01.27.20
Sighted
A Colorful New Furniture Collection Inspired By Stonehenge
Six pieces of furniture, hand-built from ash in Northeast England and stained with brightly colored pigments, form the core of Darkroom's 10th anniversary collection.
01.25.20
Saturday Selects
Week of January 20, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a look inside the quirky home of a Dutch curator, two separate group exhibitions of furniture by up-and-coming Canadian talents, and a new hotel that doubles as a design showroom (above).
01.24.20
Gift Guides
Always Wanted to Own a Matisse? Now You Can — No, Really
Ever since October of last year, it's become a little bit easier to recreate a piece of the French painter's joie de vivre at home without a dorm poster: Maison Matisse was founded last year by the fourth generation Matisse family, and it seeks to showcase the artist's world and aesthetic through a series of home collections and limited-edition objects. With the launch came short-lived vases by the likes of the Bouroullecs, Jaime Hayon, and Alessandro Mendini, but now the brand has launched its first official collection.
01.23.20
Fair Report
The Colored Glass Coffee Table You’ve Been Looking For
If you've been paying attention, the German brand Pulpo has been quietly releasing some of the most adventurous mass-produced items around over the past few years, but this might be our favorite collection yet.
01.21.20
Excerpt: Exhibition
A New Exhibition Puts a Spotlight on the Growing Canadian Design Scene
The Canadian design scene has majorly been growing in numbers, talent, and organizational prowess over the past few years; the most recent wish-we'd-been-there exhibition, organized by Jamie Wolfond and MSDS Studio, asked designers across Canada to create prototypes and sculptures made from machined aluminum.
02.02.18
Current Obsession
Set Your eBay Alert for These Amazing, Vintage Kaj Franck Goblets
Our jaws hit the floor in utter surprise and delight last week when, in the process of researching our underrated glassware story, we discovered a glass-related pastime of Finnish designer Kaj Franck's that we had no idea existed (and one that pretty much flies in the face of what we always thought of as his minimal, MCM oeuvre): making elaborate art-glass goblets.
01.18.20
Saturday Selects
Week of January 13, 2020
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: An edible club chair made from bread, a floral pop-up channeling summer in Miami, an exhibition of oil pastels going viral on Instagram, and a coffee table death match by one of our favorite Danish brands.
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.
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.
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.
01.14.20
American Design Hot List
The 2019 American Design Hot List, Part II
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.
01.13.20
American Design Hot List
The 2019 American Design Hot List, Part I
Today 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 the honorees — get to know the first four Hot List designers after the jump.
01.13.20
American Design Hot List
Announcing Our 2019 American Design Hot List Honorees
Today we’re pleased to announce the honorees of our seventh annual American Design Hot List, an unapologetically subjective editorial award for the 20 names to know now in American design.