10.07.17

Saturday Selects

Week of October 2, 2017

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Katie Stout's "girls" take over the basement at R & Company, Doshi Levien debut the coolest work at PAD London, and the late Vladimir Kagan reminds us that no one will ever make a sofa as cool as he did.

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10.06.17

Up and Coming

Sculptural Ceramics and Textiles, From an Emerging Spanish Art Collective

If you mixed two of our favorite things together — hand-built, architectural, almost monolithic ceramics, and things in three dimensions that are traditionally conceived in two — you might get something akin to the body of work produced by the Spanish studio Formabesta in the short time they've been together.

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10.04.17

Current Obsession

Let’s All Take a Moment to Appreciate Tokujin Yoshioka

These days we tend to think of Yoshioka as an old-guard stalwart who makes interesting immersive installations for brands, and nice-enough objects for Glas Italia. So we thought it was worth a reminder that he was one of the godfathers of the current craze for transparent furniture, and that he also made upholstered pieces that — had they been released today — would have been among the best things we'd seen all year.

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10.03.17

Sighted

Get a Sneak Peek of This Incredible Melbourne Pop-Up, Opening Next Month

In many ways, this is our dream project — to construct a temporary home inside an empty loft space, paint it in an array of amazing, on-trend hues, fill it with the work of every American designer we love, and then open it to the public for both viewing and sale. But it's a reality in Melbourne, Australia, and it's put on almost every year by the Australian publication that feels most like Sight Unseen's sister magazine — The Design Files.

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10.02.17

At Home With

Inside the Home and Studio of LA’s Newest Emerging Design Star

Leah Ring's works represent striking and deeply thoughtful iterations on familiar forms, but there’s something brighter and more buoyant that binds them. “There's a sort of playful geometry that's present in all of my work, and I definitely hope that all of it communicates a sense of joy,” Ring says. She recently invited us into her Atwater home and studio to reflect on her space, her process, and the importance of play.

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06.01.16

Sighted

An Irreverent New Design Studio Making Everything From Sofas to Sunglasses

Last week, French designer Clémence Seilles officially launched a new studio called Stromboli Associates that’s based between Mexico City and Paris, describing its creative approach as “irreverent and unexpected,” with a focus on finding new combinations of forms, colors, and materials.

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09.30.17

Saturday Selects

Week of September 25, 2017

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A new source for neutral-hued textiles; a sculptural bag brand that’s hard to pronounce, but easy on the eyes; and a curated design exhibition that hopes to turn your frown, quite literally, upside down.

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09.29.17

Excerpt: Exhibition

A Young Italian Designer’s New Take On Centuries-Old Venetian Glass

Combining centuries-old Murano glass with a kind of icy, sci-fi geometry, Venetian designer Giorgia Zanellato’s latest collection aims to showcase the magic of the material. “Sospesi” — Italian for “suspended”— is a series of nine glass pieces that play with light and balance, where the milky and richly intense blues reflect and change with the light.

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09.28.17

Excerpt: Exhibition

Meet the Designers Behind Peter Pilotto’s Jaw-Dropping Townhouse Takeover

We've almost never met an immersive design environment we didn't like, but Peter Pilotto's takeover of a Victorian townhouse in Brompton during last week's London Design Festival was something else entirely. Located at 3 Cromwell Place and on view until October 15, the immensely inspiring interior is painted in shades of peach, mint green, and Monica-from-Friends purple and outfitted with a riot of collaborative wares from friends of the designer.

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09.27.17

Excerpt: Exhibition

Take a Tour of Our American Design Booth at the London Design Fair

Invited by the London Design Fair to curate its Guest Country pavilion — with this year's honors going to the United States — we asked 13 Americans who are doing some of the most forward-looking work in the contemporary scene to show with us last week.

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09.26.17

Fair Report

Our 50+ Favorite Finds From the 2017 London Design Festival

We traveled to last week's London Design Festival because, for the first time ever, we were actually participating in it. But we still managed to sneak away long enough to survey the goings-on city-wide, from the Kvadrat installation we featured yesterday to a cluster of exhibitions in the Brompton Design District to a solo show at the Aram Gallery. Here are the more than 50 finds we managed to gather on our four-day romp around town.

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09.25.17

Excerpt: Exhibition

How 19 Designers Interpreted Kvadrat’s Most Famous Fabric

For My Canvas, Kvadrat asked 19 international designers to create anything they'd like using reams of the Danish textile company's colorful Canvas upholstery, created in 2012 by Italian designer Giulio Ridolfo. The show followed the familiar framework of previous Kvadrat showcases, but the items themselves were perhaps the most inventive this series has ever produced.

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09.24.17

Saturday Selects

Week of September 18, 2017

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week we're feeling zig-zaggy minimalist art, quirky resin and steel tables from a new Canadian studio, and two epic furniture roundups in T Magazine, including the one pictured above.

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