The MillerKnoll Archives Open in Michigan, Prospect Refuge Gallery Presents Jeremy Anderson Ceramics, and More News
…a new Maison Gerard exhibit is celebrating a man who refurbished the Statue of Liberty and conceived the Ritz-Carlton’s interiors. But as its name suggests, “Thierry W. Despont: Modern Renaissance Man” covers much more than his architectural work: A designer, painter of colossal moon paintings, and sculptor in the assemblage tradition, the French polymath’s legacy is on view in New York through August 31.
Project Spotlight
Studio Laloc’s Seattle office is rooted in place
At the beginning of her design career, Lauren Lothrop Caron, founder of the AD PRO Directory firm Studio Laloc, worked out of a brick loft in Brooklyn. Maybe this was why, upon laying her eyes on a characterful industrial space in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, she felt an immediate connection. Soon, Lothrop Caron was transforming the narrow, railroad-style layout into the three distinct areas set to comprise Studio Laloc’s West Coast headquarters. Housed inside the historic Rainier Brewing Company Bottling Plant, the space now encompasses a sunny showroom, an office, an extensive sample library, and a kitchenette enveloped in Farrow & Ball’s soothing caramel Tack Room Door shade. Throughout, vintage and antique pieces add a layered, lived-in feel, like the monumental plywood cabinet that Lothrop Caron hand-painted and stamped with florals in the spirit of Robert Kime.
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A new design collective that illuminates Louisville’s artisan community
Natalie Officer, founder of Louisville, Kentucky–based AD PRO Directory Studio Natalie O Design, and Daniel Chaffin, a local furniture maker, have launched the Ora.House design collective. Starting this fall, Officer and Channin will drop biannual capsule collections from a curated network of regional lighting and textile designers, ceramicists, and glass artists. But to get things started, they’ve introduced three signature pieces of their own: a curved ottoman, a hutch accessorized with fabric-paneled doors, and a bench topped with a versatile zip-on, wraparound cushion. Consider these pieces, which are now available on site, a masterclass in melding upholstery with rich woods like ambrosia maple, blackened ash, and beech.
A new bedding resource for the pattern conscious
Weary of shopping for bland, predictable bedding, Brooks Huston, whose background spans roles at Gensler, Lalique, and Lowe Hardware, channeled his frustration and passion for invigorated design into bedding start-up Phlox Linens. Spun from stonewashed all-organic cotton, the made-in-Portugal sheet sets feature comfortable percale and silky sateen options distinguished by timeless Oxford stripes and chevrons, as well as textured chambray and whimsical petite stars in oyster and navy shades.
AD PRO Hears…
…Heller collaborator Anna Dawson has launched a line of handmade lighting, for which she fuses glass and metal to make soft, scalloped shapes named after shells and basins. The colorways are equally delicate: consider the lavender, tomato, and milky-white nightlight. Simply dreamy.
