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Current Obsessions: Slow and Steady

January 17, 2026

What are you up to this weekend? Ahead, wintery inspiration, a bedding sale, a palette we’re admiring, and more small things we’ve noted this week.

This week we took a peek inside the atelier of embroidery-studio-of-the-moment Oeuvres Sensibles—which also happens to be having a sale! Browse here. (&#8\2\20;Love the pants and shirts curtains,&#8\2\2\1; Margot writes.) Photograph by Maxime Verret for Oeuvres Sensibles.
Above: This week we took a peek inside the atelier of embroidery-studio-of-the-moment Oeuvres Sensibles—which also happens to be having a sale! Browse here. (“Love the pants and shirts curtains,” Margot writes.) Photograph by Maxime Verret for Oeuvres Sensibles.
  • Bay Area fashion designer Erica Tanov is selling her Berkeley house.
  • Love: The 100 Candleholders exhibit, inspired by JB Blunk’s 1981 exhibition 100 Plates, features 100 artists’ takes on the theme; on view through March at Blunk Space in Point Reyes, CA. (Hat tip: Julie.)
  • “On the hunt for a plant stand and while it’s not quite right for my corner, I loved this one from Terrain,” says Laura.
  • In Paris, Wes Anderson recreates the studio of Joseph Cornell, including hundreds of details and ephemera collected by Cornell.
  • Spotted: a Brooklyn Heights home featured both on Remodelista and Gardenista is at the center of a controversy, as detailed in the New York Times.
  • Have a look at this sign painter in Paris—we could watch this all day.
  • Inspiration for the cold months.
  • Clare is eagerly planning a visit to this exhibition.
  • Essentials on sale: Perfect finds for a midwinter bed refresh, now on at Coyuchi.
  • Shaker boxes, stacked.
  • “I love the bug-obsessed Instagram feed of scientist @dradriansmith. My father used to take my brother and me out for insect expeditions when we were little and I’ve loved insects ever since,” writes in Melissa.
  • Fan is bookmarking this gorgeous palette in anticipation of Lunar New Year next month.
  • “The plants everyone will be wanting in their gardens in 2026.”
  • Got snow? Dreamy winter curb appeal inspo here.
  • Speaking of which, the aesthetic reason for leaving your dead plants standing through winter.
  • Last but not least: 7 small comforts for cold months.
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