Introspective Magazine

5 days ago | 1stdibs.com | Andrew Sessa

For a certain set of Washington, DC, devotees, few things are more covetable than a pied-à-terre in Georgetown. And yet, when the new owners of this apartment met with their designer — local talent Zoë Feldman, a member of this year’s 1stDibs 50 — all agreed: Something was missing. Actually, a few somethings, and pretty big ones, too. The clients, Feldman explains, “knew it wasn’t ideal.

1 week ago | 1stdibs.com | Stephen Wallis

Initial meetings between clients and the designers they’ve commissioned to create new homes often take place in an office, or maybe on a video call. For one multifamily vacation retreat in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, things kicked off with a clambake. A brother and sister who had been spending summers on the Maine coast since childhood reached out to their friends Will Meyer and Gray Davis, cofounders of the firm Meyer Davis, about designing a waterfront compound for their two families to use together.

2 weeks ago | 1stdibs.com | Cara Greenberg

Hans Bergström may be the Scandinavian lighting-design powerhouse you’ve never heard of. “Bergström is the Swedish equivalent of Poul Henningsen and Paavo Tynell in both influence and stature,” says Naomi Verbeek, head of design research at the Netherlands-based gallery Morentz, which is currently offering on 1stDibs two monumental brass-and-glass chandeliers that Bergström designed in the 1950s, about midway through his prolific career.

2 weeks ago | 1stdibs.com | Rachel Davies

There is perhaps no greater thrill for an auctioneer than discovering a long-lost work. Such was the case for auction house owner Aymeric Rouillac, who visited a collector’s home and noticed a sculpture by Auguste Rodin that had been unseen for more than a century casually perched on the family’s piano. “They said, ‘It’s a fake, it’s a copy,’ ” Rouillac told CNN. This past week the work, titled Le Désespoir (The Despair in English), sold for $1.2 million, ArtNet reports.

2 weeks ago | 1stdibs.com | Ted Loos

Andy Cohen has got to be among the busiest people in entertainment. Not only does he executive produce the Bravo network’s wildly successful The Real Housewives franchise and host a TV show, Watch What Happens Live, but he also runs his own production company. Still, the Emmy-award-winning star makes time for design, and for philanthropy in the LGBTQ+ space.