In Athens, Georgia, Cloth & Kind’s new showroom presents a covetable assemblage
Krista Nye Nicholas and Tami Ramsay, partners and principals at the design firm and to-the-trade showroom Cloth & Kind, work out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Athens, Georgia, respectively, and when the Southern office recently relocated to the Boulevard Historic District, it was the catalyst for launching a gallery, soon to be shoppable online. Located within the studio, the sunny space (open by appointment only) is decked out with plants and colorful carpets, as well as a rotating collection of original art and an assemblage of ceramics and vintage objets. The pieces—some Cloth & Kind and others represented lines or works by local talents including Rinne Allen, Susan Hable, and Zuska Vaclavik—will be highlighted in periodic shows.
Design Happenings
Joseph Altuzarra gets nostalgic for New York Fashion Week
Fashion designer Joseph Altuzarra showed his first collection 15 years ago to the sounds of a boom box in an intimate Chelsea gallery. To commemorate those scrappy origins that paved the way to a glorious career, during the just-wrapped-up edition of New York Fashion Week, Altuzarra revealed his luxe F/W24 womenswear designs to an intimate circle of friends and family in his downtown showroom at the Woolworth Building.
For the occasion, local designer Patrick McGrath instilled the space with an air redolent of a collector’s living room. Antiques from the 18th century borrowed from Bernd Goeckler (like the rectangular Italian mirror planted above a giltwood console topped with Tang Dynasty–era sculptures on loan from Throckmorton Fine Art or the Rococo armchair paired with contemporary black walnut Paul Morehouse coffee tables and a 1970s silk velvet sofa of McGrath’s own) provided an elegant contrast to the upbeat runway.
In the News
The Ticking Tent to host inaugural event in the lower Hudson Valley
Sloatsburg, the idyllic Rockland County village an hour from New York City, will be the setting for The Ticking Tent, a gathering of more than 30 makers, designers, and antiques dealers buoyed by a floral bouquet bar and book signings with Monacelli Press authors on March 16. The vision of creative director and stylist Benjamin Reynaert and design industry communication and business development firm founder Christina Juarez, the one-day shopping event will unfold at 1stDibs founder Michael Bruno’s Valley Rock Inn & Mountain Club, bringing together such treasures as Johanna Howard Home’s Scandinavian-inspired textiles, Kate Donovan Studio’s dreamy hand-painted floral plates, and Nashville-based Jessica Stambaugh’s sculptural wood and ceramic lamps.
AD PRO Hears…
…Kendell Cronstrom has been appointed vice president of editorial marketing at F. Schumacher & Co. In this newly created position at the design house, the former editor in chief of Hamptons Cottages & Gardens and New York Cottages & Gardens will engage with the design community across an array of platforms through content that magnifies Schumacher’s heritage and slew of innovative fabrics, wallpapers, trims, pillows, furniture, and accessories.
Exhibitions
Gucci bolsters Wooster Street showroom renovation with contemporary art installation
At the bottom of an old pencil factory in New York City’s Soho neighborhood, Gucci’s Wooster Street boutique is fresh off a revamp melding restored columns, tin ceilings, brickwork, iron, and wood with new swaths of stainless steel, glass, and Rosso Ancora lacquer that nod to the SS24 collection from the fashion house’s new creative director, Sabato De Sarno.
