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07.03.25

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Inside the Copenhagen Home (and Store) of Texan Fashion Designer Casey Larkin Blond, Who Merges Southern and Scandinavian Influences

World-blending forms the core of the Mr. Larkin vibe — what founder Casey Larkin Blond describes as “a strange little universe” where her Southern roots, West Coast ideals, and Scandinavian influences all converge. It’s also visible in the apartment she shares with her husband, Danish fashion exec Alan Blond, and their two children, in a leafy district of Copenhagen that was once the city’s impoverished countryside and is now home to some of its most quietly historic buildings. The space isn’t dissimilar to her store interiors — spare but colorful, with a curated mix of contemporary handmade design objects and vintage finds.
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07.01.25

Fair Report

Everything We Loved at Everyone’s New Favorite Design Fair: 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen

Copenhagen's 3 Days of Design festival has made an uncanny ascent to the top of the ranks of global design fairs in the past couple of years. Soon after we started reeling over the number of non-professionals going to Milan for pleasure rather than business, we started hearing the same about 3 Days, which we had only ever personally experienced (as recently as 2021) as a tiny event with mostly local participants. To be fair, it owes a part of its popularity explosion to the fact that it takes place in Copenhagen, in the summer, which is not a bad place to be even when your social calendar isn't full of design aperitivos. But as interest has grown, so, too, has participation. We attended this year's edition as a guest of Royal Copenhagen, and our friends and colleagues who didn't go were dying of curiosity about what we saw. Today's roundup, we hope, will answer some of those questions.
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06.14.25

Saturday Selects

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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06.06.25

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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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05.28.25

Sight Unseen Presents

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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05.03.25

Saturday Selects

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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04.16.25

Fair Report

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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