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Objects, like plants, can take on new life when seen with fresh eyes.🌿 An industrial drawer turned elegant planter. We recently found this rustic wooden drawer, likely once part of a Danish industrial factory cabinet 🛠 from the early 20th century. Its dark knot of wood caught our eye—an imperfection transformed into a mark of beauty. Paired here with a pink-leafed coleus we picked up in Berlin—left on the sidewalk with a handwritten sign that read “to give away”—the two together remind us how much worth lies in the overlooked and discarded. Like the process of bringing a book into the world, 📕 building a collection relies on patience, attentiveness, and care. Alongside our seasonal collections, Spring Moon Design 🌙 curates the Everyday Collection 🌲: artifacts and objects from near and far, each with a story to tell. ✨ Spring Moon Design launches October 7. Subscribe to Field Notes 🦆🌾 for behind-the-scenes stories and first looks at the Everyday Collection. #springmoondesign #everydaycollection #vintagedesign #objectstories #slowinteriors #wabisabi

Proofs! ✨ After more than three years of research, writing, studying moss🦠, and collaborating with some incredible artists to celebrate it, holding these nearly-final pages in my hands feels momentous! Before a book goes to print, every page gets a last careful look. I leaned on my editor husband’s expert eye to refine it and catch missing quotation marks or errant punctuation. (Note how on this page the missing quotes look like smiley faces = ).) Moss survives through intricate networks, and this book, too, has grown through the care and contributions of so many helping hands. 🌿 💚 🌿 Nervous and excited to see the final books next week! 🌙 Spring Moon Design's debut publication, Moss: A Love Story.💚 #springmoondesign #mossalovestory #fieldnotesnewsletter #artistsbook

Moss Vibrations 🌿🖤 Ink on paper, traced from the shadows moss cast on my kitchen table. Not drawings of moss, but reverberations — outlines, essences, afterimages. These silhouettes appear in _Moss: A Love Story_ 🦠 alongside “Hypnum No. 2,” an original composition by Brian Ledwidge — a Dublin-born composer I first worked alongside at a music-and-film school in Berlin. Together, sound and image try to catch the pulse of something small yet infinite. Tonight’s _Field Notes_🌾🐚 newsletter will share a first glimpse into the book — a limited edition of 20 copies, years in the making. 🌙 Subscribe via link in bio if you’d like to be among the first to see. #springmoondesign #mossalovestory #fieldnotesnewsletter #artbook

🌿 Textures in conversation: wool and moss, pattern and forest floor. Details from a moss-inspired scarf—created by a Kraków-based artist with a background in theatre design, using locally sourced wool. Its intricate textures seem to echo the lichen-dotted stones and mossy slopes of mountain paths. Its shifting colors remind us of the forest floor after the rain. Part of our soon-to-launch Moss Collection 🦠, where artists and artisans reimagine nature’s smallest marvels into singular works. Spring Moon Design 🌙 launches October 7th. #springmoondesign #mosscollection #mossalovestory #objectstories

Sunflowers in the countryside outside Berlin. 🌻 Goldenrods dotting the road in upstate New York. Late summer leaning into early fall. 🍂 Nature paints the turning of the seasons yellow. 💛 #springmoondesign #sunflowers #berlin #seasonalshift #lateSummer #earlyAutumn

🌙 It was a dark and stormy night… and out of it came our logo. ✨ Looking out a window one night, we saw a full moon partly obscured by passing clouds. We woke up and began to paint. Tonight in our Field Notes 🌾 newsletter, we’re sharing the full story behind both our logo and name — where poetry, loss, and renewal come together. Link in bio. #SpringMoonDesign #fieldnotesnewsletter #CreativeProcess #StorytellingInDesign

🌙 Why Spring Moon? A name inspired by a single line of poetry: “Given enough love, even a tree would talk — spring moon.” The full story — including the poem’s origins and some insights from translator Bruno Navasky about how best to render it in English — is in this month’s Field Notes 🦆🌾. Link in bio. #springmoondesign #fieldnotesnewsletter #originstory #japanesepoetry #designinspiration #slowdesign

🧡 A thermos that became a vase—carrying with it memories of persimmons in Korea, and friends in Stockholm... While visiting friends in Sweden, we stumbled upon this 1960s orange-and-black thermos. Though we’re not fans of plastic, we believe beautiful objects deserve a second life—like this one, now reimagined as a vase 🌸. Its bright hue reminds us of ripe persimmons and half-moon rice cakes at Chunseok — the Korean harvest festival. Alongside our seasonal collections (like our soon-to-come Moss Collection 🦠), Spring Moon Design 🌙 also curates an evergreen Everyday Collection 🌲: artifacts and artworks from near and far, each with a story to tell. ✉️ Want more? Subscribe to Field Notes 🦆🌾 for sneak previews and behind-the-scenes discoveries. Link in bio @springmoondesign. #springmoondesign #everydaycollection #vintagedesign #objectstories #fieldnotesnewsletter

Behind every piece, there’s a story. Subscribe to 🌾 Field Notes 🐞 for an exclusive glimpse into the making of our debut collection of one-of-a-kind objects — from an afghan and art book to a music box — all inspired by moss. 🦠💚 Our first issue drops tonight! 🧭 Link in bio: @springmoondesign #springmoondesign #mossalovestory #natureinspireddesign #fieldnotesnewsletter

Hello September! We're enjoying the last of summer's blooms in Berlin, before celebrating the launch of 🌙 Spring Moon Design in New York this fall. Get a sneak peak at our moss-inspired debut collection and limited-edition art book _Moss: A Love Story_🦠💚 Subscribe to our first newsletter, 🦋 Field Notes 🌾, which drops tomorrow, September 3rd. Link in bio: @springmoondesign #springmoondesign #FieldnNotesNewsletter #SlowDesign #mossalovestory

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