10.02.21

Saturday Selects

Week of September 27, 2021

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week, noteworthy material choices that cover every corner of the tactile spectrum, a new Beni Rugs collab, and some IRL exhibitions worth braving the mad world for.

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10.01.21

Sighted

In London, Two Favorites Have Joined Forces to Create an Epically Scaled Prop House

Last month in London, two longtime collaborators and Sight Unseen favorites — Sophie Pearce of Béton Brut and Laura Fulmine of Modern Art Hire —joined forces to open a shared, two-story, 5,500-square-foot gallery space and prop house called 50 Vyner.

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09.29.21

Up and Coming

Meet the Chair Equivalent of Freezing Your Issey Miyake Pants in Resin

It was an interest in fashion, coupled with a job in retail, that first sparked Brooklyn designer Michal Cihlar’s fascination with furniture. At the time, he was studying for a degree in architecture at NYU, but he wasn’t finding satisfaction with the drawn-out process required to realize buildings. Instead, it was a part-time job at the cult fashion shop Opening Ceremony that opened his eyes to more creative possibilities. With carpentry skills gleaned from a sculpture course and access to deadstock fabric, Cihlar started making playfully bulbous pieces that nod to the way textiles move and bounce on the body.

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09.27.21

Up and Coming

Paper Pulp and Oil Pastel Are Perfectly Paired in a Colorful New Collection

Seeking a distraction from the pandemic, Brazilian newcomer Barbara Bareca spent the better part of this year reimagining ordinary everyday objects by elevating them to a cheerfully colorful new level. Her debut "Gesture Object" collection comprises a selection of seven handmade wooden structures, including vases, a mirror, a tray, bowl, and bookends, each covered in a mélange of paper, glue, and water, then scribbled with an oil pastel for color effect and a textural finish.

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09.25.21

Saturday Selects

Week of September 20, 2021

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: tables inspired by California's kidney-shaped pools, Gustaf Westman's latest furniture drop, and a colorful installation by Germans Ermics at last week's Design Miami Basel show (above).

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07.22.19

Up and Coming

The Polish Designer Creating Furniture Out of Recycled Glass

The handcrafted side tables and room divider included in Justyna Poplawska's Tinct collection highlight the Polish-born artist’s innovative use of recycled glass, which she pulverizes into grains of varying sizes and colors, and mixes with sustainable epoxy resin and pigments.

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09.23.21

Up and Coming

A Minimal Furniture Collection, Following in the Footsteps of Judd

For his debut collection, called Dawn, Umberto Bellardi Ricci worked primarily with brass and steel sheets, which he folded to create a series of sconces and floor lamps — a cross between the materiality of Richard Serra and the minimal forms of Donald Judd.

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09.21.21

Sighted

Six Norwegian Designers Explore Our New Normal

Organized by design collective Fold Oslo and featuring work by six emerging Norway-based designers, "The Ny Normal" isn’t so much a literal reaction to the pandemic, but rather a nudge towards a more thoughtful, local, and sustainable approach to how we can make and use things going forward.

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09.20.21

Sighted

Tero Kuitunen’s New Ceramics Collection Was Inspired By Growing Up in a Doughnut Factory

Growing up in Finland, the designer Tero Kuitunen spent much of his free time at the doughnut factory his family owned in the port city of Kotka. Now, for his first solo exhibition, Kuitonen is mining those forms and memories for a collection of ceramics he's showing at a former deli in the Kämp Galleria in Helsinki.

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09.18.21

Saturday Selects

Week of September 13, 2021

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week, a high-flying furniture debut by Campbell-Rey, an immersive interior and new rug collection by Cold Picnic, and a poufy Lulu LaFortune sofa inspired by... Britney?

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09.15.21

Up and Coming

Three New Collections in Metal That Get Creative With Industrial Parts

We recently noticed a fascination, shared among three up-and-coming designers from two different parts of the globe — Sebastian Kommer, Jinyeong Yeon, and Nice Workshop — with using off-the-shelf metal materials in new, more beautiful ways. The concept itself is nothing new, but it underscores just how much endless versatility can be found in industrial parts and profiles — and how they offer emerging designers access to industrial fabrication without the expensive factory tooling and MOQs.

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09.14.21

Fair Report

50 Products We Loved at The 2021 Salone del Mobile

Last week we attended the 2021 Salone del Mobile fair — postponed to September this year because of the pandemic — and we're documenting our favorite finds in two stories, today and tomorrow. Today it's new releases by brands and studios, from a Muller Van Severen carpet to a Teklan kitchen.

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09.13.21

Fair Report

19 Projects We Loved at The 2021 Salone del Mobile — AKA the Supersalone

Last week we attended the 2021 Salone del Mobile fair — postponed to September this year because of the pandemic — and we're documenting our favorite finds in two stories, today and tomorrow. Today it's the group shows and galleries, from Nilufar to Alcova to Hermes.

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