Current Obsessions: Modernist Patio Furniture

• The question, via Curbed: “What if water parks were designed by Mies van der Rohe?”
• Here’s what happens to a container garden when temperatures in New York City hit 99 degrees F., via 66 Square Feet.
• What do you remember about your grandfather’s garden? Baby frogs and ferns, via Garlic and Sapphire.
• The proper way to get the dirt off your mushrooms is to brush them, via Julia’s Vita Drommar.
• “Why did I adore Christopher Hitchens?” Amy Wilentz knows the answer.
• Kengo Kuma is not your run-of-the-mill architect, via The Sandman Chronicles.

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