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Ome Dezin Restored a ’90s Hollywood Hills Gem, Then Went Wild With the Interiors

L.A. design firm Ome Dezin recently restored and redecorated a 1997 Jeffrey Mills home in the Hollywood Hills. Photos: Patrick Biller, styling Lisa Rowe

Interior designers and architects, prepare to be envious of the LA design firm Ome Dezin: Their latest project is the restoration of this banger, a 1997 Jeffrey Mills house in the Hollywood Hills that’s sheathed in concrete, has structural nods to mid-century design, and is crammed with amazing windows and skylights. Best of all, Ome Dezin were given carte blanche to execute their vision, restoring the actual architecture of the home as faithfully as possible, of course, while replacing or augmenting, they say, 99% of the surfaces inside (I specifically included that sales listing link above so you could see the dramatic transformation from the interior’s bland beige-and-white past).

That means bathrooms clad entirely in bold green marble, black stone, or olive tiles; lots of warm wood paneling; and even great expanses of wall to wall carpeting (which I personally will defend to my grave — it’s cozy!!). The designers also added a pool house with a sauna that’s entirely mirror-clad, a reference to Doug Aitken’s Mirage installation in Joshua Tree. Oh and if you love the art they used as much as we do, it was mostly sourced from the collection of Creative Art Partners, creating a master class in how to harmonize art and furniture in a space. Three photos here can’t really do the project justice, so I suggest you either check out Ome Dezin’s Instagram, or wait for the full post on our own.

Ellison Studios Helped Kick Off the Bed Design Renaissance. Now It’s Tackling the Whole Bedroom.

The “New Bedroom” collection from Ellison Studios includes the cushy Melt bed, at top, plus the Tondo folding screen and Edie nightstand, among others.

Remember when Australia’s Ellison Studios dropped this ball-footed wooden bed a few years back, and it felt like proof that something big was suddenly happening in bed frame design? Like we were finally being liberated from years of settling for high-end mediocrity (Piero Lissoni, we’re looking at you) or low-end Ikea sameness? It was an exciting time for horizontal repose, and this week Ellison came back with a sequel to remind us that the renaissance is still very much ongoing. Their “New Bedroom” collection consists not only of one of the most cushy, cocoon-like beds we’ve ever seen, wrapped entirely in butter-yellow woven chenille, but also a suite of all the things one needs to accompany it, like a ‘60s-style gloss-lacquered nightstand — another formerly dire category that’s been slowly improving as of late.

The bedside table (whose form mimics the Joe Colombo lamps Ellison used in the styling shots) has a matching lacquered swivel chair for lazy weekend reading (might we suggest this lovely book?). And for storage, there are large and small dressers with playfully rounded edges, plus a long, low open shelf that also acts as a bench for such activities as putting on shoes, having a chat with your partner while you both get dressed, or — my usual — throwing stuff on it because you’re too lazy to put it back in the closet. The final touch is a folding screen with circular peek-a-boo cutouts that remind me of the spinny windows of the Bubble House in New York. The collection contains all the elements you need to feel at peace in your private chambers; if you’re still not dreaming in the space of your dreams, consider this motivation to change that!

Kimono-Shaped Rugs and Brutalist Ceramics Meet in Forma Gallery’s Latest Berlin Show

Vanessa Heepen of Forma Gallery placed Brutalist ceramics in conversation with decorative rugs during the new Currents design fair in Berlin this month. Photos: Peter Oliver Wolff

When we last checked in with Berlin’s Forma Gallery in 2023, it had just launched its first group show in a temporary setup inside an under-construction building on the Spree river, full of poise and promise but uncertain of the road ahead. It was clear that founder Vanessa Heepen — also a practicing interior designer — had killer taste and a will to rev up Berlin’s design scene (or lack thereof), but she had no long-term space or exhibition plan. By now, it’s clear that neither of those things were ever going to hold her back. Slowly but surely, she’s built a track record of great curation — averaging one project per year, a sort of Max Radford on benzos — and the latest evidence is a show called Temper that only ran for two days, last week, as part of Berlin’s new design week Currents.

