If the market’s latest debuts have any lesson to tell, it’s that the design community indeed works better together. From Barber Osgerby’s elegantly planar candlesticks for Puiforcat to Beata Heuman’s go-to palette of Mylands paints, industry brands across categories are coming together to bring thoughtful new offerings to designers’ tool kits. Looking for the latest in furniture, decor, lighting, and beyond? Meet the industry’s latest dynamic duos.
Barber Osgerby x Puiforcat
Outside of Paris, in Poissy, the Villa Savoye beckons to architecture buffs. Completed by Le Corbusier in 1931, the modernist reinforced concrete marvel seemingly floats, propped up by slender stilts. These pillars, known as pilotis, informed the design of Barber Osgerby’s candlesticks and candelabra in a collection of the same name for French silversmith Puiforcat. To emphasize the sleek, solid silver silhouettes, the London-based industrial design studio played with right angles and curves and incorporated geometric rectangles into circular bases that seemingly vanish from different perspectives.
Gert Voorjans x Carpet Society
When renovating the soon-to-open Shangri-La Hangzhou hotel, Antwerp-based Gert Voorjans was entranced by its proximity to scenic West Lake. So, as he dreamed up the vibrant Joy collection for Carpet Society, rugs hand-knotted in India and Nepal of hemp, cotton, jute, and 100% New Zealand wool, the UNESCO World Heritage Site once again served as muse for the oval-shaped Megalopolis. Emblazoned with a striking lotus flower, it calls to mind ancient China, a powerful complement to the other patterns—thick geometric stripes, a bold fusion of oceanic blues representing water and sky, and a fiery swirl of red and orange.
Szilvassy x In Common With
Felicia Hung and Nick Ozemba, founders of the Brooklyn design studio In Common With, first introduced their minimalist Disc Surface Mount in 2019. Now, as part of their limited-edition Curio series, the duo has called upon artist Shari Lowndes to gracefully reimagine the light fixture entirely in ceramic. Referencing her family’s migration to Australia following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, Lowndes, founder of Melbourne studio Szilvassy, hand-threw each piece using native Australian black midfire and white raku clays, then heightened the luminaires with rich glazes. More of Szilvassy’s creations, including dishes, jars, and vessels, can be found exclusively in New York at Quarters, In Common With’s convivial concept store and gathering space in Tribeca.
Sam Baron x Mateus
In 2018, Lisbon-based French designer Sam Baron teamed up with Yatzer on a monochrome tableware range for the 25th anniversary of Mateus. It was such a hit that it sparked a long-term collaboration with the purveyor of Swedish-designed, Portuguese-made ceramics, including last year’s launch of the Flowers collection. This month, Baron debuts a sophomore setting with the Blossom dinner and side plates, rendered in fresh teal and denim blues and made for mixing with the rest of the collection’s Tulip and Water Lilies assortment. With Blossom, the hand-painted garlands romantically meander across a background of white glazing
Tammy Price x RH
For more than three decades, Tammy Price has crafted relaxed California interiors that meld organic materials with grounding neutral hues. Now, the founder of Los Angeles–based AD PRO Directory studio Fragments Identity translates that sensibility into a trifecta of RH textile collections spanning pillow covers, throws, and beach towels in such earthy shades as burnt caramel and washed black. Mojave’s jacquard-woven striped and banded motifs recall the windswept desert, while the yarn-dyed wool embraced in Taos, New Mexico, mimics the landscape’s textural nuances. Terrain, a blend of wool, silk, and hemp, evokes the canyon through color-blocking, top-stitching, and batik details.
Mary Matson x Temple Studio
Seaside revelry courses through Los Angeles artist and illustrator Mary Matson’s work. The FOMO-inducing scenes are on full display in the artist’s new assemblage of wallpapers and fabrics for Temple Studio, which cull from her carefree sketches and photographs. There are chunky beach towel stripes, nostalgic sun prints, and resilient dune flowers, as well as abstract odes to Santa Monica’s postmodernist 1980s town homes. But most transporting are Matson’s whimsical takes on Southern California icons like surfing hotspot Rincon Point and Venice Skatepark depicting locals in motion.
Beata Heuman x Mylands
Known for injecting her interiors with bolts of electrifying colors, Beata Heuman has, for years, longed to develop a luminous paint collection. This season, the Swedish-born, London-based AD100 talent has joined forces with fifth-generation, family-owned British paint maker Mylands to hatch 24 trusty, naturally pigmented shades for every occasion. Dubbed the Dependables, the water- and plant-based colors run the gamut from golden Wheatsheaf and glamorous chartreuse Caca d’Oie to Crayfish Party and Stockholm, ideal for vivid punches of red and blue, respectively. Overwhelmed? Of course there’s the no-fail, versatile, and warm Beata White too.
Eny Lee Parker x CC Tapis
During Mexico City Art Week last month, the late-1940s-designed Casa-Estudio Max Cetto was enlivened by a site-specific installation curated by Studio 84 featuring Clay Scan, Eny Lee Parker’s new rugs for CC-Tapis. Building upon her hand-sculpting process, the New York designer captured the malleability and tactility of 3D clay through a scanner. Those impressions, forged by rolling, pressing, and shaping techniques, were then transformed into Himalayan wool rugs brought to life at the CC-Tapis atelier in Nepal in tones of creamy white and deep terracotta brown.
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