03.29.22
EDITORS’ LIST
Jill and Monica share their March picks, including a new series of one-of-a-kind goblets, a seder plate that we hope kicks off a trend, a “pleasure object” in Murano glass, and an $11,000 Bottega Veneta handbag made from travertine, very casual.
Jill’s List
 1. A GREAT SEDER PLATEThough the menorah revolution is fully upon us, makers have been slower to embrace the seder plate as a canvas. I honestly don’t understand why. It seems like a very fun brief — dinner plates, but smaller and cuter? In any case, one of the best trendy ones we’ve seen is by Josephine Heilpern of Recreation Center, who pairs a speckled, flower-shaped plate with checkerboard dishes to hold the symbolic foods of your choice. It’s available at West Elm right now, and similar ones are for sale on her website right now. |
 2. STICKY GLASS GOBLETSWe’ve been on the goblets tip since 2018, and the fact that they keep getting weirder only serves to fuel our obsession. The latest is a series of one-offs by Grace Whiteside, who goes by the name Sticky Glass. Some of her goblets riff on her classic bubble cup shape, in which a glob of colored glass, affixed to the side, acts as a hand grip. Others look as if they’re melting and still others, like the one above, have wobbly, abstract stems. Available on her website and on Casa Shop. |
 3. HANNAH EMILE BAGOne of my favorite bags that I own is just a bundle of fluff by the San Francisco–based designer Hannah Emile, but I’m tempted to add this egg-shaped wasabi-green drawstring purse to the mix. This color green is definitely Beyoncé-adjacent, and, in my opinion, it goes with almost everything. |
 4. MEXICAN OUTDOOR CHAIRSFabien Cappello’s Reading Room chair has always been a favorite, but it’s a bit out of my price range. So I was happy to see that he designed an outdoor chair with a similar vibe for the Guadalajara collective Mexa Design in 2020. Called Tabachin, it’s available in a mix-and-match palette of PVC tubes. The Colorin chairs by California studio Amigo Modern are also very cute. |
 5. RON ARADRon Arad is one of those designers whose aesthetic I *think* I have a firm grasp on, but then I’m constantly coming across pieces and wondering aloud, “That’s Ron Arad??” So it was with Two Legs and a Table, an Arad design from 1989. Someone sure appreciated this table though, because a prototype of it went for $241,000 at Phillips back in 2008. |
 6. 91-92 Recycled Plastic VasesWe’ve been following the work of Copenhagen-based 91-92 for a while — they primarily 3D print in recycled plastic — but their new Plastic Surgery vase is available in such nice colors we had to call it out. |
Monica’s List
 1. SUNNEI’S MURANO PLEASURE OBJECTSEven though I don’t own any of their clothes, I’m heavily into the vibe of the Italian fashion brand Sunnei; even though I would never use one of its Murano-glass “pleasure objects” for, ya know, pleasure, I appreciate the intent, the aesthetic, and the idea of keeping one on my shelf. That Sottsass dick vase is kinda played out anyway. |
 2. ALESSANDRO MENDINI DINING TABLEI obviously got excited about this dining table because of the #tinyballs, but also because I love pieces that have the playful geometries of Memphis design without all the ultra-bright colors. This combo of beige, white, and brick-red feels much more sophisticated and up my alley. |
 3. FREELING WATERSI only discovered Freeling Waters — the project of calligrapher Job Wouters and muralist Gijs Frieling — recently, and I’m sort of obsessed. You can’t tell, from this photo, how beautiful their hand-painted vintage pine cabinets are; up close, the not-quite-perfect brushstrokes much more noticeable, as are the ombrés they create with the paint colors. I recommend diving into their Instagram and watching the videos that offer a better look. |
 4. NINA EDWARDS ANKER’S BEANIE SOFAEntirely, entirely on board with the idea of a luxury beanbag chair, but in the past they’ve all been so ugly; granted grey is not my favorite color, but this loveseat version (it also comes as a longer sofa) is something I’d actually put in my living room — and very, very much enjoy lazing about on. Also: It’s filled with lentils!! |
 5. BOTTEGA VENETA’S TRAVERTINE HANDBAGSpeaking of unusual materials, did you see that Bottega Veneta made an $11,000 handbag out of travertine? It looks amazing but you have to be pretty darn privileged to not only buy one, but be able to lug it around town (helps to have a driver!). Not to mention fit your belongings inside—it does in fact open up, but to a super shallow cavity that would likely only fit a couple of credit cards, nothing more. Your assistant’s gonna have to hold the rest of your shit, but it’s a major design statement. |
 6. ŽOFIA MROCKOVA’S EXTRA-PUFFY MUGAnd speaking of un-usability, I laughed pretty hard when I spotted this chubby mug on Instagram by a Slovakian design student. It’s all those ultra-curvy tubular geometries trending in design these days, but pushed to an absolutely ridiculous extreme, where if full of coffee, you probably couldn’t even lift the thing. “Less is boring,” reads the caption on the IG post. |
