Current Obsessions: Turning In

Ahead this first official weekend of fall? Iconic kitchens on view, earthy colors for your cool-weather consideration, and bundles of flowers for all. Read on:

Above: Snapshot, and bedside inspiration, from Design Travel: Hotel Wren in Twentynine Palms.

• The making of the modern cook space: “The Kitchen and Its Discontents” is on our must-visit list, on view now at LACMA.
• And newly open in Copenhagen: the Vipp Apartment (Annie got a sneak peek in June—it’s worth a stop if you’re in town).
• “Forty-five percent off?! Wish I could go,” writes Fan about Swiss furniture co. USM’s sample sale and design market, going on Sunday, September 27 in Brooklyn.
• Happy 10th birthday to this iconic modular shelving line.
• Looking for an autumn refresh? Start with these 27 earthy new paint colors.
• Attention, attention: Commune is popping up in NYC.
• Also, Toast is having a wildly good post-summer sale right now.
• Are you going to LA Design Weekend?
• We’re always enamored by the work of Katie Lockhart, and so is this photographer.
• Love, love, love.
• Museum ateliers to visit in Paris.
• Relatable.
• Niwaki x YMC? Yes, please.
• Jenni Kayne x Business & Pleasure? More, please.
• “Required reading for all gardeners facing a fall abundance: The Golden Door Kitchen, the just-published cookbook from the California spa that grows its own—and believes in serving seconds,” writes Margot.
• Also on our reading list? Flowerprint: Dyekween Amanda de Beaufort’s guide to botanical dying. (Learn the 5 must-have flowers she recommends for a starter natural dyes garden here.)
• This gives “freshly laundered” a whole new meaning. (Hat tip: Annie.)
• “Obsessed with this Sausalito company that makes bags and outdoor accessories like cushions, sun shades, and furniture covers out of repurposed sails,” says Fan.
• Heads up: New Yorkers. Free flowers for all! Artist CJ Hendry’s viral Flower Market is returning to NYC’s Rockefeller Center this weekend.
• Can’t consume all the cherry tomatoes growing in your garden? An idea…
• P.S. Need a little workday lift? These might help.