With On the Registry, I dove into wedding wish lists, talking to women about what they wanted, and what they learned from the gifts they got.

Four years ago, Sandeep Salter partnered with the bookstore McNally Jackson to open Goods for the Study (just what it sounds, with the ideal selection of pens), and Picture Room, a gallery and community space. Three years later, she decided to go independent, moving Picture Room to Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue, just blocks away from where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

Less like a shop and more like a country home where everything is discreetly for sale, Picture Room is fluid and open: the door is always ajar, white painted wood floors seem to soak in light, and vitrines are filled with objects obscure and familiar (painted postcards, spiders made from heavy brass, an embellished doll that also functions as a pillow…). It’s somewhere you wouldn’t mind spending an afternoon, sitting in the deep-seated rocking chair that occupies the center of the floor. On a cool summer evening, I stopped by Picture Room to talk to Sandeep, professional purveyor of objects, about the items on her registry, and her intimate Brooklyn Heights wedding.