A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: part two of In Common With’s inaugural furniture collection, an Art Deco and Vienna Secession–inspired Brooklyn showhouse (above), and the unveiling of Aesop’s new Parisian store.

Interiors

Austrian architect Jakob Sprenger was gifted with quite the find when beginning work on Aesop’s new Paris storefront in the 17th arrondissement: Four plaster medallions — which once hung at the famed Hôtel de la Guillonniere, demolished in 1923 — were uncovered after 101 years and have become the store’s focal point. Bay windows, burgundy lacquer, a sculptural sink, and more fill out the triangular floor plan.

It wouldn’t be a showhouse without, well, show-stopping interiors. The 2024 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse, on view until November 3, features work from 16 designers and encompasses the vibrant spirit of the borough. We’re especially partial to JAM’s Art Deco and Vienna Secession–inspired den, with its offset fireplace; Landed Interiors’s primary bedroom with Jasperware-esque plaster florals climbing the walls; and Ingui Architecture’s kitchen, with its Roll & Hill–outfitted seating area. The showhouse is located at 182 Clinton Street, an 1840s Greek Revival row house built for Dr. Isaac Wood, founder of the New York Institution for the Blind. (Photo credits: JAM by Gieves Anderson, Landed by Brett Wood, Ingui by Tori Sikkema)

Discoveries

In Common With has launched part two of its inaugural furniture collection alongside Italian artist Claudio Bonuglia, featuring one-of-a-kind, hand-painted versions of existing designs from In Common With founders Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung. After a month-long residency, Bonuglia’s talents first went on display at Quarters, their Tribeca concept shop, through a moody, colorful fresco inspired by Roman mythology. Now, the trio have collaborated on three low, hand-painted screens, two standing mirrors, and new versions of ICW’s Arundel pendant light.

MONO Editions’s third collection designed in collaboration with Paris-based Corpus Studio uses plane trees, a species integral to the French landscape since the days of Napoleon, as its sole material. Cantilevered edges and refined forms come to play in works such as a curved armchair, executive desk, side table, and limited-edition lamp. (Photos by Mathilde Hiley)

Annie Genovese, creative director of the St. Louis–based design studio and gallery Forsyth, has partnered with contemporary Venetian glassware company Laguna B for a functional and collectible series of vases. Using traditional Murano techniques and reimagining artist John O’Hara’s Daisies paintings with a singular color, the blossoming series makes a statement on its own.

Exhibitions

Innovation and tradition, minimalism and maximalism meet at Atrio dei Mari Hall at the State Archive of Naples, which set the stage for MAS Design’s participation in EDIT Napoli. The Salto collection, a series of tables melding soft forms of sand, cement, and water with aluminum highlighted the brand’s dedication to eco-conscious materials and artisanal nature. The mix, which can include recycled construction material like terracotta and marble, not only ensures the uniqueness of each piece but sustainable edge. (Photos by Eller Studio)

Artist and designer Tyler Hays, known for his work as the founder of BDDW, was welcomed for his first solo exhibition in Mexico to coincide with Design Week Mexico. The show at JO-HS Gallery includes works marrying art, design, and craftsmanship with Mesoamerican creation myths at the helm, which states that humans were first formed from wood and mud before being remade in maize, the essence of life. Whatever your view on our earthly beginnings entails, the collection — with its glazed urinals and toilet paper holders alongside more traditional sofas and credenzas — is sure to stir conversations.

French visual artist Clovis Retif took visitors through his universe at Paris’s Au Roi Gallery in a multi-room exhibition featuring drawings, paintings, tableware, and more. Through the house, the gallery, and the studio Retif portrayed an intimate, all-encompassing look into his creative process. He even hosted an experiential dinner with chef Camille Barbas with dishes that harmonize with the shapes, colors, and motifs seen throughout.

Nature’s role in design is on verdant display at Inside Out, Grounded in Nature, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The show, curated by Kin & Company at Bergen, a new residential community by Frida Escobedo, featured indoor and outdoor furniture as well as art from 22 design studios. The 2024 show marked the fourth iteration of Inside Out, initially conceptualized to foster community and reverence of nature. (Photos by Jonathan Hokklo)