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..8 Things American Design Hot List An Afternoon With At Home With Current Obsession Editor’s Note Excerpt: Book Excerpt: Exhibition Excerpt: Magazine Eye Candy Factory Tour Fair Report From the Archives From the Library Of Gift Guides Giveaway Graphic Design How to Live With Objects Interiors Inventory Invitation Material Offsite Online Q+A Saturday Selects Self Portrait Shopping Sight Unseen Collection Sight Unseen OFFSITE Sight Unseen Presents Sight Unseen Projects Sighted Studio Visit The Essentials The Making of Travel Up and Coming What It’s Like What They Bought What We Saw Where They’ve Been Departments Spaces Objects Library ShopHot List Our Services Shop the CollectionDepartments 8 Things American Design Hot List An Afternoon With At Home With Current Obsession Editor’s Note Excerpt: Book Excerpt: Exhibition Excerpt: Magazine Eye Candy Factory Tour Fair Report From the Archives From the Library Of Gift Guides Giveaway Graphic Design How to Live With Objects Interiors Inventory Invitation Material Offsite Online Q+A Saturday Selects Self Portrait Shopping Sight Unseen Collection Sight Unseen OFFSITE Sight Unseen Presents Sight Unseen Projects Sighted Studio Visit The Essentials The Making of Travel Up and Coming What It’s Like What They Bought What We Saw Where They’ve Been Spaces Objects Library Hot List Our Services Shop the Collection 05.14.24 Shopping Meet Petra: Your New One-Stop-Shop For Designer-Made Statement Hardware If you’re an interior designer whose client has non-traditional tastes. If you’re a renter who’s tired of looking at a tired kitchen but can’t renovate. If you bought a beautiful storage cabinet years ago and want to fall back in love with it. If you own a house in Connecticut or L.A. but want its front door to look like a villa in Italy. If you just need one perfect little weirdo bauble for your nightstand. Basically if you want to make a small change, anywhere in a home, that makes a big visual impact: You’re going to want to bookmark Petra. Petra is my new showroom for artistic hardware, and it launched last week with drawer pulls, cabinet knobs, door handles, furniture pulls, appliance handles, and more by 27 international designers. More Linear Grid Buy the Sight Unseen book Shop Sight Unseen Furniture Pinterest 05.11.24 Saturday Selects Week of May 6, 2024 A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: pale green and stainless steel is the new butter yellow and stainless steel; an exhibition devoted to the vicissitudes of wood; and new rugs from everyone’s favorite LA sister-run brand, Block Shop. More 05.10.24 Excerpt: Exhibition Bronze, Silk, Pine, Cherry: A Year Without a Kiln Forced Simone Bodmer-Turner to Reconsider Her Materials Palette What does an artist do when they don’t have access to the tools their work requires? The ceramicist Simone Bodmer-Turner — celebrated for her abstract stoneware vessels and sculptures in shades of soft white or matte black — beautifully answers that question this month at Manhattan’s Emma Scully Gallery with her show of furniture and functional objects, A Year Without a Kiln. More 05.08.24 Interiors In San Sabino, New York Gets the Buttery Yellow Restaurant Interior It Needs After butter yellow’s long and winding ascent to the top, finally we get a restaurant interior with that hue as the star. And it was well worth the wait — San Sabino is the next-door sibling to Don Angie, the still-too-hot-for-a-reservation restaurant in the West Village also designed by GRT Architects. But where that space has extremely chic elevated trattoria vibes, San Sabino has elements that read almost like a diner, at least during the daylight hours. There are the round, leather-topped bar stools; the stainless steel accents like a ceiling "crown" and metal-trimmed booth seating; and oh, that laminate. More 05.07.24 Excerpt: Exhibition A Modernist Villa Outside Milan Provided the Backdrop for This Stellar Showcase of Emerging Design This year in Milan, Alcova’s founders chose to host half of its exhibition in one of our all-time favorite buildings: Villa Borsani, the 1945 residence designed by Osvaldo Borsani, architect and co-founder of furniture brand Tecno, in Varedo, north of the city. Although much of Borsani’s incredible original furniture was tucked away for the occasion (a reason to go back and revisit), several designers presented impressive new works against the villa’s striking patterned marble floors, custom textiles, and that staircase. Here are a few of our favorite things we spotted there, which, coincidentally, also provides a tour of sorts around this iconic building. More 09.08.22 Up and Coming This Cross-Cultural Couple is Carving Out a Space for Contemplation — And Furniture Production — in San Miguel de Allende Part of what motivates designers Giulia Zink and Mat Trumbull of OHLA Studio is a question: How do we build within the traditions of the past as new challenges loom?” The answer for OHLA, based in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Los Angeles, is to balance a contemporary aesthetic with a respect for the region’s vernacular design and historic motifs, while turning to local and not-too-far-away artisans and resources to realize their projects. More 05.06.24 Up and Coming This New Rug Company Wants You to View Its Products as Works of Art A serendipitous meeting in the mountains of Nepal birthed a new rug company called Maison Rhizomes, which employs the country’s expert artisans to create its colorful abstract designs based on the work of Belgian-French artist Charlotte Culot. Culot happened upon Berlin-based Hannah Vagedes up in the Himalayas in 2019, and the pair decided to join forces. By 2022 they had launched their first collection of 22 boldly patterned floor coverings, each modeled after a painting from Culot’s oeuvre, and which the duo hopes will be treated like artworks in their own right and passed down through generations. More 05.04.24 Saturday Selects Week of April 29, 2024 A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an exhibition that examines traditional Western wedding tropes, more fuel for the fire of our burning room divider obsession, an Amsterdam apartment with marvelous marbled mahogany paneling, and the perfect glassware for summer cocktails. More 05.03.24 Travel French Installation Artist Daniel Buren Has Transformed Six Hotels With Color and Sculpture Three years ago, the LVMH-owned hotel group Belmond began working with Italy’s Galleria Continua on a program to bring the work of a diverse group of renowned artists into their 46 global properties. But midway in, they decided it could be more impactful to commission a single person for a series that would span multiple locations, and so the gallery called the famed French installation artist Daniel Buren with an ambitious proposal: to create six site-specific works in six hotels across Italy, South Africa, France, and Brazil. For Mitico, the final results of which were unveiled over the past two months, each of his installations was envisioned in direct response to the architecture or surrounding landscape of the hotels. More 05.02.24 Excerpt: Exhibition This Entryway at the Kips Bay Show House Takes Wall-to-Wall Carpeting to New Heights As a participant in this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House, New York–based designer Bennett Leifer wanted to do something that would push design boundaries, he says: not necessarily in a way that would be loud or provocative but that would be intellectually exciting.” Soon after learning he’d be part of this year’s iteration, Leifer happened to have dinner with the team from Edward Fields Carpet Maker (who you’ll remember we worked with on our Norway x New York exhibition!). He’s worked closely with the custom luxury rug brand for years and has long admired their heritage and their...