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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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“Antiqued leather” for your walls.

on the American fashion designer’s now-defunct paint line.

Nice paint, is it Ralph Lauren?

Rock beats Scissors (social image)

Bye bye, consumerist guilt!

on beauty packaging’s pebble-dagger dichotomy and the power of cute.

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Rock beats scissors

diary of a broke nose

16 days in Lisbon and Los Angeles

of [UFO Parfums](https://x.com/ufoparfums) on Jean-Claude Ellena, good bottles, Marx, and the never-ending quest for ethanol.

Diary of a broke nose

Summer linen

Bed, bath, and beyond.

Dirt contributors and friends on their favorite bedspreads, kitchen linens, towels, and more.

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Summer linens

Tom Dixon lamps

Light and space, lamps and monoliths. 

on the similarities between the British designer and a particular Pop-Minimalist sculptor. 

Tom Dixon’s ultra-shiny lamps

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About that Loewe tomato.

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Luxury produce

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Drink up, an architect designed that.

on Gianfranco Frattini and the tradition of architects designing tableware.

The timeless tableware of Gianfranco Frattini

arranging-things

A unique collaboration unfolded two decades ago, resulting in the enduring “Arranging Things.”

on the peculiar careers of Leonard Koren and Nathalie Du Pasquier and the cult-loved book they created.

The two aesthetes behind one beloved design book

Collecting