Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen is a digital magazine that explores the latest trends and innovations in design and visual arts. It highlights the work of independent creators who are pushing boundaries and operating beyond conventional categories.

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In a New Exhibition, Minjae Kim Unpacks Los Angeles Through a Lens of Wild Animals and Silent Film

2 days ago | sightunseen.com | Dan Howarth

05.13.25 Excerpt: Exhibition by Dan Howarth Who else is obsessed with wild animals who become celebrities — living, as they often do, in the thick of human society? In 2023, I was gripped by the news about Flaco, the owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo and flew free in Manhattan for a full year.
So Long, Synthetics — This Sustainable Furniture Collection is Bound by Natural Tree Sap - Sight Unseen

5 days ago | sightunseen.com | Dan Howarth

05.09.25 Up and Coming by Dan Howarth Harnessing tree sap to bind wood is a technique that dates back more than 45,000 years — a fact that fascinated Catskills-based studio Earth to People enough to revive the age-old process, using nature’s glue to assemble furniture pieces crafted from reclaimed cedar and aluminum.
Week of April 28, 2025

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.
Week of April 21, 2025

2 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

04.26.25 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: textiles galore, including new Madeline Weinrib rugs in dialogue with Rene Ricard at Emma Scully Gallery, a Su Wu–curated tapestry exhibition in Dallas, and woven paintings on view in Brooklyn.
Week of April 14, 2025

3 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Dan Howarth

04.19.25 Saturday Selects by Dan Howarth A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: stainless steel urinal sculptures, a coral-colored house balanced on a steep site, and fruit-decorated furniture that aims to tackle the stigma of eating disorders. Interiors Jewelry brand Mociun’s Brooklyn store has been remodeled by Bower Studios to provide a space for both of them to exhibit their wares.
The Best of Milan Design Week 2025, Part II: Standout Exhibitions, Projects, and Interiors

3 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?
In Milan, Objects of Common Interest and Marsèll Team Up on an Exhibition That Uses Materials as Spatial Interventions

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.
Think of This London Renovation As Mid-Century, Modernized

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

04.09.25 Interiors by Deborah Shapiro Studio Hagen Hall, an architecture and design firm in London founded by Louis Hagen-Hall, has a talent for creating spaces that are striking yet serene — making them look effortless while also paying meticulous attention to detail.
This Designer’s Interior Design Secret? Make It a Little Bit Weird

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Dan Howarth

04.02.25 Interiors by Dan Howarth During a career spanning almost two decades, Julia King has worked for several of the interior design world’s heavy hitters — from Kelly Wearstler to Michael Smith to Charles DeLisle — and absorbed a little of each of their dramatically disparate design styles along the way.
A Swedish Artist Known for Her Vibrant Florals and Seductive Line Drawings is a Perfect Match for Marimekko

1 month ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

03.26.25 Sighted by Deborah Shapiro Marimekko has long been a go-to for those seeking joyful bursts of color and pattern in their clothing, accessories, and home décor, from the oft-searched 1980s-era Dan River Tulip bedding to the ever-stylish (and, frankly, ahead of its time) gender-neutral shirting of the 1953 Jokapoika.