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Michael Anastassiades x Herman Miller
Drawing from Scandinavian and Japanese minimalism, Michael Anastassiades’s sculptural Comma Chair for Herman Miller is meant for dining rooms of all varieties. Quietly commanding—and available as bar- or counter-height stools as well—the design is fashioned in solid walnut, oak, or painted beech. Barely-there wood joinery combines the curved backrest and seat. hermanmiller.com
The Cleo Stripe by Shadé Akanbi for Chasing Paper.
Photography courtesy Chasing PaperShadé Akanbi x Chasing Paper
Brooklyn-based textile artist Shadé Akanbi has been known to reinterpret indigenous designs, namely those reflective of her native Nigeria or myriad travels abroad. In her new collection with Chasing Paper, the artist and creative director of apparel brand Printed Pattern People brings her graphic flair to five memorable motifs. Favorites include the color-blocked Cleo Stripe, which delivers a dose of style that seems to reverberate from the walls, as well as the busied, small-scale designs of Petit Twigs and Paint Dob Camo. chasingpaper.com
The Comtesse chandelier by Paloma Contreras for Visual Comfort.
Photo: Aimée MazzengaPaloma Contreras x Visual Comfort
A love for French modern design weaves throughout the 10 families of sculptural chandeliers, sconces, pendants, and table and floor lamps that Houston-based designer Paloma Contreras has dreamed up for Visual Comfort. (In fact, the collaboration was a bit of a homecoming for Contreras: Prior to her design stardom, she served as director of marketing for the lighting brand.) While the Comtesse fixture plays with concave spheres and nearly 40 inches of spun brass, the Olivier style experiments with chunky hexagonal tubing. Orsay, another favorite design, disperses light through a chic conical profile before releasing it upward, a nod to the Giacometti-like chandeliers inside the Paris restaurant Loulou. visualcomfort.com
Choose between a glass- or wood-panel door on the Amherst storage cabinet.
Photography courtesy Room & Board Business InteriorsRevolution Furnishings x True Residential x Room & Board Business Interiors
Room & Board’s new Amherst storage cabinet raises the bar of good-looking functionality by seamlessly integrating refrigeration within sleek wood cabinetry topped off with a quartz or granite surface. The endeavor brings together American makers Revolution Furnishings and True Residential to create what may well be the most versatile piece of furniture in the Room & Board Business Interiors catalog. roomandboard.com
