A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a major new art talent on view in Los Angeles, a new Scandinavian vintage design showroom in Chelsea, and the print version of a satirical newsletter on the intersection of dating and design. 

Exhibitions

I haven’t been this struck by an artist in a long time, but Colt Seager’s paintings, on view right now in a solo show at Rhett Baruch Gallery in Los Angeles, speak to me on a fundamental level, not least because of their insane color pairings. The collection plumbs a Celtic spiritual concept called “the thin place,” aka the spaces in nature where the veil between heaven and earth seems lifted in some way — the divine made visible. Seager, unsurprisingly, studied both art and theology in college. A must-see.

On view at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris until June 7 is Welcome to Mestresville, a new show of lighting and tables by designer Léa Mestres. Many of the works showcase Mestres’ previous work in concrete, but several pieces represent a departure into the world of tiled mosaics, which evoke certain Art Nouveau movements that often used pattern to create a vivid impression of the natural world.  

Discoveries

A bit late to the party on this one, but we swung by the New York opening of Lawson-Fenning, the Los Angeles-based design brand, a few weeks ago and fell for this peach-on-peach situation in the rear bedroom. The 4,500-square-foot space, designed by Josh Greene, features the brand’s in-house designs — like that epic armoire — plus lots of work by favorites such as Devin Wilde, O&G, and James Cherry.

In Chelsea, The Showroom is new collaborative space from two female-founded design studios focused on Scandinavian design, Past Lives Studio and Studio Nordic. The space pairs vintage furniture and decorative arts — mixing Viennese Secession, French Art Deco, Swedish Grace, and Italian Modernism — with a selection of contemporary pieces by the Los Angeles–based Cuff Studio, marking the brand’s East Coast debut. 

One of our favorite London duos — photographer Kristy Noble and stylist Katie Phillips — recently submitted this shoot they did for the designer Henry Farrant for his lighting brand Findere. Shot at Phillips’s cottage, the shoot features Findere’s lights — made from kneaded Japanese paper — alongside Phillips’s stellar collection of vintage objects.

The Scandinavian duo Anderssen & Voll is on a roll with their structured, sophisticated seating — they recently expanded their Brasilia collection for Audo and just released their Meantime system for &Tradition, which recalls transportation waiting rooms and includes this lipstick red number I’m coveting.

We don’t usually cover new iterations of old objects, but Slash Objects’s Arielle Assouline-Lichten recently debuted new versions of her classic pieces in material combinations that are too good to ignore. We especially like the Coexist Bench in stainless steel and silver upholstery (as well as the one in oxblood lacquer?!)

Publications

If you’re not reading Lily Sullivan’s newsletter Love and Other Rugs, you’re doing yourself a disservice. I’m not sure anyone else could weave together such a compelling narrative about grief, dating, and shopping for secondhand furniture. She recently released her second print version of the newsletter, featuring these images of her own Brooklyn home alongside a collection of previously published essays. (Side note: Anyone who says the media is dying simply might not be paying attention to the ways in which it’s expanding?)