To create it, Heepen plumbed the archives of rug designer Jan Kath, discovered a pair of epic kimono-shaped carpets that date back to the early 2000s, and built a landscape around it that’s punctuated by ceramic figures and vessels by the Berlin-based Slovak sculptor Veronika Janovec. The exhibition design was a big protagonist here, abstracting the rugs into artworks and making plinths — as well as a steel reflecting pool from which a single spindly pedestal emerges — feel like an integral part of the presentation. The overall show had a sleek Mies van der Rohe feel, which is all the more interesting considering the works themselves leaned so decorative (the rugs) or Brutalist (the ceramics). If I’ve gotten your attention, I’d suggest keeping an eye on Forma’s Instagram to catch future group shows before they’ve closed (oops), as well as on the Instagram for Currents, which after a strong debut will hopefully return next year.

Five Highlights from the 2026 Paris Design Week

Top: Works by Bartłomiej Stawiński and Marcin Kuberna at Visteria Foundation’s Matter of Earth show; the new showroom of Veermakers. Middle: A detail from Pièce de Résistance gallery. Bottom: Lamp by Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne at Pulp Galerie; the new showroom of Studio Ebur.

The end of summer also marks the end of our collective reprieve from the churn of design fairs. Just when we’ve caught our breath post-Milan, New York, and Copenhagen, it’s suddenly time to pay attention to what’s happening in London, New York, and Paris, which somehow now happens in September, October, and January?!

The first of Paris’s fall design moments just wrapped, and the standout exhibitions of the week included an installation of ‘80s/’90s hits by French sculptor and furniture designer Yves de la Tour d’Auvergne at Pulp Galerie, plus a contemporary Polish design survey — featuring talents like Studio Daniel K, Jan Ankiersztajn, and Agnieszka Owsiany — organized by the Visteria Foundation (following their groundbreaking show installed at the Torre Velasca during Salone in April). Both are still on view for a few weeks if you’re Paris-bound.

Two design studios flung open the doors to their first showrooms in the city. Veermakers, which is a partnership between the Scandi cabinetmaker KFK and interior designer Louise Liljencrantz, created an apartment-like space in Le Marais that’s open by appointment only, marking the occasion with the launch of a new lamp, side table, and dining chair. Studio Ebur — yet another interiors/architecture firm making furniture, which happens a lot in Paris — procured a space near the Place des Victoires to show off their sleigh-like chairs and signature fabric lamps, also open by appointment.

The interiors firm Pièce de Résistance also debuted a new gallery in the 9th, but featuring contemporary and vintage works by others, from Gonzalez Haase AAS to Luke Malaney, with a first group show there by Hannah Kuhlmann, Marten Herma Anderson, and Santeri Mortti. I can’t say for sure but I believe that one is open more regular hours? Best to DM them if you plan to visit, but it’s an immediate add-to-map for us.

The week held plenty of other attractions, like a second immersive installation by vintage dealer Antoine Billore, but that’s all we have room for for now. Watch this space for a London Design Festival report next week!

A Show of 20 Candelabras Incorporating Steel, Erasers, Golf Balls, and Political Theory

Two of 20 different variations on candelabras now on view at Ellie Rines Gallery, by artist Christopher K. Ho.

When is a candelabra not just a candelabra? When it’s presented in a downtown art gallery, of course — then it can become a “relic of a collapsed social order” that “stands as a monument to a private sphere under siege,” and 20 of said candelabras shown together can “investigate the pivot from the Napoleonic Wars to the insular, middle-class Biedermeier era to formulate a theory of our contemporary moment.” This is the thesis that artist Christopher K. Ho is currently putting forth at Ellie Rines Gallery in New York, formerly known as 56 Henry; Ho previously filled the gallery in 2024 with an army of 30 brass sculptures that morphed through a similar procession of formal explorations in the service of themes around discipline and revolution, so one can assume that the functional aspects of these particular works are somewhat incidental. Regardless, the imagination in these sculptures, which ping pong between disparate materials and styles — incorporating everyday objects like erasers, light bulbs, and golf balls along the way — makes them worthy of attention even before you consider their relationship to popular revolution. And if you’re like most of us and you make little distinction between living with art and design, worthy of a spot on your mantel as well.

