Issue 2 Preview 💝
Fava beans, stacks of lumber, tulips with personality!
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WELL HELLO
Here we go again, eh? I am so pleased to be able to finally share the second print issue of Treehouse with you. I am particularly proud of it, in fact.
The cover art comes from my extremely long-time friend and even more extremely talented artist, Louise Sheldon, and it was printed1 by Risolve Studio. Every new phase Louise enters I become more enamored of her work—right now she is a veritable FLURRY of flowers, faces, graphic spirals, and always, lots and lots of color. For those who are close to it, don’t miss her show Daisy Dew-Diamond at Standard Space—opening Saturday and up for the following month-ish.
And what’s inside, they wonder!
For one, a spring menu by Saehee Cho, featuring all the verdant things. Favas! Elderflowers! Lemony macerated tomatoes! Toasted breadcrumbs—not verdant, but certainly a joy. I had the pleasure of making these recipes in order to take the photo above and can verify they are all so, so delicious. Saehee makes some of the most thoughtful food as Soon Food and she also recently launched a Substack
, which is a delightful weekly bite/peek into her approach to food and entertaining. She also illustrated every page of this story in the zine, which gives it a sort of whimsical Madeline-meets-Moosewood Cookbook flavor. Suffice to say—I was very happy to have Saehee stop by for this issue.
In the well this month, we are welcoming Gregory Beson—sculptor, furniture maker, and professor of Product and Industrial Design at Parsons. Gregory has an extremely deliberate and considered relationship to the wood he uses—whether it’s the species (always American hardwoods) or the particular cut and grain. His knowledge is really astounding and for the sake of space (damn you, print!), I couldn’t include everything he wrote—perhaps we’ll do the unabridged version in an upcoming newsletter. For this story, Gregory traveled out, trusty Pentax in hand, to his preferred lumber yard Singh Hardwood in Far Rockaway, New York. He returned back with really striking imagery to pair with the lyrical, somewhat philosophical text that he wrote about lumber. Just plain beautiful, really.
As ever, we round out the issue with a signature Soft Meme by contributor Ambrea Miller. How could we go on without this gentle and hilarious (gently hilarious?) palate cleanser at the end?
Listings
The Good Life Center announced it’s summer programming! We in this household are laser-focused on the stone wall building workshop, for one. (LINK)
Someone should sublet this loft in Paris over the summer. (LINK).
Or get THIS adorable little truck in New Hamster. (LINK)
Fans of things printed on paper!! Brooklyn Art Book Fair is next weekend. (LINK)
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No notes this week!
Sort of astonishingly skillfully, given the amount of ink and the amount of precision!!