A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the Mexican muralist we love, the Versailles Airbnb we’re thinking of booking, and the London party space where we’d love to shimmy and shake to Chappell Roan, like all the girlies this summer. 

Interiors

In this issue of The World of Interiors, there’s a nice look at the Spanish-born painter Rafael Uriegas, who’s become known for his murals across Mexico, shown here at the Zapoteco Hotel in Oaxaca and in the Condesa home of Maryellis Bunn. Every time murals show signs of traction in the decor world I get intrigued; remember this one in Joshua Tree? I’ve been on an art hunt this summer, but perhaps it’s time for me to think outside the box in my own home.

We got a submission recently for the newly renovated Airbnb Studio 13 Versailles in the Antiquarian District of Versailles, and a few things caught my eye here: 1) Never have I thought about vacationing in Versailles as opposed to taking the train there for a day, but its description as a “must see with countless architectural treasures” has piqued my interest! 2) Apparently if you are in Paris right now, all of the equestrian events for the Olympics are taking place at the Château? 3) We get a lot of submissions that seem to have huge budgets and no vision, perfect examples of doing very little with a lot. This is the exact opposite, doing the most with very little. Just love the simple backsplash solution of alternating tiles, love the rounded plywood cabinets, and the mix of contemporary and vintage, with nothing too over the top. Photos © Hervé Goluza

Ok this is the second time we’ve seen ceiling fringe as a primary design element — the first being in the Parts & Labor–designed subterranean bar Sotto in New York — and we are extremely into it. (Anyone got a third? DMs are open!) This one, paired with disco-ball mosaic columns and a modular green mohair banquette system on casters, creates a serious nightclub vibe at the Cockatoo, a bar, restaurant, and performance space designed by Nice Projects on the ground floor of the east London venue Bistrotheque. The studio calls it “Wong Kar Wai meets Paul Rudolph”; we call it glam to the extreme, with gridded grass green polyester frames, vintage Cesca chairs upholstered in black corduroy, a custom chainmail curtain, and butter-yellow laminate tabletops.

Australian designer Fiona Lynch‘s studio recently completed the restoration of a 1930s Georgian revival residence, originally designed by Marcus Martin. There’s a Mies-inspired brass-topped glass pavilion, a  travertine and marble kitchen island, and, perhaps our favorite detail, a seafoam-green quartzite bathroom. Photos © Sharyn Cairns

Discoveries

We love Assemblato, a new vase by the Stockholm-based studio Stamuli, which pairs an ethereal ribbed-glass vessel with a Brutalist steel base and industrial joinery that makes it appear unable to hold liquids. (Spoiler: It can.) All these grids are giving 60 Wall Street, which is both upsetting and reassuring. Photos © Francesco Stelitano

It’s not that these stools and benches in cherry, birch, and walnut by the Korean designer Jaehyo Ko of Hyosi studio represent a wholly new language. But they’re JUST different enough from anything we’ve seen before to make them frankly tantalizing. The designer says they’re based on the “Curly Loop” — i.e. a spiral curve that continues infinitely in nature — which is not a concept I’m familiar with and may be based on the emoji but you know what that would make me like them even more.

I’m the kind of person who’s so focused on cooking that I invariably forget to set the table. But outdoor entertaining season is upon us, so perhaps it’s time I picked up these double-sided linen napkins from Tortuga Forma. The patterns, developed by Dittohouse, were meant to be mixed and matched, much like another favorite cloth napkin line we love.

When we first covered Cindy Hsu Zell, she was making meditative sculptures in textile and wood or ceramics; her latest collection, Small Hours, focuses on the latter material, with small, wall-hung clay reliefs that represent the physical manifestation of her emotions, memories, or personal observations. “I’ve had a terrible memory for as long as I can remember,” says Zell. “As a teenager I obsessively documented my life through diaries and planners. Even now, I maintain databases, calendars, timelines, and note-taking apps meticulously organized to catalog the books on my shelf, the shows I watch, the skincare products I use, the clothing I buy, and the places I go… I don’t write it down, it doesn’t happen. My art practice, in contrast, developed from a pursuit to express what I can’t quite put into words — an introspective process driven by a longing to grasp what is always on the verge of being lost.”

Events

One of our favorite activities is architecture creeping — please do not report me if you seeing me driving slowly past a Norman Jaffe or peeking through the hedges of a Gwathmey in Amagansett — so the annual Hamptons 20th Century Modern tour is always at the top of our list. Happening this year the weekend of August 10th, it includes a VIP party at the George Nelson House (1962) in Montauk, and you’ll be able to peek inside rarely open to the public Modernist homes, like the Russell House (Peter Blake & Julian Neski, 1957, top), The Frisbie House (Andrew Geller, 1957), and the Saltzman House (Richard Meier, 1969), among others. Get your tickets here!