02.24.26 | on suggestion
Since I visited last month when I was in LA, I’ve been thinking a lot about suggestion and the quiet way it’s started to take over our lives. Except in 2026, suggestions feel more prescriptive. There are correct answers, objects are cultural and aesthetic signals, and the internet feels like swimming in sea of personal sameness.
I’m thinking, also, about the inherent contradictions that form when you pick things up out of curiosity— without feeling the need to know why, or think about whether or not they’d be on someone’s Substack recommendation post. I don’t really go to the bookstore and buy anything without standing there and googling it first but I did before this trip, landing on Henry Miller’s The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch and Big Sur, which found me at exactly the right place and time in my life. Henry Miller, Dunkin Donuts coffee, Nora Brown, and Anne Truitt don’t neatly fit into a carefully curated box or self-presentation, but maybe that’s not a problem.
In the spirit of suggestion, I built a sourcing service called On Call. Ask for help finding something via the form, and receive two options via email within 48 hours.
Furniture For Thought
Unrelated, but might belong in the same living room.
price on request | via Galerie Provenance
price on request | via Monde Singulier