02.25.21

Invitation

Lauren Coleman Plays With the Suspension of Time in Her Second Campaign for La Prairie

For the second edition of our collaboration with La Prairie, marking the release this month of its groundbreaking Platinum Rare Haute-Rejuvenation Protocol, we invited Lauren Coleman to create three experimental animated GIFs that would freeze a moment in time on an infinite loop, celebrating the way that the Protocol does something similar for your skin.

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02.24.21

Up and Coming

Travertine, Salt, and Wood: Gregory Beson and the Beauty of Tangible Materials

There’s something refreshingly thoughtful about the way New York–based furniture designer and Parsons professor Gregory Beson talks about his practice. He may be represented by Love House in New York and Rossana Orlandi in Milan, but when discussing his recent collection, Home Group One, it’s not some white-gloved gallery where he pictures it. “I see the pieces as plinths for living,” says the Massachusetts-born designer, describing the series of tables, chairs, and shelving formed of interlocking planes of solid walnut.

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02.23.21

Up and Coming

Studio Sløyd’s Minimalist Pine Furniture is Rehabilitating a Misunderstood Norwegian Wood

Two years ago, friends and design school students Herman Ødegaard, Mikkel Jøraandstad and Tim Knutsen walked into a karaoke bar in Oslo. As "Murder on the Dancefloor" came on, the topic of starting a studio together came up. By the end of the song it was decided and Studio Sløyd was established in March 2019.

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02.22.21

Excerpt: Book

Ken Miller’s New Book Pictures Photography Anew

A new volume by editor and curator Ken Miller celebrates photography not for the referential images it can capture, but for the possibilities of the medium in and of itself. Titled PICTURES, the book celebrates non-representational photography, and it’s a formal announcement of sorts that photographs, as an art form, have come into a category all their own and not just in service of documentation, representation, or narrative.

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08.29.19

Sighted

Ferm Living’s Fall Collection Nails Design’s Current Obsession With Femininity

If there's a design trend you've been wishing you could incorporate into your home, chances are Ferm Living's fall collection has a pitch-perfect rendition of it.

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02.20.21

Saturday Selects

Week of February 15, 2021

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a Disneyland-inspired renovation, Gaudí-inspired floor lamps, and a can't-miss wallpaper collaboration by a dream duo.

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02.19.21

Sighted

Tigmi Trading’s New Byron Bay Showroom is An Italian-Inspired Oasis

For the Australian brand Tigmi Trading's first-ever showroom, founder Danielle McEwen chose the most nondescript building she could find — a '90s brick behemoth in an industrial part of Byron Bay — and transformed it into an Italian Brutalism–inspired oasis.

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02.18.21

Q+A

This Canadian Designer is Leading the Charge — No Pun Intended — to Prove Lighting Can Be Both Efficient and Beautiful

Caine Heintzman’s designs are among the most expressive produced by his company, ANDLight; you've surely seen his Vine light, which can only be described by the contemporary term "chonky," hanging in places like the Pieces Home in Kennebunk, Maine. But in fact, Heintzman's designs are typically inspired by hardy, everyday industrial objects. He designs in a modular way so that his products can exist singularly or be grouped and customized for various spaces and projects, and evolve far into the future.

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02.17.21

Excerpt: Exhibition

These Garance Vallée Paintings and Totems Are Familiar But Surreal

For her inaugural American exhibition this month at Carvalho Park in Brooklyn, Garance Vallée was meant to create a holistic environment, working with fabricators in the neighborhood to create a kind of set design that would encompass her new paintings, which are on view for the first time. That plan, of course, was scrapped when COVID hit, and Vallée scaled down her ambitions to that which could be fabricated in her own live/work space in Paris, then shipped in a crate to New York. In some ways, however, being forced to reckon with her own surroundings is part of the point of the exhibition.

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02.16.21

Sighted

Luam Melake Weaves Tapestries from Latex, Rubber, Memories, and More

Using an impressive range of materials from the industrial to the ephemeral, New York–based Luam Melake creates evocative wall-hangings and sculptural works that draw from personal experience and her multi-layered Black-American, Eritrean, and Ethiopian background.

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02.13.21

Saturday Selects

Week of February 8, 2021

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: avant-garde chairs designed by third-graders, a fresh look at classic Verner Panton furniture, and a peek into the Manhattan studio of Giancarlo Valle.

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02.12.21

Excerpt: Exhibition

These Ceramic Lamps, Paired With Delicate Paper and Bamboo Shades, Are About to Be Everywhere

We first stumbled across Bennet Schlesinger's lamps on the Instagram of a friend. Perched atop two handmade ceramic bases were shades made from translucent paper sheets, stretched across a cambered latticework of bamboo strips. They were glowing and fresh and new, and we immediately fell in love. Now, the Southern California–based Schlesinger, who designs under the name Lightsong Exchange, is co-headlining an exhibition of his work at the new Los Angeles gallery Stanley’s.

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