Ten Things We Love Right Now
Editor’s Picks
Culture
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Picnic Berlin Everyone loves a picnic, but not necessarily the planning required. And like so many things in life, a picnic is just better when someone else prepares it. Enter Picnic Berlin. They’ll prepare a picnic basket full of goodies for you to pick up at their Tempelhofer Feld location, or delivered anywhere in the city you’d like.
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FLOWERBX Carefully curated flowers, delivered to your door same-day. Weekly, biweekly and monthly subscriptions ensure that your never without fresh, seasonal flowers. Currently delivering to the EU, the UK and New York.
Credit: Lee Krasner, Desert Moon, 1955. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. © 2018, Digital Image Museum Associates/ LACMA/Art Resource NY/ Scala, Florence.
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Lee Krasner exhibit at the Barbican There’s only a month left to catch the extraordinary exhibit featuring the life and art of Lee Krasner, the American artist who is often better known as Jackson Pollack’s wife, than for the formidable art she created in post-war New York. Exhibition ends September 1, 2019.
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Beige and White Nothing exudes a sense of calm and simplicity as does the sartorial combination of neutrals and white. Check out Carnivala for some wardrobe inspiration.
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Jump Bikes Berlin was saturated with these shiny new e-bikes overnight, and I’m loving it. Quickly getting you from Point A to Point B, there’s no need to even download a new app. Just open up your Uber app and go.
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Plain Wine we love subscription boxes, especially when there is wine involved. Three bottles of carefully selected natural wine (one red, one white, one sparkly) delivered monthly along with detailed descriptions and delightful illustrations. Also a fantastic gift idea.
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STONE AND STRAND Beautiful pieces at non-extravagant prices. What’s not to love? And we’re kind of obsessed with personalized jewelry at the moment.
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babaà Not quite ready for colder weather? Maybe a chunky sweater will get you in the mood. Spanish brand babaà creates 100% natural cozy knits in scrumptious colors for moms and kids.
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Cold-pressed watermelon-beetroot juice It’s Melon Season! And, there’s no better way to start your day than with a glass of cold-pressed watermelon-beetroot juice. Next stop: the delicious watermelon, mint and feta salad at Hallmann und Klee in Berlin Neukölln.
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Blood Orange Angel’s Pulse Dev Hynes’ new “mixtape” provides the perfect late-summer soundtrack.