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Concrete follies, sofa shopping, and reality TV

May 9, 2021

Home upgrades for the non-committal; magazines are the new magazines

Mar 27, 2021

Knock knock, who's there?

Feb 13, 2021

Bringing it home

Dec 28, 2020

Lukewarm gossip and holiday shopping

Nov 28, 2020

Oct 31, 2020

A programming note for anyone expecting this newsletter at a regular cadence: I hazily recall promising a bimonthly missive on Saturday mornings, but…

Oct 4, 2020

Paradise in peril

Sep 12, 2020

This week, I’m skipping the links and heading straight to my bookshelf for summer reading recs. Plus a humble request for you, dear reader: I’ll soon be…

Aug 15, 2020

Greetings from foggy Berkeley, California, where my family and I have been since June. Turns out it’s hard to hit a regular newsletter cadence when…

Jul 18, 2020

This newsletter was conceived in a different frame of mind, one in which I was thinking about how to keep opining about home, architecture, and design…

Jun 20, 2020

"In these uncertain times"

May 30, 2020

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