11.11.23

Saturday Selects

Week of November 6, 2023

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: striped soft luggage from Dusen Dusen and Arlo Skye, a nostalgic New York negroni bar, and a giant vase-shaped rug with main character energy.
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11.09.23

Shopping

This Thanksgiving, Look Cute While Making a Statement in One of These Sight Unseen–Approved Aprons

Well, what do you know? Turns out all I needed to have fun on the internet again was to go shopping for aprons. What a strange pocket of online shopping — and historical discourse — aprons inhabit! They're somehow everywhere you'd least expect them to be and not at all in the places you'd think to look. I came away from this exercise understanding that the apron-buying public is vastly underserved; so much beige linen, not enough fun! Why isn't every cool restaurant across America selling aprons as merch? Regardless, the 37 aprons below are extremely solid, fashionable, sometimes surreal choices for when you're basting a turkey, glass of wine in hand, two weeks from today.
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11.06.23

Interiors

Garcé & Dimofski’s Live-Work Space in Lisbon is Like an Incubator for Contemporary Design — And Their Own Ideas

Like many creatives over the past few years, Olivier Garcé and Clio Dimofski relocated to Lisbon with their daughter Zoë and dog Lewitt (as in Sol) in 2021, after working separately in Paris (Garcé at Hamonic + Masson & Associés; Dimofski at Shigeru Ban), and then together in New York during a stint with Pierre Yovanovich that overlapped with the pandemic. For a brief period, the duo opened up their West Village apartment as an appointment-only furniture showroom, and the idea kind of stuck. The couple now similarly use their Portuguese live-work base to showcase their own designs amongst pieces by others — forming a space for experimenting with ideas that they also happen to live with.
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11.04.23

Saturday Selects

Week of October 30, 2023

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a showstopping tiled fireplace in the middle of Oslo, a new destination for gift-buying in Dimes Square, and, finally, a solution for the dreaded overhead "boob light" in your urban rental.
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07.12.22

Q+A

Aimee McLaughlin On Starting a Ceramics Podcast (Pot-cast?) and Why Ceramics is Like Therapy

Though Aimee McLaughlin, of Objet Aimée, is drawn to the shapes, proportions, and details of antiquity, there’s nothing dusty about her ceramics. With a voracious curiosity and thoughtfulness, she re-contextualizes and refreshes classical forms: She’ll make the earthy naturalism of a speckled stoneware pot more romantic with twisted handles; render a pitcher that evokes fluted Greek columns in a satisfyingly deep, glossy green; or achieve a beautifully tonal black-on-black pattern of snake scales for the serpent-shaped arms that adorn a sinuous, double-headed vessel.
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11.02.23

Fair Report

Last Month’s Parisian Design Fairs Made Us Feel Open-Hearted and Optimistic About the Future of Design

Paris has been host to a lot of action over the last few months: Fashion Week, the World Rugby Cup, and a certain creepy crawly who shall not be named among them. During the second and third weeks of October, however, a flurry of design people — our people — popped into town for a fair circuit punctuated by the inaugural Paris edition from Design Miami/ as well as Paris+ par Art Basel and two exciting new kids on the block: CONTRIBUTIONS and THEMA.
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11.01.23

Sighted

Dana Arbib’s Vegetable-Themed Murano Glass at TIWA Gallery Has Us In the Mood for Fall

When deciding on the first exhibition for his new TIWA Gallery location in Tribeca, Alex Tieghi-Walker instinctively turned to artist Dana Arbib, whose second collection of Murano glass — this time in the form of both lighting and vessels — were a perfect fit to activate the space, a former manufacturing workshop for electrical parts. Titled Vetro Orto, which translates from Italian as “the glass vegetable garden,” Arbib's pieces are modeled on the forms of gourds, cabbages, and root vegetables.
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10.30.23

Sighted

Channel Your Personal Style With Fashion-Inspired Mirrors by Ready to Hang, Bower’s New Sister Brand

Mirrors, quite literally, reflect the way we see ourselves. They’re a critical connection to our identities, and they allow us to check in with they way we present ourselves to the world. So why shouldn’t the mirrors themselves align with our own personal styles? “The mirror is the most important thing in your home,” swears Bower Studios co-founder Jeffrey Renz. “And depending on the mirror, it can impact your experience.” And so, after 10 years in business, Bower has launched a kind of “ready to wear” equivalent of its existing high-end product line: Aptly named Ready to Hang, the new sister brand offers a lower, more accessible price point and is designed to be enjoyed by a wider — and, most likely, younger — audience.
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10.28.23

Saturday Selects

Week of October 23, 2023

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a Rick Owens–inspired country house in Ukraine, a 100-year-old seaside hotel with a new makeover in Northern California, and a power-collab between The Future Perfect and Colin King (above).
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10.26.23

Interiors

An Emerald Green Sushi Counter and One-Off Parrot Wallpaper Turn This Tiny Bar Into a Jewel Box

The main attraction, and taking up the most real estate at Bar Miller, a 250-square-foot, eight-seater sushi restaurant designed by Brooklyn's Polonsky & Friends, is the omakase bar made from Avocatus Quartzite in deep green with swirls of white and the one-off wallpaper running parallel to the bar, which features a painting of an eastern rosella bird by illustrator Hollie M Kelley in Australia — the home of these colorful parrots.
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10.24.23

Fair Report

Move Over, Milan: This Naples-Based Fair Is Providing Young Designers a Prominent Platform

Milan’s Salone del Mobile might be the largest and best-known design event in Italy, but it’s by no means the be-all and end-all of the country’s creative scene. Case in point: EDIT Napoli, which held its fifth edition over three days at the beginning of October. Curated by Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi, the design fair took place within the recently renovated cloisters, atriums and frescoed rooms of the Archivio di Stato di Napoli, the city’s historic State Archives building. There were several gems from emerging European talents, who have a better chance to shine at a smaller, more intimate fair like this one. Here are our picks from Naples.
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10.23.23

Excerpt: Exhibition

A New Exhibition of Black Designers Explores the Role Aesthetics Play in Social, Economic, and Racial Justice Efforts

In 2017, Little Wing Lee of Brooklyn’s Studio & Projects founded Black Folks in Design, an international network for Black design across disciplines: interiors, architecture, fashion, graphic design, and more. BFiD was ostensibly founded in order to foster community but Lee's aims also go way beyond that, based on the idea that design and aesthetics aren’t simply a luxury but part of everyday life — that our environments shape us — and therefore play a role in social, economic, and racial justice efforts. Last year, Lee curated Spotlight I, an inaugural showcase of Black designers at the Ace Hotel in Brooklyn. Now the collective’s Spotlight II is up at the Verso gallery in Tribeca, with pieces that reflect and incorporate traditions – cultural, familial, stylistic – while also looking forward.
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