Galerie Editors’ Top 7 Artful Picks This Week

This blog post covers recent developments in luxury retail, product design, and hospitality. Highlights include Cartier’s reimagined Miami boutique, new ceramic vessels, museum loans, seasonal campaigns, rug collections, a Mediterranean-inspired rooftop bar, and a major Los Angeles showroom.

As an architect and engineer with three decades of experience, I examine how these projects intersect design thinking, material innovation, and spatial storytelling.

Design highlights that shape brand experience and place

These stories show how architecture and interiors turn brand identity into memorable physical experiences. A boutique that feels like a landscape or a rooftop bar that brings the Amalfi spirit to Manhattan both use thoughtful, multisensory design to support storytelling and commerce.

Retail and cultural intersections

Cartier’s Miami Design District boutique has reopened after a redesign by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Laura Gonzalez. The new concept, called a “supernatural oasis”, uses vibrant colors and a dramatic seashell staircase to evoke Miami’s natural landscape.

This design merges contemporary architecture with local character to create a destination retail experience.

Espace Louis Vuitton New York is exhibiting two Gustave Caillebotte masterpieces, Partie de bateau and Jeune homme à sa fenêtre, on loan. These exhibitions show how luxury brands and museums collaborate to engage visitors.

Tiffany & Co. launched its global holiday campaign, “Love Is a Gift”, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The campaign highlights the Blue Box, signature jewelry, and narrative photography to sustain emotional connections and seasonal retail excitement.

Materiality, craft, and new product directions

On the product side, designers are exploring materiality and form to support both function and display. Collections range from ceramics designed for floral arrangements to rugs inspired by landscape and geometry.

Ceramics, rugs, and the new retail toolkit

Danny Kaplan and florist Alex Crowder have introduced Kloris, a set of eight sculptural vessels inspired by Etruscan urns and Brutalist forms. These pieces are designed to enhance floral arrangements, blending ceramic craft with horticultural composition.

Designer Thomas Pheasant created two geometric rug collections for Ben Soleimani: Maze and Museum. Drawing on French garden geometry and references to museums, the lines offer both subtle and richly colored patterns.

These collections show how floor graphics can anchor circulation and sightlines in a room.

Hospitality and the showroom as lived-in studio

Conrad New York Downtown added Bar Leonessa, a rooftop oasis inspired by the Amalfi Coast and designed by Islyn Studio.

With lush planting, lemon trees, and sweeping Hudson River views, the space uses landscape cues to transport guests.

The beverage program serves negronis and spritzes in curated Venetian glassware selected by Ariel Arce.

In Los Angeles, Lawson‑Fenning opened Studio LF, a 7,500‑square‑foot showroom and studio housed in a 1930s warehouse beside its Melrose Avenue flagship.

Featuring designers like Shane Gabier and fabrics from Zak+Fox, plus an art program curated by Rhett Baruch Gallery, the space doubles as both atelier and client-facing gallery.

This model helps clients understand process through immersive presentation.

 
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