Editor’s List

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There are few things more intrinsic to my home life than tissue box covers; as an allergy sufferer who needs tissues at the ready, there’s just no way I’m sacrificing my interior visual landscape to the dismal graphic design of a Kleenex box. I already own a vintage ceramic one and a fabric one by Iko Iko; I will buy this one eventually, and now this new sculpted-aluminum beauty by Henry Wilson is being added straight to my holiday wish list. No price is too high to pay to hide this shame!

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The fashion label Collina Strada has been highly active on the collab circuit, working with brands as varied as Ugg, Converse, Desigual, Melissa, and Baggu. But this week saw the launch of a more unexpected, but no less appreciated, mash-up: Collina Strada for Layered, the Swedish rug brand, for whom founder Hillary Taymour created not just psychedelic-tinged floor coverings but sofas upholstered in florals and plaids taken straight from her runway looks. I’d bring home the grandma-coded sofa above (not to mention that adorable pup?!).

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I have always been allergic to theater, but I couldn’t help but snag a ticket to a performance later this month that I’m quite intrigued by: Commedia dell’arte, by one of my longtime favorite artists, Camille Henrot, which debuted in Aspen before making its way to New York. The performance itself is a tragicomedy that takes place inside a single Manhattan apartment building, and the sets were a collaboration between Henrot and Charlap Hyman & Herrero, so you know it’s going to be good. Tix here.

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My friend, the Greece-based artist Alexandra Manousakis, helps run her family’s eponymous wine company in Crete, and has in the past occasionally vibed up the packaging of some of its editions with her own colorful work. Now she’s leading a full reimagining of the vineyards’ core Nostos series, hand-painting and drawing art for the labels that resemble airbrushed scribbles or watercolor bleeds. The new labels, designed by Ogust Athens, will be rolling out slowly as future vintages roll out; watch this space.

News

Works by Mexico City–based Eran, on view at Colony in New York next week.

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Next week at the New York design showroom Colony, the Mexico City studio Eran will make its US debut as part of Colony Presents, a new program of short-term residencies. And when we say short-term, we do mean short: you’ll have only from September 22 to 25 to get to know Eran’s work in person. The fare includes both hits from the studio’s catalog — like a stainless steel coffee table with an integrated book-rest, or stackable stools upholstered with antique rugs — as well as three brand-new pieces: a blue wood stool, one lamp with a hand-cut stained-glass shade, and one lamp made entirely from cedar that wouldn’t look out of place in Casa Barragán. Fitting since Eran founder Fernanda Diaz was originally a vintage dealer (and still offers up her finds through the studio alongside her own work).

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If you haven’t yet been to Cibone O’Te — the Brooklyn outpost of the Japanese design store Cibone, selling clothing, housewares, and vintage toys — now is the time to beeline there. Starting today and continuing through September 27, it’s hosting a pop-up of wares by Commune Shop, the retail arm of the L.A. interior design studio Commune that sells pieces by both the studio and its friends. Highlights will include new hand-dyed tote bags by Adam Pogue and textiles and lamps by Studio Ford, among many others.

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Art week is in full force in New York City at the moment, and there’s no shortage of big shows and fairs to patronize, but a small one currently on view at Plato gallery in Nolita — a solo show by Maude Corriveau of curtain paintings — caught my eye because of how it calls to (my) mind some of my favorite artists and subjects: curtain paintings in general, Tauba Auerbach’s fold paintings, Ann Veronica Janssens. Corriveau references writings about fallen drapery by the French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, but I suspect she’s just fascinated by painting the fluidity of hanging fabric, and how it can interact with light.

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This coming weekend marks the latest edition of Not-a-Normal, a curated vintage show in Brooklyn with vendors selling both objects and fashion. I’ve never been before, but this one, which is about five blocks from my house, beckoned; it’s run by Normal New York, which also runs estate sales and offers interior design services. If I find anything amazing I’ll post it in our IG Stories! Get your own tickets here.