A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a design gallery debuts in Ibiza and a member’s club opens in Mallorca, plus a lighting collection influenced by Mexico’s flora, a tiny vase necklace, and a one-off lamp made from a weathered brick. GHVHVDN3978847

Interiors

If Palma de Mallorca wasn’t already chic enough, the city now boasts its first private member’s club, and its interiors by London-based Tatjana von Stein are befitting to host the island’s burgeoning creative community. Spread over four levels of a historic townhouse overlooking Placa de Santa Eulalia, Làlia celebrates Mallorcan craft at every turn, from locally sourced furniture to ceramics, as well many vintage pieces and salvaged details. Highlights sprinkled throughout include bright yellow lacquered dining tables, a wavy checkerboard ceiling, herringbone paneling on both the floor and walls, and an amazing bespoke hand-carved faces bench by Diego Sanchez Barcelo in the garden.

Discoveries

The shapes of plants, seeds, and fungi native to Mexico informed these sculptural lighting designs by Federico Stefanovich, presented by Mexico City gallery AGO Projects. Each is handcrafted from solid wood, brass, and cast bronze to resemble delicate stems connected to petal-like shades that softly disperse the light. Individual elements rest gently on one another and balance perfectly, forming the various table lamps, sconces, and pendant formations that make up the Folia collection. Stefanovich cut his teeth at prominent CDMX studio Esrawe Studio, but is quickly making a name for himself with his playful and poetic pieces. One to watch!
What to do when you find a weathered brick on the shore of Lake Ontario? Turn it into a lamp, ofc! Designer Andrew Ferrier decided that the pebble-shaped piece he discovered would look best mounted on a tall patinated-steel stem, secured by a rubber grommet, and with a light source tucked inside one of its existing holes. Turns out, the brick’s natural mass acts as an efficient heat sink for the LED module, which improves the one-off lamp’s performance and longevity, too.
Here’s a big contender for vase (and vase styling) of the year, and it’s even tiny enough to wear! Jewelry brand Hernán Herdez based its Ikebana necklace on the Japanese flower arranging practice of the same name, teaming up with Influorescent founder Marcos Toledo to create graphic botanical compositions to show off the miniature chain-mounted vessel. Puerto Rican designer and art director Melissa Hernández, who founded the jewelry brand in New York, uses recycled metals to produce her designs, and Ikebana is available in a choice of sterling silver or 14k gold.

Exhibitions

MASA gallery in Mexico City is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an exhibition of works by 26 artists and designers that have been integral to its success. Titled 5 Años Después, the show is also the first in the gallery’s new permanent space in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood. Pieces on show include new editions of the onyx Acapulco chair that Mario García Torres developed for MASA in 2020, and a hammock variation of Pia Camil’s iconic Bluejeanando made from a pile of denim sausages. MASA co-founders Hector Esrawe and Brian Thoreen have also contributed pieces, along with names like Atelier Van Lieshout and Pedro Reyes. On view through September 28.
London-Marseille duo CPRV’s solo show at Licht Gallery in Tokyo is oh-so visually satisfying. The exhibition layout is informed by two greats of American Minimalism: Carl Andre and Donald Judd. Their repetition of sizes and materials translated through CPRV’s recent work, which includes the KGT Wall Units designed for UTI, a series of paper sculptures, and the Azuki chair that was specially designed for this exhibition. The wall shelves are installed in various arrangements, and are echoed in form and color as a low platform of tiles. Until August 11.

Ibiza’s newest design gallery has “pre-opened” with a summer show that’s bringing even more buzz to the Balearics. Founded by Gabriela Puig Soleille and curated by Martin Michaelis, Soleille Gallery “explores the transformative power of creativity, craftsmanship, and culture,” and for its debut, brings together a global roster of talent. Works on show include a custom mirror by Sophie Dries with an amorphous frame made using sand from the White Isle’s beaches, sisal works by Fernando Laposse, and marble pyramid speakers by Andrea Mancuso of Analogia Projects. There’s also Manuel Baño’s light sculptures made from hand-hammered copper and Kym Ellery’s kinetic Moulin piece, amongst others.
Since we caught up with Ben Mazey earlier this year, the New Zealand-born, Sydney-based ceramic artist has been busy creating 12 new works for a solo show at C. Gallery. Mazey has extended his Flag series — which combines multiple elements of the same standard dimensions — to include free-standing totems and a door frame that looks like the entrance to an elaborate tomb. He’s also produced nine works that form a “petrified wall garden,” each comprising a single ceramic flower with a unique bloom, and two with special metallic glazes. The show is titled How Will You Know When You’re Dead and runs until August 22.
LA-based ceramics artist Bari Ziperstein put on quite a show for COLA 2024, an exhibition of work by those awarded the annual City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project grant (COLA IMAP). Amongst the five lauded creatives this year, Ziperstein’s presentation referenced the Wiener Werkstatte catalog between the 1900s and ’30s, borrowing shapes and patterns for a series of vessels, baskets, and totem-like sculptures. Clusters of these ceramic stoneware pieces were displayed on geometric podiums draped in mint green fabric, for extra oomph. The exhibition took place at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery earlier this summer.