Design Essentials To Help Pretend Your Apartment Is Actually In Greece, Tuscany, Bangkok, Tulum...
By Janet Mercel
With air travel not the most viable of options this season, we’re all getting itchy as anywhere but here syndrome sets in. Whatever your happy place (be it an island, the Mediterranean coastline, or Amagansett), until you make it, fill your home with juicy colors and spicy things and keep the dreams flowing.
Cold Picnic Reef Builders Rug
Handmade, 100% sustainable hemp throw rugs are natural bacteria fighters, deliciously scratchy, and feel like a jungle floor on your feet.
Proba Arrangement Pillow
Brooklyn artist Alex Proba’s pillows look like amoebas pulled out of a river in Panama and dipped in fluorescent and pastel ink.
Proba Unborn Object Print
These limited edition prints of marine fauna and pop-color rock formations are basically the inside of a high-end aquarium.
Luke Edward Hall Greek Key Drinks Table
Please shake up a cucumber gimlet with a lot of crushed ice, and do justice to this sky-blue lacquered, baby cocktail table.
Voutsa Snakes Tray
This birchwood serving tray in Voutsa’s inky Snakes print gives straight Bali rainforest vibes, without the poison factor.
Wolffer Estate Summer in a Bottle Rosé
If you haven’t yet cracked open this long-recognized, most beautiful bottle-in-the-world, is it even summer?
Anissa Kermiche Jugs Jug
Jewelry designer Kermiche’s ceramic nude in brilliant glazed cobalt is the touch of exoticism every getaway spot requires.
Printed Goods Under The Sun Throw
Toss this richly pigmented cotton throw onto whatever spot of grass, sand or sunny floor you can find and check out for awhile.
Fundamental Berlin Regenbogen Bowls
These prismatic crystal ashtrays were definitely on the tables at the Miami nightclub where Tony Montana danced with Elvira.
Mau House Oyster Bottle Opener
A cast-bronze bottle opener made from an oyster shell? Yes, please.
Hammocks From Xingu Indigenous Reserve
These woven hammocks are handmade in Brazil from Buriti palm fiber and cotton, with just enough splash of ocean blue, indigo or hot pink.
Flamingo Estate Candles
Garden candles made from 100% vegetable wax in scents like Roma Heirloom Tomato, Adriatic Muscatel Sage and Climbing Tuscan Rosemary? Say no more.
Thomas Fuchs Creative Coral Beaded Placemat
Ocean dwellers rejoice in tablescapes featuring these mats beaded in brilliant crimson coral and color-saturated sea hues.
Tivoli Mercantile Hand Painted Mexican Glasses
These hand painted juice and shot glasses in bubbly blue sea glass elevate even the most basic tequila to vacation-worthy heights.
BOOKS
No book selection at any summer house, resort bookshelf or island rental ever makes sense, nor should it. If you’re curating anything, please let it be an intentional mishmash, and start with This Is Not A T-Shirt (Bobby Hundreds’ SoCal streetwear tome), COCONUT by Ben Mims (with recipes for a Black Pepper-Coconut Dutch Baby or Indian Coconut and Red Cabbage Slaw), and IDEA Publishing’s very fabulous Range Rover Conversions.
