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Face Me

What does it mean for a piece of furniture to shape the space around it? Giancarlo Valle’s new Smile Sofa is the answer in form.  

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Sahir Ahmed

Collaborative Living

Friends and collaborators Robert Stilin and Sarah Gavlak join forces for a collective presentation in Palm Beach.

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Jane Lewis

Min and Max

Helena Christensen has held a passion for Danish design her whole life. As the new global artistic director of BoConcept, the supermodel promises no shortage of surprises.

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Rachel Summer Small

Knoll's New NYC Space

The modern design brand’s New York City flagship celebrates its past and sets the tone for its future.

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Teller Thomas

Re-Imagining Houseware

Puiforcat's latest collection in collaboration with design studio Barber Osgerby combines classical craftsmanship with modern design.

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Emily Simon

Heads or Tails

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.

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Laura Rysman

Legacy Lighting

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

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Althea Champion

Italian Icons

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

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Marcus Gabrielli

Shelf Life

Maximalist Kelly Wearstler is guided by a thirst for unexpected pairings. A look into her overfull downtown LA warehouse reveals lost vintage relics and rubberized treasures soon to come.

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Michelle Li

Painted Buildings

Adrian Gaut collaborates with Design Within Reach on a collection of exclusive prints that detail the overlooked moments of Mexico City's skyline. 

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Marcus Gabrielli

To the Woods

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

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Marcus Gabrielli

Steel Herself

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.

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Rachel Summer Small

Calling Collectible

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

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Althea Champion

Modern Classic

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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Marcus Gabrielli

Working From Home

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.

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Rachel Summer Small
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Salon Art + Design Announces 2024 Lineup

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Lila Gamble

Inheritance

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.

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Glenn Adamson

Formafantasma a Casa

A fateful return to Italy from the Netherlands has imbued Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin with a new appreciation for the land that raised them—and the new world they’ve created there together.

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Laura May Todd

A God Called Time

Fueled by curiosity, the late Gaetano Pesce’s radical, multidisciplinary approach to making carved a path for a new generation of polymaths, including trailblazing artist and DJ Awol Erizku, with whom he shared one of his final conversations.

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Ann Binlot

Beauty is Key

One century ago, Svenskt Tenn made a colorful splash in the throes of Sweden’s modernism movement. Today, Maria Veerasamy is leading the design brand to new horizons, while honoring its legacy.

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Saskia Neuman

Home Bound

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.

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Sophia Roe

Birds of a Feather

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.

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Tina Isaac-Goizé

Tomorrow’s Parties

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.

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Beverly Nguyen

Nature Walk

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.

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Rachel Summer Small

Mapping Utopia

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.

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Meka Boyle