A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an exhibition of items made exclusively from hardware store finds, a knitwear store in Milan with furry ribbed walls, a collection of freeform aluminum furniture, and lamps that resemble minimalist wedding cakes.

Discoveries

Remember we talked about romanticism in design earlier this year? These lamps with frilly trims are another perfect representation of this trend. Designed by Analuisa Corrigan, the Cocktail Collection includes desk, table, and floor versions of the same product, which comprises an off-white cuboid shade — not dissimilar to a minimalist wedding cake — atop a simple black base. They’re available for commission starting this Friday. Photos © Chloe Houseman

Ryan Lawson is the latest interior designer to delve into the world of paints, debuting his own collection with Ressource that includes an array of twelve colors. To mark the launch and showcase the range of food-inspired hues, he commissioned a series of geometric, Postmodern-esque sculptures by Thomas Engelhart. The faceted shapes of the sculptures allow the paints to be seen in different light and shadow conditions at once, offering potential users a better idea of what they will look like in situ compared to flat swatches. Photos © Elliott Fuerniss

We love a patterned rug, and the newly launched brand Scott’s Shop has a great set of hand-knotted and hand-dyed designs crafted by artisans in Nepal. Influenced by Modernism and Art Deco — and specifically by designers like Eileen Gray and Josef Albers, in case you couldn’t tell! — the patterns include grids and checkerboards, and overlaid shapes and lines, all in a palette of blues, greens, and grays.

North London’s Six Dots Design has created a new collection called Not In Service and we want every single piece from it, TBH. Each item in the series of aluminum home objects features wavy edges – from shelf and coat-hook mount to table tops and bar stool legs. The only straight lines to be seen are the cylindrical dining table legs and cafe table support. The rest is a freeform fantasy that’s exaggerated by the consistency of the metal throughout.

New York lighting brand Matter Made has finally released the collection designed by Luca Nichetto that debuted at Milan Design Week 2018. Named Legato, a reference to the smooth continuation of musical notes, the modular design links aluminum cone pendants into strands that can extend to any length. The cones can face up or down, and be joined as “double strings” that combine both options. Photos © Joe Kramm

Interiors

A wide range of pink and red hues crop up repeatedly through this apartment designed by Paris-based Rodolphe Parente for a friend. The Art Deco fireplace in the dining room, a peach-toned ceiling in the kitchen, an oxblood-hued headboard in the primary bedroom, the russet walls in the bathroom. Not to mention the Ettore Sottsass lighted mirror in the entryway, plus the books carefully placed around the residence. The spaces are filled with such a variety of furniture and objects from several different design movements, it’s hard to pin down the style, and it appears that was entirely the intention. Photos © Claire Israel

With walls covered in knitted boucle tubes and clothing rails shaped from ribbons of red-toned wood, the interior for the new Scalgione boutique in Milan’s Piazza Wagner plays with the balance of hard and soft materials, which design studio Cara\Davide chose to create a warm minimalist atmosphere throughout the store. Its two rooms are connected by a passageway lined with the fabric ribs, and the larger space features dark gray counters formed from stacks of cubes. Photos © Gaia Anselmi Tamburini

Exhibitions

Lots of very fun pieces in the Gallery 495 group show, titled Lull and curated by Willamain Somma, in which the artists were asked to abstract useful objects that invite respite. The chairs are particularly great, including Katie Stout’s organza-wrapped design, Kieran Kinsalla’s charred-oak throne, and Francesca DiMatteo’s paper pulp on plywood confection. Tapestries made from plastic bags by Aurora Pellizzi, and floppy humanoid foam limbs and figures by Alyssa McClenaghan are also among favorites. Currently on view at the gallery’s Catskill space.

An exhibition of lamps titled, simply, Lamps, at Oxilia Gallery in Milan includes a diverse variety of lighting objects that range in size, color, materials and production techniques to showcase just how experimental the medium can be. There’s Dedàleo Studio’s system of modular components in polished steel and glass that can be assembled according to the user’s preference, Ludovico Grantaliano’s brushed stainless steel structure that gracefully holds a seashell, 3D-printed designs by Manu Matters and Federico Floriani, a flashlight developed as a reinterpretation of a hammer by Maddalena Casadei, and many more. On view through January 25, 2025.

A DIY extravaganza awaited at the Nuts & Bolts exhibition at Available Items, where hardware-inspired pieces by 16 artists and designers were all on show earlier this month. Each made from readily available items and using common tools, like putty knives, reflective property sticks, moving blankets and HVAC ductwork, the inventive objects demonstrated what’s possible to create following a trip to the local hardware store. Highlights included a tripod lamp by David Weeks built from fiberglass driveway markers, a gutter leaf scoop and a dead weight pendulum, and a set of vases that Office of Tangible Space crafted using aluminum tubes and bar rail molding in clear, black, and barn red stains. Photos © Summer Moore