Elliott Barnes was only 4 years old when his parents enrolled him at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. “My friends were French, Moroccan, Tunisian, Belgian— when that’s your peer group, you grow up having a different outlook on things,” says Barnes, now 59. He went to architecture school at Cornell and, at age 27, moved to Paris. After working for French design icon Andrée Putman, he opened his own architecture and design firm in 2004. Barnes has worked with heritage brands like Ruinart champagne and Cogolin rugs and designed two restaurants for chef Daniel Rose, a fellow American in Paris. This month, he debuts a line of furniture with the Invisible Collection, known for its partnerships with India Mahdavi, Studio KO, Vincent Darré and others. Barnes says that each of his offering’s eight pieces, which feature marble, leather, lacquer and even seaweed, emerges out of a sole motivation: “What if we look differently at something we know so well?” Endless Summer Bench, $21,600, shown; theinvisible collection.com
—Sarah Medford
This fall, one of New Canaan, Connecticut’s modernist homes will open to the public for the first time. The Eliot Noyes House, built by the architect in 1954, will host a show from galleries Blum & Poe and Mendes Wood DM and design fair Object & Thing. Opening September 15, At the Noyes House will feature the work of furniture makers Green River Project, sculptor Alma Allen, painter Mark Grotjahn and many others, all displayed to recall Noyes’s own passion for bringing art and design into his home. object-thing.com
John Derian’s archive of 19th-century prints and lithographs inspired the design of his new 750-piece puzzles, such as Dancing Butterflies. “This idea came pre-Covid but now seems like a pandemic message,” he says. “It’s transforming chaos back to normality, piece by piece.” $20, johnderian.com
—Sallie Lewis
Omega’s Speedmaster 38mm now comes in solid 18-karat-gold options. The yellow-gold version shown has a green leather strap and an aluminum bezel set with a tachymeter scale. It’s also available with a circle of 90 full-cut diamonds running around the exterior. $15,600, omegawatches.com
Lucia Silvestri, Bulgari’s longtime creative director, believes in the ability of gemstones to lift the human spirit. And because optimism is much needed right now, the Italian house’s new Barocko collection emphasizes jewels in a kaleidoscope of colors. After weeks of lockdown in her native Rome, Silvestri emerged to find new inspiration in the city’s wealth of Baroque art and architecture. The decorative style is reflected in the voluptuous shape of the Barocko earrings (shown), which feature over 60 carats of aquamarines, tourmalines, emerald beads and diamonds. Price upon request, 1-800-BVLGARI
—Jill Newman
FRESH CUP For Dior Maison, designer Shawn Stussy’s graphics adorn a tableware collection with floral prints and a graffiti version of the Dior logo. $230, Dior boutiques nationwide
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