For Sale: David Lynch’s Rug, Andy Cohen’s Couch
This roundup of things we liked this week originally appeared in the June 5, 2025 edition of the Secret Strategist newsletter, a weekly email where we share the stuff our staff — plus a rotating cast of writers, design-world people, and various others with very good taste — would otherwise keep to themselves. If you want to get our picks straight to your inbox each week, sign up here.
A great week for online-auction window shopping. For deals, don’t skip Auction Ninja — someone please buy this adorable princess dresser or this ancient cup. Or, if you’ve got a van and an old home, this weighty dresser. —Simone Kitchens, Lauren Ro, and Erin Schwartz
This Week’s List
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* Lots of amazing things at the David Lynch estate auction, which closes on June 18 — both a La Marzocco and a Mr. Coffee, knit ties, three great sofas and a chaise lounge, flying-saucer lamps, solid-color rugs, and some incredible handmade MCM-ish furniture, some of which Lynch designed or made himself. Also, his theremin.
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* Depop is rolling out kidswear, and Lauren found some cute vintage tops for her boys, including a Rangers jersey, a Polo long-sleeve, and a Healthtex tee. We’re hoping this fills the hole Kidizen left when it shut down. It’s also reminding us that Two Bridges and Parachute Brooklyn are still some of the best sources for kids’ vintage. Strategist senior writer Liza Corsillo also loves these French Etsy sellers: MinotsVintage and JonnyJonnyVintage.
* Erin went to Grotesque Archive, a vintage store on the third floor of an office building in Fidi. Deeply fun stock: lots of ’00s denim and asymmetrical patchwork skirts, freaky capris, a baby-blue leather jacket with puffed sleeves. Also love their convertible sofa, which owner Alienor Oran found on Facebook Marketplace.
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* A couple of good sales. All ready-to-ship Cawley is 30 percent off, including the dry oilskin hat we wrote about in April. And there’s a PH5 sample sale this weekend in NYC — great for fun dresses, knit sleeveless tanks, and unnecessarily cool workout clothes. It’s at 148 Lafayette Street and ends on Sunday at 5 p.m.
* The best over-the-top décor move — matching wallpaper, upholstery, and drapes — as seen here, by designer Matilda Goad, in Neptune Papers. If you want to do this sans grandma print, Cold Picnic sells wallpaper and fabric in matching prints (which our own Wendy Goodman originally featured on Curbed).
* Artist Na Kim picked up this ceramic vase, glazed with shapes of flowers, bugs, and fruit, at Thomas Colligan’s debut show in December at Enorme, a gallery in Union Square.
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* Stripey hot-weather bed cover.
* These Bauhaus teapots normally go for $100 or more, but here’s one for $30.
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* Some good summer sneakers from Moonstar, a brand senior editor Winnie Yang turned us onto last fall — these inspired by Japanese indoor “school shoes,” these bowtie plimsolls in velvet and canvas.
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* Andy Cohen sold his condo, and the stoop sale is at 1stDibs, with proceeds going toward Housing Works. Very into this striped couch, which Cohen told us was custom-made to be petproof: “I wanted everything in the apartment to be sturdy enough so the dog could sleep on anything.”
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