In this week’s The New Shaker issue, we’ve been looking afresh at Shaker design, aka the trend that just keeps going, including a Shaker exhibit curated by Frances McDormand, seven new Shaker-inspired finds, and some particularly beautiful brooms. Speaking of trends, next week we’ll turn towards the design elements we’re most excited by right now, but meanwhile, here are 11 things to know this weekend:
Above: Just one lesson learned when we toured a Shaker village a while back? Paint shutters yellow to amplify the light. See more of our takeaways in In the Dwelling House: 16 Design Ideas to Steal from the Shakers. Photograph by Erin Little for Remodelista.
- “Is there a John Derian? Is he old? Real? Questions I love to get asked in my own shop,” the (real) John Derian writes on Instagram in celebration of his just-released John Derian Picture Book II (with a forward by Frances McDormand, speaking of).
- Big news: Heath Ceramics is hosting a big sale in Sausalito, LA, and online this weekend (October 19 and 20). Check it out here.
- ABC Carpet & Home is hereby reopened (and expanded!) at 888 Broadway, NYC.
- Annie spotted this caned bed on a recent trip to NYC and has been coveting it ever since.
- Gather leaves but don’t throw them out, and other rules to live by in the autumn garden.
- Attention, home buyers (and Zillow browsers): There’s a new feature to take into account.
- Three new sconces (with tiny perforations).
- Would you try napkins as frames?
- Eyeing this brass wreath-making workshop on November 3; all info here.
- In need of a lighting update? Enter here for a chance to win $1000 from Lightology.
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