…Dunn-Edwards just released its 2025 Color of the Year, adding another notch to this season’s earthbound belt: Caramelized (DET687), a soft fawn reminiscent of lattes and aged terra-cotta, was selected for its vintage appeal and consumers’ curiosities toward saturated hues.
Project Spotlight
Glass blocks and green stucco rep downtown glamor at the Billy Cotton–designed Bridges
For the past year, chef Sam Lawrence (formerly of Estela), alongside hospitality vets Nicolas Mouchel and Josey Stuart, have been combining their expertise to open a European bistro in Manhattan. To tap into their spot’s downtown ethos, the trio tapped industry titan Billy Cotton to design an interior swank enough to match the food at Bridges. Now, as guests devour heady Comté tarts and sherry-spiked grilled king crab in the 2,300-square-foot space, they have AD100 designer Billy Cotton to thank for the moody Art Deco–meets–Futurist surroundings. Green stucco pairs with antique Chinese tea paper at Cotton’s inaugural restaurant project, which first entices diners with a glass brick foyer that nods to Chatham Square’s brutalist architecture. This materiality sets the tone for a dining room that mingles rich cherry wood and leather banquettes with red marble-embedded concrete floors, lit above by gleaming chrome fixtures from neighboring design studio Blue Green Works.
Exhibitions
A hundred years of Svenskt Tenn
Estrid Ericson founded Svenskt Tenn in 1924, and the Stockholm store and studio have been synonymous with Swedish interiors ever since. At nearby gallery Liljevalchs, where Ericson frequently exhibited, London-based Jane Withers and Svenskt Tenn’s own Karin Södergren have curated Svenskt Tenn: A Philosophy of Home (on view through January 12) to honor Ericson’s legacy. Shaped in large part by Svenskt Tenn’s long-term collaboration with Austrian architect and designer Josef Frank beginning in the 1930s, the centenary retrospective unfurls in 13 rooms. Vibrant table settings, textiles, and furniture in each pay tribute to different eras of the company’s history. Look for 1920s pewter objects and the soft, cocooning 1934 Liljevalchs sofa—Frank’s first piece for Svenskt Tenn—as well as his and Ericson’s São Paulo living room, conceived for the Swedish Consul in the 1950s. These installations are rounded out by archival treasures such as Frank’s never-before-seen pattern drawings and glimpses into the craftsmanship (see: cane bending and cabinet making) that feature prominently in Svenskt Tenn designs.
Vibrant architectural drawings take over A83
For its ongoing Architectural Drawing series, nonprofit printmaking studio and gallery A83 tasks emerging architects and designers to share their architectural drawings through the experimental lens of the studio’s printmaking. The third installment of the exhibition series, featuring fantastical, large-format silkscreens by Bureau Spectacular, Drawing Architecture Studio, Gore/Hall, Gus Crain, Michael Robinson Cohen, MOS, and Young Projects, is now on view through November 17 at the A83 Gallery in New York.
AD PRO Hears…
…sculptural wunderkind Brian Rochefort’s latest surrealist creations are on view at Sean Kelly—his first exhibition with the gallery after gaining representation this year. If you’re on the West Coast and in the mood for some terrestrial, avant-garde ceramics, look no further than “Staring at the Moon” (through November 2).
Openings
In LA, Armani/Casa exits the design center for a sunny street-level façade
Last month’s grand opening of Armani/Casa on N Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles means more than just sophisticated new digs—the 3,500-square-foot standalone store marks the label’s first foray away from design center showrooms. The façade’s plaster white coat carries into the bilevel boutique’s modern interior, brand classics including the curved Classic Tub chair, tripod-shaped Ramage floor lamp, and hand-knotted striped Max rug are on display. After a stroll through the stylish showroom, take a break on the secluded backyard terrace and courtyard, which showcases Armani/Casa’s recently introduced outdoor collection. Teak loungers topped with performance jacquard cushions? Don’t mind if we do.
