task is a lovely new shop located on one of williamsburg’s side streets and filled with a very well chosen selection of home goodies, and is also perfect if you happen to obsess over notebooks and paper as i do. the shop carries lots of great notebooks including some by o check design graphics and eeboo notebooks along with some must-have colored pencils (i didn’t know i needed those but i do now).
i was also surprised, and in love with, task’s small collection of fantastic handmade children’s goodies including these insanely cute wooden blocks by fidoodle and the must-have notebooks above by ganapati studios.
task’s main focus is on the home. they carry the stunningly simple heath ceramics line, linen towels by finnish designer jokipiin pellava, cutipol cutlery from portugal as well as a nice array of pillows and some incredible mirrored vanity trays. task carries a smattering of clothes, more in the black, grey and silvery flowy line of things with tops by burning torch, megan park skirts and a pieces rozae nichols. i really liked the chunky silver and black necklaces by sachin+babi. task is a great place to browse with it’s wide selection of well-edited goodies. don’t expect a bargain but the investment will be well worth it. for some really great photos of the shop visit task’s blog and then you’ll know you have to take a peak. task, 100 n. 3rd street between berry street and wythe avenue, brooklyn, new york, .
with two small and darling kids and one lovely husband who all occasionally need some amount of tending to as well as a full-time job, this blog is an excuse for me to explore the streets of new york, with a focus on brooklyn -- my home -- and manhattan, for those great little finds that seem to appear randomly on all sorts of blocks around new york but are sometimes hidden from plain view. i gravitate toward small, beautiful, independent places with interesting things, fantastic and friendly service and mostly affordable stuff (or at least an excellent value) and food that is extremely tasty, reasonable and in a great space -- though taste will trump design every time. to help put all these ideas in one place, i also will provide a series of new york mini-guides. in each of these, i will highlight something fun to do and then give some food, shop and doing suggestions nearby. these mini-guides, soon to be accompanied by mini-maps, will help to fill an afternoon -- where to pick up a snack, what shops to check out nearby and is there a really sweet little park along the way for a much needed rest. and i am always looking for ideas -- so if you have any suggestions for where to eat and shop or what to do please let me know. . you can also follow me on twitter at cherrypatter.
and for those of you more interested in the photos, i have absolutely no photography training and while i have been picking up a few tidbits here and there, mostly i think the credit for the photos goes to my lovely camera. it is a canon rebel xti, and the lens i use most of the time is the 50 mm 1:1:8. i also have a 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 for longer views.
Excited that modern Chinese takeout spot (whatever that really means) might have a soft opening tomorrow in Gowanus next to fav 4&20 bbirds