No. 24
Summer in the city (and outside of it). Paper clip jewelry, camp chairs, and planning ahead for a "January spent with Sardines".
Frequent Visitors is a weekly newsletter (currently coming back from a summer hiatus) created to share the things your friends at Frequent Practice) have enjoyed visiting each week. Sometimes related to design, reads, and creativity. Sometimes related to anything else.
Hi!!! Missed you frequent visitors so much! Thank you for sticking around and continuing to reach out and share your favourite visits while we’ve been MIA this summer, we’ve loved looking through every single one! Without further ado, here are some of ours:
Some visits from this summer:
⑴ We had the absolute pleasure of visiting the Judd Foundation in New York; equal parts an intimate tour of his home and studio and (extremely humbling) crash course into the remarkable works of Judd’s peers. Particularly fond of Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Ceiling Lights at La Coupole.
⑵ The great outdoors!! With the backbone of our outdoor summer hangs being this REI camp chair*. They have literally saved our butts for park hangs!! Beach hangs!! Hikes! Can not recommend enough.
⑶ The lovely drawings by Maggie Cowles + dreaming of dinner party spreads.
⑷ Elizabeth Goodspeed’s newsletter, Casual Archivist is a fan favourite over here, and I’m head over heels for her most recent issue featuring scans from various 1970s + 80s issues of Esquire Magazine.
⑸ Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. One of our favourite pieces (primarily for the 💘 story behind it) was the diamond-encrusted paper clip jewelry.
As a kid with little disposable income but with aspirations of becoming a rapper, Abloh made necklaces out of paper clips and mimicked his favorite hip hop personalities. Once he reached his own success, Abloh enlisted Jacob the Jeweler, New York-based jewelry designer to the hip-hop elite, to make this set of gold, diamond-encrusted accessories based on Abloh’s original childhood fantasy.
⑹ Some frequent summer reads have been Either / Or by the brilliant Elif Batuman (with a gorgeous cover by Na Kim), and a few of the McNally Editions (speaking of excellent covers!!!) I will continue to be found judging books by their covers when both the authors + designers happen to be this exceptional!!
That’s it for this week! Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoyed your visit :) We can’t wait to read your replies to this email and learn about some of your favourite recommendations on books, gear, dinner party menus, and anything + everything in between.
Until next time,
Your pals at FP
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