Welcome to the new Sight Unseen, a weekly newsletter that delivers the best of the design world — news, trends, shopping advice, interviews, travel recs, and more — straight to your inbox. If you’re not subscribed, follow this link to sign up. Want to partner with us, advertise, or submit your work? Email us at hello@sightunseen.com! A Cinematic New Hotel Lands in Stockholm For a new aparthotel in Stockholm, Note Design Studio refreshed the interior of a 1960s-era low-rise with color-blocked walls, vintage Swedish tapestries, and custom storage. Photos: Riikka Kantinkoski When we return to Stockholm in February for the annual furniture fair, we’ll be refreshing Sight Unseen’s official and excellent guide to the Swedish capital with the best places to stay, eat, drink, visit, and shop. But we already have one new contender: The Finnish hospitality company Bob W recently opened its first Stockholm property inside a Functionalist 1967 concrete low-rise, its interiors preserved and elevated by Note Design Studio. The apartment hotel features 54 studios, but each one had a different size and shape at the outset; to pull everything together, Note created a collection of beds, seating, kitchens, and storage that could thread throughout, with cabinet and drawer pulls shaped like blocky, ink-stained buttons. Monochromatic corridors lined with old Swedish tapestries link the rooms, and in the common spaces, vintage furniture, high-gloss tile, and contemporary works like a modular sofa — designed by Note for Lammhults — create a distinctly cinematic mood. As Bob W co-founder Niko Karstikko put it: “The design has a Kaurismäki ambiance; you wonder where the guy with the cigarette is.” This Renovated 19th-Century Guest House is a Preview of Things to Come The new interiors studio Betyle’s ingenious solution for thick walls in this 19th-century outbuilding? An internal wooden framework that’s both decorative and functional. Photos: Mathilde Hiley Based between Marseille and Paris, Betyle is a new interiors firm led by Nicolas Cazenave de la Roche and Carla Romano, and their first interior is the renovation of an early 19th-century outbuilding in the south of France (top of post and above). A hybrid office and guest room, the space features — say it with me now — glass bricks and stainless steel, and its thick walls are covered with a plywood sheath that stretches almost to the ceiling. The wooden framework is both functional and decorative; notched into the corners where two … Continue reading Our top picks from Collectible, an under-the-radar Greek sculptor, and more