If the market’s latest debuts have any lesson to tell, it’s that the design community indeed works better together. From Daniel Arsham’s Surrealist-inspired bath fixtures for Kohler to Tase Gallery’s animalistic styles for Nordic Knots, 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.
Henry Holland x Harlequin
London fashion designer turned ceramicist Henry Holland’s brazen aesthetic translates seamlessly to textiles. Taking cues from nerikomi, the Japanese pottery technique of stacking and cutting colored clay, Holland’s debut lineup of fabrics and wallpapers for Harlequin features organic forms and warm hues that pull directly from his own earthenware and glass creations. Consider Southborough, a hypnotic chevron ombré, or Blenets Check, a large-scale check emphasized in pile with embroidered bouclé. Some of the prints are Holland selects from the Harlequin archives, including floral Ludaix and moiré-style Elsworthy, which called to mind his family’s summer home in France and the flashy green suit he wore at his wedding, respectively.
Léa Zeroil x Modern Metier
Among the arresting product drops at Paris Design Week earlier this month was Léa Zeroil’s Solstice collection for the contemporary European design platform Modern Metier. Locally based Zeroil, who worked for AD100 designers India Mahdavi and Laura Gonzalez before striking out on her own, grew up in sunny, scenic Corsica, and that proximity to nature has informed the six pieces—a carved ash chair, two sand-casted brass and aluminum mirrors, and three lights—comprising Solstice. While the Vigne pendant, a dangling silk-wrapped sphere, recalls just-bloomed fruit, the Libra sconce, nestled into a glazed ceramic handle, nods to the solar disc in Egyptian mythology. Put simply: j’adore!
Mark D. Sikes x Samuel & Sons
Los Angeles designer Mark D. Sikes relishes time at Orange Hill Farm, his idyllic Ojai abode thronged with citrus trees. Unveiled this month, his collection of the same name for Samuel & Sons captures that appealingly slow-paced lifestyle in elegant cords, borders, and fringes in a refreshing palette of Leaf, Berry, Azure, Goldenrod, and more. City, an assemblage of rosettes, nods to Orange Hill Farm’s Georgian architectural influences, and Coastal’s stripes draw from the nearby Pacific Ocean. But it’s Country’s checks and frayed edges that evoke a truly rustic getaway.
Daniel Arsham x Kohler
When Daniel Arsham’s refined (and rentable) cabin opened at the Destination Kohler resort in Wisconsin over the summer, its bathroom, brimming with pieces from the New York artist’s Landshapes collection for Kohler, made a particularly stunning impression. Now that Landshapes has officially launched to the public, fans can replicate the Midwestern retreat by snatching up the likes of a vessel sink inspired by converging water droplets, a surreal birch mirror, and sconces that glow behind sheets of rippled glass. WasteLAB tiles crafted largely from recycled materials that conjure ridges of sand are an ideal backdrop for the freestanding bath reminiscent of Arsham’s eroded sculptures.
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Centered by Design x Isidore Leroy
As a child, Claire Staszak was gripped by Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, so it’s not surprising that Miss Havisham’s untamable garden sparked Paradis Perdu, one of the six designs in her Méditerranean Rêverie range of wallpapers for French heritage brand Isidore Leroy. Along with that majestic depiction of a rambling South of France landscape, Staszak, founder of Chicago-based AD PRO Directory firm Centered by Design, embraced lemon-adorned trellises, shell motifs, castle-inspired paneling, and Venetian marbling to pay homage to timeless European interiors.
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Tase Gallery x Nordic Knots
Jessie Andrews, the multihyphenate behind Tase Gallery in Los Angeles, has long adored Nordic Knots. After filling her home with the hand-woven, Scandinavian-style rugs, she pitched Nordic Knots founders Liza Berglund Laserow and Fabian Berglund on hatching a few of her own designs. Diamond, a restrained but whimsical geometric pattern in shades of dusty white and blush burgundy, is balanced with Tigris, an animal print that audaciously fuses brindle, zebra, and tiger elements. The three designs—retro in flavor, yet contemporary in scope—were fittingly lensed inside LA’s iconic Stahl House.
Xavier Donnelly x Tulip
Xavier Donnelly has vivid memories of his grandmother’s labyrinthine farm in northeastern Vermont, so the creative director of Ash—who recently turned heads with his alla prima painted wallpaper panels for Backdrop—had much to draw from when Tulip Shades invited him to design a four-piece capsule. Derived from Donnelly’s nostalgic illustrations of curving trees and exuberant botanicals, Caledonia takes the form of a classic drum, a graceful bell, or an ethereal paper lantern. For this hand-drawn print, Donnelly melded the idyllic foliage with crisp architectural lines, a nod to his own New York apartment.
Ryan Lawson x Ressource
New York designer Ryan Lawson believes color is integral to storytelling. And because the best stories are often told around a dinner table, the 12 bespoke shades of paint he developed for French maker Ressource are a tightly edited ode to food and drink. There’s calming sunchoke and dry vermouth, for instance, as well as punchy persimmon and brooding Porto. Although each hue can stand on its own brilliantly, Lawson designed the palette with adventurous combinations in mind, their layers telling an even richer narrative. Something worth savoring, indeed.
Beata Heuman x Mille Notti
At the age of 15, Swedish-born, London–based designer Beata Heuman was gifted Mille Notti sheets that she still loves using today. More than 25 years later, the Stockholm textile house has called upon Heuman to bring to life the Durham bedspread, a reimagining of the antique double-sided Durham quilts flaunting intricate patterns and contrasting colors that she’s long been collecting. It pairs well with the crisp powder pink and powder blue percale sheets that take their hues from late 19th-century unglazed English porcelain, as well as the pillowcase and duvet cover embellished with piping that Heuman likens to hand-painted details on ceramics. Maximalists, however, will gravitate to Willow, the navy percale print that reinterprets an 18th-century plate Heuman snagged in Cornwall on a grand scale.
Jeffrey Alan Marks x The Rug Company
Bicoastal interior designer Jeffrey Alan Marks relishes life on the water, and Lost at Sea, his debut assemblage for the Rug Company, reflects his reverence for coastal landscapes with a nautical mélange of tranquil blues and seagrass greens rendered in silk and wool. Fantastical Dunemere, for example, references the ethereal sand dollars found at one of Marks’s favorite beaches, Avalon calls to mind the wildflowers sprouting on Catalina Island, and Miramar depicts a vintage fishing net. Windansea, meanwhile, is an ode to his early surfing days in La Jolla. With these dreamy blue and white abstracts, good luck not getting carried away.
Jungalow x Paperless Post
Travel fuels much of artist, designer, and author Justina Blakeney’s work, and a sense of wanderlust indeed pervades the Jungalow founder’s Paperless Post invitations for birthdays, weddings, baby showers, dinner parties, and housewarmings. A glamorous Art Deco palm tree and animals cavorting in the savanna are just as transporting as the trippy geometric and mud cloth borders that instill excitement for upcoming fêtes.
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