A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Clare Vivier’s first furniture and lighting collection, the (momentary) return of Zouzou rugs, and influential Italian/Swiss designer and architect Eleonore Peduzzi Riva finally gets her due.

Interiors

Glyfada — the beachside stretch of Athens, Greece, otherwise known as the “Athens Riviera” — is in the midst of a revival, with a new Ace Hotel about to open there and the revitalization of several historic mid-century properties underway. One of the splashiest is the old Asteria Hotel, which has become the much-anticipated five-star property One & Only Aesthisis, which is connected to a new restaurant and events space called Bungalow 7 designed by ST Architects, above. The interiors are intended to merge a contemporary aesthetic with nods to the area’s heyday in the ’50s and ’60s, and they incorporate art by locals like Mara Desipris, Stella Kapezanou, and the Callas, who made the textile wall hanging in that first image. Photos: Mia Dorier
Leave it to Charlap Hyman & Herrero to take the tiniest little freestanding office commission in LA’s Beachwood neighborhood and make it insanely chic, with swiveling floor-to-ceiling amber-glass windows inspired by the Seagram Building and a floor by Ficus Interfaith, installed by the same terrazzo fabricators who make the stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

Discoveries

After making our list of three new designers to watch in Milan this year, Studio Daniel K recently released a second collection called Joia, which pairs irregular cast-bronze frames with travertine panels and #tinyballs made from red jasper and honey calcite stone, making them feel at once old and new.Why it pays to make friends with designers: When Anton Alvarez was recently invited to a 30-person dinner party, instead of just showing up with a bottle of wine, he also handmade the plates, all with irregular edges and a bright-blue, fish-like glaze. DM him on Instagram to purchase. Photos: Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn Clare Vivier — founder of the longtime LA fashion accessories brand Clare V — has just launched her first homeware collection: Lamps, sofas, rugs, mirrors, and catchalls, all made by Schoolhouse and available exclusively through their site. The colors and patterns will be familiar to fans of the Clare V brand, and the new collection was, of course, shot in Vivier’s own home in LA. The palette of the latest drop from the Los Angeles– and New York City–based home textiles brand Morrow Soft Goods also has an LA vibe, albeit in more muted colors like juniper green, chocolate brown, sky blue, and — if you’re into it — a pale yellow the brand is calling “butter,” which as you may know is a shade we certainly aren’t done with yet. Great to be able to get the look via an under-$200 high-quality duvet versus the full comittment of painting your walls! As someone who enjoys displaying books and yet-to-read magazines on a stand in my living room, I had always gravitated towards statement-y vintage options (I have this one at my apartment in LA) before Sunatsix launched their original Rise bookstand a few years back, which I immediately coveted for its pretty simplicity and ability to show a few choice book covers off properly. Now the brand has released the stand in colors, which add back in the statement element for me: a fun bright blue and a green that lands somewhere between kelly and forest. There’s also a black version, though, if you want to let the books do the talking. The cult Australian rug brand Zouzou crushed plenty of people’s hearts last year when its co-founders announced its indefinite closure, and their wish to pursue other creative interests. Every once in awhile their limited-edition creations pop up on Facebook Marketplace, but if you feel like you missed the boat on the short-lived studio, now’s your chance to remedy that, as Ssense have commissioned 5 designs from the pair that are now for sale on its site. Don’t sleep on it though because the styles Ssense is offering are also super limited-edition, and who knows if Zouzou will rise from its slumber a second time.French designer Simon Dupety loves traveling around the world and immersing himself in different cultures and craft traditions. Recently he spent three months in Laos with fellow designer Maëva Dauriac, where the pair created metal and wicker lamps, plus the Tiny Flower Chair, which pairs a frame made by Laotian metalworking artisans with pre-made flowers sourced from wholesalers who sell them as adornments for gates and railings. Love.

Exhibitions

Despite being one of the four designers behind the iconic 1972 DS-600 sofa from de Sede, as well as being singularly responsible for works like the Spryos ashtray and Vacuna lamp, Eleonore Peduzzi Riva (who’s also a lauded art director and architect) wasn’t publicly celebrated enough until she won the Swiss Grand Prix Design in 2023. Now curator Matylda Krzykowski is boosting her legacy even further with a retrospective exhibition running through November 10 at the Kunst Raum Riehen just outside Basel, where the Milan-born designer grew up. In addition to the physical pieces she sourced for the show, Krzykowski — who also designed the scenography for it — supplemented them with life-sized cutouts of images of them that she found in Peduzzi Riva’s longtime office in Milan.