Design

Nestled between Italian oak trees and the Mediterranean Sea, Casa Dinosauro at once blends in and stands out from its environment. Up close, natural materials mimic organic shapes; zoom out and a prehistoric gamble lives on.

Flos and Bottega Veneta reimagine Gino Sarfatti’s iconic Model 600 table lamp in a natural progression of the lamp’s original form.

Flos celebrates its influential design history in a visual campaign merging architecture, lifestyle, and light. 

In Los Angeles, the artist duo Base 10 presents a collection of arboreal furniture reminiscent of their origins.

A New York show of the late French designer Maria Pergay puts forth a selection of her work spanning decades, demonstrating the timeless appeal of her imaginative designs—which were never afraid to take up space.

For its U.S. premiere, the Brussels design fair Collectible brings independent designers, studios, and galleries to New York.

Nordic Knots and Jessie Andrews’ Tase Gallery debut a rug collection that is both contemporary and reminiscent of ‘70s Los Angeles. 

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David Kohn designs the spaces gallerists show their work, then he builds the places they live. A reverence for the transformative nature of a space animates each of his architectural projects, where rooms spark dialogue with that which they hold.

Both Nicole McLaughlin, whose beloved remixes of everyday objects have set the Internet ablaze, and Aska Yamashita, the artistic director of Chanel-owned Atelier Montex, have certain material fascinations. As it turns out, the two designers seem cut from the same cloth—even half a world and a generation apart.

Herman Miller is reviving two pieces from a pivotal moment in design history: a chair and table designed by Gilbert Rohde displaying modernist influences that were ahead of their time in the lineage of avant-garde American tastes.

While the late sculptor JB Blunk’s holistic art and design philosophy has only come to light in recent years, his hand-built family home in the woods of Inverness, California, preserved by daughter Mariah Nielson, reveals his influence runs generations deep.

Marcus Samuelsson’s debut furniture collection is ripe with memories from his childhood of growing up in a Swedish fishing village, the colors and patterns of Africa, and the many dreams and laughs shared around the table.

Christian Dior spent his childhood enamored with Japanese art and translated its sensibilities into his legendary designs. Now, Cordelia de Castellane has found new life in his bird and cherry blossom motifs.

Athena Calderone’s name became synonymous with her aesthetic—earth tones and minimalistic, white-on-white decor—until her designs took on a life of their own. Inside her new, moody New York apartment, another adventure awaits.

Alex Tieghi-Walker’s first group exhibition at his eponymous New York gallery evokes the mysterious, ancient, and often enchanted qualities of the remote, forested landscape through newly commissioned artworks and objects by nearly two dozen artists and designers.

Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta close their eyes and envision a free-flowing future where different ideas coexist and nature is an equilibrant. When they open them, the duo behind DRIFT channel this paradigm shift into kinetic sculptures, some of which exist by recontextualizing familiar relics, an approach they share with the designer Bjarke Ingels.

Pink Essay creates exhibitions and online experiences that examine the weird and wonderful ways design manifests. From London to Seoul, these six up-and-coming makers from its international community are at the vanguard of our built environments.

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Marc Newson has made it all—and then remade it twice over. Though a few relics from his iconic industrial and interior practice mingle with personal matters inside his family’s Victoria, London flat, the prolific designer reassures Maison Alaïa creative director Pieter Mulier that he’s hardly stuck in a storage unit.

In Common With debuts a sprawling 8,000-square foot concept shop and creative gathering space in TriBeCa, New York, with a mural by Italian artist Claudio Bonuglia as its crown jewel.

A drastic change of scenery sparked a new chapter in Simone-Bodmer-Turner’s creative endeavors. Now, her modernist-inspired aesthetic readily embraces natural motifs.