06.26.25| Sight Unseen
Despite a wane in the curated "Instagram aesthetic," hotels and restaurants still often must rely on vignettes that guests will be inclined to photograph, post, and tag as part of their organic — and free — marketing strategies. But for New York-based Islyn Studio, the aim is to lift these guests out of their digitally oriented lives entirely, and — even if for a brief spell — focus on the sensorial value of the space they’re in. “We reject trends and ‘Instagram moments’ in fa...| Sight Unseen
A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a renovated 1920s mansion available for rent in Paris, the latest in stained glass as a furniture material, and one Brooklyn designer's attempt to bring back flatware manufacturing in America.| Sight Unseen
In many bedrooms, it’s often what goes on the bed that adds personality to a space. Bold-patterned sheets, colorful comforters, punchy pillows — all of these are used as aesthetic signifiers while the bed itself often falls into the background. But, as we saw in Milan this year, there’s a resurging trend for fun iterations of headboards, bases, and frames — whether they’re unusually shaped, exaggeratedly oversized, expressively crafted, or just pretty to look at. While exciting expe...| Sight Unseen
Truly memorable hotel design isn’t just about seamless check-ins, good sheets, and moody lighting (though we’ll happily take them all). It’s about spaces that linger in your brain long after you’ve hopped on your return flight. Now that summer is in full swing, we’ve found three new spots that hit that sweet spot — a chef-owned escape in the French countryside, a five-star retreat on the Cap d’Antibes waterfront, and a bold newcomer in Houston, steps away from the Museum District.| Sight Unseen
A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: a book that dives into the modernist architecture of Fire Island, wooden vases embroidered with delicate blooms, and a Wong Kar-Wai–inspired interior in LA's Silver Lake neighborhood.| Sight Unseen
In New Hampshire-based artist Danielle Fretwell’s still life paintings, what is visible is often just as important as what is obscured. Fretwell’s work first caught our eye at NADA New York last month; presented by London-based Alice Amati gallery, Fretwell’s seductive, hyperrealistic oil on canvas works featuring fruit, fish, candles, vases, and other tableware stood out among the over 120 booths at the bustling art fair. Depicting these items on what appears to be silken table linens ...| Sight Unseen
This week: Formafantasma's first US solo show, a new housewares line that pairs Greek art with Swedish craftsmanship, and two new design shops in Brooklyn.| Sight Unseen
When the Ace Hotel opened in Manhattan in 2009, it established a blueprint for the idea of a hotel lobby as a living room for the city. With its Stumptown Coffee, Opening Ceremony outpost, April Bloomfield-helmed restaurant, rows of laptop-friendly desks (in an era before WeWork, no less), vintage-inspired photo booth, and a bustling events calendar, the Ace was as much a hangout for locals as it was a haven for travelers. Ace continued to imprint this model as it opened in cities around the ...| Sight Unseen
Since 2021, Lisa Mayock — former co-founder of the beloved aughts fashion label Vena Cava — has been bringing her eye for shapes, proportion, pattern, and texture to interior design with Monogram. Mayock’s Altadena-based studio recently refreshed an 1890s Craftsman home in Pasadena for a family of five, and Mayock wanted the interior to reflect the “vibrant and high energy” way the family lives. While previous iterations of the space before its current residents moved in skewed more...| Sight Unseen
A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the best launches from Melbourne Design Week, another super-sleek USM collab — this time in pink! — plus a special edition Gaetano Pesce vase debuting at the Philip Johnson Glass House.| Sight Unseen
If you're heading to the 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen soon, we're guessing your schedule is already packed with exhibition visits and design aperitivos. But there's also a good chance that, if you're anything like us, you always carve out at least a little time for mandatory design sightseeing, too? With Scandinavia being a goldmine for mid-century anything, it's definitely folly to go to a place like Copenhagen without digging for architectural gems, and this year, we're making it...| Sight Unseen
