Open Tabs 005
#30: I needed to feel something so I bought a quilt.
I’m chasing magic in my home.
I know that sounds crazy but right now I really need to feel something.
If you followed the complete pandemonium online after Kendall Jenner’s mountain home reveal, you’ve probably heard a lot about inherited interiors, layering, timelessness, patina, collectedness, restraint, warmth, and ‘lived-in’. I get it. I really do.
Everything feels the same lately — personal style is linkable, opinions are made for you, and your vibe is optimizable.
I don’t want optimized.
I want something that is only mine.
I want a moment in time captured in my home — something unrepeatable, non-replicable, and deeply personal. I want the opposite of those fkn Hermès blankets.
That’s when I thought about quilts.
And then I hesitated — because it feels like everyone is suddenly thinking about quilts.
Maybe quilts are performative. But I also think they’re magic. And I think magic only reveals itself through use.
That hesitation was exactly what stood out to me in the discourse around Kendall Jenner’s home. So much of the conversation centered on authenticity — on designing a space to feel old, layered, and lived-in, while also having a single install day where everything arrives at once.
The tension people couldn’t quite resolve was this: the house is a new build, designed top-down by an expert interior designer, Heidi Caillier. It has wrinkles, but it hasn’t lived a life long enough to earn them. In that way, it feels closer to a stage than a home.
The conclusion?
Some things can’t be duplicated.
Still, I tried. I did my own shoppable breakdown of the space (of course), but the point wasn’t duplication.
Those things that can’t be duplicated are the things I want.
So I bought a quilt.
My quilt (purchased for $130)
Quilts are handmade. One-of-a-kind. Patina’d- and they’ve earned their wrinkles. I believe objects carry their history with them and physically change the chemistry of the spaces they are in.
And if you’re willing to put in the time — truly dig, scroll, squint, cross-reference, obsess (me) — you’ll discover something interesting:
Quilts are a value frontier (see below).
Yes, quilts from the 1800s can sell for $10,000.
But if you know where to look, you can also find better quilts for less.
This isn’t a cheap quilts list.
You know where you can go for that.
I’m finding quilts the market hasn’t learned how to price yet.
Craft literacy is low. Most people still see these as “old bedding.”
They’re not.
They’re art.
So I set out to find the most incredible quilts on the internet — quilts that are genuinely works of art, but still accessible. And frankly, I knew I could do it.
Anyway. Here are all the quilts I found!
