Elizabeth Street Gallery

The Elizabeth Street Gallery carries a fabulously flush collection of garden ornament. Tucked within Lower Manhattan's quintessential aisle's of gritty style, it breaks up the rigamortise of building stock as it lazes on an expansive, grassed lot. Lit with an eclectic mess of garden intrigue, I love how it denies commercial redundancy from the invasive stockists of Restoration Hardware. Simmer your Netflix calendar and stall out within it's gates- you may just find your garden-inspired chupacabra.

Boston to the T

I'm kind of digging Silvetti's glass shroud in Boston's Dewey Square.  A tip of the hat to I.M.Pei's Louvre by way of Giza, a nod to Gropius via glass and steel construction...and it's harking a Veritas hoodie spin.

PFD

The tired keyhole life jackets that I was bound to as a child were suffocating and restricting.  However, they seem far more emotionally buoyant when illustrated by Santiago Morillo.

 

Assouline

Tucked away in the lobby of NYC's Plaza Hotel is a wonderful little bookshop, Assouline. Filled with the most beautiful collection of current and collectibles, you feel honored to browse. Window shop online for fabulous gift ideas to feed virtually any hobby or enthusiast. www.assouline.com

Museo Soumaya

Mexico City's Museo Soumaya was designed by Fernando Romero.  The aluminum hexagonal tiles on the exterior suggest an apiary aesthetic, stitched by Linda Evan's seamstress.  The first curvilinear museum was spawned by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, this is the new age Guggenheim.

Leviathan

Anish Kapoor found the interior space of the Grand Palais "more overwhelming" than being outdoors because there were no vertical or horizontal references to human scale.  In a stroke of brilliance,  he inflated the space to engulf the occupier.  

Arts and Crafts

Mark Jenkins creates outdoor sculpture from reams of adhesive tape.   Staples must love this guy.