If the market’s latest debuts have any lesson to tell, it’s that the design community indeed works better together. From Heidi Caillier’s heirloom-inspired lighting for Nickey Kehoe to Martha Stewart’s easy-to-clean tabletop textiles for Chilewich, 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.
Heidi Caillier x Nickey Kehoe
Propelled by her passion for antiques, Tacoma, Washington–based designer Heidi Caillier teamed up with go-to furniture and decor purveyor Nickey Kehoe on a capsule collection of heirloom table lamps. Take your pick from seven vintage fabric shades, including the gathered velvet plaid or the delicate florals on silk. We also adore the bias-cut striped shade, which calls to mind timeless jute webbing. All look best when crowning the hand-thrown matte brown ceramic base.
Laura Chautin x The Lawns
Keen to explore different areas of craft, Jess Murphy, founder of the Brooklyn surface design studio The Lawns, has launched the Artist Series, giving makers of varied media the chance to translate their work into wall coverings. For the first edition, she tapped New York ceramicist and painter Laura Chautin, whose porcelain homewares and illustrations depict flowers and landscapes in a poetically dainty manner. Her signature sweetness can now be found on two wallpaper designs for The Lawns: Meadow, a storybook landscape rendered atop a lustrous metal leaf, textural fiber, or glossy blue-and-white Nolar; and Tablescape, a trompe-l’œil of hand-painted dinner plates backdropped by flowers. For the latter, a high-gloss finish is applied to each plate, giving them a glittering emphasis against the satin paper ground. The beauty is in the details, indeed.
Julie Hillman and Steven Volpe x Ginori 1735
During Design Miami Paris, the Ginori 1735 boutique on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré unveiled the fifth installment of Reborn Project, a Frédéric Chambre-led showcase of objects from the historic Italian porcelain manufactory transformed by modern-day talents. This time around, interior designers Julie Hillman and Steven Volpe also shared the spotlight. For her series, Hillman presented tableware and petite lamps emblazoned with ancient Greek and African motifs and told in an ink-black, white, and golden palette. Meanwhile, Volpe looked to stitching techniques to craft his dinnerware assortment, treating the table service, tea set, lamps, and cocktail tables to a subtle patchwork of grays.
Martha Stewart x Chilewich
Unstoppable lifestyle authority Martha Stewart, who just published her 100th book, has long been a fan of Chilewich’s woven textiles, so she relished the chance to hatch a 20-piece indoor/outdoor collection with the studio. Along with wipe-to-clean placemats, table runners, and coasters, there are flat-woven rugs and heathered shag doormats in muted hues of abalone, burnt coral, flax, sea, and wheat. The original weaves skew classic—think damask and scrolls—but also draw from 17th-century coverlets, handkerchief borders, and even the roses flourishing in Stewart’s own garden.
Johanna Ortiz x Schumacher
The graceful palm tree continuously transfixes Colombian fashion and homewares designer Johanna Ortiz, so she made it the star of her new wall coverings and fabrics for Schumacher. (Delightfully, there’s a tassel trim in the mix, too.) A love letter to Ortiz’s wondrous homeland, the lineup is spun from breezy linen, sisal, and raffia, and includes Tayrona Palm Mosaic, a mélange of seemingly fluttering fronds brought to life with an ancient drawing technique that employs irregular dots. Amazonas Mystique calls to mind a stylized Indian block print, while Tropical Safari, which decorates Ortiz’s new New York boutique, is a cultural mash-up that reflects her love for African wax prints and French toile de Jouy.
Liberty x Kartell
Among the captivating new product launches at this year’s Salone del Mobile was Philippe Starck’s reimagined H.H.H. (Her Highest Highness) chair for Kartell, its swooping polycarbonate 2.0 seat swathed in lively Liberty fabrics, which is now available to the market. The lush florals, pulled from the luxury London department store’s archives, are printed using the high-tech graphic impression process for a fusion of history and innovation. Complementing the thronelike H.H.H. are new renditions of Starck and Sergio Schito’s Cara armchair and Piero Lissoni’s Plastics sofa and Trix lounger upholstered in Liberty’s hardy, outdoor-friendly textiles with botanical and geometric designs that are bound to vivify alfresco gatherings.
Workshop/APD x Arteriors
Synergy between materiality and form is the hallmark of AD PRO Directory firm Workshop/APD’s second collection for Arteriors. Spanning lighting, wall decor, accessories, and furniture, the New York firm’s 25-piece assemblage has a dreamy feel. Take the interlocking Melt coffee tables that marry honed marble and ebony mango wood, or the two-toned Datum mirror framed in antique brass. Light fixtures like the Cut are particularly striking, with translucent etched-glass shades evocative of glimmering crystal. The large Glaze flush mount melds sleek ceramic bowls with a trifecta of frosted opal globes, a fine companion to the sculptural Roll chandelier (shown above) resembling a mobile of cocooned light.
Block Shop Textiles x Petra
When Block Shop Textiles opened its first brick-and-mortar space in the Atwater neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2023, the doors adorned with large snail-shaped handles caught the eye of many a fan, including Monica Khemsurov of artistic hardware destination Petra. That interest has now spawned a hand-cast, ready-to-patina brass range of knobs designed by Block Shop cofounder Hopie Stockman Hill that takes maximalist cues from late designer Tony Duquette. There is a snail, of course, a reference to the giant one in the 1967 version of Dr. Doolittle—one of Stockman Hill’s favorite childhood movies—as well as an enchanting pea pod pull and a dogwood that pays homage to the tree that she spent hours playing under with her sister Lily, Block Shop’s cofounder. They are rounded out with a trio of abstract designs Stockman Hill conceived for her own home with an assist from husband Russell Hill of Rad Furniture.
Mimi Plange x The Shade Store
Ghanaian-American fashion designer Mimi Plange’s sportswear classics are imbued with stories of her African heritage, and like her clothing—which captures a rebellious ethos she dubs unfashion—her collection of mix-and-match roller and solar shades for the Shade Store celebrates tradition through pattern and texture. Bold, linear Geometric pays tribute to the cultural practice of scarification, while abstract Kente Plaid nods to both Mali’s famed indigo fabrics and the textiles woven by Ghana’s Akan, Ewe, and Asante peoples. Botanica’s dainty blooms emblazoned on grassweave pair perfectly with Victoria’s vintage Victorian-style illustrations that are an ode to Namibia’s Herero women.
Photography courtesy Ressource
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.
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