Mozhdeh Matin’s Vision of Coastal Cool Comes Home

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In Mozhdeh Matin’s Home Line, a Vision of Coastal Cool

The Peruvian fashion designer made her Surface entrée with a Designer of the Day feature highlighting her eponymous label and its heritage weaving and knitting techniques. Now, with her first homeware collection, she projects her love for color, pattern, and those rich craft traditions beyond the wardrobe and into a rich spread of table linens, throws, accent pillows, and even furniture. To hear her tell it, the launch represents Matin moving “beyond simply dressing the body,” and sees the designer mine her fabric archive of seasons past in a transportive collection that channels the coastal idyll that so clearly inspires her.
—Jenna Adrian-Diaz

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Nami Nori Rolls Into to the Miami Design District

Launchpad Hospitality, the team behind New York City’s lauded Japanese temaki restaurant Nami Nori, has opened doors to a two-floor dining and drinks destination in the Miami Design District. Guests can indulge in open-style hand rolls on the ground floor, with the first Miami outpost of Nami Nori. Upstairs, the chef’s counter at sister restaurant Matsuyoi further explores Nami Nori’s signature nori-wrapped temaki, albeit through a seasonally rotating, multi-course menu.

The bright ambiance and neutral tones of Nami Nori Design District blend aesthetic references to traditional Japanese residences with those from contemporary beach houses. In contrast, the moodier environs of Matsuyoi draw inspiration from the wood block artist Kawase Hasui. The Design District location marks the first collaboration between Launchpad Hospitality and Pharrell Williams, who became a partner and advisor earlier in 2024. —David Graver.

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Aesop Takes a Chic Approach to Considered Gift-Giving

The Australian luxury brand makes thoughtful gift-giving as close to effortless as it gets with its Screen II gift kit, a cinema-inspired edit of indulgences. Its signature verdant geranium leaf aroma wafts throughout the included body cleanser, purifying scrub, and hydrating balm. For a master class in sensorial decadence this festive season, a generous gift-giver could even pair it with the hinoki and vetiver notes of the brand’s Hywl fragrance, and the cedar atlas at the heart of the restorative Eleos hand balm. —J.A.D.

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Asheville’s East Fork Ceramics Opens in Brooklyn

Driven by a recognition of their immense collector base in Brooklyn, Asheville’s East Fork has opened a permanent store in the borough, enveloped in exposed brick and dressed in terra cotta tones and warm wood hues. The 750-square-foot boutique at 377 Atlantic Ave. showcases the Certified B Corporation’s North Carolina-produced pottery pieces, from plates and bowls to mugs, as well as block-printed napkins, hand-woven runners and two collaborations with New York-based brands: a cocktail set designed in collaboration with Craighill and limited-edition articles from Dinner Service. It’s more than a platform for East Fork’s ceramics; it’s a representation of their expansion into lifestyle and entertaining accouterments.—J.A.D

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A Dreamy Diptyque Store Opens in Dallas

Balancing warm wood tones with hues of orange and white, Diptyque’s new NorthPark Center flagship in Dallas channels the nuanced aesthetic charm of the maison’s original Parisian boutique at 34 boulevard Saint-Germain. Three distinct salons, divided by decorative arches, define the 1,100-square space. Architectural nuances range from a striking green facade to Hausmann-style moldings, a sprawling mural by the artists Redfield & Dattner, a light-emitting ceiling oculus, illuminated alcoves, and an expansive herbarium. It’s an apt, multisensory home for Diptyque’s array of beloved scented candles, décor objects, and more. —D.G.

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Visa Issues Chips Away at the Glamourous Veneer of Life as a Jetsetting Artist

“Glamour” is a word that’s easy to associate with Kiwi-born artist Bella McGoldrick. Her oeuvre of dreamy photorealistic drawings often touch on themes of consumerism, foreignness, and familiarity through lush, opulent scene-setting. Now, in a 325-page coffee table book, McGoldrick delves into the complex relationship between that body of work and a nomadic two-year stretch of time spent between countries bordering the United States as a result of a lifetime ban from America. In Visa Issues, part memoir, part art book, McGoldrick navigates the complexities of a “dark underbelly of untethered life,” and how they pushed her art to new heights.—J.A.D.

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Behind the Curtain at Matthew Fisher’s New York City Gallery

New York City-based artist, designer and former professional ballet dancer Matthew Fisher has opened doors to the Seaport Gallery, the first-ever dedicated physical location for his M.FISHER art objects. Set within Manhattan’s Seaport District, Fisher’s space houses 120 works of various scopes and scales. The interior of the gallery is divided into three thematic sections, and incorporates a brick-walled exterior courtyard, visible beyond a woven metallic curtain.—D.G.