From significant business changes to noteworthy product launches, there’s always something new happening in the world of design. In this biweekly roundup, AD PRO has everything you need to know.
Product Spotlight
Louis Vuitton enters the tabletop category
Louis Vuitton expands its home collection with enchanting tableware sure to spruce up holiday dinner tables. The maison’s signature four-petal monogram flower, rendered in a classic combination of deep blue and crisp white, decorates a range of Limoges porcelain plates, bowls, cups, and saucers that recall watercolor paintings. Meanwhile, Venetian glass master Simone Cenedese references the joyful bloom to create matching Murano glasses and carafes in luminous clear crystal, sapphire blue, amber, emerald, and Venetian ruby varieties.
Openings
Artemest opens reimagined New York gallery
The Artemest Galleria in New York offers an edited look at the more than 60,000 handmade products the source for Italian craftsmanship offers online. This month, Artemest unveiled the West Village gallery’s newly renovated interiors, for which creative director Ippolita Rostagno tapped architect and designer Samuele Brianza, who flits between New York and Milan. In doing so, Brianza specced furniture, lighting, and objects from more than 50 Italian artisans and designers within the Artemest network. A palette of soft, muddied pastels washes over the gallery in an earthy, plaster paint backdrop that calls to Brianza’s mind Tuscany’s rolling hills. Murano glass, polished stucco Veneziano, and Rubelli and Bevilacqua fabrics layer in, leading to the pièce de résistance: a centerpiece walnut counter from sculptor Giuseppe Rivadossi.
Diptyque unveils revamped US flagship in New York
Beyond the brick façade at Madison Avenue and East 76th Street awaits the newly renovated, two-story Diptyque boutique in an apartment-like setting that pays homage to grand New York architecture as well as the brand’s fashionable roots on Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Inside, decorative surprises—in addition to the luxurious fragrances—delight. A series of arched stained glass windows commissioned from French atelier Studio Vitrail Bianconi offer a kaleidoscopic contrast to the light and airy entry’s architectural concrete beams. Caramel-stained oak floors and paneling warm the way into the adjacent dining room, where Diptyque’s home decor range is on sophisticated display within fireplace-flanking shelves. Around the corner, a mural comprising nearly 700 candles wrapped in silk paper creates a meditative pastel moment—a prelude to the enchanting bath salon, crowned with a spirited mural hand-painted by artist duo Redfield & Dattner.