With his exuberant love of color, Christopher John Rogers designs womenswear awash in rich shades and hypnotic prints, such as this tiered taffeta gown with ruffle details from his fall 2026 ready-to-wear collection.

Influenced by the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis made his “Veil” paintings by pouring diluted paint down raw canvases set at an angle to allow gravity to create mesmerizing rivers of pigment, as seen in the deep blues and maroons offset by a glowing streak of orange in Gamma (1960), which hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May.

The Tiffany & Co. Blue Book 2026: Hidden Garden collection reimagines Jean Schlumberger’s iconic Bird on a Rock brooch with a host of exotic, feathered creatures, including this example perched on a mesmerizing cabochon spessartine of more than 64 carats. The avian’s plumage is crafted from emeralds, yellow and white diamonds, tsavorites, and rubies, while its beak is composed of a chrysoprase of over two carats.

American artist Walton Ford captures the colorful—and often menacing—natural world in lifelike detail by fusing source material gleaned from field studies and scientific research with history, myths, and fables. This limited edition etching of a Carolina parakeet, titled Condemned (2007), examines the fate of a species driven to extinction.

For this year’s Salone del Mobile exhibition “Rare Matter: A Retro-Brutalist Story,” Visionnaire updated furnishings from its storied archives, including the 1960s-era Bachi armchair. This edition honors the original aesthetic, inspired by the roundness of a silkworm cocoon, paired with reengineered construction.

The thrilling sculptures conjured by American artist Lynda Benglis appear as though they’re ribbons of molten metal that froze while twisting, curling, and melting. Her resulting creations, such as Yellow Tail (2020), deliver magnetic tension and poetic grace in equal doses..

The Rolex Oyster Perpetual, which celebrates its centennial this year, gets an eye-catching reinvention of the Jubilee motif, with the letters of the brand’s name repeated in a vibrant pattern on the dial. This multidimensional graphic, rendered by a complex lacquer technique and available in the 36mm case, reverberates against a bracelet of Oyster steel alloy.

Alighiero Boetti explored time, language, and geography as well as ideas around order versus disorder in his conceptual artworks that feature maps, symbols, and letters, such as Untitled from 1987, which arranges embroidered blocks of typography in kaleidoscopic formation.