03.06.25

Sight Unseen Presents

It’s Your Last Chance to Get a Copy of Sight Unseen’s 2024 Yearbook!

Each year, we attend dozens of design fairs and exhibitions, field thousands of pitch emails, and spend hundreds of hours on Instagram getting to know what our favorite brands and makers are making — tracking what new trends are developing, what new materials are being experimented with, and what classic forms and techniques are being reinvented or re-contextualized. And at the end of each year, we spend two months digesting everything we've seen for our annual Sight Unseen Yearbook, in which we choose 500+ of the objects that we found most memorable.

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03.05.25

Fair Report

The 9 Best Things We Saw at Frieze Week Los Angeles 2025

We would be remiss not to address the relatively somber mood the LA wildfires cast over this year's Frieze week, an event that typically traffics in the commerce (and celebration) of extreme wealth while, for the rest of us, turbo-charging the sleepy LA social calendar to a welcome, if exhausting, degree. There were still sales to be made and parties to attend, to be sure, but everything felt a little quieter, a little more contemplative — and important to everyone to somehow acknowledge the context in which the fair was happening, whether in content or conversation.

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03.04.25

Fair Report

A Wonderfully Cohesive Debut From Tobias Berg, Sight Unseen’s Best in Show Winner at Greenhouse, the Stockholm Showcase for Emerging Design

At the Stockholm Furniture Fair earlier this winter, we found the thing we're always searching for at these things: a designer whose work is so sophisticated and ready for the market that they're bound to be in the conversation for years to come. (A booth full of bangers, if you will.) And so our Best in Show at Greenhouse award this year went to Tobias Berg, a Norwegian designer with one of the most assured debuts we've seen in years.

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03.03.25

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In a London Gallery, Grace Prince Explores the Appeal of Fragments and Fragility

How do you hold absence? How do you embody something that's missing, or give shape and weight to a fleeting phantom? The six limited-edition pieces in Grace Prince’s new furniture collection — called Held Absence and made exclusively for London's Béton Brut gallery, where it's currently on view — all explore this paradox. The themes of absence and fragility that color this collection invoke their seeming opposites, presence and strength, while also raising the question: Are they so opposite after all?

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03.30.22

Excerpt: Exhibition

Nathalie du Pasquier is So Much More Than the Poster Girl for Memphis Design

When a return to Memphis became the defining design trend back in 2014, a few of the movement's original members flew to the forefront of discourse once again, among them Peter Shire, Ettore Sottsass, and Nathalie du Pasquier, whose exuberant patterning became a kind of shorthand for cool around that time. (If you came home from Milan in 2014 without an NDP Wrong for Hay tote bag, were you even there?) But while Du Pasquier became pigeon-holed for that kind of blocky, frazzled look (remember when she designed for American Apparel?!), she's always been so much more than that, and the full fruits of her output as an artist are on view this month at an exhibition called "Speed Limit" at Anton Kern Gallery in New York.

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03.01.25

Saturday Selects

Week of February 24, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an art fair lounge formed from flesh-toned inflatables, a dentist’s office that miraculously doesn’t make our skin crawl, and the ongoing rehabilitation of the great American diner.

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02.28.25

Up and Coming

Each Project By This International Interiors Studio is More Than “Nice” — It’s a Self-Contained Jewel

Whoever said “nice guys finish last” clearly never met designers Sacha Leong and Simone McEwan. Since they started their London-based studio, Nice Projects, five years ago, the duo has completed a string of hospitality interiors that each has a distinctly expressive identity rooted in context, a strong focus on natural materials and local craft, and a touch of magic that has helped the dining spots soar in popularity. 

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02.26.25

Sighted

Armando Cabral Turns the Cult-Famous USM Shelving Into a Collection Steeped In West African Symbolism

Getting creative with modular furniture can require a certain amount of inventiveness; there are only so many ways to organize a rigid set of components, as in the Swiss company USM’s signature Haller storage. So to produce something never before seen from such a precise framework — metal rods, ball-shaped connectors, and a system of wildly colorful milled steel panels — a designer really needs to think outside the, well, box. “Restraint sometimes allows you to think further in order to arrive at something unexpected,” says Armando Cabral, who has entwined the expressive elements of his West African heritage with strict Swiss production parameters in a new collaborative collection with USM.

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02.23.25

Saturday Selects

Week of February 17, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an exhibition of sherbet-colored interior fantasy paintings; some sexy furniture on show in Luxembourg; highly desirable knitted cactus lights; and a preview of some wild rugs coming to Milan in April.

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02.21.25

Fair Report

25 Up-and-Coming Talents We Scouted at Greenhouse, Stockholm’s Showcase for Emerging Design

In my general round-up of the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week, I noted how ably Scandinavians seem to grapple with the realities of our culture of waste. Nowhere at the fair is this more evident than at Greenhouse, the emerging design section that mixes independent designer showcases with group installations by design schools and curated projects.

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02.19.25

Up and Coming

This Parisian Designer’s Furniture Looks Like it Was Left Out in the Rain

Following a storm, there’s a moment when surfaces are left covered with beautiful, randomly dispersed droplets that glisten until they evaporate. In his new series — appropriately titled After the Rain —Parisian designer Quentin Vuong has been able to recreate this effect with startling accuracy across a series of blackened oak furniture pieces, upon which he painstakingly hand-applies black epoxy resin. Currently on show at Galerie Gastou, the series is the latest example of Vuong’s delicate approach to imbuing his works with intriguing details that require significant time and focus to achieve. 

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02.15.25

Saturday Selects

Week of February 10, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the sweetest new English-language bookshop in Lisbon; a pattern-heavy, T Magazine–approved Tivoli farmhouse; and a collection of furniture made from slabs of olive tree roots and finished with olive oil. 

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