Current Obsessions: Old Ways

On our minds (and in our bookmarks) this week? A just-opened general store, a shop offering Japanese mending, and a book about bogs. Read on:

• Julie’s admiring this vignette of tin vessels by Fabien Cappello. Want to start a collection of your own? Shop here.
• If you’re still thinking about Kendra’s 2022 story about Finnish artist Antti Laitinen, here are more examples of his breathtaking nature art (hat tip: Annie).
• Ooh, this winter market on Dec. 5 hosted by two R/G faves, Erica Tanov and The Gardener Store, sounds amazing!
• Time to build a bug snug in your garden. (Read more about it here.)
• Love this new peek into Gardenista friend Flora Grubb’s garden.
• This workshop by Perfect Earth Project sounds like a fantastic opportunity for home gardeners and professional landscapers to learn more about ecological land care. (Hat tip: Laura.)
• Londoners: Last chance to catch Winter Flowers Week at the Garden Museum this weekend.
• On Margot’s must-read list: Bogland, an intriguing new book about the history of these soggy landscapes and the pivotal role they play in our planet’s climate.
• Lately we’re all poring over the layered, lived-in Provence home of the duo behind Kiosk; have a look.
• On the market: the 19th-century Greenwich Village carriage house where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner once worked.
• Object of Margot’s desire: a wee acorn sprouter (available with or without acorn).
• East Coasters, consider stopping by Fayce Textiles and Taylor Ceramics joint Open Studio Sale today at their new space in Northampton, MA.
• West Coasters, this shop brings Japanese craftsmanship—and kintsugi repairs—to four California locations. (We’d love to book a kintsugi party.)
• And this weekend, our friend, the potter Sarah Kersten, hosts a seconds sale at 2725 Magnolia St, Oakland, CA, including “rare and elusive mug seconds.” Info here.
• And finally, looking for an understated, un-tacky holiday-inspired doormat? These nail the assignment.