Henry Holland Studio Unveils Inaugural Lighting Collection, Decorist Goes Dark, and More News

Post Company, the multidisciplinary Brooklyn- and Wyoming-based studio behind such hospitality hits as The Lake House on Canandaigua and Inness, now has a retail spin-off. Post Collection, opening on October 15 in Lakeville, Connecticut (Post Company founding partner Jou-Yie Chou fell for the bucolic town during the pandemic), will marry Post Company’s upholstered pieces for SixPenny with a slew of books, artworks, and a curated assortment of vintage furniture, rugs, and objects. Located on the ground floor of a colonial building, the space is dressed in pine flooring, smoke-gray walls, and Shaker-style window coverings, as well as Post Company’s lighting and wood creations made in collaboration with Roll & Hill.

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E-design platform Decorist goes dark

Within the past decade, there’s been an explosion of start-ups offering interior design services online. Though the nascent industry already has its share of success stories, its recent history also suggests that success certainly isn’t guaranteed. Last week, Decorist became the latest design platform to go defunct. On Monday, a company blog post announced that the platform “is no longer accepting new orders or bookings for our services.”

Those who have booked but not yet started a project with a designer on the platform should be refunded within six to eight weeks. For those whose online project is underway, Decorist’s chat function will go offline precisely once the clock strikes midnight on October 13, forcing users to either seek out a refund or find a way to work with their designer outside of the platform. Shopping lists and design boards will also be inaccessible after October 12, though Decorist plans to give users the ability to export them before the site goes dark.

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Jeanne Gang named winner of 2023 Charlotte Perriand Award

Pioneering 20th-century French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand championed harmonious, organic designs throughout her prolific career. It’s no coincidence, then, that the Créateurs Design Awards has chosen Jeanne Gang, a woman equally passionate about fusing design and nature, as the 2023 recipient of its award named after Perriand. Gang, who founded the Chicago-based architecture and urban design practice Studio Gang in 1997, has overseen such ecologically sensitive local projects as Aqua Tower, an undulating skyscraper built to minimize bird collisions, and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, a neglected pond reimagined as a garden brimming with native plants and wildlife. Gang will be honored in Paris on January 21.