SPOTLIGHT: Everything We Loved at This Year’s 2026 Frieze Week in LA

Despite being in LA in February once again for my annual winter sojourn, I promised myself this year that I would finally take it easy during Frieze week, not run around so much, maybe pick three new artists to spotlight in my newsletter rather than trying to digest it all. Well, dear readers, I failed at that task — hence this extensive roundup of everything I loved.
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Historical Moldings Meet High-Sheen Contemporary Pieces in Joris Poggioli’s Parisian Apartment

When Joris Poggioli got the keys to an apartment inside a Napoleonic-era building in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, he immediately fell for its historic charm and potential. However, the architect and designer’s own aesthetic is highly contemporary — his trademarks include cylindrical shapes, rounded edges, and high-sheen materials — so balancing this with the existing classical details took a lot of thought and consideration. Poggioli decided that the exquisitely crafted historical features should be the main character, while his interventions and additions — including many of his own furniture designs — play a supporting role in this new chapter for the space.
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Announcing the 2025 American Design Hot List

Welcome to the 13th annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s unapologetically subjective award for the names to know now in American design. Founded in 2013, the ADHL serves as a guide to the US (born or based) talents influencing the design landscape in any given year, whether through standout launches, must-see exhibitions, or just our innate sense that they’re ones to watch. Considering we’ve recently changed almost everything else about the way we present Sight Unseen to the world, we decided to do things a little differently this year.
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