This June, we’re celebrating Pride Month, some can’t-miss collaborations, the amazing new MillerKnoll archives, an influential under-the-radar textile brand, and a charming country inn created by a noted female entrepreneur.
Andy Cohen x 1stDibs and Housing Works
Celebrated TV producer Andy Cohen with a sampling of the chic furnishings from his own apartment up for sale on 1stDibs.
COURTESY OF 1ST DIBSIn celebration of Pride Month, Watch What Happens Live host and Real Housewives guru Andy Cohen is partnering with 1stDibs to sell pieces from his own Manhattan residence to benefit Housing Works, a New York-based nonprofit that provides services for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Preview Cohen’s furniture and accessories on 1stDibs, then join the in-person shopping event on July 22 at the Housing Works Chelsea Thrift Shop in New York, featuring additional pieces from Cohen’s home. Tickets are $40 in advance.
Queer Lens and $3 Bill at the Getty Center
Gay Activists at the First Gay Pride Parade, Christopher Street, New York (detail), 1970, from Queer Lens: A History of Photography at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Arthur Tress. Getty Museum. Gift of David Knaus. © Arthur Tress Archive LLCTwo exhibitions at the Getty Center in Los Angeles explore LGBTQ+ history and experience through photography, art, and ephemera. In spite of periods of great homophobia, when photographs depicting queer life were suppressed or destroyed, Queer Lens: A History of Photography explores the medium’s profound role in shaping and affirming the vibrant tapestry of the LGBTQ+ community. $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives examines a century of art in “a journey of resilience, pride, and beauty.” (Also of note: The Getty Villa Museum will reopen on June 27th, after closing during the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.)
The MillerKnoll Archives
Open storage at MillerKnoll’s sparkling new archives holds thousands of iconic designs and prototypes from both Herman Miller and Knoll.
Nicholas Calcott for MillerKnoll
The sleek new combined archives of Herman Miller and Knoll are the furthest thing from a dusty storehouse imaginable, offering museum-worthy collections of furniture and objects across 12,000 square feet at MillerKnoll’s Zeeland, Michigan, headquarters. The new home for more than 1 million objects includes an exhibition space, open storage, and a reading room for researchers. The inaugural exhibition, “Manufacturing Modern,” features iconic designs by the visionaries who shaped both companies, including Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Select tours will be offered in partnership with the Cranbrook Art Museum and Docomomo.
The Six Bells Countryside Inn
The Innkeeper’s Suite at the Six Bells Inn is decorated wtih a curtained alcove bed and hand-painted floral motifs inspired by Bavarian craftsmanship.
KATE S. JORDANAudrey Gelman, former CEO and cofounder of the influential women’s coworking space The Wing, has created an enchanting, nostalgia-steeped world at her new Six Bells Inn in New York’s Hudson Valley. With the help of designer Adam Greco, Gelman has crafted not only 11 storybook rooms, a riverside restaurant, and tavern, but also an entire narrative around the fictional town of Barrow’s Green and its inhabitants, which also underpins her Brooklyn store, The Six Bells. The Inn’s furnishings are shoppable, too, from local antiques to hand-stitched quilts and hand-painted plates to cozy pajamas.
Carolina Irving & Daughters x The Green Vase
Three paper-flower bouquets by The Green Vase in Carolina Irving & Daughters' handmade bud vases.
Megan Elyse LloydDesigner Carolina Irving and her daughters, Olympia and Ariadne, have collaborated on a small collection with paper artist Livia Cetti of The Green Vase to offer bouquets of Livia’s delicate handmade paper flowers in Carolina Irving & Daughters’ signature bud vases. “Her work is so poetic,” says Carolina Irving of Livia. “As much as we love natural flowers, we are charmed by these paper ones. It’s great fun to recreate all sorts of historical still lifes—in particular, the centuries-old art of Ottoman paper flowers and their love of tulips and carnations.”
Luke Edward Hall x the Louvre
Designer Luke Edward Hall, left, and his picnic basket and table linen designs for his new collection for the Louvre boutique, inspired by the Tuileries Garden.
Jasper Fry
British designer and artist Luke Edward Hall has brought his painterly, romantic sensibilities to a charming new collaboration with the Louvre, inspired by the Tuileries Garden. “This collection celebrates the seasonal joy of summer picnics,” says Hall, including “everything one might need to host an outdoor feast,” from a beautifully outfitted picnic basket to melamine plates featuring toy sailboats on the Grand Basin to a tablecloth and napkins inspired by the plan of the gardens. “What I wanted to celebrate is a sense of conviviality, and the intense joy that gardens and green spaces can bring to all of us,” he says.
A New Era at Tillett Textiles
Tillett Textiles is a boutique fabric company beloved by designers for its graphic, painterly hand-screened prints and customization abilities. Founded by husband-and-wife team Leslie and D.D. Tillett in the 1940s, its illustrious client list has included everyone from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Bunny Mellon to Sister Parish and Tory Burch. Now, Tillett will become part of F. Schumacher & Co., which has pledged to uphold the quality, originality, and exuberance the company is known for. “What’s remarkable is how fresh and modern the patterns still feel today,” says Dara Caponigro, editor in chief of FREDERIC and chief creative officer of Schumacher. “We’re excited to honor that spirit and share Tillett’s extraordinary designs with a new generation, and expand into wallpaper to bring more of its magic to interiors across the country.”
