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Current ObsessionsIssue 29 — Staycation

Current Obsessions: Summer Diversions

July 18, 2020
Writers Shed Wai Ming Ng Weston Surman Deane desk
Above: UK architects Weston Surman & Deane designed this writer’s shed for an author and illustrator in London. Take a tour at A Backyard Writer’s Shed by Weston Surman & Deane. Photograpy by Wai Ming Ng.
  • Mark your calendars: Field + Supply, designer Brad Ford’s beloved modern makers market, held twice a year in Kingston, NY, is going virtual this weekend with Summer MRKT, an online makers fair; on Thursday, July 16th, through Sunday, July 19th. A wide range of goods are on offer as well as a schedule of several live demos over the next few days. Register for the event at Field + Supply.
  • Fan discovered a new diversion: Window Swap, which gives us a voyeuristic view from other peoples’ homes around the world.
  • On the market in Litchfield,  CT: the Gagarin I (1956−57) house, a monumental Modernist residence by Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.
  • Annie is charmed by Maine-based Julie D. O’Rourke of Rudy Jude’s easy Picnic Muumuu Tutorial on Instagram.
  • Enter to win a bundle of beautiful dining goods—a cotton nazar spread, brass-tipped salad servers, and an Erica Tanov for Notary Ceramics serving bowl — a retail value of $328. The raffle benefits Dine for Democracy, a nonprofit organized by a small group of artists and activists in the San Francisco Bay Area,
  • Twelve back-garden offices for working from home.
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