It Was a Big Week for Knobs
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This roundup of things we liked this week originally appeared in the May 16, 2024 edition of theSecret Strategistnewsletter, 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 uphere.
Some luminescent pants, some handsome burl furniture on auction at Housing Works, and a $16 (???) Cynthia Rowley dress. Plus unisex summer shoes. We have eyes everywhere!—Katy Schneider&Simone Kitchens
This Week’s List
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* These expensive dresses by new brand Meruert Tolegen are extremely pretty and cool.
* We can attest that thesepink vintage Dosasare the best pants for this summer. (Or any colorDosa. But the pink ones are luminescent.)
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* If we had a limitless supply of money, we would probably immediately buy these so-beautiful, generally unavailable-for-casual-purchaseMegumi Shauna Araicurtains.
* If you want capris,these from Zaraget the job done and don’t feel cheap-cheap.
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* Really been wanting a Cynthia Rowley tube dress lately, so slightly stunned to find a good one going for$16 on the RealReal! Wonder why Cynthia Rowley is so devalued. In other pretty-vintage-dresses news: (1) this one fromBlumarine, (2) a beautifulPrada for under $200, (3) a beautifulPrada for only slightly over $200.
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* MoMA remains a font of nice outdoor furniture. See:this lounge chair. But this$99 wire Ikeaone is also good.
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* We just found this great Swedish knob company,Spaces Within. We particularly like thissturdy door pullin polished nickel and thiselongated swooshof a handle in dark brass. It’s a big knob week, given that Monica Khemsurov just launched her knob company, Petra. Very obsessed with thesespiral knobs.
* We ID’d Hari Nef’s floralYves Delorme bedding, spotted in herApartamentohome tour. Sold out, it seems, but pieceshereandthereon eBay. Really love it.
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* Koko Momo makes some greatgiant-fitting kids’ pants.
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Burled Wood Accent Table
* Someniceburlpieces in the Housing Works auctions.
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Justin Dean, men’s buying director at Kith, shares his favorite summer shoes.
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* I’ve owned theseLemaire fisherman sandalsfor about a year and a half. I wear them with shorts, with pants, with socks, without socks. I’ve probably worn them more with pants and socks than with shorts because I love them so much. It’s a very functional historical style with a square closed toe. I love an elegant take on a practical item. I wear them biking, walking, standing at my desk — I wear them all the time.
* There’s also theParaboot Pacific sandal; I have those in dark brown and black. They’re even a bit more casual, so lightweight and easy. Growing up, I saw the style on older men, and it always inspired me.
* TheKeen Targhee sandalis a great everyday shoe that’s not $500. The sandal would look really cool if you were in all Lemaire on top, then a Keen sandal on the bottom. Or just with a pair of Gramicci shorts — that’s a good weekend look. And these sandals are waterproof.
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*And I love to wear theLemaire piped slipperwith whiteComme Si socks;that’s my spring-summer rotation. Today, I’m wearing that combination with Junya Watanabe pants.
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