Current Obsessions: Gathering

Happy weekend, readers, and pre-feasting to all who celebrate! Ahead: old-school cooking tools we’re admiring, foraged branches, wreath making, and cozy spots to crack open a book. Read on:

• When it comes to the kitchen, sometimes simple is best.
• Speaking of: This week we’ve been ogling the stove of our dreams.
• Ooh, save the date for Heath’s Make Good Market, December 6 and 7 in San Francisco.
• A new exhibit at Bard in Edinburgh—both online and in person—brings back the tactility of craft in an era when much of our time is spent swiping. Browse here. (Hat tip: Deborah.)
• Would you like to spend the night in the bedroom from Goodnight Moon?
• “Cradled,” an exhibit co-curated by Frances McDormand exploring “the Shaker ethos of care, devotion, and communal living,” makes its LA debut.
• You’re invited to the Reform holiday market next Friday, November 28, in Copenhagen.
• Julie is eyeing this ceramics open house by Victoria Morris, December 13 and 14 in Ventura, CA.
• Weekend listen: the story behind Farrow and Ball.
• Reminder to self: read a book. (Hat tip: Fan.)
• For architecture x holiday fans (like Annie): Stop by a gingerbread house spectacular at Danny’s Mud Shop in LA (proceeds go to LA Family Housing).
• Ooh, and a candle holder workshop at Tooth and Nail in Milwaukee.
• Spotted! The atelier of a recent Quick Takes star, in an 1885 Mission Hall in London.
• Listen up! Environmental designer John Hart Asher, featured in The Low-Impact Garden, is on the most recent podcast episode of Cultivating Place, hosted by Jennifer Jewell (who calls our book “delicious and catalyzing”).
• Pretty ornaments.
• Give the kids’ table a fun DIY project this Thanksgiving.
• Hey, Bay Area folks: Get thee to the annual Plantsgiving next Saturday. (Hat tip: Kier.)
• Love the sounds of this wreath workshop; Aussie readers, take note.
• Bring foliage in.
• Every part of this invitation is enticing: “Join Niwaki and florist Miyuki Griffin for a festive afternoon of Christmas wreath making, with Japanese snacks to fuel your creative endeavors.” Details here.
• Speaking of Niwaki, you must see its founder’s home garden. So good.
• Stunning botanical art.
• Holiday decorations, but make them chic. (Hat tip: Annie.)
• Hort & Pott’s eagerly awaited annual holiday shop is now live on their site.
• Wow! A radical before & after.
• Got deer? Here’s how to tell them nicely to take a hike.