Taking a virtual house tour of designer Maira Kalman’s apartment “laboratory” gave us some great ideas, including a way to discover our dream house.
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An Anti-Decluttering House and a Liberating Redefinition of Hoarding
We find ourselves sighing with relief when we see REAL spaces that embrace the stuff of living in creative ways, like this joyfully unconventional Japanese home.
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Free Downloadable Coloring Books from the World’s Great Collections
This trove of free downloadable coloring books from museums, libraries and universities around the world amplify the powerful the practice of coloring.
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Calvino: ‘Each Life is a Library’
In light of our posts on decluttering houses and work spaces, and our consideration of THINGS and what we need to live well and freely, we found Italo Calvino’s thoughts incredibly clarifying. The possibility that … everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable… is at the heart of living an improvised…
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object lessons: some sh*t just doesn’t matter
The other day, I accidentally knocked a treasured cup off a table and watched, in the slow motion of a car accident, as it crashed onto the stone floor. It was gone in a moment, an object whose beauty I’d enjoyed daily since my friend Suzanne Shaker had given it to me over a decade…
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andy warhol’s time capsules
Over the course of thirty years, Andy Warhol filled over 600 cardboard boxes with objects from his daily life, from photographs and newspaper clippings to artworks and telephone messages. He used a marker to write the date or contents on the outside, then sent the boxes to storage rooms. The array of boxes, which are…
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