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A Subscription for Seasonal Bouquets, With a Checkered Vase
This spring, the Brooklyn-based floral designer Karla Smith-Brown, founder of Olivee Floral, launched a subscription service, offering eight weeks of seasonal, hand-tied bouquets each quarter. Her locally grown “ingredients,” as she calls them, are sourced from wholesalers in Manhattan’s Chelsea flower district; she is especially keen on dahlias, celosia, amaranth, chrysanthemums and grasses for her bundles this fall. With the idea of avoiding waste from single-use vases, Smith-Brown has collaborated with her longtime friend Elise Grace Wilken, the founder of the ceramics studio and Lower East Side pottery shop Mellow, to release a handmade vase decorated with Mellow’s signature checkered print that subscribers can add to their order for $195. (The Olivee bouquet subscription is limited to the New York City area, but the vase can be delivered anywhere in the U.S.) “It’s an heirloom object that you can have in your home beyond your flower subscription,” says Smith-Brown of the limited-edition piece, which she helped Wilken paint. Customers can order fall bouquets until Oct. 2; deliveries begin Oct. 4. From $195 for the vase, oliveefloral.com.
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In the Miami Design District, a New Hotel in a Century-Old Building
Constructed in the 1920s, the Moore Furniture Building in Miami has watched the land around it grow from a pineapple farm into the Miami design district. In 2005, the century-old landmark received its own contemporary jolt when the architect Zaha Hadid stretched a weblike sculpture across its four-story atrium for the inaugural Design Miami fair. Earlier this year, that installation and the rest of the neoclassical structure emerged from a renovation to become the Moore Miami, which comprises a new restaurant and private club that debuted this spring, as well as a 13-room hotel that opens Oct. 14. Most of the rooms are suites measuring at least 600 square feet. Living rooms are decorated with honeyed oak veneer paneling, sofas designed by Patricia Urquiola and tables and chairs made in Brazil by Sossego. Bedrooms feature walnut and linen beds fabricated in Portugal, and bathrooms are stocked with Byredo soaps and Dyson hair dryers. Hotel guests gain access to all the private club’s amenities, including exclusive dining rooms, a library and a late-night cocktail bar, sidestepping its $5,000 initiation fee (if only for the duration of a stay). Like the Institute of Contemporary Art two blocks away, the Moore also exhibits local and international artists, with a collection that includes photography from the Miami-based Harmony Korine and Rachel Lee Hovnanian, and abstract works by Cui Jie and Carlos Rojas. Rooms from $800 a night, mooremiami.com.
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Velvet Sneakers From Le Monde Beryl
Since launching in 2016, Le Monde Beryl has become known for its sumptuous but practical flat shoes. The London-based brand initially channeled friulane, the Venetian footwear traditionally made from leftover fabric scraps and old bicycle tires, but has more recently released understated ballet flats in delicate satins and velvets alongside trendier mesh and studded Mary Janes and slippers. With all that soft stepping, it might seem surprising that Le Monde Beryl is moving into sneakers. But to co-founders Lily Atherton Hanbury and Katya Shyfrin, the trainers are an extension of Le Monde Beryl’s design ethos. “At the heart of it all is this idea of the freedom of movement,” says Atherton Hanbury. “With the gondolier slipper, there was the notion of functionality, of style being out of necessity. The sneaker is such an essential everyday part of most people’s wardrobe.” The new shoes continue the upcycled tradition of gondolier footwear with recycled-rubber soles, and further channel the Venetian spirit by incorporating velvet animal prints from Bevilacqua, the weaving workshop whose 18th-century looms date back to the Republic of Venice’s Silk Guild. “It has essentially become our signature print,” says Shyfrin of the velvet tiger pattern that the brand has also used in its slippers and Mary Janes. From $595 for satin styles, exclusive at Harrods; harrods.com. $705 for Bevilacqua velvet styles; lemondeberyl.com.
