A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the sky blue laptop of our dreams, our top picks from this month’s 2025 Collectible fair in Brussels, and two exhibitions of paintings that explore and elevate domestic spaces.

Discoveries

LA interior / furniture duo Cuff Studio just released a prolific new collection (pictured above and at top), with 12 new pieces spanning lights to tables to daybeds. A dramatic black-lacquered folding screen is among our favorites, along with a dark blue dyed wall shelf and an triangular iron side table with a chunky cast-glass top. All of the pieces capture the mission that the studio shared with us when we interviewed them back in 2020: “Our goal is to be more transitional versus highly stylized, creating offerings that add edge to more traditional spaces or that add texture and softness to more modern environments.” Dutch creative firm Studio Gerritson-Bart recently released their Four-Legged Cabinet series in two appealing finishes: matte baby-blue–stained birch with square red legs and handles, and birch with legs and handles made from azobé hardwood reclaimed from old Rotterdam bridges. The proportions of the pieces are just unusual enough to be interesting.I’m finally trading my trusty MacBook Pro for my first-ever MacBook Air, for two reasons: First, Apple just released a version of the Air with the M4 processing chip, which means I get a lighter silhouette without having to worry that my heavy Creative Suite usage will create any sort of drag on performance, and second, because they also released it in an icy metallic Sky Blue finish (above), which I am totally unafraid to rep. It may be trending at the moment, but like its fashionable cousin — brown, which I would be VERY into as a laptop!! — it’s neutral enough that I know I won’t be sick of it in the next five or so years, which is how often I tend to hang onto my electronics. Maybe by then we’ll be able to choose any color we want for our devices? A girl can dream. This week Swiss giant Vitra debuted two new designs by Ronan Bouroullec: the Courier desk, not shown here, and the Mynt task chair, which is unusually, elegantly slim for an office chair but is actually designed to be especially suitable for either home or workplace usage. Besides its svelte, colorful appearance, it also features a seat that pivots independently from the backrest in response to the sitting habits of its users — adapting to however they lean or fidget while at their desks, so that “the body remains in a state of active balance.”

Collectible 2025

The 8th edition of the contemporary design fair Collectible took place in Brussels last week, and while we didn’t attend, we’re sharing four of the best installations we’ve seen come out of the show.
While this can’t be the first time that someone’s made lamps out of stacked stones, Maarten de Ceulaer’s Cairn lights owe their noteworthiness to the intense curation it must have took to find pairs of natural stones so perfectly complementary in both shape and color. The one-of-a-kind lamps are like charming little (heavy-ass) mushrooms, though to be fair we can’t tell how much light would actually emanate from their solid-rock shades. Not that it necessarily matters at a collectible design fair! Antwerp’s Uppercut gallery really nailed it with the curation of the objects they showed at Collectible, in which totally disparate textures, forms, and colors echoed and played off each other in a really nice way. The lineup included Arthur Vandergucht, André Jacob, Bram Vanderbeke, Illya Goldman Gubin, LS GOMMA, Moreno Schweikle, Nicolas Zanoni, Sigurd Nis Schelde, Soft Baroque, Wendy Andreu, and Yoon Shuns.Antoine MoulinardWaiting for Ideas (rocking chair), Sabourin Costes (resin shelf in foreground)Nicolas Zanoni Sophia Taillet

The same can be said for the curation of creative agency Steidtz Studio’s booth, which boasted chainmail, resin, and an absolutely insane, pure genius fireplace that appears to have a poster-print of flames in the middle?
Max Radford brought the standouts of his stable to the fair as well, showing off new seating by LS Gomma, a steel stove amusingly titled “Hardcore Cottagecore (Shaker Edition)” by Tom Bull, and a new stripey coffee table by Lewis Kemmenoe, among others.

Exhibitions

Before I left my annual winter sojourn in Los Angeles, I got to see one-time Hot-Lister Ryan Belli‘s new solo show at Good Mother gallery, where he exhibited work both in his repertoire (rotund wooden benches, 70s-style anthropomorphic chairs) and in a new direction for him — most notably a series of large-scale geometric lamps made from parachute-like nylon technical fabric. He also debuted two wood and metal wall cabinets shaped like cabins, and a pair of quirky carved-wood heads/stools with metal noses that harked, a bit, back to his time spent working for the Haas Brothers. The show is still on view through March 27.
To celebrate the launch of a Butter colorway for its Grand series of curtains and rugs, Nordic Knots invited curator and Sized founder Alexander May to temporarily hijack the Giancarlo Valle–designed interior of its New York showroom, turning it into a sea of yellowy-beige. May has punctuated the space with works pulled from Magen H Gallery’s collection, like a spiky Michele Oka Doner chair and a sausage-y ceramic lump by Annie Fourmanoir. The scheme is on view until the end of this month, after which presumably the space will transform back into Valle’s vision. Photos: Adrian Gaut
What I love about the Cubist-ish figures in Jonathan Wateridge’s Vanishing Point paintings — on view through April 5 at Grimm gallery in London — isn’t just their chopped-up forms and bewildered expressions, but how they seem to emerging from or melting into the architectural details of gorgeous mid-century homes in Los Angeles, bathed in the warm glow of a summer evening. There are pretty houses, but also, at least to me, the suggestion of some dark or uncomfortable story lurking, which I find moving.
In another set of artworks that elevate domestic spaces — the paintings of Xiangjie Rebecca Wu, on view at Latitude gallery in New York through the end of the month as part of a group show — its the lack of figures that create the strange tension. Also featuring pieces by Lingrou Xie and Ye Cheng, the exhibition is meant to explore “the fluidity of memory, the ephemeral nature of dreams, and the poetic tension between presence and absence.”