When you work for yourself, as we have for the past 16 years, it can be hard to turn off your work brain entirely. When we travel, we're constantly noticing architectural details and furniture vignettes that could be content; when a furniture order comes in late at night, it's imperative to address in a timely fashion. However, what we *are* able to do, considering our lack of a corporate overlord, is to suddenly say: "Hey, should we take the summer off?" We eased into this glam-leaning European way of doing things back in 2021, when we were writing How to Live With Objects, and we've deployed it to varying degrees ever since when the temperature start to rise. This summer marks our longest hiatus yet. We'll be back online after Labor Day. Now, we will be working behind the scenes to some extent — tinkering with our editorial vision, working on personal projects, Instagramming, and, most important, running the Sight Unseen Collection, business as usual. But you won't see any editorial content on the site until we return in September. See you then!

Each year, we attend dozens of design fairs and exhibitions, field thousands of pitch emails, and spend hundreds of hours on Instagram getting to know what our favorite brands and makers are making — tracking what new trends are developing, what new materials are being experimented with, and what classic forms and techniques are being reinvented or re-contextualized. And at the end of each year, we spend two months digesting everything we've seen for our annual Sight Unseen Yearbook, in which we choose 500+ of the objects that we found most memorable.