If the market’s latest debuts have any lesson to tell, it’s that the design community indeed works better together. From Marian McEvoy’s whimsical textiles for Schumacher to Callidus Guild’s painterly Tai Ping Carpets, 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.
Marian McEvoy x Schumacher
When former fashion and design editor Marian McEvoy left the glittering city life for the serenity of New York’s Hudson Valley, she soon immersed herself in other creative endeavors, turning out illustrations, pressed-leaf collages, and objects decoupaged with cork. Those works, an homage to the surrounding landscape, are now translated into a topographical series of fabrics and wallpapers for Schumacher. It’s a jubilant assortment of soaring vines, artful blooms reminiscent of Central Asian textiles, and large-scale botanicals enlivened with polka dots that pull from Marrakech’s Jardin Majorelle. Striped bows adorned with tassels, originally imagined for shoes, underscore McEvoy’s unwavering sense of style.
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Peter Mikic x The Lacquer Company
Animated forms told in reflective lacquer, Peter Mikic’s latest furniture designs are so emotive you fear they may wander off should you look away. The 17-piece ensemble of high-gloss furniture and accessories—a collaboration with the Lacquer Company—is defined by rotund waves, inlay-like geometric patterns, and mod cutouts. Envisioned in the maker’s signature smartly contrasting palettes, the coffee tables, nightstands, lamps, ice bucket, and more are awash in mustardy Sienna yellow, soft Peter Pink, Bordeaux red, and Burnt orange, among other hearty hues.
Élan Byrd x Lulu and Georgia
Textile artist Élan Byrd favors raffia and abaca in her fiber works, so it comes as little surprise that her latest earth-toned assemblage for Lulu and Georgia—the first to include lighting—has a similarly grounding appeal. Often muted in pattern and palette, Byrd’s designs appeal to tactile senses, drawing you in through a weaver’s warp and weft or considered details. Take the Terrene pendant light, complete with a sweeping rattan shade punctuated with leather accent stitching. (The fixture comes in a linen shade with sconce, chandelier, floor lamp, and table lamp styles too.)
Jeffrey Dungan Architects x Textures Nashville
Last week, the Textures Nashville showroom was thronged with revelers during the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville, during which the hardwood flooring company debuted its Jeffrey Dungan Architectural Collection. Dungan, who presides over his eponymous architecture firm in Mountain Brook, Alabama, conceived seven nature-inspired finishes of Appalachian white oak—from uplifting Jackson to warm Grey Wash to rich Old Sawmill—that lend flooring, paneling, millwork, and stair treads a timeless patina. Made via Textures Curated, the service behind Textures Nashville’s bespoke offerings, the range can be customized with classic herringbone and chevron inlays.
Callidus Guild x Tai Ping Carpets
Historical research and ancient practices inform the hand-painted, eco-friendly wallcoverings produced at Callidus Guild, the Brooklyn atelier established by artist Yolande Milan Batteau. That painstaking level of detail is now captured in the studio’s debut collection for Tai Ping Carpets, unveiled this month in Paris during Maison & Objet. The hand-knotted rugs pay tribute to traditional techniques (think: woodblock printing and Japanese lacquer) while embracing the modern method of three-way tie-dying. Made by artisans in Nepal with wool, silk, linen, mohair, and Lurex, the collection comprises 10 designs, including Cirrus, a cloudy mélange of gold and terra-cotta, and Akoya, a swirling, iridescent ode to mother of pearl.
Claudia Afshar x Dekton
In Japanese, ukiyo means “living in the moment, detached from everyday worries.” For her Dekton surface collection of the same name, London-born, LA-based designer Claudia Afshar conjures that meditative state by drawing from the natural world’s organic materials, from shadowy slate to richly veined marble and lime plaster. Manifested in a pair of linear fluted Dekton surfaces (wide and slim versions available), the collection celebrates the outdoors through a palette of terra-cotta-tinted Umber, slate gray Bromo, cement-like Kreta, pared-back, creamy Nacre, and Rem, which showcases elegant brown and gray veining that recalls Calacatta Lincoln marble.
