Twentieth is proud to exclusively represent Konekt in Los Angeles.

At the core of Konekt is Helena Sultan, a former photographer and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Helena developed her eye at an early age, influenced by the rich colors and layered textures of her mother's abstract oil paintings as well as the patinated metal of her father's gritty industrial plant. Helena further honed her sensibilities as she traveled widely, absorbing different cultures and influences. These various experiences have culminated in her signature collection of furniture shown below.

Every piece is handcrafted in Pennsylvania by skilled master craftsmen and artisans. All woods are sustainable American hardwoods, hand-finished with the finest oils.

PAUSE CHAISE LOUNGE
Created to unwind from the demands of daily life, the Pause Chaise Lounge inspires stillness and peace. Designed to embrace the body, its organic contours complement the human form while creating a feeling of lightness.  

A. CEPA MIRROR
Crafted from solid bronze, the A. Cepa Mirror draws the eye with its rich material and sculptural form.  

PAUSE LOUNGE CHAIR
The Pause Lounge Chair, intended as the ultimate seat to unplug and relax, plays off Konekt's signature Pause Chaise. Balance is achieved with its modern, organic design and expertly upholstered seating. The curvaceous fiberglass shell embraces the body, the upholstery is meticulously hand-sewn, and the four splayed metal legs taper down to teardrop-shaped feet.  

PETRA COFFEE TABLE
The legs of the oval-shaped Petra Coffee Table are inspired by the legs of a camel. The Petra features a precision cut, honed marble tabletop and sculptural legs of cast bronze.  

BIANCA ARM CHAIR
This solid wood chair is crafted by hand, using mortise and tenon joints. The sweeping, sculptural armrest creates a striking silhouette that embraces the body. An upholstered back-pan is optional while the upholstered seat provides a high level of comfort and a floating appearance. Tapered, splayed legs extend in an elegant curve from the top of the seat-back to the floor. The Bianca Chair is equally at home around a table or standing on its own as an accent.

The Australian lighting designer will display some of his recent designs in the Collective Concept section, a capsule presentation within the fair that showcases contemporary designers across lighting, furnishings, ceramics, and textiles.

Here is a preview of some of his new work which will be debuting at this year's fair.

Vanity Screen, 2017 (detail)
Lost Wax Bronze, Clear and Smoky Quartz Crystal, Lapis Lazuli

Petra, 2017
Lost Wax Bronze, Smoky Quartz Slab

Smoky Gradient Diamond Ring, 2017
Clear and Smoky Quartz Crystal

Arrakis, 2017
Clear and Smoky Quartz Crystal, Basalt

Arrakis, 2017 (detail)

Below are some highlights of Twentieth represented designers chosen from this year’s Salone del Mobile. As you can see, the press was quite taken by the work...we hope you are too. -- Stefan

Lee Broom

 Time Machine

"Within an abandoned vaulted storage room next to the historic Milano Centrale station, a white carousel spun—the only object in a raw, unfinished space. On that carousel, visitors found reimaginings of furniture, objects and lighting drawn from ten years worth of English designer Lee Broom's collections.
Together, the collection captures the magnificence of Broom's work, as both a catalog of well-executed ideas and as a conceptual exhibition unto itself."
- Cool Hunting

Lambert et Fils

Laurent 11/Mile

"Mile is a technical lamp characterized by an asymmetrical luminaire. Created in direct collaboration between the company's founder and the Canadian designer Guillaume Sasseville, Mile is a highly-featured design lamp, in which the use of linear LEDs and embedded cables in the structure accentuates the 'absence of gravity' almost creating the illusion of levitation."
- Elle Decor Italia

Gabriel Scott

Briolette/Myriad

Established & Sons

Established & Sons collection is revitalized with Sebastian Wrong at the helm.

