La Rentrée: what to see, buy and do this week

Let's embrace the return and reboot September brings - so revamp, learn and visit with my pick of this month's best design-oriented launches

Rae, a risk-averse midlife character in my novel (her husband would classify her as dull, but that’s another story) ponders whether to go on a trip she considers frivolous. She’s worrying about her garden and she rarely treats herself to luxuries but, as the trip falls on summer’s end - over Labor Day weekend, for my North American readers - she justifi…