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07.02.25

Sight Unseen Collection

The Melbourne Design Studio Creating “Soft-Spoken” Objects

How many new things should we actually be making? This is the question that plagues so many designers now as the issues facing our planet continue to worsen. “I find the design industry very troubling in a lot of ways, and I do feel the tension of creating new pieces in a world of excess, with the majority of furniture and lighting ending up in landfill. It’s really hard to reconcile sometimes,” says Kate Stokes, co-founder for Melbourne studio Coco Flip.
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06.30.25

Interiors

This Interior Design Studio Firmly Rejects “Instagram Moments,” But Its Spaces Are Still Super Photogenic

Despite a wane in the curated "Instagram aesthetic," hotels and restaurants still often must rely on vignettes that guests will be inclined to photograph, post, and tag as part of their organic — and free — marketing strategies. But for New York-based Islyn Studio, the aim is to lift these guests out of their digitally oriented lives entirely, and — even if for a brief spell — focus on the sensorial value of the space they’re in. “We reject trends and ‘Instagram moments’ in favor of timelessness,” says founder Ashley Wilkins. “Our hope is that our audience is so immersed in the moment, they forget to look at their phones.” 
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06.27.25

Sighted

This Italian Bed Brand Is Making the Statement Sleep Furniture of Our Dreams

In many bedrooms, it’s often what goes on the bed that adds personality to a space. Bold-patterned sheets, colorful comforters, punchy pillows — all of these are used as aesthetic signifiers while the bed itself often falls into the background. But, as we saw in Milan this year, there’s a resurging trend for fun iterations of headboards, bases, and frames — whether they’re unusually shaped, exaggeratedly oversized, expressively crafted, or just pretty to look at. While exciting experiments in bed design have largely been left to emerging designers until now, bigger brands — like the Italian bed specialists Bolzan — are finally waking up(!) to the power of imaginative designs for a piece in which we spend such a significant portion of our time.
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06.21.25

Saturday Selects

Week of June 16, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a book that dives into the modernist architecture of Fire Island, wooden vases embroidered with delicate blooms, and a Wong Kar-Wai–inspired interior in LA's Silver Lake neighborhood.
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06.03.25

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To Christen Their New Dimes Square Gallery, Love House Kept It in the Family

This past month, Love House founders Jared Heinrich and Aric Yeakey debuted a new space just off Dimes Square in New York's Lower East Side; to christen the gallery, they curated their first group show ever — 60 brand-new works from the deep bench of contemporary design talent they've spent years fostering. The exhibition was titled, appropriately, The Family Show, and each artist or designer was asked to contribute a piece that represented their own interpretation of the theme.
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05.19.25

Saturday Selects

Week of May 12, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: limited-edition Gaudí chairs, a cathedral-like eyewear store, and a boutique that’s part Milanese cafe, part Lower East Side laundromat.
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05.13.25

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In a New Exhibition, Minjae Kim Unpacks Los Angeles Through a Lens of Wild Animals and Silent Film

Who else is obsessed with wild animals who become celebrities — living, as they often do, in the thick of human society? In 2023, I was gripped by the news about Flaco, the owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo and flew free in Manhattan for a full year. For Korean-born, New York–based artist Minjae Kim, it was P-22, the mountain lion who famously lived in LA’s Griffith Park from 2012 to until his death in 2022, who triggered the concept for Kim's latest exhibition at Marta gallery. Called Phantom-22, the show represents the “passage of creatures, ideas, and topographies that define Los Angeles as it continues its constant shift between fantasy and reality,” which Kim examines through this comprehensive body of work playing on several LA tropes. 
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05.09.25

Up and Coming

So Long, Synthetics — This Sustainable Furniture Collection is Bound by Natural Tree Sap

Harnessing tree sap to bind wood is a technique that dates back more than 45,000 years — a fact that fascinated Catskills-based studio Earth to People enough to revive the age-old process, using nature's glue to assemble furniture pieces crafted from reclaimed cedar and aluminum. Founders Jordan and Brittany Weller are “driven by a love of ancient stewardship and the handmade,” and for the past two years, they've dedicated their practice to reviving historic furniture-making traditions — taking things back to basics to create more sustainable, but still beautiful, seating and lighting.
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04.19.25

Saturday Selects

Week of April 14, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: stainless-steel urinal sculptures, a coral-colored house balanced on a steep site, and fruit-decorated furniture that aims to tackle the stigma of eating disorders.
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04.02.25

Interiors

This Designer’s Interior Design Secret? Make It a Little Bit Weird

During a career spanning almost two decades, Julia King has worked for several of the interior design world’s heavy hitters — from Kelly Wearstler to Michael Smith to Charles DeLisle — and absorbed a little of each of their dramatically disparate design styles along the way. Now, after setting up her own business, Studio Roene, this aesthetic mash-up is delightfully evident in her first wave completed projects, which borrow a little of their resident’s personalities, and blend King’s eye for color and compositions of vintage and contemporary furniture. “I always try to think: ‘How can we make it a little bit weird?’” King says. “It doesn't have to be in your face, but let's just add one thing in each room that gives it a bit of funkiness.”
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03.15.25

Saturday Selects

Week of March 10, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an NYC design showroom decorated in the next “it” color, a set of desk accessories to improve any workspace, and a chic ceramic bowl for design-conscious cat owners (like myself!).
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03.12.25

Excerpt: Exhibition

This New Exhibition Invites Artists and Designers to Reconsider a Classic Wedding Object

I got married a few months ago, and while it was by no means a traditional affair, there were of course moments and objects we incorporated into the ceremony that held historical meaning and significance. Something we didn’t include? (Admittedly because we’d never heard of it before?) The Loving Cup, a decorative vessel historically used at wedding banquets to commemorate a union, with two handles — one for each partner — and an inscription with the date and names of the couple. This endearing symbol of love and good fortune is the subject of an exhibition at New York’s Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, where contemporary interpretations of these vessels by an interesting selection of artists and design talents are displayed alongside a host of historic artifacts.
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