01.10.25

American Design Hot List

The 2024 American Design Hot List, Part V

This week we announced our 12th annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the fifth group of Hot List designers here (including Wretched Flowers, whose chainmail floral floor lamp is the slightly goth hit of decor we didn't know we needed.) 

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01.09.25

American Design Hot List

The 2024 American Design Hot List, Part IV

This week we announced our 12th annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the fourth group of Hot List designers here (including Parts and Labor Design, above, whose founders launched the stellar furniture collection Known Work early last year.) 

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01.08.25

American Design Hot List

The 2024 American Design Hot List, Part III

This week we announced our 12th annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the third group of Hot List designers here (including recent RISD grad Michelle Jiaxin Huang, whose futuristic works in steel are pictured above).

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01.07.25

American Design Hot List

The 2024 American Design Hot List, Part II

This week we announced our 12th annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the second group of Hot List designers here (including interior designer David Lucido, whose Brooklyn townhouse project is seen above).

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04.28.22

Up and Coming

Christian + Jade Are Making the Sculptural Indoor Fireplace of Your Dreams

Since graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018, Christian Hammer Juhl and Jade Chan — who go by the name Christian + Jade — have combined their love of material history, context, and raw expression through their Copenhagen-based studio. He’s from Denmark, she’s from Singapore, and together they’ve already developed a strong visual language centered around two very specific themes: projects based on and around fire, and those made using hammered aluminum, with several obvious overlaps. 

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01.06.25

American Design Hot List

The 2024 American Design Hot List: Part I

This week we announced our 12th annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the first group of Hot List designers here (including Danny Kaplan, whose sculptural experiments in clay are seen above).

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01.06.25

American Design Hot List

Announcing the 2024 American Design Hot List Honorees

Today we’re pleased to announce the honorees of our 12th annual American Design Hot List, an unapologetically subjective editorial award for the names to know now in American design. The list acts as Sight Unseen’s guide to those 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.

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12.21.24

Saturday Selects

Week of December 16, 2024

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the best of Design Miami in what seemed like a quiet year, a New York cannabis store that looks almost residential, and a PoMo glass-blowing exhibition in The Netherlands.

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12.20.24

Fair Report

Now In Its 24th Year, Dutch Design Week Remains One of the Best Places to Scout Playful, Innovative Objects

In its 22nd year and featuring more than 2,600 designers over 120 venues, Dutch Design Week continues to impress us. Our favorite objects from Eindhoven this year delighted by building upon history and what has come before — both in terms of personal memory as well as a collective — while also presenting surprising innovation, and, in many cases, a sense of playfulness. Below were just a few of our favorite exhibitions and pieces.

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12.17.24

Travel

A Mural-Bedecked Soho Escape and a Paris Hotel With Portugal Energy Are Among Our Latest Hotel Recs

Winter travel plans typically skew one of two ways: You can embrace the cold, throw on a cute overcoat, and take in the festive magic of a ski resort, historic European city, or even a staycation. Alternately, you can reject the chilly vibes entirely and haul your vitamin D–deprived self to somewhere warm and sunny. The three design-forward hotels we’ve chosen for our latest round-up are more than up to the task, including a mural-bedecked Soho escape, a Paris hotel with Portugal energy, and an historic property overlooking Southern California's Laguna Beach.

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12.16.24

Sighted

Bower’s Moody, Mystical Showroom — And Their New Moongate Mirrors — Channel Someplace Far From Brooklyn

When you’re in a mystical frame of mind — cue the winter solstice — mirrors really do start to feel like portals. And the Moongate series, the latest from Bower Studios, seems to offer entry into another realm. Inspired by outdoor passageways originally found in traditional Chinese gardens, these large wall mirrors  would add a sense of mystery and quiet adventure to any interior. And they do just that in Bower’s newly redone showroom, complementing and contrasting with the studio’s classic collections and transporting you somewhere far from Brooklyn.

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12.10.24

Interiors

A Teal and Tobacco Study, a Pistachio Bedroom — David Lucido’s Sophisticated Sense of Color Makes Him One of our Favorite Interior Designers to Watch

David Lucido has a gift for combining proportion, shape, and color in ways that are sophisticated and refined but not at all stuffy. His interiors, whether residential, commercial, or in hospitality, are never overdone but also never boring; they’re just right. It’s a challenge he makes look easy, but effortlessness almost always requires a lot of effort. Lucido, who currently splits his time between Palm Beach and New York City, pulls it off by balancing a strong work ethic and meticulous attention to detail with a lack of personal pretension. “I’m not a very serious person,” he says. “It’s not surgery, so why not be a little more expressive with things?"

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