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When the weather gets hot and sweaty in the city, we definitely have a go-to uniform: a super-simple tank top or airy sundress, the less fussy the better, paired with a favorite piece of statement jewelry. So summer chic. We figured we’d celebrate the season with a special sale designed to help you stay cool no matter what the forecast — for the next two weeks, seven popular items in our online shop are priced at 25% off, from $38 for a splatter-paint bangle to $210 for an ombre leather cuff that’s made entirely by hand in London. Check out the sale items below, then head over to the shop to take advantage of the discount by June 24!
Minimalists may disagree, but we think the best part about spring cleaning is clearing out space in your home for newer, better things! Hot on the heels of our jewelry update last week, we’ve stocked the Sight Unseen shop with five new housewares that will beautify your everyday life this season, from Hilda Hellström’s Jesmonite coasters (above), which are perfect for holding summer drinks, to a wind chime tailor-made for catching warm breezes. Check out the goods below (shot, once again, by the talented Paul Barbera), then head over to the shop and treat yourself!
Geometry, shapes, ceramics, iridescence — these are a few of our favorite things, so it’s no wonder they’re all over our spring shop update! We’ve been stockpiling the amazingness for weeks, including our first men’s ring (and first piece by Jonathan Nesci) and our lowest-priced item ever: mix-and-match ceramic stud earrings by Jujumade that are a steal at only $18 each. The rest of the names you’ll recognize, like Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, WWAKE, Object & Totem, Katy Krantz, Gemma Holt, and Iacoli & McAllister, the latter of whom have reprised their Sight Unseen–exclusive Necklace No. Ultra for a third time in hammertone, a crackled enamel finish that will play a starring role in their new furniture launch this month. Check out all the new jewelry offerings after the jump, then stay tuned for a second round of exciting spring additions next week — housewares!
It’s holiday season again! Isn’t that crazy? We feel like it was just yesterday that we were at the beach, burying our toes in the sand. Granted, we’ll be at the beach again next week, when Sight Unseen takes Design Miami, but that doesn’t change how nuts it is that 2013 is already upon us. We didn’t want to leave all you gift-givers hanging, so we commissioned four new necklaces for the Sight Unseen Shop that we think you’ll definitely want stuffed in your stocking: two by designers we’ve worked with before (Tanya Aguiñiga and Iacoli & McAllister) and two by exciting new talents (LA’s Sonya Gallardo and Julianne Ahn of Object & Totem). May your New Year’s resolution be to collect them all.
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve quietly been making some changes around here, like un-sticking the left column of our homepage so it’s scrollable, letting you sort that column by story tags or what’s popular, enlarging our slideshow images, and letting you use arrows instead of numbers to navigate them. As of this weekend, we’ve also made a small but notable update to our shop: Replacing our own photos of Fort Standard’s stone trivets and candleholders with the gorgeous, professionally shot images you see here (Pinterest lovers, this is your cue!), and dropping the price on those candlesticks from $85 each to a mere $70.
Our Shape Shop pop-up at Creatures of Comfort last month was a success by any measure, but even before it ended, we were hearing from non-New Yorkers, wondering when and how they could get their hands on the merch. We’d long wished our shop could branch into housewares anyway, so it seemed the perfect time to test the waters: This week, we’re introducing some of our best-sellers from the Shape Shop online for a limited time, as well as an update to one of our previous jewelry offerings. What does this mean for you? A veritable bounty of exclusive items by some of your favorite designers: Gorgeous stoneware kitchen accessories by Fort Standard, pillows made from the discontinued textiles of Caitlin Mociun’s clothing line, scrap lamps by Jonah Takagi, geometric bottle openers by Bec Brittain, painted leather pouches by Baggu, and more — all for $200 or less. Check out the goods here, then head over to the shop to place your order!
Today we welcome six new additions to the Sight Unseen online shop, just in time for all those late spring and early summer birthdays (including both of your humble editors — what was it about the early fall that made so many of our parents feel so frisky??). Two of them are exciting updates on existing products, while four of them are by designers who are brand new to us: Seattle up-and-comers Ladies & Gentlemen Studio make housewares inspired by their vintage finds, New Friends are a NYC/Philly weaving duo who also run two of our fave inspiration blogs, WWAKE is RISD sculpture-design grad turned jewelry maker Wing Yau, and Max Lamb, of course, is one of the biggest young stars in the furniture biz. We were especially pleased when he agreed to transform his 2010 Prism series from a purely decorative object into a wearable one — wearable in three different ways, no less — just for us. Check out the goods here, which start at just $50, then head over to the shop to place your order!
Yesterday we introduced you to the up-and-coming Minneapolis-based design studio ROLU, whose plywood and OSB chairs inspired by conceptual art and modernist sculpture have garnered them the design-world equivalent of a cult following as of late. Today, we’re excited to announce that the multi-talented trio have designed their very first jewelry project, exclusively for the Sight Unseen shop. Called Shapes After Guy (and Lost At Sea), the felt-backed plywood necklaces — which can be worn individually or in a group — make for some serious statement pieces, and yet they’re only $100 each. We’ve also got a brand new handmade dyed-rope necklace design by the rising California talent Tanya Aguiñiga, which is even chunkier than our other Tanya creations and yet rings in at just $125.
When we started this website two years ago today, we had no idea we’d end up here — debuting a webshop stocked with jewelry and other wearable objects, often designed exclusively for us and frequently one of a kind, all created by some of the most exciting designers and artists we’ve had the pleasure of working with. And yet we couldn’t be more proud of this development. Today we launch the Sight Unseen Shop, an online retail space that’s been months in the making as we worked tirelessly behind the scenes, hashing out the contributors, figuring what amazing wares they’d sell with us, and how it might best be presented online (thanks Studio Lin!). Inspired by the success of our pop-up during this year’s Noho Design District, we set about assembling a group of designers who were using — or interested in using — jewelry as a way to experiment with techniques and materials, and who didn’t necessarily have a platform by which to sell those experiments. While we may be biased, the results, we think, are stunning.