Sight unseen

“Imagery really speaks to us and it’s how we communicate to our clients,” say the partners behind Daytrip Studio. The challenge is to make it unusual.

This week: a design gallery debuts in Ibiza and a member’s club opens in Mallorca, plus a lighting collection influenced by Mexico’s flora, a tiny vase necklace, and a one-off lamp made from a weathered brick.

Field Tiles is using the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration as a platform to unveil renderings of its debut tile collection in fantastically vibrant settings.

A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the New York debut of the Collectible design fair — featuring yours truly! — plus a sunny new store on the Aegean coast, R&Company's new American triennial, and the chicest reissue from Knoll.

Normally we would say that an office doesn't have any business looking this good. But Ceremony of Roses — whose new offices were designed by Dean Levin of the LA studio 22RE in collaboration with Madeline Denley of Never Far Studios — is the merch and branding arm of Sony Music, and as such has a constant stream of global talents coming through, from Adele to Olivia Rodrigo (whose merch, we would argue, is impeccable.) The office is housed in a former 1950s factory in Culver City, and it…

September 25, 2022Before tech startups made San Francisco the epicenter of global digital disruption, it was a famously provincial town. Curiously, in terms of interior design, it still is. Sure, there are lots of great contemporary designers composing spare, luxe interiors for youthful tech titans, but for a place that is today so culturally diverse […]

Spanish studio Sierra + De La Higuera has used traditional Moroccan zellige tiles to define the different spaces in this open-plan apartment in Madrid.

Parts and Labor Design, the NYC interiors studio noted for its atmospheric hospitality projects, launched Known Work and its first collection last month.

Paris-based designer Jonathan Cohen has been working in wood for only a couple of years. Initially trained as a graphic designer, his eye for flat compositions naturally transferred into the three-dimensional world of furniture, with his creations quickly catching the eye of top architects and designers and local galleries. “When you have knowledge of good proportion, shape, and balance, you can design a letter or furniture,” Cohen says. “For me, it’s almost the same.” What lends the…

Los Angeles, nightpalm.com Before launching her interior design studio, Howell started out as a music video director and head of fashion photographer Herb Ritts’ music video agency. Music — and, perhaps, Ritts’ glamorous photographic eye — still informs everything she does. Howell’s interiors are lush, moody, filled with both iconic and obscure pieces of vintage — often European — and with a special eye for art. She’ll often say things to clients like “I want your house to feel like David…