Monica Khemsurov

1 week ago | sightunseen.com | Monica Khemsurov

05.03.25 Saturday Selects by Monica Khemsurov A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: an Art Deco– and Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired textile collab between Block Shop and Sunbrella, two new design hotels for escaping into nature this summer, and a new series of lamps in wicker by Workstead.

4 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Monica Khemsurov

04.18.25 Fair Report by Monica Khemsurov As someone who’s been to the Milan furniture fair nearly 20 times, it’s difficult not to become fatigued or jaded by the perpetual stream of exciting new product launches that are often neither exciting nor, in a larger sense, particularly new. Even the sheer volume of commercial releases that happen during the week, good or bad, is exhausting in and of itself — are there enough living rooms in the world to house all these chairs and side tables?

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Monica Khemsurov

When the Italian boutique leather brand Marsèll opened its showroom a year and a half ago on Via Spiga, Milan’s luxury shopping street, it was an exercise in restraint — similar to the shoes and bags on offer, the interior, by Berlin’s Lotto Studio, took a minimal approach to form, with almost all the emphasis on the interplay of high-end natural materials like glass, stone, stainless steel, and walnut.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Monica Khemsurov

The Milan design fair returned this week with Technicolor shag rugs, teapots and an imaginary 1970s house. This year's Salone del Mobile furniture fair, which took place this week in Milan, fell much earlier in April than usual. But that didn't spare visitors from the sneezing fits the city's springtime pollen shed can bring - or from the long lines and late nights that are now part of the event, which in recent years has become even bigger than the city's fashion week.

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Monica Khemsurov

03.22.25 Saturday Selects by Monica Khemsurov A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: the sky blue laptop of our dreams, our top picks from this month’s 2025 Collectible fair in Brussels, and two exhibitions of paintings that explore and elevate domestic spaces.