"The utilitarian feel of the furniture that we have made is somewhat at odds with the cartoon graphic surface that covers it, and I feel this marriage illustrates perfectly the success of the collaborative process."
- Richard Woods for Archi Expo

Bocci

87 Series

"What happens when soda water combines with an extremely hot glass matrix? Meet Bocci's 87 LED light, which loops and folds back onto itself, for unexpected arrangement with no boundaries."
- Interior Design

Fernando Mastrangelo

ESCAPE Series Drum/Coffee Table

"Best of the Milan Design Furniture Fair 2017 list." - Sight Unseen

Tom Dixon

Cluster/Top Pendant Light

"Futuristic and faceted, Cut is an exercise in optics.  Its space-age mirror finish when off transforms to reveal a translucent kaleidoscopic gem when switched on. Hypnotising reflections of the luminous orb within repeat infinitely within the diamond cut, vacuum metallised interior."
- De De Ce Blog

Christopher Boots

Sugar Bomb Wall Sconces/Pythagoras Wall Sconce

Moooi

A Life Extraordinary Exhibition /Luna Piena

"Also included in the series is Wanders' Luna Piena, which features polycarbonate discs engraved with a constellation of crystal flakes."
- dezeen

Roll & Hill

Kazimir Pendant

"Striated, ribbed glasswork casting complex compositions of shadow, light and color played a big role at Euroluce, the biannual lighting-focused exhibition presented under the Salone umbrella. New York City-based showroom Roll & Hill exhibited a new rectangular Kazimir pendant, a layered, dichroic piece designed by Ladies & Gentlemen Studio and named after the Constructivist artist Kazimir Malevich."
- Artsy

Congratulations to Fernando Mastrangelo on this write-up in The Wall Street Journal featuring his new work.

Read the full article here

Twentieth is excited to present the Anna Karlin collection to Los Angeles this coming March.

Here are some of our favorite picks from the collection. For more information please email us at sales@twentieth.net

COUNTER HEIGHT CHESS STOOLS

These hand made counter height stools work individually or as a group.
Made from cold rolled steel they are hand plated in a brushed brass finish.
Each piece is custom made so the size can be adjusted according to your needs. Previous commissions have included dining tables, end tables, a teak set for outdoor use and a wide variety of metallic finishes. Anna Karlin is also able to match any color.

LUNA LAMP

A patinated brass half cylinder shell holds a hand molded rose alabaster acrylic sphere and cylinder. These rose alabaster shapes diffuse the light, giving off a warm glow. There are two standard sizes, small and large. Custom sizing is available.

LONG PLUMB LIGHT

Available in two sizes. The long plumb pendant has a smaller plumb and globe and the short plumb pendant has a larger plumb and globe.

Available in brushed brass and satin black (a rich warm black). Ceiling stem lengths are cut to your requirements.

CHESS ARM CHAIR

Stained white oak arm chair. Available in any wood stain or base wood as well as brass. All chairs can be custom made so please contact us with any inquiries.

ARC LIGHT

A beautifully tapered stem balances a perfect white glass orb with a brass plumb weight.

Available in brushed brass and satin black. Custom sizes can be accommodated. Please contact us for more details.

Bari Ziperstein

Los Angeles
In both her design and fine art practices, Ziperstein is constantly reinventing what a piece of ceramic art can, and ought, to be.

What is American design to you, and what excites you about it?
To me, American design is about a focused moxie to break rules in terms of scale, material choices, and stretching new outlets to sell or display one’s work. Having the ability to move between the fine art and design worlds (or the space between design, art, craft), where materials that are traditionally functional have a different use, value, and output. With a conceptual education at Cal Arts, rather than a traditional ceramics technical background – my investment in ceramics is less weighted in showing off technical tricks. Rather it’s about creating a new ceramic silhouette with unexpected processes that excites me.

What are your plans and highlights for the upcoming year?
I’m working on my next collection of large-scale pottery, with a continued investigation into terracotta, rope, and scale, and I’m participating in Rachel Comey’s ceramic event in both Los Angeles and New York City, opening December 5 through the new year. A few projects are still in the planning stages including several hotel and restaurant commissions.

This upcoming year I have a solo museum show at UCSB Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design. It will be my first solo show in more than four years, since distinguishing between my fine art practice and my editioned design works. “Fair Trade” consists of new work related to communist propaganda I researched while at the Wende Museum, a repository of Cold War artifacts. Using posters and ephemera as my starting point, I’m creating a dynamic installation that brings together a series of ceramic sculptures — vessels and decorative panels — that borrow from, and manipulate government-sanctioned images of women. These works form part of a faux trade show booth, which is based on specifications for Soviet Russian public information displays and industrial fairs. Complementing the installation are Soviet propaganda posters on special loan from the Wende that inspired portions of the project.

