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06.23.26

The Weekly

I Expected to Love My First 3Days of Design in Copenhagen. But I Could Never Have Anticipated What Would Make It So Great.

If you can believe it, this was my first year attending 3DaysofDesign in Copenhagen, and I went to the fair, now in its 10th year, armed with absurdly high expectations. I knew that just existing in Copenhagen in early June — using Lime bikes to cycle around, drinking natural wine, eating smørrebrød — would set a good baseline for fun. But after my experience at Salone, which I wrote about here, I felt increasingly desperate for Copenhagen to mean something. I told people I was going because, as a chronicler of design fair culture, I felt compelled to see one that had become such a word-of-mouth success. But on a personal level, it’s like I needed Copenhagen to prove to me that design fairs were still worth attending. As hesitant as I am to say this — lest everyone frantically start planning their show next year in Denmark, which is simply not the right move for everyone — Copenhagen actually exceeded my expectations.
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03.07.24

Sighted

A Bronze Mirror Side Table, A Stained Mahogany Dining Table: Our Favorite Finds From CB2’s New Black in Design Collection and More

There are two things happening at CB2 right now that we find endlessly exciting. The first is their ongoing collaboration with the estates of design legends like Paul McCobb and Gianfranco Frattini; that's a McCobb task chair paired with a Frattini desk above, and can we talk about this striped outdoor sofa?! The other initiative is something that we mentioned in our Q&A with Evan Jerry of Studio Anansi last summer: the Black in Design collective, which brings together, under Jerry's curation, works by 13 Black designers. This spring welcomes Niger’s Atelier Masomi, founded by Mariam Issoufou Kamara, and Nifemi Marcus-Bello’s nmbello Studio in Lagos, Nigeria, to the fold, along with a slate of new pieces from the Collective's existing studios.
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