05.29.26
The Weekly
SPOTLIGHT: Two perfect tile series for transforming your kitchen, bath, patio, or any surface that could use a bit of zhuzh
Plus: A Josef Albers-inspired shopping list
12.19.20
Saturday Selects
Week of December 14, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Nest magazine is resurrected in the form of merch, fringe lamps aren't so fringe anymore, and two recently-opened boutiques have us pining for the good old days of searching out a price tag only to recoil in private horror.
12.02.20
Gift Guides
How Jewelry Designer Hannah Jewett Embraced A Pivot To Candles
Hannah Jewett's jewelry designs have been embraced by many a celebrity stylist, appearing on post-pop star Charli XCX, the comedian Julio Torres, and rendered influencer Lil Miquela. With factories closed and her Dumbo studio inaccessible during lockdown, 2020 prompted something of a return to form for her: Leaning into the “ambiguous energy” of her designs, she decided to try her hand at candles.
11.21.20
Saturday Selects
Week of November 16, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Stockholm syndrome gets gentrified, a couple of ECAL grads consider light from a dark place, and a gallery show pays homage to John Lewis, Serena Williams and — who else? — Beyoncé.
10.14.20
Up and Coming
Designer Mac Collins Mines His Family History To Imagine Brighter Black Futures
Mac Collins's Iklwa series debuted at London Craft Week this month, produced by legacy manufacturer Benchmark. Comprising two lounge chairs — one large and one small — and a side table, the collection is named for a style of short spear used by the Zulu, the chair featuring armrests that echo its shape. It's a compelling introduction to the 25-year-old's distinct yet disruptive approach, informed by his Jamaican heritage as well as his background in art and sculpture.
10.07.20
Q+A
Peek Into The Private Library Of Instagram’s Coolest Book Dealer
Press SF is interested in a refined but never rarefied melange of burgeoning artist’s movements and localized design, the kitschy and the iconoclastic, sourced from library sales and small secondhand bookstores with “a lot of different buyers and a lot of different viewpoints.”
09.29.20
Up and Coming
Open Object is Crafting Globally-Minded Ceramics From China’s “Porcelain Capital”
Contextualizing the work of Shanghai-based ceramic studio Open Object is a challenge; it feels starkly hybridized, a combination of East Asian craft traditions and Scandinavian aesthetics, playing into Westerners’ misconceptions of Chinese artistic disciplines and histories. That tension is, to some extent, by design.
09.26.20
Saturday Selects
Week of September 21, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a long list of exhibitions you can (for the most part) see in person (finally!); a chic online shopping list of wall hangings and haute nursery finds; and an upstate stunner with deeply-hued walls and some Sizable Knobs Your Kitchen Needs Now!
09.10.20
Up and Coming
Falke Svatun On the “Eternal Ripening” Process Of Good Design
At first glance more aesthetically Brutalist than humanist, Oslo-based designer Falke Svatun's new collection, shown in butter yellow, retains a sense of humor and approachability that has come to define the designer's output.
09.05.20
Saturday Selects
Week of August 31, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: little abominations that are anything but, Christian Siriano's winning (interior) designs in Connecticut, and an exhibition of ceramics and tapestries that are by turns comforting and confrontational.
08.18.20
Excerpt: Exhibition
Copenhagen’s Last Resort Gallery Finds Creativity In Being Cooped Up
Currently on view at Copenhagen's Last Resort Gallery, Stay At Home is a lockdown-inspired exhibition that contemplates home as more than "just a place to sleep.” Bringing together works from Gaetano Pesce, Jinyeong Jeon, Andrés Reisinger and Philippe Malouin for Established & Sons, among others, the show manifests a "dream confinement space for one."
08.01.20
Saturday Selects
Week of July 27, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an unsung ceramicist gets his due at David Kordansky, Cold Picnic releases American Gigolo-inspired rugs, and ZZ Driggs makes the case for never buying furniture again.