What inspires or informs your work in general?
The transformation of clay and testing its technical limits informs so much of my practice, from testing how to make a flat 28-inch ceramic slab to making a three-foot leather embossed image with equal pressure and consistency. With both practices, the experimentation of combining soft woven ropes with hard ceramic materials has been an ongoing point of inspiration — a collaging of sorts. I have an ongoing interest in Brutalist architecture, Soviet propaganda posters, and this primitive futurist style of terra cotta raw pottery. Artists like Imi Knoebel, Patti Smith, Marimekko, Robert Irwin, Moira Dryer, Marisol Escobar, Otto Lindig, Eva Hesse, and Superstudio are always sources of historic moxie.

<p>Below is the complete Sight Unseen American Design Hot-List for 2016: <br />Ana Kra&scaron;<br />ASH NYC<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bari Ziperstein<span><br />Bianco Light &amp; Space<br />Brendan Timmins<br />Charlap Hyman &amp; Herrero<br />Christopher Stuart<br />Earnest Studio<br />Fernando Mastrangelo<br />Grain<br />Jason Miller<br />Kelly Behun<br />Ouli<br />Rafael de Cardenas / Architecture at Large<br />Samuel Amoia<br />Slash Objects<br />Studio Proba<br />Uhuru<br />Wintercheck Factory<br />Yield</span></span></p>

New York based designer Lindsey Adelman talks about her work flow and how experimentation lead to exciting discoveries in this short video from Surface Magazine.

Works in Progress: Lindsey Adelman from Surface Magazine on Vimeo.

Adelman describes her process from conceptualizing unique designs to fabrication, saying, "I'm not really the type of designer who will draw something, draw it perfectly, put it in cad, and then have it made. I'm much more about wanting to see if there are any interesting surprises during the process of trying something." And she continues, "[Introducing a new concept] usually for me, that happens with experimenting."

Find Lindsey Adelman's designs on Twentieth here.

The LAURENT Collection

Lambert et Fils will be launching their Laurent Collection this week at Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium. This contemporary series of chandeliers and pendants is described as combining "the classic Bauhaus Milk Globe with a series of sculptural forms that carve through space, moving between line, surface and volume."  

"Our research [for the Laurent Collection] focused on the surface and the form. Here, the globe acts as the link between the two,” says Samuel Lambert, the studio’s founder and lead designer.
The Biennale Interieur is the first exhibition in Europe for the design studio, which was founded in 2010.

Find the Laurent Collection on Lambert et Fils' designer page.

KAZIMIR PENDANT
Designed by Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
The Kazimir series is inspired by the early twentieth-century Russian modernist Kazimir Malevich, whose flat monochromatic canvases, colorful geometric compositions, and textured collages challenged existing notions of painting. Here, his ideas are transformed into three dimensions with pieces of textured and dichroic glass arranged in layers. 

SEED SINGLE PENDANT
Designed by Bec Brittain
A seed crystal is a tiny crystal used to grow larger crystals; they are order emerging from chaos. Seed is also the name of a series of lamps by Bec Brittain. An armature of round mitered tube defines a chaotic void, yet order is imminent as seeds appear.

ATLAS 01
Designed by Karl Zahn
Named for the Titan doomed to shoulder the world, Atlas combines an illuminated glass globe with an intersecting metal armature, drawing on Karl Zahn’s elegant use of geometry and metaphor in design.

BAUER CHANDELIER 02
Designed by Jason Miller
Jason Miller’s Bauer is a pendant fixture made of stacked, concentric clusters of handblown tubular glass. The glass fades from dark to light, recalling the tonalities of earth-to-sky views, producing an ethereal, atmospheric effect.

BOUNCE TABLE LAMP
Designed by Karl Zahn
A compact spinoff on the original series, Karl Zahn’s Bounce table lamp combines a folded aluminum shade and an independently-positioned light source. One side of the shade is white to reflect illumination while the other has a decorative wood veneer finish.

CASTLE 12-01
Designed by Jason Miller
While the shape of these pieces occasionally resemble the turrets of a castle, the name actually comes from the game of chess. The rook can jump any distance, yet it is restricted to moving orthogonally. Likewise, the glass in Castle extends to different lengths, but is always horizontal or vertical.

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