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Shopper's Diary: Bleuet Coquelicot in Paris
It’s hard to miss Bleuet Coquelicot: Plants and flowers of all colors spill onto the sidewalk from a tiny storefront on a busy street in Paris's Canal St. Martin neighborhood. Most customers are...
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Field Guide: Lavender
Lavender; Lavandula: "The Practical Feminist" Alice Walker once wrote that “womanist is to feminist as lavender is to purple.” As the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Walker can be...
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Garden Visit: Starry Nights and String Lights in Northern California
When Marni Leis moved to Northern California 30 years ago, she experienced culture shock, at least when it came to the local architecture. Mill Valley, where she settled, was known for being "that...
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Steal This Look: The Spirit of Provence in a Walled Belgian Garden
Spotted in Antwerp: a charming townhouse garden by Archi-verde, designed for a couple of self-avowed Francophiles. After trips to Provence, the clients dreamed of lavender, grapevines, and a...
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Shopper's Diary: The Cheese Man of Pas de Blénac
Fields of wheat and sunflowers line the road to Jean-Paul Cohen’s goat cheese farm, Pas de Blénac, in the Charente-Maritime region of France. The crumbling stone walls, sagging clay rooftops, and...
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DIY: How to Make a Bouquet Garni
A bouquet garni is simply a small "bouquet" of fresh herbs that you pop into a broth, soup, or stew for seasoning as it cooks. A staple in French dishes from boeuf bourguignon to bouillabaisse, the...
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Gardenista Roundup: For Love of Boxwood
When you hear the word boxwood, do you think Versailles? In that French feat of landscaping splendor, boxwood is clipped and pruned and trained into submission, as hedges and edging and even...
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10 Easy Pieces: Window Awnings
Like baseball caps for houses, window awnings block the sun's harsh rays for infinitely more pleasant summer days. They're generally made of fabric stretched on a frame, and come in a vast range of...
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Vote for the Finalists in the 2014 Considered Design Awards
Time to weigh your choices. Let the voting begin: For our second annual Remodelista + Gardenista Considered Design Awards, more than 1,000 of you entered projects (twice as many as last year), ranging...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from France
Ah, le jardin à la française. No need to add the word formal to that phrase, because when it comes to French gardens, formal is a given. We've all seen Versailles (in photos, if not in person), and we...
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Hardscaping 101: Gabion Walls
From the banks of the Nile to your backyard, gabion walls are a boon to the landscape. Used for thousands of years by military and structural engineers, gabions provide an attractive, effective, and...
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Vote for the Best Edible Garden in the Gardenista Considered Design Awards
Vote for the finalists in each of 17 Considered Design Awards categories, now through August 8, on both Gardenista and Remodelista. In the Best Edible Garden category, our five finalists are: Britton...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Tiny Open-Air Theater in Norway
About two hours southwest of Oslo, a striking pine pavilion rises beside the recently regenerated Skien River. The building's name, Gjennomsikten, means "see-through" because it almost looks...
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10 Easy Pieces: French Market Totes
Last weekend there were strawberries, asparagus, and sunflowers at the farmer's market. While I stuffed my goodies unceremoniously into a backpack, I couldn't help but wish I had a beautiful straw...
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Vote for the Best Amateur Garden in the Gardenista Considered Design Awards
Our judges have chosen the finalists; now you choose the winners. Vote for the finalists in each of 17 Considered Design Awards categories, on both Gardenista and Remodelista. You can vote once a day...
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Trending on Remodelista: Bastille Day
The Remodelista team have been treating us to a week of Gallic design, including French-inspired spaces whose good looks you'll definitely want to steal. Plus: The ins and outs of French doors and a...
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Current Obsessions: Urban Greenery
Here's a look at what's piquing our interest lately. Above: Jane clued us in to Flower Muse's new two-toned infatuation. Netflix has nothing on Nowness. We're watching (on repeat) the first weekly...
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Garden Visit: A Parisian Stylist in Provence
At the age of 69, Nicole de Vésian's real adventure started. Retired from a career of designing hats and linens for Hermès, she decamped to Provence to embark on her most ambitious design project: a...
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Table of Contents: Urban Escape
We're of the opinion that the best time to be in the city is when everyone else has decamped. Rooftop sunsets, twinkly balcony lights, the first ripe container tomatoes—you're ours this week. Hop on...
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Garden Designer Visit: A Rooftop Meadow, Brooklyn Edition
When she was renovating her townhouse apartment in Cobble Hill, garden designer Julie Farris also wanted a roof garden that could play a big role in her family's life. Farris, the founder of XS Space...
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