Deborah Shapiro

2 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

06.08.25 Saturday Selects by Deborah Shapiro A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the best launches from Melbourne Design Week, another super-sleek USM collab — this time in pink! — plus a special edition Gaetano Pesce vase debuting at the Philip Johnson Glass House. Melbourne Design Week To celebrate Melbourne Design Week, Fiona Lynch Office opened no less than three exhibitions.

3 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

06.02.25 Fair Report by Deborah Shapiro One of our favorites launches at NYCxDesign was Hundō by Emily Thurman, an interior and product designer based in Salt Lake City. Thurman’s debut collection of furniture, lighting, and sculptural objects takes its name from the proto-Italic word for “pour out” — fitting as it gestures towards the fluidity that characterizes these pieces as well as the way in which some of them were made using the art of lost wax casting.

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

05.20.25 Excerpt: Exhibition by Deborah Shapiro In 1984, Gérard Dalmon and Pierre Staudenmeyer co-founded Néotù in Paris — a now-legendary project existing somewhere between a gallery and a furniture producer, a home for designers who considered furniture to be a fine art medium, and a mode of emotional expression. Néotù wasn’t beholden to any particular aesthetic, though you could loosely and retrospectively apply the Postmodern descriptor.

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

05.01.25 The Making of by Deborah Shapiro When Sight Unseen was founded more than 15 years ago, the goal was to invite readers into the minds and studios of designers, in order to help readers understand how things are actually made. Though the site is about so much more now, we still get a perpetual thrill from learning how some of our favorite furniture pieces go from the wisp of a concept to a fully fleshed-out product.

2 months ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

04.28.25 In Conversation by Deborah Shapiro Rio Kobayashi and Luke Malaney each make sculptural furniture that exists somewhere between art, design, and carpentry. They’re pieces that serve a function but at the same time question function: What should an object actually do? Where does its purpose lie? It’s a blurry line — or maybe not even a line at all.