Happy weekend, dear reader. Ahead these first days of spring: a ceramics sale, a garden that embraces wear, a Paris opening, and more. Read on:

• Cate Blanchett, we 100 percent agree.
• Planning your veggie garden? We’re checking out these certified-organic, non-GMO seeds from Row 7.
• Nickey Kehoe’s interpretation of the lakeside Adirondack chair is pretty dreamy.
• At Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer’s Montauk garden, “embracing material decay as a creative force.”
• Clare came across this clever spring gardening hack, no greenhouse needed,
• “The house color that tells you when a neighborhood is gentrifying.”
• “Aptly for the start of spring, the French department store Printemps is opening this weekend in an old bank building at 1 Wall Street in NYC,” reports Margot.
• “A balm to my introvert soul”: 12 women on living alone.
• Feldspar Studio is hosting a samples and seconds sale of their ceramics this weekend, online only; info here.
• Love this collaboration made with linen off-cuts (and wishing we lived in Australia so we could order).
• File under: reasons to live in the Scottish Highlands.
• Now open: Bode Paris.
• Printmaking with…bread?
• A new lighting collection that channels Le Corbu and bento boxes.
• It’s officially spring—time to paint your kitchen green?
• Mentally, we’re at this Andrew Trotter-designed palazzo in Puglia.
• File under Labor of Love: a design duo’s rehab of a ’70s ruin in Gainesville, FL.