As the colder weather continues to encroach, it has us dreaming about crafting the perfect tablescape for warm nights inside with a home-cooked meal. While limited in hosting dinner parties for the time being, we have a few tips on how to impress those you live with or yourself with an Instagram-able tablescape that will transform your Wednesday night dinner into a delicious and beautiful ordeal. We recently partnered with Janine Maggiore of Grandview Prophouse and a team of incredible women who shot a modern thanksgiving table full of Lekker designs (that we're in awe of). Everyone involved is linked at the end – please support their lovely work!

Take a mental trip with us. Imagine you’re in central Copenhagen – shopping the best of design, sipping a latte, eating fresh bread and cheese, and in a cool, effortless outfit. You stumble upon a concept store called Louise Roe Gallery, and the rest is magic. Since we can't make the real trip happen for you, we’re so excited to introduce you to a new Danish brand that just touched down on our virtual and physical Lekker shelves.

Whether you're a nationwide Zillow aficionado or a local Airbnb hunter – is it impossible to not dream of other places right now. We love playing the game of looking far and wide at feats of architecture, dream interiors, or design hotels, this site is a personal favorite to bookmark for the future. But most often we're cruising homes in New England that are at least in the realm of geographical possibility. We're not here to wish for snow yet by any means, but we are admiring the quiet and the cozy in all forms. A recent project in the Green Mountains of Vermont found its way to our screens by architectural studio and building company Birdseye, its inspired by board + batten siding and tucked between a meadow and forest. It's a sight to be seen.

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A trend we know everyone can't help but keep tabs on is the excess of folks and rhetoric around departing cities for different pastures  – whether that means a faster jump to the classic suburban move or looking for a semi-rural area to call home. Sometimes a location jump is exactly what you need for a physical or spiritual restart, we stumbled upon a design project by Lawless Design from 2017-2019 that dealt with a couple feeling the same way, wanting to leave Somerville after they found out they were expecting but in looking to keep their style found a house from the 1940s designed by Bauhaus Design leaders Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Quite serendipitous right?

Architecture: Henrybuilt

As working from home gets extended, it's so important to have a space in your house, apartment, or wherever you dwell, that's separate from squeezing your laptop on a vanity or disrupting the sanctity of your bedroom. Even after six months, all of us here still struggle with finding the best space to work, whether it's some mental blockade about valuing your work as worthy of taking up room or you don't know what to do to ease your back pain or help you be more productive. Even the smallest of changes or additions to where you work can make a difference – like a plant with a whimsical pot, a folder organizer, or a dimmable desk lamp.

Though we're fans of the new, the weird, the reinvented, there's something incomparable about designs that span decades. Pieces that have universal appeal outside of their window in history are their own type of magic. It's why we care so much about authenticity within design – compare it to the expertise of a musician behind your favorite song or the notoriety of a prolific book. Though there are many covers and reproductions, the original piece will always transcend.

Recently &Tradition decided to re-release designs from Copenhagen-based, Danish design and architectural firm, Hvidt and Mølgaard. Founders Peter Hvidt and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen were pioneers within Danish mid-century design known for their use of laminated wood and innovations

As anyone living in a city can tell you, we're all desperately looking for a safe excursion into nature, a brook to call home, or an idyllic meadow to inhabit sustainably and possibly never return. Ahem, or maybe just a tent in the Berkshires where we can forget the current world for a long weekend.

If you're asking us, there's one place that hasn't left our minds since we saw it. It's an Airbnb design concept called PIECES Homes located on the coast of Maine, and the interiors are otherwordly. So, what makes it a concept? Most of the furniture and decor featured in the home is from a product line called PIECES, created by Brooklyn-based design firm An Aesthetic Pursuit. We think it's the perfect place for a design-forward stay, a photo-shoot, or anything

The successor to the Geometric Side Table is a new collection of like-pieces designed by Ethnicraft designer, Alain van Havre, created from his exploration with geometric shapes and negative space. Every angle creates a different silhouette and aesthetic impact, further illustrating Alain's love for movement. Though each table is unique, they fit together as a cohesive sculptural story, all made from black varnished solid-teak. We can't pick a favorite, but maybe you can help us!

Cove Side Table

Amongst our frequent musings and deep dives into worldly interiors or feats of architecture outside of our New England stratosphere, we do find ourselves on the flip side, searching for spaces that are simple, light, and offer a sense of normalcy to our design eyes. A project rich with history completed last winter that we go back to again and again is a clean-lined one-bedroom apartment by the Brooklyn-based Studio Fauve, owned by designer Charlotte Sylvain.

Besides the design of the interior being one that offers a sense of serenity, the building