With an eye on green design, Cisco Home uses reclaimed wood – Douglas fir or teak – for its adjustable Katso stool, bottom left, $650, and the Tilo, right, in three sizes from $495. Both sport tractor-style seats made from reclaimed wood on a steel base. Read more

WITH a nod to Biba, the London shop that revived Art Nouveau and Deco styles in the 1970s, the new restaurant-lounge Foxtail cuts a dark, dashing Old Hollywood figure. “It plays to the idea of the rich bohemian traveler of the 1930s,” says designer Frank X. Medrano. Read more

DUMPSTER-diving, garden-tending. Which is on your to-do list this week? Read more

BEFORE vacuums were invented, America’s homemakers swept their carpets with brooms to keep them clean. Once a year, during spring cleaning, many moved their furniture in order to lift their rugs and lug them outdoors for a good beating in fresh air. Read more

It’s finally warm enough for those April gardening opportunities, including planting tomatoes in most parts of the Southland, or petunias, or citrus and other warmth-loving plants. Putting them in now gives the plants time to become established before the heat of summer arrives. Read more

KIMBA HILLS, an interior designer and owner of the decor shop Rumba in Santa Monica, helps clients with something she calls “speed designing.” Some of her quick fixes for entertaining: Bring the inside outdoors. Read more

When it comes to networking, Paige Rense, the longtime editor in chief of Architectural Digest, boasts, “I have better contacts than the CIA.” Acknowledging that most folks may consider the process of submitting their homes for publication to be as mysterious as dealing with foreign operatives, Rense has held open auditions in New York and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., since October. And last week in West Hollywood, nearly 400 professional and DIY decorators submitted portfolios to a panel of AD editors. Read more

OUTSIDE: classic architecture. Inside: anarchy. Read more

Mark Mothersbaugh, screen composer and lead singer of Devo, has evolved into an accomplished visual artist. Tonight, he debuts as a rug and wallpaper designer in collaboration with L.A. porcelain firm Walteria Living ( www.walterialiving.com). Read more

TOMATOES on the mind? Think ‘Green Velvet,’ ‘Golden Mama,’ ‘Black Krim’ and Cuban yellow grape. Read more

MINUTES before 25 guests are to arrive for a Tennessee barbecue party at her Santa Monica home, Kimba Hills hangs a Susan Fama collage of bright blue midcentury gas station numbers on the kitchen wall she had painted the night before. Hills throws down a blue and orange Turkish kilim on a poolside patio, then places a Pop art lamp from the living room between two lawn chairs in the garden. Read more

I PROBABLY WORRY TOO much. For instance, I worry about the increasingly strange color of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hair – an odd, orange, Popsicle hue. Read more

Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Read more