Once every two weeks, Town & Country puts together an assortment of the best design news and happenings— everything from interior design projects that pique our interest and auctions of note, to any must-have products on the market.
RH’s Fall 2023 Collection Answers: What Is True Luxury?
Social media attempts to make everything appear beautiful. Influencers are considered the arbiters of good taste. Fast fashion and fast design foolishly use the words “high-quality” and “exclusive,” though that is likely not the case. How does one truly know when luxury, true luxury, sits before them?
According to Gary Friedman, CEO and chairman of RH, the answer lies in the craftsmanship behind the beauty. “[It’s] why we use the finest European and American White Oak or Walnut and Indonesian Teak when fashioning and finishing our furniture,” Friedman says. “Why our sofas are predominately made in America with eight-way hand-tied springs (considered the gold standard), or Made in Italy with engineered foam and exquisite tailoring to ensure a superior sitting experience that will last a lifetime.”
RH’s Fall 2023 collection is composed of designers around the world who are living practitioners of this sentiment. Arrison and Nicholas Condos, a design duo from Australia, create a natural sideboard, bed canopy, and day bed (this editor’s favorite) forged from European White Oak. Designer Oliver Oulton from the United Kingdom utilizes Belgian Flax Linens for elongated sofas. Organically shaped sideboards and tables of American White Oak are imagined by American designer Julie Lawrence. The point is hard to miss.
Autumnal color palettes are prevalent in the collection.
Come the fall, it’s important to remember that luxury is never based on a price tag, but rather on the thought, creativity, and even something’s rarity. RH’s Fall 2023 collection is an emblem of this. It helps, too, that the aesthetics of the collection is one that evokes serenity: light woods and organic lines that are free of harsh angles and colors.
To view the full collection and purchase items, please visit rh.com.
You Can Take a Piece of the Cecily Brown Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Home
For more than 25 years, Cecily Brown has managed to captivate art enthusiasts with her abstract expressionist style. Her paintings, which frequently contain motifs of women, skulls, skeletons, and other still-lives, have frequented high-earning auctions and high-profile exhibitions— with prices reaching around $6.7 million, according to Sotheby’s. TLDR: she’s one of the highest female artists today.
Brown’s “The Nymphs Have Departed” sold for $4.1 million by Sotheby’s London earlier this year.
Currently, there’s an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City titled ” Cecily Brown: Death and The Maid on view until December 3, 2023. If the exhibition, which consists of fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from throughout her career, entices one to acquire a piece one actually can—albeit a print. “Cecily Brown’s newest etching was inspired by her recent look at Jan Brueghel the Elder’s 17th-century allegorical series The Five Senses (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid), in which personifications of hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell are paired with the instruments and devices that symbolize them,” said Ian Alteveer, Aaron I. Fleischman Curator in The Met’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Piling them all together in one delirious heap…”
New Cecily Brown prints will be available at the Met Shop with a starting price of $8,000.
Edition one of twenty five will go to The Met’s collection, and the others will be available for purchase with an introductory price of $8,000. The proceeds will support the Met’s collection, study, conservation, and presentation of 5,000 years of art.
For more information about the exhibition and to book your visit, please visit metmuseum.org.
What Does it Take to Perfect a Bulgari Timepiece?
For those looking to spruce up their coffee tables with a book that is as enchanting as the interiors it’s set in, consider one that celebrates over 100 years of Bulgari horology.
Bulgaria’s new “Beyond Time” book chronicles more than a century of horology.
There is a chapter dedicated to the brand’s signature serpent design.
Partnering with Assouline, the high-jewelry brands offers a complete retrospective of the mastered art within 300 pages with some of the Maison’s most notable friends, ambassadors, and experts. Among the many different designs, the serpent watch remains one of the brand’s signature designs. “The combination of of wraparounds Tubas bracelet with a watch dial in the place of the reptile’s head was something entirely new,” watch collector John Goldberger says in the release. “Bulgari was the first brand to make the serpent watch a pillar of its identity.”
Stemware, Anyone?
September quickly approaches, which means October, November and December are just around the corner. Seasoned hosts know that now is the time to begin preparing for their upcoming parties and dinners with friends and family. Start with Sophie Lou Jacobsen’s new stemware collection.
Sophie Lou Jacobsen’s new stemware collection includes five different options. Inspired by Art Nouveau motifs, glasses are morphed into flora and made in Ecole de Nancy in France (the designer’s birth country). Jacobsen’s signature is playful, but this set carries an air of sophistication making it ideal for dressier evenings. The collection doesn’t hit the market until October, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to get accompanying table accessories now.
Ripple Cup
Squiggle Pitcher
Le Grand Lagon Vert
