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This week: four more new design talents to close out our two-week series (including Kiki Goti, above), outdoor bathtubs giving us serious dream-life FOMO, and an installation in a 1920s private airport by Nilufar gallery. More Linear Grid Shop Eye CandyPinterest 05.05.22 Up and Coming Lukas Cober’s Practice Grew From Building Surfboards in his Teens From a young age, there was never any doubt in Lukas Cober's mind that he would pursue a career in design. “I have always been into crafts, so for me, it was clear at a very early stage that I would be building things with my hands” says the designer, who grew up in Aachen, a small medieval city at the tripoint of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. But Cober inevitably embarked on his current path by pursuing a somewhat surprising endeavor for such a hopelessly landlocked city. “At one point in my late teens, I got heavily into the art of hand-shaping surfboards,” he recalls, “which sparked my fascination with functional art and gave me a deep understanding about to approach aesthetics." More 05.04.22 Up and Coming Rutger de Regt’s Latest Collection is a Creative Take on Children’s Crafts Rutger De Regt's current project, "Mommy I made an ashtray," on view at Casa Perfect in New York until June, expands on the Dutch designer's research into balloon-sculpting, using ceramic in lieu of pellets to hand-form objects. More 05.03.22 Up and Coming Rejo Studio’s Playful Designs Reference Everything From Their Arab Upbringing to Japanese Anime There’s something almost animate about the furniture and lighting designed by Reem Olyan and Jumana Qassem of REJO studio. You can easily imagine these pieces having conversations with each other when you’re out of the room. Contrasting with this stylistic playfulness, though, is the seriousness of purpose that these Palestinian designers share. More 05.01.22 Saturday Selects Week of April 25, 2022 A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week, a cookbook borne from the depths of the pandemic, BZIPPY’s technicolor LA headquarters, a ceramicist in Australia blowing our minds with material innovations, and more. More 09.24.20 Up and Coming This New Ceramics Brand is a Collab Between Two Parisians and the Berber Craftspeople of Northern Algeria The unconventional ceramics brand IBKKI is the brainchild of Parisians Azel Ait-Mokhtar and Youri Asantcheeff. Their collections are a physical manifestation of their travels to the Kabylie region of Algeria and their collaboration with Berber craftspeople, but the duo didn’t take their cues from European Modernists like Matisse and Picasso, who had a tendency to appropriate elements from African art and call them their own. More 04.29.22 Up and Coming Rasmus Nossbring’s Glass Sculptures Look Like They Were Squeezed Through a Tube of Swedish Caviar For Swedish glassblower Rasmus Nossbring, it’s the immersive nature of the medium that’s so compelling. "Glass moves like nothing I've ever seen before and to use it demands full attention from your whole body and mind," says the Stockholm-based artist. "It’s like super Zen and an adrenaline rush at the same time. A lot of people describe it as a dance, and I would say that on the best days I feel like I become one with the material." More 04.28.22 Up and Coming Christian + Jade Are Making the Sculptural Indoor Fireplace of Your Dreams Since graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018, Christian Hammer Juhl and Jade Chan — who go by the name Christian + Jade — have combined their love of material history, context, and raw expression through their Copenhagen-based studio. He’s from Denmark, she’s from Singapore, and together they’ve already developed a strong visual language centered around two very specific themes: projects based on and around fire, and those made using hammered aluminum, with several obvious overlaps.  More 04.27.22 Up and Coming Nicholas Devlin’s Furniture Plays With Queerness and the Aesthetic — and Expectation — of Domesticity Nicholas Devlin's gunky, almost Pixar-esque furniture pieces merge sculpture and function; pieces like his bright yellow flower lamp serve as both personal reading lights and friends. But on top of his playful aesthetic, Devlin has a philosophical approach to his work that deconstructs how we have historically looked at the home.  More 04.26.22 Up and Coming Snickeriet Are Bending the Rules of Swedish Woodworking, One Thoughtfully Researched Object at a Time Snickeriet are interested in investigating traditional Swedish woodworking craft but also seek to bend the rules, molding the material in unconventional and extremely satisfying ways. More 04.23.22 Saturday Selects Week of April 18, 2022 A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week, a K-pop inspired restaurant, furniture based on fungal structures, and an early recycled-plastic chair celebrating a milestone birthday. More 04.21.22 Sighted A Cult Fashion Brand Moving Into Interiors Inspired Nordic Knots’ Latest Collaboration Home and family, in literal and figurative ways, have guided the rug company Nordic Knots from the outset, when Liza Laserow-Berglund, her husband Fabian Berglund, and his brother Felix began their endeavor. Their aim was “to bring something from our home in Sweden to every home — and at the center of every beautiful Swedish home is a great rug.” So, it makes sense that the idea of home – leaving it, searching for it, returning to it, creating it yourself – would be the focus and inspiration for Nordic Knots’s new collaboration with their old friends Bessie Afnaim Corral and Oliver Corral of New York’s luxe yet understated lifestyle brand Arjé. More 04.20.22 Excerpt: Exhibition These Epically-Scaled, Hand-Painted Baskets Fuse Painting, Weaving, and Sculpture Studio Herron's Dee Clements felt hemmed in by her own perfectionist tendencies until a long talk with Future Perfect gallery director Laura Young — in advance of Clements's solo show, which is on view at New York's Casa Perfect through the spring — loosened her up. The resulting pieces play with a viewer's expectations of a "basket" in the most wonderful of ways. More Posts navigationPage 1Page 2…Page 218Next page View More View More SU Shop Trends, interviews, home tours, fair reports, and more. The best of Sight Unseen, delivered to your inbox. Sign Up Email successfully subscribed. × Subscribe to Sight Unseen’s Weekly Digest About UsAdvertiseContributorsSubmissionsPrivacy PolicyShop FAQNewsletter