03.21.19

Sighted

Preview Studiopepe’s Secret Immersive Installation For the 2019 Milan Fair, Inspired by Tarot Cards and Divination

Studiopepe's installation Club Unseen, at last year's Milan design week, was the perfect setting in which to experience design in the way it's meant to be experienced. Which is why we're excited to announce that during next month's fair, Studiopepe will stage a second presentation with the same immersive feel. Called Les Arcanistes, it will feature new ceramic tiles by Studiopepe for Bardelli, new colorways of the pair's Pastilles furniture for Tacchini, and lighting by one of our favorite brands, Areti, in a presentation exploring "the interplay between matter and divination."

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03.20.19

Up and Coming

ASMR Has Finally Reached the Design World With These Chic Indoor Fountains

ASMR has been everywhere lately — Superbowl commercials, Breadface's Instagram Stories, episodes of High Maintenance — but this may be its first foray into the design world: A series of chic, minimalist, white-noise-producing desktop fountains by Los Angeles-based ceramicist Lily Clark.

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03.19.19

Fair Report

17 Projects We Loved at This Year’s Collectible Fair in Brussels

We didn't have the pleasure of personally attending this year's Collectible design fair in Brussels, where Sight Unseen hosted an installation by Objects of Common Interest, yet word traveled quickly back to us that those who did had taken to referring to our presentation as "the famous booth," an accolade that Instagram seemed to confirm. We were flattered to hear it, of course, but also honored to share the spotlight with so many other great presentations by galleries and up-and-coming designers. Click through to see our favorites.

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03.18.19

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An Exhibition Focused On Sustainability, From a Country Fueled By Hydropower

Norwegian Presence brings together 21 designers and artists, curated by Kråkvik&D’Orazio, and seven sustainably-minded Norwegian furniture manufacturers, whose products were selected in collaboration with exhibition designers Kristine Bjaadal and Hallgeir Homstvedt — who are also using environmentally friendly materials in the set design.

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04.05.16

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A New Series of Pastel Paintings, Inspired by Floridian Hues

In her colorful, line-driven work, Brooklyn artist Jesse Moretti has always explored the space between flatness and dimensionality, and the visual tricks one might use to create a bridge between the two. Her newest body of work, called FOAME — on view through Sunday at Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York — does so quite literally: In many of her paintings, Moretti employs a shadowy line that creates the illusion of a canyon carved into the wood — or, perhaps, like an X-acto knife cut into foam.

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03.16.19

Saturday Selects

Week of March 11, 2019

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A sneak peek at works bound for this year's Milan fair, our dream sofa in bright blue velvet, a new source for discovering Latin American design talents, and an alternative to terrazzo for anyone who's just about had enough.

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03.15.19

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Think Women Are Underrepresented in the Creative Arts? This Exhibition Does Too

The design world hasn't yet grappled with the chronic underrepresentation of women by brands — the Instagram @showmealist was a good idea that seems to have sadly fizzled out — but female designers and curators are doing just fine supporting each other, thankyouverymuch. The latest is an exhibition at Ox Poblenou in Barcelona, inaugurated on International Women's Day and curated by Sanna Völker, a Swedish furniture designer and curator living in Spain.

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03.14.19

Fair Report

Five Artists We Loved At Armory Arts Week 2019

Armory Arts Week was admittedly a little weird this year. Collective Design took a sabbatical, as did NADA, which hosted a gallery open downtown in place of its sprawling art fair. Spring/Break moved out of its former Condé Nast digs and we never quite made it to the new location. And, oddest of all, the pier that typically hosts VOLTA showed structural damage at the eleventh hour, leaving a raft of galleries and artists homeless (some were folded into a last-minute show at David Zwirner galleries titled, appropriately, Plan B). Luckily, there was still plenty to love.

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03.13.19

Sighted

A New England Studio Shakes Off Its Traditional American Vernacular

O&G, the Rhode Island–based studio lead by creative director and co-founder Jonathan Glatt, has been riffing on traditional American furniture for a long time; they're best known for their updated Windsor-style chairs, benches, and settees, often dyed in brilliant hues, from a kelp-like green to a lapis blue. Their two newest collections, however, look to a different set of influences.

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03.12.19

Eye Candy

Casa Perfect Opens in New York, And It’s Even Better Than the Instagrams

Casa Perfect — the shoppable interior concept from The Future Perfect — finally opened in New York City this weekend after the success of previous Los Angeles iterations, and it was predictably awesome: Copacabana-like tropical lights by Chris Wolston, ethereal glass pieces by John Hogan, lush velvets by Lazzarini & Pickering, oil-finished tables by Floris Wubben, and a spectacular Chipperfield-designed wood staircase that flies up the home's central void, all the way from the subterranean kitchen to the roof.

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03.11.19

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A New Gallery Show Allowed These Object Designers to Go Wild With Experimentation

Fruitsuper, the Seattle-based studio of Sallyann Corn and Joe Kent, have built a career making things that are eminently usable: elevated everyday objects like trivets, magazine stands, napkins, bookends, and the like. So for Solids and Voids, their new gallery show at Studio E in Seattle, the two did a complete 180.

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03.09.19

Saturday Selects

Week of March 4, 2019

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a truly epic new daybed, a visual exploration of the rise of "chubby furniture," and a new material made entirely from the byproduct of sunflower crops.

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