From significant business changes to noteworthy product launches, there’s always something new happening in the world of design. In this biweekly roundup, AD PRO has everything you need to know.
Product Spotlight
Louis Vuitton enters the tabletop category
Louis Vuitton expands its home collection with enchanting tableware sure to spruce up holiday dinner tables. The maison’s signature four-petal monogram flower, rendered in a classic combination of deep blue and crisp white, decorates a range of Limoges porcelain plates, bowls, cups, and saucers that recall watercolor paintings. Meanwhile, Venetian glass master Simone Cenedese references the joyful bloom to create matching Murano glasses and carafes in luminous clear crystal, sapphire blue, amber, emerald, and Venetian ruby varieties.
Openings
Artemest opens reimagined New York gallery
The Artemest Galleria in New York offers an edited look at more than 60,000 handmade products the source for Italian craftsmanship offers online. This month, Artemest unveiled the West Village gallery’s newly renovated interiors, for which creative director Ippolita Rostagno tapped architect and designer Samuele Brianza, who flits between New York and Milan. In doing so, Brianza specced furniture, lighting, and objects from more than 50 Italian artisans and designers within the Artemest network. A palette of soft, muddied pastels washes over the gallery in an earthy, plaster paint backdrop that calls to Brianza’s mind Tuscany’s rolling hills. Murano glass, polished Veneziano stucco, and Rubelli and Bevilacqua fabrics layer in, leading to the pièce de résistance: a walnut counter centerpiece from sculptor Giuseppe Rivadossi.
Diptyque unveils revamped US flagship in New York
Beyond the brick façade at Madison Avenue and East 76th Street awaits the newly renovated, two-story Diptyque boutique in an apartment-like setting that pays homage to grand New York architecture as well as the brand’s fashionable roots on Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Inside, decorative surprises—in addition to the luxurious fragrances—delight. A series of arched stained glass windows commissioned from French atelier Studio Vitrail Bianconi offers a kaleidoscopic contrast to the light and airy entry’s architectural concrete beams. Caramel-stained oak floors and paneling warm the way into the adjacent dining room, where Diptyque’s home decor range is on sophisticated display within fireplace-flanking shelves. Around the corner, a mural consisting of nearly 700 candles wrapped in silk paper creates a meditative pastel moment—a prelude to the enchanting bath salon, crowned with a spirited mural hand-painted by artist duo Redfield & Dattner.
BDDW heads to Hollywood
Following his recent battle with cancer, artist and designer Tyler Hays has embarked on a new chapter of buzzing creativity, prolifically turning out heirloom-quality furniture, lighting, and decor for his BDDW outposts in New York, London, and a recently opened showroom in Hollywood. The new 10,000-square-foot space—aptly positioned near the label’s ever-growing celebrity clientele—is packed with works that read American heirloom with a cool-kid edge. And for good reason: Each piece is handmade by Hays and a group of artists, craftspeople, and engineers in BDDW’s Philadelphia workshop. With designs running the gamut, from a leather-clad hutch to an imposing pool table anchored by ceramic bases and a hand-painted urinal, we can’t wait to see what’s next in store.
Exhibitions
RW Guild Gallery debuts “Earth and Accident”