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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For New York Design Week, We Surrounded Ourselves With Friends for a Sight Unseen Collection x Petra Exhibition

1 week ago | sightunseen.com | Monica Khemsurov

05.28.25 Sight Unseen Presents by Monica Khemsurov If there’s one true thing we’ve learned in 20 years of working in the design journalism, it’s that design fairs are better with friends.
Galerie Néotu Was Legendary In Its Heyday. A New Show in NYC Invites You to Experience the Radical Furniture That Put it On the Map.

2 weeks 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.
Week of May 12, 2025

2 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Dan Howarth

05.19.25 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: limited-edition Gaudí chairs, a cathedral-like eyewear store, and a boutique that’s part Milanese cafe, part Lower East Side laundromat. Exhibitions The absolutely stunning gardens of The Future Perfect’s Los Angeles mansion are playing host to a series of sculptural mirrors by Bower Studios.
In a New Exhibition, Minjae Kim Unpacks Los Angeles Through a Lens of Wild Animals and Silent Film

3 weeks 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

4 weeks 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 month 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.
Three Up-and-Coming Designers On How They Use the iPad Pro to Bridge the Gap Between Analog and Digital Processes

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.
Two of Our Favorite Woodworkers on Apprenticeships, Supportive Grandmas, and Learning the Rules So You Can Break Them

1 month 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.
Week of April 21, 2025

1 month 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

1 month 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.