Big Sale at Garret Wade!

Pot pourri this week at H&H: Trips to far flung places and getting down with Rivers Cuomo, Weezer's frontman and a fellow Vipassana meditator. Everybody rides!

TOP STORIES

• At School With Rivers Cuomo: Rivers is slated to graduate this spring - finally - and he likes the simple life of living in a dorm room. Here's his blog.
  
  
  
  
• Personal Shopper looks at the fabric influence of this year's Maison et Objets: It's all color, color, color. Nice pics here.
  
  
  
  
• Q. I have read about the new eclecticism, but I can''t pin down what it is. Are there rules for pulling it off?: This feels like a made up question, but it is fun to read Stephen Treffinger's response.
  
  
  
  
• From the Scars of Katrina, Green Shoots and Blossoms: Anne Raver at the New Orleans Botanical Garden with a heart-warming story of cooperation, charity and folks bringing this resource back to life.
  
  
  
  
• The House of Worth: A detailed restoration story from Newport, RI, where Ronald Lee Fleming purchased Bellevue House in 1999. It's now done.
  
  
  
  
• When Old Stadiums Go, Everything Must Go!: The auctioning off of real ball park memorabilia.

  CURRENTS

  
  
  
  
  • China's America's Cup base by Françoise Raynaud, a French architect.
    
    
    
    
  • iChair by PBteen.
    
    
    
    
  • New fabric collection by Kristie Strasen, called Place.
    
    
    
    
  • New designs for Georg Jensen by Karim Rashid.
    
    
    
    
  • Hmm. Ben and Natalie Heineman are giving their big glass collection to the Corning Museum.
    
    
    
    
  • Big News! Garrett Wade is moving and putting over 700 items on sale.