11.17.18

Saturday Selects

Week of November 12, 2018

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Highlights from the Salon Art + Design fair, a swoon-worthy seating ensemble at Dimore Gallery, and furniture by two brand-new Brooklyn talents to watch.

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11.16.18

Travel

These Colorful, Hand-Crafted Rugs Honor Mexico’s Lost Traditions

We keep coming back to these playful, colorful rug designs by the brand-new Barcelona-based company Rrres, which was started by Javier Reyes, a graphic designer from the Dominican Republic. The rugs are made with artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico, and are decorated with graphic, glyph-like symbols — although his more recent designs, which we're featuring here today, incorporate abstraction and curves.

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11.15.18

Sighted

The Golden Girls Would Have Loved This Modern Rattan Furniture Collection

The Golden Girls has been low-key trending in design for a while now, and Australian designer Sarah Ellison's second collection — with its rounded corners, non-woven rattan construction, and palm frond imagery, nails that South Florida, mid-'80s aesthetic to a T.

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11.14.18

Sighted

America Needs More Accessible, Independent Furniture Brands. Dims is Here to Help.

Inspired by the traditions of Shaker, Japanese, and Nordic design, Dims., an internet-only furniture brand, is working with an enviable roster of up-and-coming designers to create well-made goods that so far top out at $350.

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11.13.18

Shopping

Tomato Red is Suddenly Everywhere — Here Are 35 Ways to Bring It Into Your Home

It isn't the easiest color to incorporate, there's no doubt about that. The trick is to steer clear of anything remotely resembling a primary-color trifecta (lest you end up in some frightening Memphis feedback loop) and to pair it with hues like lilac, peach, pale pink, and other neutrals.

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11.12.18

Up and Coming

Meet Agnes, the Next Big Thing from Central America

Imagine taking a landscape and a civilization and devising an alternative evolutionary path for it — and then creating a collection of furniture based upon that surrogate world. In a nutshell, that's how Guatemala City–based studio Agnes created their newest collection. Designers Estefanía de Ros and Gustavo Quintana spent two years researching pre-Columbian craftsmanship to create the kind of aesthetic that might have emerged had Mayan culture evolved with a bit less Western interference.

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11.10.18

Saturday Selects

Week of November 5, 2018

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a flurry of new drops from Scandinavian furniture brands, a survey of all the glass and ceramic objects currently in our shopping carts, and two solo shows by female art and design icons, one being Maria Pergay (above).

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11.09.18

Excerpt: Exhibition

In Brooklyn, 32 Artists Riffing on an Ancient Form — Vases With Faces

The exhibition of multi-disciplinary artists riffing on a traditional trope or form keeps popping up here in New York, and each one has been more delightful than the last. The latest, showcased at Fredericks & Mae's Brooklyn storefront and curated by the duo, is all about "head pots" — also known as vases with faces.

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11.07.18

Sighted

Dramatically Dyed Acrylic Vases, Injecting Nature Into an Otherwise Industrial Process

Saerom Yoon's latest series of dyed acrylic vases, called Shimmering Lake of Flowers at Dusk, employ a texture — which can mimic rippling water, frozen ice, and tree bark — to striking effect. In each piece, gradient bricks of the tempered acrylic are grouped in various orientations, with some hovering dramatically almost in mid-air.

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11.05.18

Sight Unseen Projects

The Sonos x Hay Speaker Drops Today — We Gave It the Sight Unseen Treatment

Notwithstanding all of the tubular chairs and iridescent consoles, one of our favorite products to launch in Milan this year was the Hay Sonos One — a collaboration between two of our favorite design brands that saw the speaker being offered in five colors from Hay's 2018 palette. We waited seven. long. months. for the speaker to be available for purchase, and today it finally is. To celebrate the launch, we created a one-night-only installation in Sonos's NYC flagship, inviting five design teams to create a monochromatic room scheme highlighting each of the five colors.

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11.03.18

Saturday Selects

Week of October 29, 2018

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: lime green finally makes it from fashion to interiors, a favorite design brand makes inroads in America, and Floyd, the Detroit-based "Ikea alternative," pops up in New York.

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11.01.18

Sighted

Is It a Chair? Does It Matter? These Acrylic Sculptures Are Too Pretty to Sit On

"Is it a chair?" Australian artist John Nicholson wondered aloud on his own Instagram page when posting photos of his latest series, Whale Vision. Though Nicholson's previous work has tended towards more two-dimensional, wall-mounted pieces — always in sheets of colorful plastic — these newer pieces bring it almost to the edge of functional.

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