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1 day ago | surfacemag.com | David Graver

DESIGN Tracing the path between the Manhattan-based studio’s custom pieces for the chic Chinatown restaurant to new collections with compelling forms and materials Step into Chinatown’s Billy Cotton-designed French and Basque-inflected restaurant Bridges, helmed by chef Sam Lawrence, and pared-back interiors envelop you. The light emitted from custom pendant lamps in the bar area and sconces within the booths offers a sensorial palate cleanser before any dish is served.

3 days ago | surfacemag.com | David Graver

DESIGN Mimicking the spherical nature of many bulbs, lighting designers with debuts during Milan Design Week took bulbous concepts and transformed them from simple to imperfectly extraordinary.

3 days ago | surfacemag.com | David Graver

DESIGN The hospitality company’s founder and art director on making their winter debut, the upcoming James Perse partnership, and soundtracking your vacation. In just three years, Indie Group has emerged as a cultural force in the Côte d’Azur. The trio behind the collective—childhood friends Vincent Luftman, Raphaël Blanc, and Tobias Chaix—approach hospitality as world-building, divining an atmosphere through music, materials, and menu.

6 days ago | surfacemag.com | Jenna Adrian-Diaz

DESIGNER OF THE DAY Together with her co-founder and husband, Michael, Lisa Fine has not-so-quietly recast the bathroom as a canvas for artistic expression with Quiet Town’s collection of rugs, towels, and shower curtains that pay homage to everything from Marfa’s art scene to the architecture of Le Corbusier.

6 days ago | surfacemag.com | David Graver

DESIGN Luxury wristwatch makers are on the quest for the perfect color—and color combinations As a centerpiece to their Watches & Wonders booth, bathed in cool light from a James Turrell-like installation, Chanel presented several models of their J12 wristwatch in a new matte blue color that took more than five years to develop. Over the last 25 years, the polished ceramic J12 models in black, and later white, have become some of the most recognizable watches in the industry.