OBJECTS OF DESIRE

THE GREAT ROOM REVIVAL

After spending more time than ever at home over the past couple of years, we could all use an interior refresh to lead us into brighter times ahead. Whether you’re keen to adapt your interior to a new way of living or are simply looking to shake up your décor, the products presented across the following pages aim to offer some fresh ideas and inspiration. From stylish furniture, lighting, and homewares that will look great on Zoom as well as in real life, to kitchen appliances that will help you get back into the swing of entertaining again, there are plenty of ways to ensure your home is looking its best for 2022 and beyond.

By Alyn Griffiths

THE IDEAL LIVING ROOM FURNISHINGS PRIORITIZE COMFORT, ENSURING RELAXATION AND EFFORTLESS ENTERTAINING. AN INVITING SOFA IS A MUST-HAVE FOR FAMILY DOWNTIME OR HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS, WHILE A FEW STATEMENT PIECES, LIKE A SCULPTURAL ARMCHAIR, LAMP, OR ARTWORK, CAN LIVEN UP THE ROOM.

Modular sofas offer versatility and the ability to create a lounging landscape tailored to a specific space. This elegantly geometric design by Anderssen & Voll features a deep, low seat that invites you to lie back and relax, muuto.com. Maurizio Manzoni has worked in many design disciplines, from architecture to graphic and industrial design. His Intermede sofa, designed for Roche Bobois with a shape sure to steal the spotlight in any room, draws from his decades of multidisciplinary training, roche-bobois.com.

Modular sofas offer versatility and the ability to create a lounging landscape tailored to a specific space. This elegantly geometric design by Anderssen & Voll features a deep, low seat that invites you to lie back and relax, muuto.com.

For its first designer collection, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams tapped Los Angeles–based interior designer Brigette Romanek. The LA sofa, with its low profile and compact curves, is the epitome of a laid-back West Coast aesthetic: a mix of style and sophistication, mgbwhome.com.

The updated version of Mario Bellini’s Camaleonda sofa retains the original design’s iconic 1970s styling and proportions. The seat modules, backrests, and armrests function like giant pixels that can be configured in endless variations, bebitalia.com. AT TOP: Maurizio Manzoni has worked in many design disciplines, from architecture to graphic and industrial design. His Intermede sofa, designed for Roche Bobois with a shape sure to steal the spotlight in any room, draws from his decades of multidisciplinary training, roche-bobois.com.

British designer Lee Broom’s new Penthouse Collection comprises architectural and sculptural pieces such as the Tribeca tables, which combine marble and travertine elements to create a playful cantilevered effect, leebroom.com.

Designed by Faye Toogood for Hem, the Puffy lounge chair is everything weekend dreams are made of. With a tubular steel frame and detachable upholstery, this chair begs, well, to be lounged in, us.hem.com.

Italian lighting company Lodes presents its first floor lamp, the Croma, designed by Luca Nichetto. Taking its name from the Italian word for a “quaver” or “eighth,” the lamp has a slender silhouette inspired by a musical note. Available in four unique finishes, including two metallic ombré effects, Croma has a ring positioned halfway up its body that allows the user to easily switch the lamp on and off and control its dimming function, lodes.com.

The distinctive silhouette of Bensen’s Circa lounge chair brings a midcentury look, while the piece’s contemporary craftsmanship— a webbed seat is concealed within the formed foam to cradle the user—ergonomically supports the body, bensen.com.

David Weeks set out to create a sense of asymmetry when designing the Echo lighting collection for British brand Tala. The lamps pair intersecting steel cylinders with Tala’s Sphere IV LED bulbs to create seemingly awkward yet balanced sculptural compositions, tala.co.uk.

he two mouth-blown glass shades of the Clam light, by Danish design duo Ahm & Lund, can open and close to hide the inner light. The lamp’s brass hardware includes a small knob, inspired by those of antique gas lamps, that is used to adjust the shades’ positions, fritzhansen.com.

Two years in the making, the T-Bone armchair, designed by Jaime Hayon for Italian furniture brand Ceccotti Collezioni, is a sculptural masterpiece destined to become a modern classic, ceccotticollezioni.it.

The Soda tables by Greek designer Yiannis Ghikas look as light as air but are in fact made from a single piece of robust glass, which is blown and shaped by master glassmakers to create the round top and base with three intersecting petals, miniforms.com.

In 2019, designer Jean-Philippe Nuel transformed the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon (the site of a former hospital) into the Hotel Intercontinental Lyon-Dieu. For the project, he created plush lounge chairs for a common area; these pieces would be adapted to become Ligne Roset’s Soufflot chair, named after 18th-century architect Jean-Germain Soufflot, who designed the building the hotel occupies, ligne-roset.com.

