Seven months goes by in the blink of an eye. That’s how long Conan O’Brien got to host “The Tonight Show” before NBC showed him the door, how long Whitney Houston spent in her pajamas when she was addicted to drugs in the ’90s, and how quickly it took for Bernie Madoff to be sentenced to life in prison. We can’t believe it’s already been seven months since we launched Sight Unseen last November, and that as of this week, we’ve already written 100 stories that capture the lives of creative people working in every discipline from every possible angle. In celebration of that milestone, we invite you to look back at our top ten posts — the first five are the overall most-read, and the last five are personal favorites you may have overlooked. We hope you’ll keep reading for another 100 and beyond.
1. At Home With: JP Williams, Graphic Designer and Archivist
Herbert Beyer, Hermès orange, and a cat named Cloud: just a few of the oddities that fill the Tribeca loft of this graphic designer and blogger.
2. At Home With: Ji Lee, Director at Google’s Creative Lab
How the Google designer and his wife transformed an East Village duplex formerly owned by a crack addict.
3. Studio Visit: Confetti System, Decoration Designers
A peek inside the duo’s piñata-strewn workspace.
4. Book Excerpt: Creative Space, Urban Homes of Artists and Innovators
Francesca Gavin visits the home of London’s Snakeskin Jacket, whose Smithfields flat “veers between brilliance and chaos the minute you walk in the door.”
5. Studio Visit: Sissel Tolaas, Scent Expert
Tolaas’s Berlin scent library is host to nearly 7,000 specimens, including stinky socks and East Berlin.
6. What They Bought: Kiosk’s Portugal Collection
A look at the second-floor Soho shop’s current collection: what they bought, what they left behind, and why it matters.
7. Studio Visit: Lineaus Athletic Company
Lineaus Hooper Lorette makes $650 leather medicine balls in a workshop just outside the desert art mecca of Marfa, Texas.
8. The Making of: Ten to One by Sylvie Zijlmans and Hewald Jongenelis
The Dutch husband-and-wife due spent nearly four years working on a single photograph.
9. At Home With: Gregory Krum, photographer and Cooper-Hewitt Director of Retail
Ettore Sottsass, Enzo Mari, Richard Sapper and more find a home a Greenpoint.
10. An Afternoon With: Nacho Carbonell
Making paella with the Spanish designer, whose work is currently on view with Galleria Rossana Orlandi at Design Miami/Basel
