If the market’s latest debuts have any lesson to tell, it’s that the design community indeed works better together. From Pierce & Ward’s Art Deco–inspired hardware for Modern Matter to Matthew Fisher’s urbane alabaster fixtures for Remains Lighting Co., 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.
M. Fisher x Remains Lighting Co.
Ariadne, New York artist Matthew Fisher’s exploration of alabaster for Remains Lighting Co., is rooted in Greek mythology, sparked by the image of the collection’s namesake proffering Theseus a bejeweled string to survive the darkness of the labyrinth. This dive into the ancient world culminated in seven fixtures, from the Ariadne table lantern redolent of a temple to the basket-shaped Kalathi lantern embellished with leather cords and tassels. There’s also the Nima pendant, sconce, table lamp, and monumental chandeliers defined by hand-carved globes embedded in brass plates.
Remy Renzullo x Carolina Irving & Daughters
A simple table setting is best when serving on decorator Remy Renzullo’s latest dinnerware collection for Carolina Irving & Daughters. The ceramics—hand-painted in Portugal with Renzullo’s romantic florals that pull from 18th- and 19th-century French and English tableware—are sure to be the talk of the table. Comprising cereal bowls, shell-shaped serving platters, and dinner and dessert plates brushed with borders of dusty rose, mocha, and blue, the series is available exclusively via Moda Operandi.
Pierce & Ward x Modern Matter
Louisa Pierce and Emily Ward, founders of the LA- and Nashville-based design studio Pierce & Ward, love rifling through antique stores, and that passion for objects from yesteryear has spawned their 18-piece bohemian-tinged assemblage for Modern Matter. Crafted from burnished and unlacquered brass and buoyed by touches of pine and betel nut, the knobs, pulls, and brackets—there’s also a dramatic backplate, door knocker, and soap dish—star ribbed curves, tidy rows of beads that recall abacuses, and chunky crosses to exude Art Deco glamour.
Laura Bilde and Linnea Blæhr x Ege Carpets
The tremendous yet often unrecognized influence of six pioneering women who thrived in the 1930s and ’40s—Aino Aalto, Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Ray Eames, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, and Agnes Martin—was the springboard for SHE, a collection of wool rugs from sustainable Danish company Ege Carpets brought to life by Copenhagen designers Laura Bilde and Linnea Blæhr. Embracing vintage techniques favored by SHE’s muses, Bilde and Blæhr reinterpreted graphic paintings, woven motifs, and experimental shapes to create six patterns with an organic, wabi-sabi feel in such striking color combinations as burgundy, light blue, ivory, and brown that evoke 1930s functionalism. All the carpets are spun in Ege’s own mill from extra long 100% pure new wool yarn fibers that mimic the hardiness of wool and nylon blends.
Desmond & Dempsey x 8 Holland Street
Desmond & Dempsey’s fanciful pajama sets are distinguished by hand-painted prints, and—for the first time—they are now enlivening furniture. Molly Goddard, cofounder of the London label, has joined forces with Tobias Vernon, owner of the city’s 8 Holland Street galleries, on a petite range of reupholstered vintage pieces. Consider the pair of steel-legged armchairs from the 1960s flaunting Medina’s bright vertical stripes, or the rounded 1950s sofa anchored by wooden feet and swathed in the spotted monkey-emblazoned Chango, another gem from the Desmond & Dempsey archives. Undulating Marque, Desmond & Dempsey’s newest pattern, cloaks the round cushion animating a cocooning rattan Vittorio Bonacina chair.
Breegan Jane x Clarke & Clarke
Drawing from her numerous travels abroad, Los Angeles designer Breegan Jane, host of HGTV’s Dream Home, has imagined a nature-fueled array of fabrics and sustainable wallpapers for the UK’s Clarke & Clarke that call to mind Africa. Protini, for example, pays homage to King Protea, the national flower of South Africa, with embroidered peacock-reminiscent blooms, and Kisumu, a hand-drawn safari toile, depicts the baobab tree. Even Malindi, a glorious palm-tree-bedecked ode to retro LA, takes its name from a Kenyan beach.
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Costes x Liaigre
Hôtel Costes has aged well. The Jacques Garcia–designed Paris property opened in 1995, close to Place Vendôme, and its cinematic interiors and private members’ club atmosphere are just as coveted today as they were nearly 30 years ago. Part of the glittering Costes universe is the minimalist Castiglione addition courtesy of the late Christian Liaigre, who left his imprint throughout the entire property with sleek lighting and furniture. Celebrating that legacy is a five-piece capsule collection that debuted at Maison & Objet last month spanning the commodious Castiglione sofa, sculptural leather Mont-Thabor armchair, straw-adorned Cambon dining chair, lacquered Carrousel side table, and the black varnished brass Rivoli reading lamp that appears in all Hôtel Costes guestrooms.
Schwung Lighting x Four Hands
During Las Vegas Market in January, Four Hands unveiled its expansive winter collections at its brand new showroom, and among the showstoppers were the illuminative designs from Poland’s Schwung Lighting. Fusing 98% recyclable brass and handblown glass, the fixtures include the elegant downward-facing globe Sunset sconce and Odyssey 6 floor lamp crowned with a sextet of floating cylinders. Marbled glass orbs seemingly dance across burnished metal linear rods on the Armstrong chandelier, and they form an exuberant balloon-like cluster around a gunmetal black frame on the Nova version.
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Heather Taylor Home x Everhem
Cheerful plaid linens are a fixture at LA textiles haven Heather Taylor Home, and now those nostalgic fabrics are sprucing up windows with Everhem’s newest drop of customizable Roman shades and café curtains. The three styles—classic Gingham Sage, delicate Soho Nutmeg, and Mini Gingham Cream—aptly installed in the Taylor-designed Airbnb cabin she hosts in Idyllwild, two hours outside of LA, are handwoven by artisans in small batches.
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