DINING AREAS NEED TO COMBINE EVERYDAY COMFORT AND PRACTICALITY WITH THE CAPABILITY TO HOST INTIMATE GATHERINGS OR LIVELY DINNER PARTIES. A SOLID TABLE AND SET OF STYLISH CHAIRS THAT MATCH YOUR DINING ROOM’S DÉCOR ARE THE BEST PLACE TO START. IF YOU ENJOY ENTERTAINING, WHY NOT INTRODUCE SOME BOLD COLOR OR A STATEMENT LAMP TO LIGHT UP YOUR EPIC SPREAD?

The Allure O’ table and Flair O’ chair combine straight lines and sinuous curves in a reference to Jackie Onassis’ iconic sunglasses. Both pieces feature a pyramidal base that provides structural and visual stability, bebitalia.com.

Moooi introduces the Gravity chandelier, designed by Paul Cocksedge. The light’s flexible arms let you define its diameter and choose where the light travels, while the suspended elements create natural curves shaped by gravity, moooi.com.

The Bohemia pendant designed by Joan Gaspar makes a bold statement with its organic, translucent polycarbonate profile and white inner surface that projects an even light onto the surface below, marset.com.

Vancouver-based design brand Bocci uses experimental processes to create striking sculptural lighting products. The new 100 pendant light comprises handmade glass bubbles that are sliced and joined together to form unique interlocking shapes. Available in two colors and various configurations, bocci.com.

New York City–based lighting brand Trueing has launched a collection of adaptable chandeliers and pendants that take their cues from fine jewelry. The chain-link design can be customized in length and the fixtures are available in five metal finishes, trueing.co.

The soft and enveloping form of Patricia Urquiola’s Dudet chair references 1970s designs and looks great alongside the monumental Sengu table, which playfully combines solid wood, marble, and ceramic in a configuration inspired by Japanese shrines, cassina.com.

Philippe Starck’s first collaboration with furniture brand Andreu World has resulted in a chair that is made entirely from responsibly sourced wood and that can be disassembled for recycling. Adela Rex is available with or without armrests and can be upholstered in a range of fabrics or leather, andreuworld.com.

The curved, tubular legs of Dainelli Studio’s Paipu table reference the exposed ducts and structural elements of 1970s high-tech architecture. Its large marble top is available in round or oval versions, frag.it.

MANY OF US HAVE SPENT MORE TIME THAN EVER COOKING AND EATING AT HOME RECENTLY, WHICH HAS HELPED REINFORCE THE VALUE OF A WELLDESIGNED KITCHEN. THESE SPACES NEED TO BE FUNCTIONAL YET STYLISH, HELPING TO MAKE MEALTIMES EFFICIENT WHEN REQUIRED, BUT ALSO ENABLING US TO ENTERTAIN WHEN GUESTS COME CALLING.

Uniting Italian style and Swedish craftsmanship, this bold kitchen design is a nod to the maximalists. An exclusive collaboration between Very Simple Kitchen and Swedish interior designer Tekla Evelina Severin, the model is available in two colorways, bringing together a striking combination of white Carrara and black Marquina marble, arranged vertically to create a striped pattern that references Romanesque and Gothic architecture, verysimplekitchen.com.

Pritzker Prize–winning French architect Jean Nouvel is known for his artistic, playful design language, so it’s no surprise that he brought a similar approach to the table when collaborating with kitchen retailer Reform. The resulting new steel system, Reflect, is available in several combinations of finishes and materials, including black or metal cabinet fronts with a high-gloss reflective surface and countertops that come in stainless steel or laminate in black or gray, reformcph.com.

Henrybuilt creates bespoke kitchens with a simple elegance that will never go out of style. The use of premium materials and quality craftsmanship ensures the cabinets and surfaces are robust enough to withstand daily use, henrybuilt.com.

The Broad kitchen island from Edward Collinson is a testament to utility that doesn’t sacrifice contemporary design. Use as a freestanding component placed against a wall—its versatility allows for integration into most kitchens. The black-oak edition (shown here) comes with sink, tap, and induction cooktop, edwardcollinson.co.uk.

An industrial workhorse for the kitchen, Fulgor’s Sofia professional, dual-fuel, six-burner range includes heavy-duty cast-iron grates that form a continuous surface for easy movement of pots and pans. A bonus for the chef of the house: You can create a personalized nameplate for the oven door, fulgor-milano.com.

If you’re cooking at home more and eating out less, the new Signature Kitchen Suite 36-inch professional range provides everything you need to fry, bake, and heat your meals to perfection. The system’s built-in sous vide, induction, and gas burners offer powerful performance in a no-fuss, stainless-steel design, signaturekitchensuite.com.

Last year, Italian kitchen appliance manufacturer Bertazzoni launched more than 100 new and redesigned products, including its first-ever builtin refrigerator, freezer, and wine cabinet columns. An oenophile’s dream, the wine column features separate temperature controls for red and white wines and storage for bigger bottles on every shelf, us.bertazzoni.com.

