01.27.20
Sighted
A Colorful New Furniture Collection Inspired By Stonehenge
Six pieces of furniture, hand-built from ash in Northeast England and stained with brightly colored pigments, form the core of Darkroom's 10th anniversary collection.
01.24.20
Gift Guides
Always Wanted to Own a Matisse? Now You Can — No, Really
Ever since October of last year, it's become a little bit easier to recreate a piece of the French painter's joie de vivre at home without a dorm poster: Maison Matisse was founded last year by the fourth generation Matisse family, and it seeks to showcase the artist's world and aesthetic through a series of home collections and limited-edition objects. With the launch came short-lived vases by the likes of the Bouroullecs, Jaime Hayon, and Alessandro Mendini, but now the brand has launched its first official collection.
01.23.20
Fair Report
The Colored Glass Coffee Table You’ve Been Looking For
If you've been paying attention, the German brand Pulpo has been quietly releasing some of the most adventurous mass-produced items around over the past few years, but this might be our favorite collection yet.
01.21.20
Excerpt: Exhibition
A New Exhibition Puts a Spotlight on the Growing Canadian Design Scene
The Canadian design scene has majorly been growing in numbers, talent, and organizational prowess over the past few years; the most recent wish-we'd-been-there exhibition, organized by Jamie Wolfond and MSDS Studio, asked designers across Canada to create prototypes and sculptures made from machined aluminum.
01.18.20
Saturday Selects
Week of January 13, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: An edible club chair made from bread, a floral pop-up channeling summer in Miami, an exhibition of oil pastels going viral on Instagram, and a coffee table death match by one of our favorite Danish brands.
01.10.20
Interiors
This Los Angeles Home is a Master Class in Neutral-Soaked California Minimalism
Some of our favorite moments include a quartet of peach glass Bower mirrors in the living room, a curving Vladamir Kagan sofa reupholstered in pet-friendly performance cream, the Lawson-Fenning coffee table, vintage marble dining table, and bedroom artwork by Sight Unseen favorite Jessalyn Brooks.
12.21.19
Saturday Selects
Week of December 16, 2019
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A new decade may be dawning, but some trends might last all the way 'til the next one, including terrazzo (shown here in new vases), arches (in three different interiors), and a new favorite entrant — recessed shelves!
12.19.19
Sight Unseen Presents
Sight Unseen’s 10 Most Popular Instagrams of 2019
When we look at the 10 most liked Instagrams on our page this year, a few clear patterns emerge; turns out, y'all love an ultra-colorful interior, an organically shaped seating element, a piece of colored glass, and a statement room divider just as much as we do.
12.18.19
Sight Unseen Presents
Sight Unseen’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2019
Today we’re counting down the most-loved stories from this year, from the vintage lamps we've been seeing everywhere to the coolest spots in Mexico City.
12.17.19
Excerpt: Exhibition
Two Berlin Artists, On View at a Café Where Brunch Meets Brutalism
The definition of gallery keeps expanding, and perhaps our favorite new entry is the mezzanine of the year-old café Baldon, located inside architect Arno Brandlhuber’s terraced, brutalist Lobe Block building in the Wedding neighborhood of Berlin. On view until the end of the month is a show that combines two artists of recent interest — Kim Bartelt, whose home and studio we featured here earlier this fall, and Yellow Nose, a Berlin-based studio founded in 2017 by two Taiwanese architects, Hsin-Ying Ho and Kai-Ming Tung.
12.13.19
American Design Hot List
Kelly Wearstler Just Won 2020 With Her New Furniture Collection
LA designer Kelly Wearstler has had a big year, from the launch of her first book in 10 years to the rollout of her designs for Proper Hotels — most notably Santa Monica, which has become a major source of Instagram fodder for its chair orgy, its iconic curved headboard, and commissions from young designers like Chris Wolston and Wentrcek/Zebulon. Today we got a peek at her new collection for 2020, and it continues in the same excellent vein
12.12.19
Excerpt: Exhibition
A Mint Green, Foam-Encrusted Desk Suite is the Highlight of This French Painter’s New Exhibition
In the materials list for one of the new works by Paris-born artist Côme Clérino — on view now at Galerie Chloe Salgado — you might find MDF, plaster, acrylic resin, fiberglass, paraffin, fabric, thermoplastic glue, tile seal, ceramic, watercolor, felt pen, and colored pencil. But paint? Hardly, despite the fact that Clérino considers himself foremost a painter.