AD100 designer Robert Stilin and gallerist Sarah Gavlak are longtime friends, so the duo’s transformation of West Palm Beach’s historic Norton House was a deeply personal project. For “Living with Art and Design” (on view through March 16), Stilin layered rooms with furniture, lighting, and accessories culled from nearly a dozen top New York galleries and designers like The Campana Brothers, Ashley Hicks, and Max Lamb, effortlessly mingle with contemporary paintings, sculptures, and installations from Gavlak’s local and LA galleries, reinforcing the relationship between fine art and high-end functional design.
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…Cambridge, Massachusetts, has gained a new creation. American artist Sanford Biggers’s Madrigal sculpture—an origami-shaped number covered in quilting patterns—is officially standing tall outside the SANAA-designed MIT music hall.
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Forget cake—Cressida Bell celebrates with stunning silk scarves
Upon graduating from the Royal College of Art, Cressida Bell continued the family tradition (her grandmother was Bloomsbury Group founding member Vanessa Bell) and established her London studio in 1984. In the decades since, she has designed jubilant interiors and patterns for everything from textiles to lampshades to greeting cards. To commemorate the studio’s 40-year milestone, Bell has unveiled an array of limited-edition silk scarves that pull from her archive of hand-painted artworks. Toiles de Jouy–reminiscent borders, rustic botanicals that recall William Morris, and dramatic tassels are just a few of the starring motifs that capture the American Southwest and formal Italian gardens in tandem.
Stone source Anastasio Home unveils debut furniture capsule
In Canton, Connecticut, Anastasio Home’s showroom teems with decorative trays, vases, and decor—all hewn from beautifully veined, richly tonal stone. As of this week, the label, which partners with a stone atelier in Rajasthan, India, has unveiled its inaugural furniture designs with the fluidly-formed Single Origin collection. The monolithic pieces include an emerald-hued throne and a stacked cherry-gold coffee table with eye-catching veining. The design showroom is keen on metal, too, as seen in the likes of an undulating aluminum side table and patinaed brass lamp.
