Source Report: a jungle cats objet d'art
the best thing I found at the May First Friday Art Walk, plus links to (most) everything else on my kitchen table
The Source Report is a weekly memo about pieces I’ve sourced and their timeliness to the stylesphere. Including a shoppable edit at the end of the post.
JUNGLE CATS DISH
PLUS EVERYTHING ELSE ON MY KITCHEN TABLE
MAY 11, 2026
Source notes: On May 1st I went to the Rachel Sperry florals & fashion collage art opening at Bold Magazine Shop, and after the show I made an in-the-moment decision to walk back to my car via Congress Street instead of High Street. I was intrigued by a rack of colorful clothing fluttering near Congress Square Park, beside which was a table of Girl Scouts selling cookies, both part of the First Friday Art Walk. I was feeling particularly fulfilled by the collage art from Sperry’s Secret Garden series, and incredible daffodilia by Triflorum Designs — plus the two l’etiquette mags I had bought at Bold — so I didn’t indulge in either the vintage tee table or the Thin Mints (first time for everything) but I did continue walking Congress and eventually ran into something that I couldn’t resist.
Style notes: People love to ask me what I’m looking for in vintage shops or at flea markets and my response these days is always “I’ll know it when I see it” — which is exactly the case. But I’m always looking for the perfect vessels — objets — to hold my never ending collections of seashells or mini polaroids. Some of my favorites include vintage public ashtrays from France and a Cloisonné pheasant dish from Monstera. In the case of the Art Walk, there was a MECA student sitting with her table of handmade studio pottery dishes including one with a tiger and a leopard circling the sides of the bowl, one with green eyes, one with a spiraling tail. I bought it on the spot.
My favorite way to style these types of objets is to put them in the fray with everything else, letting their identity meld into what already exists in my space. It just so happens that the past few weeks my kitchen table has been an island of misfit reading material, vintage finds, and tablescapery. In it’s chaotic state there was an essence of beauty, so I’m sharing everything from the table in this week’s Source Report, a [mostly] shoppable list of good things in my life right now:
The table is mostly covered in reading material. Whenever I’m working from home I eat breakfast and lunch by myself, and I love reading an article while I eat instead of being on my phone. I’ve been a longtime fan of Gauthier Borsarello, the founder of L’ÉTIQUETTE magazine — I finally got my hands on this French publication through Stacy’s shop and have been slowly making my way through the articles. The FEMME publication is only in French so I have to read it with Google lens but the styled images are so worth it. I have a mail subscription to gentlewoman, but it’s also available at Bold. Read on for the rest of the books and objets.
The rest: 1970s Snowland shearling boots I recently thrifted ~in my exact size~, a Kodak film viewer for looking at old negatives, the last issue of Apartamento, Alison Roman’s latest, Something From Nothing, which comes in the most amazing 70s colorway, cut glass bowl and pitcher from my Nanny, pink glass candlesticks & vintage linen napkins were gifts from my brother’s fiancé who has incredible style sense.
That’s all for today. May your table overflow with things that make you happy.
Until Friday — Geo
Love all the featured florals!