staying at Soho House Berlin ended up being the perfect home base. We spent our mornings by the rooftop pool taking in the views over the city before…
Svenskt Tenn textiles and pattern
One of THE MOST inspiring stops on this trip was @svenskttenn. Walking through the incredible spaces felt like a reminder that pattern doesn’t have to be…
Stockholm, Skansen, and Vaxholm
We spent most of yesterday in Skansen and took a ferry to Vaxholm this morning with no real agenda, ate homemade fika, wandered around looking at houses and…
Norwegian architecture and interiors
I’m not usually filling up my camera roll with flowers, but Norway has apparently turned me into someone who can’t stop. I keep taking photos of leaves,…
Oslo: old buildings, new ideas
Feeling incredibly inspired by the juxtaposition of historic and contemporary architecture in Oslo and the way the city seems to embrace both without trying…
Designmuseum Danmark and the Panton chair
Grateful to finally experience @designmuseumdanmark and see so much of my favorite design work all in one spot. The #PantonChair is my personal favorite,…
Tivoli’s colors and little details
So grateful that a few magical places like #Tivoli still exist…the curious color palettes, the simplicity compared to parks of today, the whimsy and the…
Copenhagen during 3daysofdesign
🇩🇰Do I even have words for how incredible #copenhagen🇩🇰 is? As if this trip wasn’t enough of a big deal for us, we overlapped just enough with…
Liberty London: a textile archive you can walk through
One of the highlights of last summer was an entirely unplanned stop at @libertylondon . As someone who spent way too many hours studying the history of…
Meow Wolf Santa Fe: looking at everything
Going to @meowwolfsantafe as a designer is basically impossible to do casually. I always think I am just going to wander through and enjoy it, and then five…
Twenty-six yards of mohair
There are safer ways to test a new workroom than handing them 26 yards of mohair, but apparently we enjoy a little drama. In all seriousness, we try very…
Paris museums and flea-market paintings
Drag your kids to the museums. Drag them to the flea markets. Let them see the masterpieces, then let them dig through the weird little paintings stacked in…