Tea notes: Gen Z dinner parties, disappearing dining rooms, and wedding mood boards
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Hi friends,
How was your week? Based on everything I know, “tea notes” is a terrible subject line—but you guys seem to really enjoy this series based on open rates and clickthroughs. So I’m thinking of adding weekly links to the mix instead of saving them for end of month—y/n?
Email me if you have feelings on this, big or small. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been clicking lately:
Gen Z women are throwing more dinner parties. In the face of feeling more and more isolated, women are turning to gatherings at home. You know I’m a big proponent of a thoughtfully curated dinner party for deepening adult friendships.
But also: dining rooms are disappearing from American homes (gift link). Though I have a firm belief that you don’t need a lot of space to host, this trend does beg the question: Are we “designing loneliness into American floor plans”?
In response to my last piece on the enviable community design of the coastal Californian community of Sea Ranch,
linked me to a 1987(!) NYT article on how Nantucket is also preserved by a rigid building code (gift link)—fascinating. There’s also some great discussion happening in the comments:
