05.15.20
Pedro Paulo Venzon
Pedro Paulo Venzon first made a name for himself with delicate metal chairs and tables that appeared almost weightless, but lately he's been immersing himself in wood.
02.04.16
Up and Coming
Pedro Paulo Venzon Is the Hip New Face of Brazilian Design
History looms large over Brazilian design — how to compete with tropical modernism? Sergio Rodrigues? Lina Bo Bardi? Everyone's got it pegged, which is why the work of Pedro Paulo Venzon is so exciting: He's the first young up-and-coming Brazilian designer we've seen who's totally nailing the delicate balance between paying homage to the legacy of his forebears, and developing an aesthetic that's new, cool, and relevant to the international contemporary scene.
06.13.20
Sight Unseen OFFSITE
Acid Camo, Ombré Glass, and Palm Tree Lights: It’s Part III of Our Offsite Selects Round-Up
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 third and final group here.
11.13.19
Sight Unseen Presents
We Asked 10 Designers to Make Us a Birthday Card — Here Are the Results
For our last bit of 10th anniversary content this week, we followed a tradition set forth on our first and fifth birthdays — asking a select group of designers to make us a "birthday card." This year, without any prompting by us, most of the submissions centered around something we often try to publish on the site — sneak peeks into a designer's practice in the form of as-yet-unpublished designs.
07.01.19
Current Obsession
Here’s One Design Trend We Never Expected to Be Tracking: Furniture With Tiny Balls
Though it likely dates back much further, we traced the trend's first modern appearance back to Wiener Werkstätte–era Josef Hoffmann, who used tiny wooden spheres as decorative and structural flourishes in his Fledermaus series, among others. Balls also had a resurgence during the Memphis era. But the new trend feels more refined.
03.30.19
Saturday Selects
Week of March 25, 2019
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: A new book that reveals hidden Gerrit Rietveld interiors, brand new furniture releases by two American design studios, two major ceramics discoveries, and the latest dispatch from our imaginary sister site, Sight Unseen Bathrooms.
08.11.18
Saturday Selects
Week of August 6, 2018
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week took us around the globe and back, with the discovery of two Taiwanese talents, new tables made in Portugal by our favorite Brazilian designer, a minimalist flower shop in Russia (pictured), PLUS an extremely gorgeous way to get out the vote right here at home.
03.24.18
Saturday Selects
Week of March 19, 2018
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: more furniture made from found IKEA chairs, more fat, cylindrical-legged furniture, and a glimpse inside a 12th-century castle inhabited by a 21st-century couple.
01.26.18
Excerpt: Magazine
10 Designers on Their Favorite Dining Chairs
When you love design as much as we do, it can be hard to choose your favorite, well, anything. If asked to choose our favorite dining chair of all time, for example, would we pick a luxurious Milo Baughman? Or something more classic like Breuer's Cesca chair? That's exactly the question we posed to 10 designers around the world in our role as guest editors of the second-ever issue of MOLD Magazine.
01.21.18
Saturday Selects
Week of January 15, 2018
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Rudolf Schindler is the new go-to design influence, sage is officially "the new neutral," and the last bastion of forgotten 1980s decor — seashells — makes its way into the Zeitgeist.
04.15.17
Saturday Selects
Week of April 10, 2017
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: more good things from Milan (including our picks for MVP), artist- and architect-designed carpets, and a chill-out zone for reading and record-listening (so analog!) in the middle of Manhattan.
04.04.17
Sighted
The Best Thing We Saw in Milan Today, Day 1
Sight Unseen is on the ground at the Milan Furniture Fair this week and we’ll be bringing you loads and loads of coverage next week! But until our rounds here are done, we’ll be featuring quick hits from some of our favorite things that caught our eye. First up: We had to cross an ocean to find a collection designed in our own backyard, Matter-Made's gorgeous new line.