10.17.25 | NO REGRETS
Certain things are excluded from this behavior. Catch me buying myself a six dollar chocolate croissant every morning after I’ve answered five emails because I deserve it. Thanks so much. But a Magniberg duvet cover? No. Instead, I continue to use the “very short-term” solution I bought in 2023 which is too big and mysteriously has pen on it. I am pissed off every single morning when I make the bed. There’s probably some deeper psychology here around self-sabotage or avoiding your real values; but every once in a while I manage to jump off the diving board and buy the actual thing and the returns are always magnificent.
It took me 5 years to buy a Lumina Daphine lamp. I knew it would change my life, it did, and every night when I turn it off I thank the version of me who finally decided enough was enough. Martinianos are a similar story— I tried them on at Mohawk General and did that thing where you imagine yourself in some hyper-specific life scenario you’ve never actually been in, but know you *could* be if that’s what you were wearing. I finally pulled the trigger during a fuck-it phase last October and unfortunately my hunch was correct: they make my closet exponentially better and I wear them literally all the time.
I think the things that give a person a full body “YES” inside are probably different for everyone. You might be really turned off by the fact that I paid $300 for a hotel-style laundry cart and consider it a number one must-have for my life. That’s okay, your roman empire belongs to you alone.
This is all just to say: if you’ve been thinking about it for a really long time and you know it would make you happy and you would use it and love it and be so glad you had it, stop filling the hole with other things and pull the trigger. Put it on your credit card, whatever you have to do. No regrets.
I’m still thinking about a Richard Hawkins painting I saw at Greene Naftali this past June.I may not ever reach a point where I’m able to buy a Richard Hawkins painting, but it hasn’t stopped me from imagining it hanging in my imaginary kitchen.
I’ve also been taking a lot of field trips and fell in love over the weekend with Madeline Coven’s pewter wall hangings at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery. They’re precious and unusual and exactly the kind of thing I would buy on impulse. Jacqueline Sullivan also has the mother-of-all powder rooms. Sink skirts feel important right now. If I can get over myself, I’m going to make one for my kitchen. They also had this bench, which— no notes.
I picked up Letizia Le Fur’s Le Crépuscule Des Lieux from RVB (because who needs a new duvet cover when you can have a book you didn’t know existed five minutes before?). It came in the mail yesterday and there’s no better color-guide to the world I want to live in than her photos.
Furniture For Thought
I was looking for something else when I found this, but I realized it’s kind of the perfect sofa. The shape, the proportions, the side pillows—- it’s just good. Also, this lamp. Someone recently accused me of only liking beige. That’s definitely not true, but I realize this makes it look sort of true.
$16,000 | via Somerset House
675 EUR | via Another June