You know, or maybe you don't, that Ethnicraft has been a staple at Lekker for over sixteen years. So we couldn't be more excited to share that their most recent release just in time for early spring is their first outdoor collection! Like all long-lasting wood designs made for the outdoors, each piece is made from solid FSC-certified teak, containing adaptions of some of their bestsellers as well as a few never-before-seen designs. If you're local, make an appointment with us to stop by the showroom because the whole collection is newly on the floor.

We'll let the designs speak for themselves,

This week we wanted to look at two Brooklyn spaces: one apartment in Bed-Stuy and one apartment in Greenpoint, designed by interior design studio, Studio Fauve, a master of making small spaces seem open and bright. We featured another NY project by the studio last year that serves as a great introduction to designer Charlotte Sylvain's style and approach. In the projects we're talking about today, Studio Fauve uses multi-purpose custom wood pieces to anchor the spaces and help make the most of a smaller footprint while not sacrificing beauty.

Right now, it's easy to feel stuck in the sameness of life or feel too big for our spaces, so we all could use a reminder about the power of intentional design in improving our moods. If you want to explore this concept further,

If you have some design luck, a heritage piece has come into your life at one point or another. Maybe it was unique nordic dinnerware passed down from your grandma or a one-of-a-kind vintage bureau that you found at an estate sale. But with designs made by Carl Hansen trusted to last for decades, you can be the start of the chain and pass down pieces to a future generation of furniture lovers. The power!

We thought it was our duty to run through a few of our favorite + bestselling dining chairs in a little more depth if you're looking to change your interior scenery or your design lineage.

1. The CH24 Wishbone Chair

Whatever your work reality is right now in this new year, we're all thinking harder about what we need in a workspace right now: how it should feel, what it should offer, and where we want to be. Whether you can't imagine being back, you love working from home, or maybe you never left – the future of co-working spaces is in the balance. Because of that, we want to talk about the office of all the offices, the Roc Nation headquarters in NYC owned by none other than Jay-Z. Besides the obvious cool-factor of working there, the interiors are expansive, art-focused, and built for the creative collaboration we're desperate to resume. Filled with so many of our favorite pieces from Blu Dot to Knoll, we hope this is welcome inspiration to start the new

As we're inching closer to the end of the year, the gift of relaxation or stress relief is one of the best to give to yourself and others. So we're bringing you our Self Care Shoppe filled with in-stock favorites ready to ship wherever, don't forget this is the last week to order any gifts we have in-stock to get them by the 24th (we recommend ordering by 12.17). These apothecary picks are all-natural, plant-based, and small-batch, like Mater Soaps that cure for three weeks in Brooklyn and our best-selling towels washed by hand in a spring to ensure softness.

For the sink upgrade

Like most people as the year wanes, we're combating the happenings of 2020 in the only ways we know how: diving headfirst into leisure activities that soothe us, decorating early for the holidays, dreaming up tablescapes for abridged or solo celebrations, and practicing gratitude for our health. Whether physically or spiritually, we could all use a little comfort and warmth right about now.

As part of our gift guide collection, The Uniek Edit, the first gift guide we're bringing you to kick off the season is By The Fire, filled with objects that invoke all of the cozy principles