Current Obsessions: Postcards
Ahead this weekend? Dreamy destinations in Scotland, the Berkshires, Menorca, Italy, and more—and inspiration for displaying summer keepsakes from your travels. Read on:
Above: Mentally, we’re here: at Cantina, a restaurant in a former 18th-century naval hospital on Illa del Rei, Menorca. Bonus? It’s just next door to Hauser & Wirth and lush gardens by Piet Oudolf (take a tour on Gardenista, here). Photograph by Dave Watts, courtesy of Cantina.
- Ooh, a beautiful new way to display mementos (hat tip: Margot).
- Dream vacation? At this Airbnb in Scotland, you can run your own bookshop.
- Now open and on our Must Visit list: Walker Street Market in Lenox, MA, ft. artists, designers, makers, and some Remodelista favorites.
- And Julie’s enamored of Mostly Objects, a new shop in Brooklyn “for the collected home”.
- Obsessed with the newly redone apartment in The Invite? We’ve got the paint colors: Farrow & Ball’s Blue Gray and Oval Room Blue.
- Speaking of films, we’re forever smitten by the Italian villa (and pool) that was the set of Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.
- Just in: UK designer Fred Rigby is now called Inherit—and has launched a summer capsule collection inspired by the Greek isles.
- Ooh, we’re eager to explore Japanese shop Standard Products—with locations in Illinois and Colorado, too (hat tip: Fan).
- Object of our desire: a little green table “inspired by Shaker candle stands.”
- We’re eagerly awaiting Ikea’s Kompishäng collection, with portable, totable furniture for life on the move.
- A new-to-us blockprint studio whose designs are very much inspired by nature. We especially love its upcycled antique sheets.
- We weren’t aware that yellow flowers in the garden were ever out of style.
- Registration for the 2026 Daffodil Project opens Monday, August 17th. “Each year, NY4P distributes free daffodil bulbs and native seeds to New Yorkers in every borough. Participants then work alongside other volunteers to plant in public parks, tree pits, community gardens, schoolyards, and more.” Find details here. (Hat tip: Laura.)
- Of course, Alex Matisse (of East Fork Pottery) is an avid gardener. (He’s even cultivating a pawpaw tree!)
- This will make you smile.
- What a great rain barrel upgrade.
- And we’re calling it: Interest in this age-old horticultural craft is going to skyrocket in coming years.
