This Parisian Doctor’s Office is More Chic Than Almost Any Apartment We’ve Seen

Designer Alessandro Moriconi — who cut his teeth working as an artistic director for luxury brands as well as a creative director for the indubitably chic studio Humbert & Poyet — conceived the space as something like a Milanese apartment, combining terrazzo, walnut paneling, and Murano glass, graphic rugs, marble tables, and accents like Greco-Roman sculptures and "woven" glass door handles.

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11.23.20

Sighted

Run, Don’t Walk, To This Archive Sale Featuring 50 Years of Vintage IKEA

Called BILLY, an one-off online archive sale of discontinued vintage IKEA products — happening this Thursday — is the brainchild of artist Harry Stayt, whose interest in IKEA began five years ago when researching the sculptural possibilities of modular and flat-pack furniture at Camberwell College of Arts.

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11.12.20

Interiors

This New York Residence Deftly Mixes Vintage and Custom — and Tile for Miles

Chances are, if you've eaten out in New York or LA in the past five years, you're familiar with some of the details that recur in this New York residence. After all, its interior design team, Home Studios, is responsible for such cozy elements as the channeled paneling at The Spaniard, the archways and tile at Bibo in LA, the copper accents at Ramona in Greenpoint, and the globular pendants at the sadly shuttered Five Leaves in East Hollywood. This 2,000-square-foot gut renovation in Noho — Home's first residential project in New York — employs all of those details and more.

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10.03.20

Saturday Selects

Week of September 28, 2020

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: LRNCE makes her first lamps, a New York designer releases a Memphis-style mirror to rival the Ultrafragola, and India Mahdavi opens a project space for experimental installations like the one pictured above.

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11.16.19

Saturday Selects

Week of November 11, 2019

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: Sneak peeks from this weekend's Salon Art + Design Fair and the upcoming Design Miami, new rugs by Martino Gamper and Sigve Knutson, and a look inside a stunning home-turned-design-gallery in Los Angeles.

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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.

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