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Places, things, food etc in L.A. + elsewhere. ✍🏼 bylines @archdigest @wallpaper @metropolis .. Author 📕 DESERT DREAMING 🌵
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Last night was the book party of my DREAMS! Gazillion thanks to everyone who turned out to celebrate ‘Desert Dreaming’ published by @gibbssmithbooks at @blockshoptextiles. I’m brimming with gratitude for the brilliant, generous @hopiehill and her team who opened their doors with aplomb and warm hospitality where we could be surrounded by their beautiful creations, plus the brand’s Spindle Stripe pattern that adorns the book spine and endsheets made the books feel right at home (until we sold out — rookie mistake on my part!). @simple.life.things brought her delicious artistry to new heights, delighting and feeding the crowd. Too many to tag here friends, fam, colleagues, and even some strangers (to me!) who together infused the magical space with more supportive, fun, loving energy. 🥹 @alonsomyers insisted I give a speech which I typically dread but I think it went OK! THANK YOU. 📕 🌵🤎
16 Oct 2026
So excited to finally have this book by @jessnritz in my hands and to have a favorite project shot with (and at the home of) @cara_scarola here in Santa Fe featured inside (finally because I haven’t been able to share this one). Also so excited by my end of season garden goodies and yesterday’s shoot leftover flowers and fruit that I’m sharing an iPhone photo to the grid because it looked pretty and why not go rogue? Go get #DesertDreaming wherever it is sold (which Jess is going to have to let us know that part). Now one of these days maybe I’ll get around to posting summer…or last summer…or the one before that.
14 Oct 2026
After a lifetime of hearing about Detroit, which included a "You Gotta Have Art" @diadetroit bumper sticker on the family 1979 Toyota Corona, I finally made it to Motor City. Making rounds during the extraordinary Detroit Month of Design organized by @designcoredet @kiana_designpro included a bonus bucket list stop at Cranbrook. I can now confidently say Detroit is where it's at and can't wait to go back to see the completed Nomad hotel (the view from its future location at @michigancentral is photo #1) and expanded Motown Museum, and spend more time with Diego's DIA murals. [story for @metropolismag posted in comments.]
01 Oct 2026
What draws people to the desert? And what do they build once they get there?
In a new volume, DESERT DREAMING, @jessnritz looks at the stark landscapes of North America’s deserts from Yucca Valley to Moab and Marfa, and the bold architectural responses they inspire, such as adobes and site-specific modernist structures.
Publisher @gibbssmithbooks
Release October 6
15 Sep 2026
Unanticipated immersive @marimekko wonderland and selects from the fifth 🇯🇵 trip I’ve technically planned (long story), second visit, @alonsomyers first. Last minute booking in sweltering humid late July/ early August meant better fares for the best econ flights we’ve ever experienced [ @japanairlines 🏆 + a thrill to pass through @rpbw_architects KIX ✈️ ] and fewer crowds but that doesn’t mean we’re still not part of the problem! Kyoto/Hakone/Tokyo pics in reverse order of the itin. Even if I can’t deal with that new individual captions IG feature, happy to share specific recs.
28 Aug 2026
Pregamed #america250 in Philly + DC. Don’t let the ugly bullies drown out the good and rough stuff we’ve got to see, remember, talk about, live.
04 Jul 2026
June 2026 is somehow turning into a #FLLW tourism month. Finding ourselves in the northwest Philly burbs with a little free time and a rental car prompted a spontaneous detour to Elkins Park to gaze at #franklloydwright Beth Sholom (1957). Services were over and we hadn’t booked a tour which meant a nose-against-the-glass visit. I’m not naive enough to believe a building can unite us at a time of intense internal community divisions, but this place is more transcendent than I ever imagined.
14 Jun 2026
Last week I took the granddaddy of all American house tours and got to ascend the OG Shining Brow itself @taliesinwi . Happy birthday today to #franklloydwright who on the occasion of his 159th need not fret that the valored tale of the singular male genius is indeed alive and well! (His just-so higher chair is at right in the first image.) Downshifting to earnest mode: the outstanding guide dug into the many reasons why this figure still looms so large remain legit. Also seeing “YEILD” carved in stone above the Hillside Assembly Hall hearth is a strangely comforting reminder of human fallibility. No spell check for stone masons! Only regrets? Missing the four-hour tour and I couldn’t find a way to get inside the Jacobs House/Usonsia 1 in Madison (and that a time machine can’t transport me to the mid-90s back to retake Prof. Siry’s #FLLW seminar).
08 Jun 2026
Nostalgia, Ultra edition @wesleyan_u. Shall we project obvious emotional symbolic weight onto this portal at the Center for the Arts (Roche + Dinkaloo, 1970-1973) during reunion weekend — crap CT weather be damned? Let’s! Also apparently an unplanned moment seeing my undergrad advisor for the first time since graduation STILL means hanging on to his every brilliant word, a farm stay with cute animals and the greatest humans, and some NYC spring 2026 things.
01 Jun 2026
Anyone remember the This American Life “Americans in Paris” episode in which someone said how wanting to live in Paris can seem embarrassingly cliche, like having a crush on the cutest boy in class? (Loosely paraphrasing here!) Almost exactly 30 years after my first ever visit, the city outdid itself from previous trips. Long time dear friends who smartly took the aforementioned message to heart help, too. 🇫🇷
02 May 2026
Orange blossom season aroma in Andalusia > Seville 🍊 marmalade. Can’t help but wonder if the Sevilla Cathedral suspended crocodile inspired Gehry’s pendants at Rebecca’s Venice (+ a little late March Madrid / Chipiona / El Gastor / Ronda). 🇪🇸
09 Apr 2026
It feels wild to finally share this so here goes. Some of you know what I was up to for most of last year thanks to many folks’ kind graces and generous help as I tracked down leads on projects and people from West Texas to Baja. ‘Desert Dreaming: Design in the Southwest and Beyond’ from @gibbssmithbooks now has a cover, publication date of October 6, and an official publisher marketing/sales page via @simonandschuster (plus soon a spot on the family author bookshelf for me!)🌵 🏜️ 📕
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Desert-Dreaming/Jessica-Ritz/9781423668985
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04 Mar 2026
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