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    New York’s Coolest Cafe: 11 Design Lessons from Dae in Brooklyn

    If you were to peek through the Instagram messages between Julie and myself, you’d find that mostly, lately, we’ve been sending each other posts from @daenewyork: a bow-bedecked pillow, teeny tiny pats of butter in the shape of fish, a gleaming stainless steel counter. Dae is a cafe, design shop, and event space on Smith Street in Brooklyn, the work of Carol Song and Suea Cho, who first met working as buyers at Opening Ceremony. We talked to Carol by phone: “We want to create our whole lives,” she says. “We’ve always been obsessed with Korean cafes, and they’re always…

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    Five Lessons from the Minimalism Game

    I read that the average American household has 300,000 items in it. When I decided to take on the thirty day challenge of playing the Minimalism Game during the month of September, I was more than ready to purge my home of unnecessary objects because of the excessive amount of things I was holding on to. The challenge required me to get rid of 465 things over the course of the month which I’m happy to announce I did! Our downstairs toilet overflowed back in July damaging the hardwood floors. It forced us to move all of our downstairs furniture…