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Mary Corse’s Light-Infused Paintings on View in New York
During her six-decade career as an artist, Mary Corse has found ways to put light into her work. That lifelong focus finds expression in the diamond-shaped paintings and interactive installation in “Mary Corse: Presence in Light,” a new show at Pace Gallery in New York. Early on, as an artist associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement in the 1960s, the Berkeley, Calif.-born Corse remained true to her training in abstract painting at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. But over the years she has experimented with materials and forms, studying quantum physics, for example, to understand how Tesla coils might illuminate a series of light boxes. One night in 1968, while driving in Malibu, she noticed how the dividing lines in the road sparkled and she tracked down the source: reflective glass microspheres she has used in her paintings ever since. “They work well for me,” says Corse, speaking by phone from her studio in Malibu. “In those early light boxes, the light was ‘out there’ — the objective reality — but going back to painting, I added subjectivity. I wanted to keep the light in the painting.” Some 50 years later, those methods converge in “The Halo Room,” a nine-foot-tall box that sits in the middle of Pace’s flagship Chelsea gallery. Two visitors can step inside to witness their own distinct halos reflected in an all-white painting lit from behind, the effect more aura-like than angelic. “The viewer is in the painting and the painting talks back to the viewer,” says Corse, adding that no two people will see or experience it in the same way. “Perception is an individual thing.” “Mary Corse: Presence in Light” will be on view Sept. 13 through Oct. 26 at Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, pacegallery.com.
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A Spherical, Sepia-Tone Table Light Designed for the Beauty Company Aesop
Growing up in Jerusalem and Vancouver, the artist and architect Omer Arbel spent much of his time building objects from wood and following a curiosity around construction. After graduating from the University of Waterloo’s school of architecture, he co-founded the design studio Bocci in 2005 after making a glass light fixture he named 14. “When I began that project, I had a very limited amount of time and budget,” Arbel says. “It was the constraints that ended up being the most powerful thing about the work.” His original idea for called for a perfectly spherical light, but he only had a half-sphere graphite mold, so he poured heated glass into the hemisphere and placed two together, leaving an eyebrow-shaped rivet between the sides. The 14 became Bocci’s first-ever product. “I built the whole practice around that experience, to encourage those moments of surprise, in which intention was a fluid thing,” says Arbel. Nearly 20 years later, the Vancouver-based Bocci is now partnering with the Australian beauty brand Aesop to reimagine the 14 — this iteration is called the 14p — in a new sepia hue that riffs on Aesop’s signature amber glass bottles. While the original 14 light from Bocci was designed to be suspended from the ceiling, and a wall-mounted iteration came later, this version is made to sit on a table. It’s available for purchase at select Aesop stores, including the brand’s shops in Venice Beach, Calif., in Toronto’s Yorkville, and in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, where an installation of the lights is currently on view. $360, aesop.com/r/aesop-and-bocci.
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A Revived Berluti Collection Inspired by 17th- Century Traditions
The fashion house Berluti was founded in 1895 by Alessandro Berluti, an Italian craftsman who trained as a cabinetmaker before shifting his attention to footwear and eventually establishing his namesake brand in Paris, where it has been based since. The house stayed within the family for four generations. Even after it was acquired by LVMH in 1993, its artistic director, Olga Berluti, was creating new signatures for the brand. In 2005, she introduced the Rapiecé Reprisé line (the name is French for “reworked piece”), inspired by a tradition from the Early Modern era in which finely stitched repairs on aristocrats’ doublets became a point of pride. The collection consisted of bags and shoes made up of asymmetrically stitched leather panels with vibrant patinas. Now, after a period of dormancy following its initial introduction, Rapiecé Reprisé is making a comeback as the first installment of the house’s new limited-run series, Berluti Editions. The offerings include top-handle briefcases and doctor bags in shades of cognac, olive or burgundy, all bisected by wavy panels of the house’s signature Scritto leather, which is embossed with text from an 18th-century letter that Olga bought at auction. Footwear includes slippers, derbies and oxfords, all of which are available with or without stitch detailing (customers can mix and match at their discretion), and custom shoe trees that match the shoes’ lining. Price on request, berluti.com.
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