In the South of France, a Home Built Into the Limestone Cliffs is Your Newest Luxury Destination

L’Étoile des Baux offers a dedicated concierge, swimming pool, open-air cinema, outdoor theater, a gym, a boules court, a children’s playhouse, and the ability to hire a chef on-demand — all wrapped up in a home built into the limestone cliffs of Les Baux-de-Provence, with gorgeous interiors by the French designer Joséphine Fossey.

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02.24.22

Up and Coming

Olivia Cognet’s Very Provence–Meets–Palm Springs Ceramic Murals

With a color palette drawn largely from nature, Olivia Cognet’s aesthetic of geometric lines and sculptural excrescences is heightened by elegant crackle glazes and tactile textures. Exploring a dialogue between Brutalist influences and feminine discourse, architecture and art, Cognet's often large-scale works — from lamps to monumental bas-reliefs — embrace the irregular, inspired by her design idols, Roger Capron and Jean Derval.

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06.02.21

Interiors

This Milanese Apartment Bridges the Gap Between a Memphis Aesthetic and Old-School Italian Glamour

When the Spanish firm Puntofilipino set out to design this apartment in Milan, the goal was not only to find a style that somehow bridged the divide between period interiors and a more contemporary, Memphis-inspired aesthetic, but also to serve as a kind of rebuke to the austerity of mid-century modernism. We'd say they hit the mark.

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03.26.21

Interiors

This Joshua Tree Artist’s Retreat is the Visual Equivalent of an Earworm

We can't get this Joshua Tree artist's retreat, designed by up-and-comers Petronio, out of our heads, looking as it does like it was plopped down in the middle of California desert from the hills of Tuscany.

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09.01.20

Excerpt: Exhibition

Murals Reign At This Exhibition in the South of France, Celebrating Centuries-Old Craft Techniques

Antique-Rustique is an immersive experience and the furniture and decorative sculptures are best viewed in situ among the murals painted directly onto the walls at a mano studio, a gallery in Biarritz, France. For the layout, designers Bella Hunt & DDC imagined a walk amongst ancient ruins lost in a forest. “Our work is a tribute to the history of art and the fluidity of time,” they write.

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09.10.15

Up and Coming

Chicago Artist Trek Matthews

If you’re a dedicated Sight Unseen reader, the name Trek Matthews may ring a bell since we featured his work just a few months ago — paintings of pastel-colored shapes, intersecting and receding into the distance, that were inspired by transit stations and the directional signage of Asia. This time we’re delving a little deeper into his inspiration and process as part of our series featuring the work of four artists who were commissioned to create large-scale installations at Dolby’s new headquarters in San Francisco.

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