Week of June 9, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Formafantasma's first US solo show, a new housewares line that pairs Greek art with Swedish craftsmanship, and two new stores in Brooklyn, one focused on vintage heirlooms and one focused on contemporary Georgian design.
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Heading to Copenhagen for 3 Days of Design? Take our Modernist Travel Guide With You!

If you're heading to the 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen soon, we're guessing your schedule is already packed with exhibition visits and design aperitivos. But there's also a good chance that, if you're anything like us, you always carve out at least a little time for mandatory design sightseeing, too? With Scandinavia being a goldmine for mid-century anything, it's definitely folly to go to a place like Copenhagen without digging for architectural gems, and this year, we're making it incredibly easy to find them with our Modernist Travel Guide. ICYMI, Adam Štěch, the architecture photographer behind the popular Instagram account @okolo_architecture, distilled two decades of his work documenting over 10,000 Modernist landmarks into a handy, pocket-sized travel guide covering 363 buildings (with addresses!) in 30 cities around the world, and luckily for all of us, Copenhagen is one of them.
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For New York Design Week, We Surrounded Ourselves With Friends for a Sight Unseen Collection x Petra Exhibition

When the founders of the hospitality design firm AvroKo, who have been friends of ours for more than a decade, invited us to take over their Soho showroom and events space, Host on Howard, we in turn invited a group of our favorite designers to exhibit their work with us, not to mention co-host a few really fun parties along the way. Four studios trotted out their latest contributions to our Sight Unseen Collection — the furniture and lighting we represent direct to the trade — including Sunfish, Sam Klemick, Cultivation Objects, and Known Work, while Monica showcased nearly 20 new pieces from her hardware showroom Petra by friends like Sally Breer, Elyse Graham, Alexis & Ginger, and more.
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Week of April 28, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an Art Deco– and Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired textile collab between Block Shop and Sunbrella, two new design hotels for escaping into nature this summer, and a new series of lamps in wicker by Workstead.
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La Double J’s New Milan Offices Are, Fittingly, a Five-Floor Explosion of Color and Pattern

Erstwhile journalist and lifelong tastemaker JJ Martin was way ahead of the game on maximalism. Back in 2015, the Milan-based American expat was founding her housewares and clothing company La Double J, and though her target audience at the time was rather different from ours — Europe's social set — she built a colorful, joyful brand that has since won over pattern-lovers of all stripes, including yours truly. To mark La Double J's ascension into fashion and design's popular vernacular, as well as celebrate its 10th anniversary, she opened the doors during last week's Salone to its impressive new home in Milan, which is just as exuberant as its offerings.
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In Milan, Objects of Common Interest and Marsèll Team Up on an Exhibition That Uses Materials as Spatial Interventions

When the Italian boutique leather brand Marsèll opened its showroom a year and a half ago on Via Spiga, Milan's luxury shopping street, it was an exercise in restraint — similar to the shoes and bags on offer, the interior, by Berlin's Lotto Studio, took a minimal approach to form, with almost all the emphasis on the interplay of high-end natural materials like glass, stone, stainless steel, and walnut. That elegant spareness has made it not only the perfect visual expression of the brand, but also the perfect neutral backdrop against which to stage designer interventions during the Milan furniture fair. Last year Marsèll welcomed Gonzalez Haase AAS into the space, and this year, Objects of Common Interest — the New York– and Athens–based practice of Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis — did the honors, with a two-floor installation called Adaptive Ground that "explores the relationship between space and material."
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Week of March 17, 2025

A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the sky blue laptop of our dreams, our top picks from this month's Collectible fair in Brussels, and two exhibitions of paintings that explore and elevate domestic spaces.
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The 9 Best Things We Saw at Frieze Week Los Angeles 2025

We would be remiss not to address the relatively somber mood the LA wildfires cast over this year's Frieze week, an event that typically traffics in the commerce (and celebration) of extreme wealth while, for the rest of us, turbo-charging the sleepy LA social calendar to a welcome, if exhausting, degree. There were still sales to be made and parties to attend, to be sure, but everything felt a little quieter, a little more contemplative — and important to everyone to somehow acknowledge the context in which the fair was happening, whether in content or conversation.
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All the Best Things We Saw at This Year’s 2025 Fog Design+Art Fair in San Francisco

Traveling to last month's FOG Design+Art fair was a particularly charged experience for me this year — held two weeks after the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles, where I've been hibernating all winter, it was something of a reprieve; a chance, both literally and figuratively, to take a breath after all that happened here. Of course I only had the privilege to do so because I was unaffected materially by the fires, unlike so many others facing horrible loss, but it's just to say that traveling to a fair in the wake of a tragedy was not such a frivolous event as it may have been in past years. I was eminently more grateful just to be there. Seeing good work was merely the icing on the cake.
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Week of January 6, 2024

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A conceptual fashion space hidden in a Tashkent street market, joyful ceramic candleholders shaped like sardines and bananas, and a new collection of lamps inspired by the Triadic Ballet.
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Jermaine Gallacher Helped Pull This Celestial-Themed 1990s Textile Collection From the Archives

As a lover of all things vintage and archival, there are few things that excite me more than a project that plumbs the historical trove of a company or design movement and resurfaces its forgotten gems; it’s the same thrill I get shopping a flea market or antique mall and discovering something incredible that had previously gone unnoticed or been cast aside. Which is why I felt a pang of envy when I saw the launch earlier this month of Torch, for which TON magazine editor and interior designer Jermaine Gallacher got to help pull a collection of rugs and textiles out of a 90s time capsule and reimagine it for contemporary use. Originally titled Elements and Beyond, the celestial-themed series was the work of the seminal textile designer Christine Van Der Hurd, who celebrated 50 years in the business last year, and who spent 18 months working with Gallacher to revisit and refine her original vision.
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