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08.24.20

Giveaway

Donate $10 For a Chance to Win a Chair, a Palm Springs Stay, and more in Our Design For Progress Fundraiser

This week, while we take a much-needed summer break on this site, we're harnessing the power of our platform on Instagram for a summer 2020 Design for Progress fundraiser, which will take the form of a series of five raffles raising money for five non-profits. Now through August 31, each $10 donation you make buys you one "ticket" to win a floor lamp donated by FLOS USA, a chair donated by Hay, a floor lamp donated by Lightology, a table lamp donated by ANDlight, or a two-night stay at a stunning mid-century house in Palm Springs.
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06.09.20

Offsite Online

Our Offsite Online Fundraiser Lets You Donate to 21 Organizations That Fight Racism and Benefit Black Lives

After silencing our normal editorial activity in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement last week, today we're restarting the remainder of our Offsite Online show. But we’ve been thinking hard about how to do that while respecting a moment that does not feel like business as usual to us, and so today we’re launching an Offsite Online fundraiser to raise money for and awareness of 18 organizations that are fighting racism and/or improving the lives of Black or indigenous people.
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BLACK RECTANGLE
06.01.20

Editor's Note

Black Lives Matter — A Week of Acknowledgement on Sight Unseen

We stand with BIPOC and call for justice for George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others whose deaths are part of a long history of violence against black bodies. Right now, we are reading, listening to, and learning from voices that matter more than ours right now, so we'll be pausing our activities here and on our social media channels all week, June 1-5, to ensure that those voices can be heard.
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05.30.20

Offsite Online

Frosted Resin Lamps and Denim Daybeds: It’s Part II of Our Offsite Selects

Ever since we began hosting our Sight Unseen Offsite fair, it has always featured both full collection launches as well as a more gallery-like section called Selects, the latter meant to highlight only a piece or two each by a large, diverse group of designers. Now that our physical show has become Offsite Online, we’ve kept the Selects concept in tact, and we’re presenting those individual works in roundups on our main feed over three Saturdays this month. You can view the second group here.
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05.18.20

Offsite Online

Welcome to Our First Digital Offsite Show! Here’s How — and Why — We Did It.

When our 2020 Offsite fair, scheduled to take place in May at Skylight Modern in Manhattan, was put on indefinite hold, we decided to pivot to a digital exhibition model instead — harnessing the visibility of our existing platform to create a much-needed creative and commercial outlet for the design community, as well as redefining what a fair can be in the digital age. Welcome to Offsite Online.
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05.14.20

Sight Unseen Projects

With Our New Membership Program, You Can Support Sight Unseen — and Get MAJOR PERKS in Return

Today we're launching SU Friends, our first official membership program, which lets you become an ongoing supporter of Sight Unseen for as little as $3 a month, while receiving a TON of special perks in return. Help ensure that Sight Unseen, which has provided a support system for contemporary designers for the past decade, can continue that support well into the next one.
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04.13.20

Sight Unseen OFFSITE

Our Offsite Fair Will Go Digital This Spring — Join Us!

Offsite Online, as we're calling it, will launch on sightunseen.com in mid-May with a web-based platform for viewing all the works in the show. It will also fill our story feed and social media accounts for a few weeks, offering a comprehensive first look at the 2020 collections of some of our favorite independent design studios and brands. Read on to find out how to exhibit, or to get updates.
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02.14.20

Sight Unseen OFFSITE

Announcing the Return of Sight Unseen Offsite, Coming in May 2020

Today we're excited to announce the sixth edition of our Sight Unseen Offsite show, taking place May 16-19 at Skylight Modern in Chelsea, less than a 10-minute walk from the Javits Center. Offsite is an annual showcase of what’s new and next in contemporary design, held each year during New York design week and featuring the best new furniture and lighting by design studios and forward-thinking brands.
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01.17.20

American Design Hot List

The 2019 American Design Hot List, Part V

This week we announced our seventh annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the 20 names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the next four Hot List designers here.
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01.16.20

American Design Hot List

The 2019 American Design Hot List, Part IV

This week we announced our seventh annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s editorial award for the 20 names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the next four Hot List designers here.
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01.15.20

American Design Hot List

The 2019 American Design Hot List, Part III

This week we announced our seventh annual American Design Hot List, Sight Unseen’s annual editorial award for the 20 names to know now in American design. We’re devoting an entire week to interviews with this year’s honorees — get to know the next four Hot List designers here.
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