As spring sidles toward summer, the design world is buzzing as much as the birds and the bees. The name of the game, it seems, is cross-pollination, which is blossoming into design collaborations where the sum is even greater than the parts. Here are some of the most exciting new events, collections, and places on our radar.
Printemps New York
Designer Laura Gonzalez envisioned the remarkable Red Room as an enchanted forest with a canopy of gold leaves on the original 33-foot-high Art Deco mosaic ceiling by Hildreth Meière, and lacy white flowers stemmed with pedestals for the shoe salon.
Gieves Anderson for Printemps New York
Gonzalez created an undulating white, womb-like tunnel for the “Beauty Corridor” whose caterpillar-like shape represents metamorphosis and connects the historic Art Deco building with a more modern 1960s glass office tower.
JILL SIMPSONThe most spectacular retail destination to open in New York City in ages, the U.S. outpost of iconic French department store Printemps is a must-see. Located in the financial district at One Wall Street, a landmark Art Deco building, the transportive Laura Gonzalez–designed store unfolds as a series of rooms in a mesmerizing, dreamlike experience. Using both traditional and unexpected recycled materials (including “marble” that’s actually compressed plastic), Gonzalez achieves a high level of craft and ingenuity in every distinctive, captivating space. Be sure to see the Red Room shoe salon and the sculptural white Beauty Corridor; when you’re all shopped out, stop for a drink at the Maison Passerelle brasserie, the champagne bar in the Salle de Bain, or the Red Room bar-slash-library.
NYCxDesign Festival
Check out the winning presentations from the 2025 Landscape Architecture Design Awards at a rooftop party on May 15th, just one of hundreds of design events around New York City.
Courtesy of NYCXDESIGNMay is a month when New York City explodes with creativity. If you’re in the area from May 15–21, don’t miss this annual, citywide celebration of design, from furniture (including the International Contemporary Furniture Fair May 18–20) to interior decor, art to architecture, industrial to product design. Many events—including design tours and open studios, speakers and showroom visits, exhibitions and parties—are free and open to the public.
Peter Dunham x Hudson Grace
Kashmir Paisley Salad Plates and Fez Painted Border Dinner Plates mix with Bloom Abaca Woven Placemats and the Green Bukhara Tablecloth.
Erin Kunkel
A sunny, warm mix of pink and orange are layered in Kashmir Painted Paisley Appetizer and Salad Plates on a Fez Stripe Tablecloth.
Erin KunkelWhen L.A. designer Peter Dunham’s exuberantly colored and patterned fabrics met San Francisco tabletop store Hudson Grace’s classic-yet-relaxed tableware and linens, it was a match made in entertaining heaven. From Dunham’s iconic Fig Leaf pattern to his painterly paisleys and ikats in shades of sunny orange and pink, classic blue and white, or verdant green and blue, consider your summer dinner party table set.
Alfredo Paredes for Patterson Flynn
Nagoya in Bloom’s mix of textures and motifs recalls patched Japanese boro textiles.
Frank Frances
Sol is a bold, abstracted motif of the sun, available in multiple colorways.
Frank FrancesEsteemed interior designer Alfredo Paredes (former chief creative officer of Ralph Lauren Home) has drawn on a wide range of influences—his Cuban heritage, Miami roots, love of graphic design and vintage treasures—to design his first rug collection for Patterson Flynn. The result is an eclectic, varied collection of luxurious, handcrafted rugs that includes everything from graphic typography to a patchwork rug that nods to Japanese boro textiles to boldly scaled abstract flower and sun motifs to mixed-texture stripes in a rich, earthy palette.
Graham & Brown Paint x The Sensory Home
Graham & Brown’s Slide paint, a soothing blue-gray, is part of the Focus collection developed with The Sensory Home.
Courtesy of Graham & BrownThere’s increasing awareness of the role design and our homes can play in our psychological well-being—more scientifically known as “neuroaesthetics”—in other words, how our environment impacts our brain and emotions. British paint company Graham & Brown has collaborated with Pippa Jameson and The Sensory Home to create a curated 16-color paint collection designed to be neurodivergent-friendly and calming, mood-enhancing, and sensory-soothing for everyone. The tightly edited nature-inspired palette features restful greens, blues, grays, and neutrals, organized into the categories of Gather, Rest, Focus, and Nook.
Birdie Fortescue x Butter Wakefield
The vibrant Nasturtium tablecloth sets the stage for dinner in the garden with Maypole glass vases, which Butter Wakefield says are just the right size and shape to hold bouquets.
Courtesy of Birdie FortescueFriends for many years, British interior designer and homewares purveyor Birdie Fortescue and garden designer Butter Wakefield have teamed up on a charming home and tabletop collection focused on one of Butter’s favorite flowers, the nasturtium. Bursting with sunny color and cheery florals, the collection includes table linens and pillows in the signature print, trellis-patterned tole planters and trays, artful stripes curving around glass vases and lamp bases, and bright pleated lampshades.
Studio MRS x Nordic Knots
Orleans is a crisp, geometric flatweave rug handwoven with soft New Zealand wool.
Adrianna Glaviano
Pointe, also a flatweave wool rug, features a terracotta grid framed in soft blue.
Adrianna GlavianoA vintage Esprit pocket square from the 1980s was the starting point for New York designer Michelle R. Smith’s collection for Scandinavian rug brand Nordic Knots. Smith once shared a workspace in New York with Nordic Knots co-founder Liza Berglund Laserow, and this collection builds on the bond they formed more than a decade ago. Simple geometric motifs are woven into flatweave rugs—three wool, one jute—for versatile patterns that can work in a wide range of settings.
Schumacher x Matouk
Schumacher’s Baudin Butterfly pattern charms on Matouk sheets, shams, duvet covers, and quilts in luxe 500 thread count Egyptian cotton percale.
Max Kim-BeeExuding summery lightness and optimism, Schumacher’s latest collection with American heritage brand Matouk draws on a new batch of its best-loved patterns to create fresh bedding, table linens, and even pajamas. Baudin Butterfly flits across bedding with feminine scalloped borders; Cabanon Stripe is a sweet French provincial blue-and-white floral stripe; while Magic Mountain table linens offer a statement-making pattern swirling with exotic foo dogs and fire-breathing dragons to animate your table. And don’t miss the range of exquisitely detailed Schumacher prints on luxe cotton PJs, so you can drift off to sleep in the dreamiest patterns.
