A Character-Filled L.A. Home Inspires Beni Rug’s New Line

This New Table Collection Shows the Richness of Natural Stone

Architects and designers around the world turn to the Dutch stone purveyor SolidNature to realize custom projects. OMA requested a pink-onyx-clad elevator for Fondazione Prada in Milan; Sabine Marcelis created travertine-and-glass chairs. Yet as business has grown, so has its inventory of offcuts. The company asked Budde, a design studio in Cologne, Germany, to explore their potential. Founders Johannes Budde and Meike Papenfuss conceived Five x Seven: five tables (a console plus coffee and side tables) made from seven types of stone. For each piece, they combined slabs of marble, onyx, granite, and travertine, then carved a slim arch into all four sides. Layered together like sedimentary rock, the colorful stones form muted stripes of cream, pink, green, and gray, and look different from every angle. It’s a limited edition, but custom pieces are also available. Through Rossana Orlandi Gallery.

Wave Hello To This Ocean-Inspired Wallpaper From Laine + Alliage

Picture an antique amphora lost at sea, gently rocking in the currents: That’s the image Tania Leipold, founder of the Brooklyn-based atelier Laine + Alliage, tried to capture with Vessels. The eco-friendly, clay-coated wallpaper tells a story of “unhurried time, ease, and tranquility,” she says, evoking a dance between water and object. Slightly transparent, the handpainted pattern shows blurred, overlapping vases in two soft colorways: sea-green Acqua and Nectar, a sandy orange. The 27-inch-wide panels come in heights of 9 or 12 feet and are printed to order with water-based inks (allow a four- to six-week lead time). With a matte surface to minimize glare, Vessels is suitable for residential and low-traffic commercial locations and is available on contract grounds upon request.

These Ceramic Tiles Bring a Pop of Pastel to the Kitchen

A taste for sweets crosses cultures and geographic boundaries, a sort of universal language of desire and delight. So, it’s only appropriate that delectable pastries were the inspiration for Patisserie, a collection conceived by Bodin Hon and Dilara Kan Hon of Studio Yellowdot. The design duo, based in Hong Kong and Turkey, paid a visit to tile manufacturer Orhan Gorbon’s Istanbul workshop, where they were mesmerized by the production process…and reminded of a pastry kitchen. The playful shapes and pastel hues of donuts, eclairs, and biscuits became innovative dry-pressed ceramic tiles that bring sugary energy to actual kitchens worldwide. The three-dimensional tiles are handmade from pigmented and glazed clay—but look good enough to eat.

Coil + Drift Designs a Nature-Forward Lighting Collection

Coil + Drift, the queer-owned New York company recently relocated from Brooklyn to a 3,000-square-foot studio in the Catskills—a move that allows for future expansion—and Loon marks the first series designed and built entirely in-house, from conception to production (the latter under the aegis of fabrication head Miranda Wagner). Owl wings, leaves, and dried seeds inspired company founder John Sorensen-Jolink’s early sketches. Those studies and drawings evolved into elemental sconces, pendants, and chandeliers produced by a local metal forge, marking a new place-driven aesthetic for the brand. The collection comprises eight fixtures divided into two product families: Foundry and Ridge. The former employs the traditional sand-casting technique and evokes trumpet flowers; the latter is characterized by curved, leaflike forms that call to mind a bird’s outstretched wings. Designs are available in a wide range of metals and patinas, including verdigris brass and aged manganese bronze.

13 Product Designs That Seamlessly Meld Form and Function

Designers get crafty (literally) with works showcasing the future of forms and materials

Felted Sculpture Designed by Christine Jacobs

Christine Jacobs, with her felted sculpture (made with merino wool sourced from her sixth-generation family farm in South Africa), exhibited at Southern Guild, Cape Town. southernguild.co.za

Echoes Mirror Designed by Marcela Cure

Echoes mirror series in hand-sculpted, -cast, and -painted resin-stone composite by Colombian designer Marcela Cure. marcelacure.com

Botanica Vitality by Calico

Ceramics by New York–based artist Cody Hoyt are translated into Botanica Vitality, a wallpaper or Type II commercial-grade PVC-free wallcovering by Calico. calicowallpaper.com

OO+II aluminum Plug-in Wall Lights Designed by Kiki Goti

New York–based Greek architect/designer Kiki Goti with her OO+II aluminum plug-in wall lights, featuring traditional Balkan motifs transformed via open-source AI tools such as Midjourney. kikigoti.com

Contour Lamps by Esque Studio

Andi Kovel’s Contour lamps in glazed hand-thrown ceramic and mold-blown glass by Esque Studio of Portland, Oregon. esque-studio.com

Mada Touch Sensor–Operated Lamps Designed by Arielle Assouline-Lichten

Mada touch sensor–operated brushed-aluminum lamps with green onyx or Arabescato marble shades by Arielle Assouline-Lichten of New York’s Slash Objects. slashobjects.com

all you need now is some oxygen coffee table by Kostas Lambridis

all you need now is some oxygen coffee table of concrete, glass, ceramic, and marble by Greek artist Kostas Lambridis, exhibited at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York. carpentersworkshopgallery.com

Cono Pots Designed by Masquespacio

Cono pots of 3D-printed clay hand-finished by Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse of Spanish design studio Masquespacio for their lifestyle brand, Mas Creations. mas-creations.com

Threshold Light by Alexis & Ginger

Threshold Light, a desk lamp or wall-hung sconce made of layered solid cherry by Ginger Gordon and Alexis Tingey of New York studio Alexis & Ginger. alexis-and-ginger.com

Hi Beam Lamps Designed by David Weeks Studio

The David Weeks Studio founder with his towering Hi Beam steel standing lamps, incorporating LED-lit frosted-acrylic cylinders and golden-yellow powder-coated bases. davidweeksstudio.com

Lamp by James Haywood and Aurora Shelving by AMCA OVAL Studio

French designer James Haywood’s lamp made from industrial waste atop Aurora aluminum modular-shelving system by Alexis Martial and Adrien Caillaudaud of Paris-based AMCA OVAL Studio. jameshaywood.me; amcaoval.com

Mani Rug and Chess Wallpaper Designed by Shanan Campanaro

Mani rug of merino wool with hand-cut bevels in Fire against Chess wallpaper in Multi, both by Shanan Campanaro of New York’s Eskayel, and based on her own paintings. eskayel.com

Purdah Mirror Designed by Urvi Sharma and Manan Narang 

Purdah mirror with a reflection-softening brass veil suspended from a gilded bar, by Urvi Sharma and Manan Narang of Providence, Rhode Island, studio INDO-. indo-made.com