A weekend off was the whole plan, nothing more. Palm Springs wasn't where I expected to find anything for Altered Bloom. Then I looked up at a diner chandelier, and the rest of the weekend kept proving me wrong.

A wire shower caddy and one shaft of autumn light started a search for a specific, hard-to-find 1980s register: black lacquer, chrome, smoked glass, geometry with real authority. Here's how to actually find it.

A five dollar violin. A Folon aquarelle found on a Saturday. A spacing rule that makes the whole thing foolproof. How to build a gallery wall that looks like it took years.