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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Week of June 9, 2025

1 week ago | sightunseen.com | Monica Khemsurov

06.14.25 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: Formafantasma’s first US solo show, a new housewares line that pairs Greek art with Swedish craftsmanship, and two new stores in Brooklyn, one focused on vintage heirlooms and one focused on contemporary Georgian design.
Week of June 2, 2025

2 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

06.08.25 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: the best launches from Melbourne Design Week, another super-sleek USM collab — this time in pink! — plus a special edition Gaetano Pesce vase debuting at the Philip Johnson Glass House. Melbourne Design Week To celebrate Melbourne Design Week, Fiona Lynch Office opened no less than three exhibitions.
To Christen Their New Dimes Square Gallery, Love House Kept It in the Family

3 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Dan Howarth

06.03.25 Excerpt: Exhibition by Dan Howarth When Love House first launched in 2018, their inventory was mostly vintage, sold from a former factory showroom in the heart of Greenpoint.
The Material-Rich Hundō Was One of Most Assured Furniture Debuts of the Season

3 weeks ago | sightunseen.com | Deborah Shapiro

06.02.25 Fair Report by Deborah Shapiro One of our favorites launches at NYCxDesign was Hundō by Emily Thurman, an interior and product designer based in Salt Lake City. Thurman’s debut collection of furniture, lighting, and sculptural objects takes its name from the proto-Italic word for “pour out” — fitting as it gestures towards the fluidity that characterizes these pieces as well as the way in which some of them were made using the art of lost wax casting.
For New York Design Week, We Surrounded Ourselves With Friends for a Sight Unseen Collection x Petra Exhibition

1 month 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.

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.