It took me six months in my apartment to put a single thing on the walls. I live in one open room, the wideness of which threatens some form of permanence, its potential spatial arrangements daunting and utterly unfamiliar. But I will forever be inspired by Margaret and Dan, who manage to make every house they live in feel exactly the same magical way, as if they had never moved at all. The cover of Chez Panisse Fruit? Those were Margaret's figs.
