Left: Artist Sadie Barnette pays homage to her father’s tavern, San Francisco’s first Black-owned gay bar, with The New Eagle Creek Saloon (2019), an installation commissioned by Bay Area experimental art nonprofit the Lab and later displayed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Right: For his fall 2022 presentation, Valentino’s creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, electrified the runway with womens- and menswear in a monochromatic palette of shocking pink.

Left: Cartier’s Beautés du Monde high-jewelry Sand Aspis necklace creates a serpentine effect with its mesmerizing pattern of 18K rose gold, yellow and white diamonds, and petrified wood adorned with a 3.63-carat, triangular-shaped, rose-cut diamond; 212-446-3419. Right: For Infinite Regress LXXXII (2019), which is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Eamon Ore-Giron painted geometric forms drawn from hieroglyphics, Incan jewelry, textiles, architecture, and more to create spatial illusions with no beginning or end.

Left: In a nod to the glamorous interiors of the 1970s, Baker’s Freeform cocktail table features an amorphous slab of Arabescato marble floating atop a trio of bulbous legs. Right: Designed by Heatherwick Studio in partnership with landscape architects MNLA, Little Island transformed New York’s Pier 54, badly damaged during Hurricane Sandy, into a whimsical oasis of grassy knolls and inventive play spaces set upon 132 concrete columns.

Included in Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele’s high-jewelry collection, titled Hortus Deliciarum (Latin for “garden of delights”), this elaborate 18K-white-gold cuff, embedded with spinels, fire opals, beryls, topaz, and diamonds, references the tradition of 18th-century grand tour souvenirs with a micro-mosaic depicting a Roman landscape with an ancient temple. OPPOSITE: Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical painting Piazza d’Italia (circa 1955), which sold at Sotheby’s New York last year, bends time and space with its mix of mythological sculpture, otherworldly architecture, and elongated shadows.