A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the New York debut of the Collectible design fair — featuring yours truly! — plus a sunny new store on the Aegean coast, R&Company’s new American triennial, and the chicest reissue from Knoll.

Collectible New York

Hyungjun Lee

Analog Glass

Lucie Claudia Podrabska

GENOS

Collectible, the 21st-century collectible design fair founded by Clélie Debehault and Liv Vaisberg in 2018, makes its New York debut this week with an exciting roster of talent, including returning exhibitors such as Antwerp-based gallery St. Vincents and London’s Max Radford Gallery; new-to-the-fair U.S.–based counterparts like Room 57 Gallery, Emma Scully Gallery, Nick Poe, and Kouros Maghsoudi; and yours truly! Sight Unseen — which has participated in three iterations of Collectible in Brussels with presentations by Chen & Kai, Mimi Jung, Objects of Common Interest, and Ben & Aja Blanc — will here present an extension of our spring show, a curated exhibition in collaboration with Petra Hardware.

Organized into four distinct sections and four curated spaces, the fair includes Boon Editions presenting a new collection in collaboration with The Future Perfect; presentations by Jack Simonds Studio, Lucie Claudia Podrabska, Ben Willett, H. Bigeleisen, Luke Malaney, and more; and a New Garde section dedicated to galleries and collectives less than three years old, including Berlin’s Analog Glass and Verre d’Onge. Collectible takes place from September 5–8, 2024 at Water Street Associates in collaboration with Water Street Projects. Get your tickets here!

Interiors

A sunny yellow Mediterranean warmth pervades the atmosphere of the new Siedrés store on the Aegean coast in Bodrum, Turkey. Designed and built by Folistudio — an architecture and interior design studio based in Istanbul and Lisbon and founded by Ece Gökmenoğlu and M. Onur Durna — the space achieves a summery ease thanks to custom chairs with light-filtering cutouts and the use of contrasting wood textures and tones.

Melbourne-based interior design studio Golden makes the most of natural light and airiness in their new dedicated headquarters. An expert mix of materials — marble, metal, wood, breezy fabric — and proportions embodies the studio’s ethos: combining tactile and sensory elements with emotion, to create an environment that’s refined and sophisticated but also human and livable.

Stella, a new Italian dining spot in West Hollywood, takes its design cues from 1950s Milan but scrupulously sidesteps any of that decade’s kitsch. The fourth hospitality project that LA’s Wendy Haworth Studio has undertaken for the Gusto 54 restaurant group, the two-level space is a marvel of layering – marble countertops, terrazzo floors, and mid-century wood paneling mix with vintage oil paintings and Carlo Mollino prints on the walls, while a dramatic Murano leaf chandelier illuminates a moody private dining area.

When Valdomiro Favoreto, a designer in Londrina, Brazil, reworked his mother’s apartment, the goal was to create a stylish and inviting space where she could host her grandchildren and family. Against a neutral base, Favoreto has set his own colorful ceramic pieces and resin paintings made especially for the residence and he also produced coffee and side tables. Art work by Londrina-based Irene Anizelli wakes up the walls, and in the kitchen, splashes of malachite green and alpine granite of Brazilian origin add texture. The furniture, too, is an ode to Brazilian heritage, with designers like Jorge Zalszupin, José Zanine Caldas, and Cimo furniture blended with vintage classics.

Exhibitions

Featuring nearly 100 works by 55 artists and studios from across America, R & Company’s triennial Objects: USA, will be a feast for design fans. Guest-curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy and Kellie Riggs, the 2024 edition features both emerging and established designers and artists who range in age from their 20s to their 80. Because these objects blur the line between art and design, the triennial is organized around themes rather than typology: Truthsayers who “honor the nature of their materials, emphasize slow, hand-driven processes”; Betatesters who subvert and push both materials and processes in a “post-digital landscape”; Doomsdayers whose work addresses “dystopic angst and utopian optimism”; Insiders who explore the interplay between domestic environments and human interiority; Mediators focused on the interactions between individuals, spaces, and objects; Codebreakers whose work may look relatively simple but is loaded with symbolism and complexity; and Keepers, invested in narrative and storytelling. The show opens September 6 and is on view through January 10, 2025, at R & Company’s 64 White Street location.

The paintings and drawings in Terranova, a show by Brooklyn-based mixed media artist Senem Oezdogan at Uprise Art in New York City will mesmerize you. Biomorphic forms seem to bloom, undulate, and unfurl against a gradient steel blue, throwing into question just what is background and what is foreground, what is flatness and what is depth, and the illusory, evocative way that volume can be perceived in a two-dimensional surface. On view through October 18th.

Discoveries

In 1929, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed Villa Tugendhat, a celebrated residence in the Czech Republic, with German designer Lilly Reich. Considered a total of work of art, the interiors and the furnishings were meant to both create and reflect a whole, including the Tugendhat lounge chair, which has recently been reissued by Knoll. Like its sibling, the Barcelona Chair, the Tugendhat has thick cushions and a back of leather straps, but while the seat of the Barcelona is fixed, Tugendhat’s cantilevered base moves with the sitter. The chair can be customized, with or without arms, a stainless-steel frame in polished chrome or matte black finish, and a variety of upholstery and leather options for the cushions.

The Verve table lamps by Polish-born designer Justyna Poplawska, who’s based in Copenhagen, are fashioned from recycled glass and bio-based resin in a palette inspired by Post-Impressionist painting. When turned off, they have an opaque sculptural quality that gives way to a gentle translucence when they’re illuminated. The dimmable lights are made-to-order.

Rome’s Millim, a multidisciplinary creative studio founded by Chiara Pellicano and Edoardo Giammarioli has been taking scraps of iron sheets, in irregular shapes, cast off from other projects are giving them new life and new forms in their Cutout series, which includes stark black coffee and side tables along with vases. They’ve just extended this material-conserving approach, which plays with presence and negative space, to a sculptural bookshelf. Connected pedestals and shapes combine into a piece that’s both abstract and functional.