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Usually, I don’t start thinking about setting a resolution until January 2. This year, I’m way ahead of schedule. After hearing how comedian Eric Wareheim, the star of our November digital cover, has slowed way down—he’s listening to whole records in a single sitting and going to stone yards over Hollywood parties—I decided on my goal for 2025: Be present. It may sound trite, but I’m discovering there are, in fact, concrete ways to make it happen. I’ve already deleted Instagram from my phone, I needlepoint nightly, and I’m enjoying my walks sans headphones. For Wareheim, he tapped into a whole other level of mindfulness while decorating his L.A. loft: Every object, plant, and piece of furniture has a reason for being there. I’ll be taking that motto into the New Year with me, too. —Lydia Geisel, home editor
Current Mood
What I’m loving right now: Limestone and lava rock planters. They can be millions of years old and have some real deep energy. It takes four strong people to move these limestone boulders (below) around. (I’m literally in physical therapy due to trying to nudge them a few inches. Ugh.) That planter came from my fave gal down in Orange, California, The Lumber Queen. I worship her and her stones. The textures and colors paired with a wild monstera plant—it’s everything to me right now.
How I’d bring the look home:
- More wood and stone, less contemporary anything. Once you toss out your final IKEA side table, you will start to be filled with a new emotion for patina and weathered items. Cherish them. Jonathan Pessin from NFS came over and made fun of my lamp, and he said, “Get this Urban Outfitters thing out of here!” At first I was offended, but then I realized he was right. And I turned to rust as a passion.
- Tall is tremendous! I have been collecting these 7-foot LaVerne sculptures from the ’50s, and they even…