Add A Splash Of Style With Kohler’s Sculptural Faucet

2024 Best of Year Winner for Bath Faucet: Designer Collaboration

Cast as one singular, sculptural object, Kohler‘s Formation 01 forms a strikingly dynamic gesture. Not to mention the faucet’s uber-bold orange hue, possible thanks to NeoLast, a proprietary composite particularly suited to saturated colors. The winner of Bath Faucet: Designer Collaboration is the brainchild of award-winning British artist and designer Dr. Samuel Ross’s studio SR_A SR_A and reminiscent of his large-scale sculptures. The expressive angles of the faucet demanded precise pressure control for the smooth flow of water—a technical feat Kohler was more than able to deliver.

5 Designers Share Transformative Multifamily Projects

Shoptalk is our roundup where we ask industry insiders topical questions seeking insight into the design zeitgeist. This time, we asked design leaders at Thomas Juul-Hansen, Multistudio, ahha, CREO Architecture, and Studio Gang the following question: What transformative multifamily project has shaped your response to broader sector issues?

Discover The Multifamily Projects Bringing Community Together

Sutton Tower in Manhattan, New York

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Travis Building In San Antonio, Texas

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Central Station in Phoenix, Arizona

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Clay Corner in Oˉtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand

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City Hyde Park and Aqua in Chicago, Illinois; 11 Hoyt in Brooklyn, New York; and Verde in San Francisco, California

Rebecca Moses Dreams Up Whimsical Wallcoverings

Fashion illustrator and designer Rebecca Moses is a genius at female portraiture, her colorful sketches presenting women as goddesses in all their stylish diversity. This coming January (with a sneak preview here, then at BDNY), she will debut a 10-print wallcovering collection, her first, with elements culled from those compositions. “As I’m passionate about color, pattern, and creating magical spaces, it has always been my dream to design a wallcovering,” Moses recalls. “I was fortunate to meet Momentum’s Jennifer Nye through Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen at the Giants event in Palm Springs, and our creative synergy was immediately evident.”

Drawn from her Kimono Lady canvas comes the self-portrait Close Up, Kimono Mosaic (a maximalist repetition of her attire), the minimalist abstraction Kimono Untamed, and Fleur, which scales up the portrait’s floral watercolor elements. Other highlights are a gallery of Moses’s painted women, various riffs on the Queen of England’s likeness (including Reflection), and Have a Seat, featuring watercolor chairs. All speak with wit and whimsy to women’s enigmatic beauty and power.

Get Textured With This Neutral + Natural Wallcovering Collection

The viral meme of the “sad beige baby” aesthetic has given shades of greige a bad rap lately. But a composition of taupe, tan, and cream needn’t be a snoozefest. Enter Dénudé, “stripped” in French, a collection for which New York designer Tania Leipold of Laine + Alliage recolored a selection of her most-loved wallcoverings in neutrals (vis-à-vis their original brights). The subtle botanicals and geometrics, in warm to cool shades of sepia and putty, are printed on handwoven sisal grass cloth for added texture and interest. Sad? No way!

Pinch Celebrates A Milestone Year With A Modern Twist

The London-based studio (and store) created by married founders Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon excels in casually elevated English classics. This year, Pinch is 20 years old, and, to celebrate the milestone anniversary, the brand is unveiling a wide-ranging collection at the Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery in New York. Among the items on show, starting September 18, is Colton, an oak-and-leather dining chair with round finials, a new size of the Soren globe pendant fixture, the elliptical Rodan oak dining table, and the Garagh sofa series with its modern twist on rolled arms, expanded with a chaise lounge and an armchair. Not to mention a gold-leaf sconce, bronze candelabra, faceted plaster-base table lamp, explorations in blown glass, and much more.

7 Offices Prioritize Community + Collaboration Through Design

Whether stateside or abroad, tech company or video production studio, these offices have made providing creativity- and community-inducing spaces job number one.

Visit These Creative Offices From Atlanta to Seoul

Intuit by Studio O+A and TVS

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Although this nine-floor workplace for 1,000 employees is set in Atlanta, it was imagined by the two studios and Wink, the in-house agency of Intuit’s Mailchimp, as a cityscape based on New York’s neighborhoods, namely the creativity and sense of community that unite them. Nearly 300 works of vivid art from such movements as outsider, surrealism, and pop were commissioned from global up-and-comers to energize and inspire, like Finnish illustrator Annu Kilpeläinen’s pink mezzanine mural. Local artisans have skin in the game, though, too: They teach workshops to staffers at the on-site maker space.

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PUBG by Kinzo 

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Inspiration for the concept of this Seoul, South Korea, production studio came from Battlegrounds, one of the video games PUBG makes. The scheme mirrors the gameplay dynamics, emphasizing functionality while capturing the essence of PUBG’s aesthetic. A blood-red staircase serves as the spine, guiding employees to tea kitchens and recreation rooms. Nearby lounges, phone booths, and meeting rooms complement this central feature, allowing for chance encounters and scintillating exchanges, encouraging exploration and interaction as staffers move between zones, much like players do in the game. 

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Pinterest by Partners by Design 

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The visual discovery engine we all know and love boasts a workplace worthy of being “pinned” itself by looking to all things Windy City—from its cultural attractions to its culinary delights. Conceived in partnership with the company’s in-house design team, there’s a Navy Pier–inspired executive business center, a Chicago-style hot dog IT help desk, and a crafting creator space inspired by the Mart. A verdant lounge pays homage to the Riverwalk, embellished with living and faux native wildflowers and grasses that shroud seating enclaves and integrated lighting that mimics twinkling fireflies.

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WPP by BDG Architecture + Design

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Situated inside an Olson Kundig building in Atlanta’s new Fourth Ward development, specialty areas for production are a must for the advertising firm’s 12 creative agencies inhabiting this post- pandemic office, its more than 400 employees on a hybrid schedule. Inspired by hospitality, the interiors are inviting, with soft, rounded furniture and locally sourced materials and art, like the Georgia stone found in the terrazzo floor at the perimeter and a corridor installation that abstracts the site’s former railroad tracks. 

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530 Broadway by Snarkitecture

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Cofounder Daniel Arsham is also a sculptor who’s represented by Perrotin gallery. So it made sense to commission his firm this 11-story, multi-tenant office interior in New York—its first—geared toward the creative class (tenants so far include Armani Exchange, Anomaly ad agency, and Snarkitecture itself). A black-and-white palette is graphic yet clean, allowing for the showcasing of the “exploded” brick wall near the entry, a pantry’s travertine table, the overhead custom pendant fixture mirroring its seam-like brass inlay, and Arsham’s candles. 

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JIC by KOGAA 

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Sculpted Plexiglass pods for meeting rooms and workstations impart a retro space-age look to an erstwhile research laboratory turned start-up incubator in Brno, Czech Republic, as do vibrantly tinted shapes of the same material hung above the ground floor as an artful intervention visually connecting levels one and two. Curtains add welcome privacy to the see-through pods, their fluted drape echoing the colorful corrugated metal that clads other sinuously shaped rooms.

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Rithm Capital by Danny Forster & Architecture 

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A sculptural switchback staircase veneered in warm stained ash organizes and unites the asset-management firm’s two-level workplace, one of the interventions used to lure workers back to the New York office post pandemic. The element is echoed, but in walnut veneer, in the ceiling-scapes above the monumental marble bar and media lounge, the latter, like the conference room, outfitted with choice seating by the likes of Mario Bellini and Charles and Ray Eames and artworks from the client’s collection.