Jesse Dorris

1 week ago | architecturaldigest.com | Jesse Dorris

“Animal prints are our oldest known textiles,” says AD100 designer Corey Damen Jenkins. From skins used as blankets and cave decorations to the chic animal magnetisms of Eartha Kitt and Diana Vreeland (who famously said “I never met a leopard print I didn’t like”) to the zoological free-for-all of Trixie Mattel’s TV set and Los Angeles home, animal prints pack associations of authenticity, glamour, and camp. So it’s no surprise they’re a favorite of some of our most beloved designers.

3 weeks ago | architecturaldigest.com | Alia Akkam |Julia Harrison |Jesse Dorris

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. Pillow talk: Design on a Dime partners with Schumacher for anniversary eventThe Ashe Leandro–designed pillow for Schumacher x Design on a DimePhotography courtesy of Design on a DimeDesign on a Dime (DOAD) is gearing up for its 20th anniversary (April 23 through 26) at New York’s Metropolitan Pavilion.

1 month ago | untappedjournal.com | LinYee Yuan |Edwin Heathcote |Jesse Dorris

In Brooklyn winters, sunset can start as early as 4 p.m. The sky is gray, the windchill is biting, and the city is covered in a crusty film of salt. Even in this season of darkness (and in the now-tempting light of spring), dozens of neighbors have been gathering every Sunday afternoon in a local bar to plant the seeds for how they might build a forest garden in the Central Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Jesse Dorris |Kristine Klein

The height of destination hospitality used to be a beautiful landscape—say, the dappled sunlight across the rolling hills of Napa Valley or Provence or Paarl, South Africa—viewed from a picturesque patio while sipping wine from grapes grown just there. Or a rural stay-over in a historic inn where a day of apple picking ends with sampling ciders and pies.

1 month ago | aperture.org | Jesse Dorris

The problem with still lifes is that they’re often lifeless, as suggested by the Italians’ term for the genre: natura morta. From this problem, the photographer Lia Darjes, based in Hamburg and Berlin, is making a life’s work. Her latest pictures, recently collected in her photobook Plates I–XXXI (2024), appear to be formal arrangements but are, in fact, highly improvised tableaux in which snails, squirrels, ladybugs, and other fauna pay visits to the backyards of Berlin and parts unknown.