YOUR BATHROOM SHOULD BE A SANCTUARY FOR RELAXATION, WHICH YOU CAN ACHIEVE BY OPTING FOR AN ALL-WHITE OR NEUTRAL MATERIALS PALETTE TO CREATE A SERENE, SPA-LIKE SPACE. IF YOU PREFER A BATHROOM WITH A LESS CLINICAL LOOK, THEN SOFT COLORS, DARKER TONES, AND SCULPTURAL FORMS CAN HELP TO INJECT PERSONALITY AND MAKE THE ROOM FEEL MORE FUN.

The Borghi freestanding bathtub by Gumdesign is made from translucent resin, which is available in bold colors and features a narrow base that creates a floating effect, antoniolupi.it.

The Helm faucet by Lopez Quincoces is both classical and distinctly modern in its design, which deconstructs the familiar faucet and reconfigures it as a series of cylindrical elements, zucchettikos.it.

The Limón faucet, designed by Patricia Urquiola for Agape, combines a simple, cylindrical body with a circular handle for a fixture that is also a work of sculpture, agapedesign.it.

Piero Lissoni’s Lost Stones texture for Salvatori uses gold-colored resin to bind broken pieces of stone in a process inspired by the Japanese art of kintsugi, salvatoriofficial.com.

The monolithic marble Lusso bathtub from Waterworks instantly introduces a sense of refined, spa-like luxury to any contemporary bathroom, waterworks.com.

The gentle, elliptical shape of the BetteEve bathtub references natural forms, and its narrow ends provide comfortable backrests for two bathers, if you’re happy to share, my-bette.com.

The Belshire bathroom collection from DXV is inspired by the glamour of the Art Deco style. Its elegant forms and materials reference the iconic architecture of the 1920s, including New York City’s Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, dxv.com.

The Ann Sacks Idris by Aït Manos tiles, seen here in powder pink in the washrooms at Seattle’s Willmott’s Ghost restaurant, are made using the Moroccan zellige technique, in which each tile is shaped, chiseled, and glazed by hand, annsacks.com.

KEVIN SCOTT

BEDROOMS HAVE BEEN WORKING OVERTIME DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, OFTEN DOUBLING AS HOME OFFICES OR ESCAPES FROM THE STRESSES OF DAILY LIFE. NATURAL TONES AND TEXTURES CAN HELP ENHANCE THE RELAXING VIBES, AND MARIE KONDO–STYLE DECLUTTERING WILL CREATE A CALMER ENVIRONMENT. A STATEMENT BED OR HEADBOARD AND ACCESSORIES SUCH AS MIRRORS, CURTAINS, OR ARTWORKS PROVIDE THE FINAL DECORATIVE TOUCHES TO PERSONALIZE THE ROOM.

The Heather bed with storage is part of Canadian brand Montauk Sofa’s Dream collection. It features a distinctive padded headboard for laid-back lounging and a handy storage compartment concealed in the base, montauksofa.com.

Danish design company Vipp is best known for stylish trash cans, but has also created a textile collection featuring pillows, rugs, and throws. The ultra-soft and decorative textile accessories retain the brand’s pared-back aesthetic and would look great in any Scandi-style space, vipp.com.

The calming, curved form of the new Silence lamp, by Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc for Sé, unites an elemental base with a sophisticated gold shade, se-collections.com.

The simple, L-shaped Frame mirror is one outcome of the first collaboration between furniture brand Stellar Works and Japanese design firm Nendo. The playful piece combines a mirror with a metal frame that can be used for hanging clothes or other items, stellarworks.com.

The streamlined Friday Night bed, designed by Formstelle for Zeitraum, brings the relaxed look of upholstered furniture into the bedroom. The backrest swings in a gentle arc from the headboard down to the ground in an updated twist on midcentury lines, zeitraum-moebel.de.

A design by brothers Oscar and Gabriele Buratti for Lema, the Ortis table can be used as a nightstand or a coffee table in the bedroom. Its unique form layers an interesting shape into any mix of décor, and a drawer allows for the tucking away of books, eyeglasses, or other necessities, lemamobili.com.

Piero Lissoni’s Byron bed for Italian brand Porro combines an upholstered frame and soft headboard with a wraparound screen that envelops the sleeper. The bed’s gentle form contrasts with the geometric shape of the screen, which features panels made from woven straw, porro.com.

The Dubois bed system designed by Luca Nichetto makes a bold statement in the bedroom. It features a solid hardwood frame and a wraparound upholstered headboard that provides a sense of privacy while you sleep. The headboard is available in low or tall versions and you can also choose to add integrated bedside tables, delaespada.com.

Broberg & Ridderstråle’s design for this mouth-blown carafe and glass set is inspired by the shapes of glassware seen in modernist still-life paintings. Create your own artistic arrangement on a bedside table or dresser, muuto.com.

The Storet cabinet brings a playful touch to utilitarian chores such as folding (and putting away) laundry. Designed by Nanda Vigo, this chest of drawers, available in nine colors, has a hint of the Memphis aesthetic, with an updated contemporary feel, acerbisdesign.com.

Easily incorporated into most kitchen spaces, the sleek, 36-inch Wolf transitional induction range offers an integrated touch panel for precise control and almost instantaneous temperature adjustment, subzero-wolf.com.