04.12.17
Fair Report
The Best of the 2017 Milan Furniture Fair, Part III
In the third of our posts chronicling the 2017 Milan Furniture Fair, the best up-and-coming talents we saw at the Salone Satellite and Ventura Lambrate.
04.11.17
Fair Report
The Best of the 2017 Milan Furniture Fair, Part II
In the second of our posts chronicling the 2017 Milan Furniture Fair, we share the best of the Salone del Mobile and Euroluce shows.
04.01.17
Saturday Selects
Week of March 27, 2017
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week was all about things we couldn't resist posting: a teeny tiny Milan fair sneak peek, lamps that are so bad they're good, an iridescent yoga studio, and an admittedly cliche interior full of zigzags and pink (above). Hey, we're only human.
03.28.17
Sighted
Brian Rideout Makes Art For Design Lovers
Brian Rideout's American Collection Paintings are meant to transform the interiors images he finds in old decorating books and magazines into archival records of time and place: “A contemporary reference to the Flemish collection paintings of the early 17th century, American Collection Paintings … aims to reorient these glossy commercial examples into historical documents,” he says.
03.11.17
Saturday Selects
Week of March 6, 2017
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: linoleum gets a big thumbs up, a dive bar in a Super 8 motel gets a jaw-dropping reinvention, and a master of Dutch design gets a beautifully designed retrospective (above).
03.08.17
Sighted
We’re Taking the Day Off to Support Women’s Rights
Today, across the world, women — when they can — are staying home from their jobs, refusing to spend money, wearing red, or heading out to marches and rallies as part of A Day Without A Woman, a 24-hour strike to support equality, justice, and human rights for women. Sight Unseen, of course, is run by women, and so in lieu of content, we're posting a simple statement of support. We'll see you in the streets.
02.28.17
Excerpt: Exhibition
Chamber’s Founder Can’t Attend His New Show — Because He Was Barred From Re-entering the Country
We never doubted that we'd cover the third in Chamber Gallery's game-changing exhibition series curated by Matylda Krzykowski, which opens this Thursday and focuses on the question of what makes an object appealing to invite into our homes. We just never dreamed we'd have to cover it like this. Chamber founder Juan Garcia Mosqueda was recently detained at the US border, and we've published his open letter to the design community, in full.
02.24.17
Sighted
These $50 Posters Are a Serious Score
This week marked the launch of yet another great inexpensive poster series on yet another great art site, created by the multi-disciplinary Danish design studio Atelier CPH. The images were inspired by 70s colors and abstracted faces, and they look like something you'd be psyched to unearth at an antique mall for five times the price. These are only 49 to 89 Euros each, and they come with the cache of a creative duo whose clients include Kinfolk, Ferm Living, and Norm Architects.
02.20.17
Excerpt: Exhibition
If This Furniture Collection Makes You Slightly Uneasy, You’re Not Alone
For his first solo show at Patrick Parrish Gallery, L.A. designer Brian Thoreen has created a series of visibly precarious pieces that rely on gravity rather than fasteners to stay aloft, evoking a feeling of ominous, low-level dread.
02.18.17
Saturday Selects
Week of February 13, 2017
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A new dyed-marble table by Silo Studio, a new paper flower project by Confettisystem, a new glass daybed by Dessuant Bone (above), and more.
02.17.17
Excerpt: Exhibition
Matt Paweski Chose Art Over Design — But We Forgive Him
Years ago, when we first profiled Matt Paweski, we got really excited about his colorful furniture, but alas, it was not to be: Paweski's roots have always been in art, and art is what's occupied his portfolio pretty much ever since. His newest body of work, which went on view today at Herald St. gallery in London, features sculptures any designer could appreciate.
01.28.17
Saturday Selects
Week of January 23, 2017
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: new good things like a pastel-colored jewelry store and an insanely affordable geometric rug, plus a few old good things like a marbled chair, a terrazzo table, and the glass-legged beauty pictured above.