8 Impressive New Product Collaborations to Shop in September
From Kelly Wearstler’s trompe-l’oeil mosaic tiles for Ann Sacks to exquisitely textured wall coverings that add depth and detail to Vincent Van Duysen’s collections for Sutherland
Hundreds of innovative home products debut each month, but few embody the brilliance that ensues when two disparate parties put their heads together to create something truly special. Below, Galerie highlights eight product collaborations that captured our attention in September.
1. Norm Architects for Carl Hansen & Søn
Comprising a lounge chair and sofa with a matching footstool and daybed, Ole Wanscher’s celebrated OW Series was a midcentury favorite distinguished by its gracefully curved armrests. Now, the classic furnishings have been reimagined in Terra leather, an aniline material developed with Danish studio Norm Architects. With its silky matte surface and OEKO-Tex certification, the sumptuous leather comes in a medley of nature-inspired tones, from pale lime to greenish jade and earthy brown that accentuate the sculptural oak or walnut frames.
2. Kelly Wearstler for Ann Sacks
Flat surfaces take on unexpected depth in the latest chapter of Ann Sacks’ popular Liaison series, in which Kelly Wearstler pushes her celebrated stone mosaics into what she calls “trompe-l’oeil territory” thanks to punchy geometry producing optical movement across walls and floors. Crafted from marble, travertine, limestone, and onyx, the patterns explore quiet shifts in tone rather than stark contrasts. “These new tonal combinations—the muted taupes, creams, those soft grays and warm browns—they’re about subtlety,” Wearstler explains. “They let the geometry do the talking instead of screaming for attention through color.” The five new patterns (Haven, Loom, Truss, Tecton, and Axis) range from woven and square-in-square layouts to abstract checkerboards, each composition animated by richly veined stone.
3. Laura Gonzalez for Schumacher
Schumacher’s debut collaboration with Parisian designer Laura Gonzalez brims with vibrant pattern and saturated color, translating the signature exuberance of the Galerie Creative Mind’s cinematic interiors—from Rome’s resplendent Casa Monti to the wondrous Printemps flagship in Lower Manhattan—into lush fabrics and vivacious wallpapers ranging from fanciful florals and aqueous ripples to paisley stripes. Gonzalez even drew on personal history for Roman Reverie, a pattern modeled after a scarf her mother brought back from India. New botanical motifs appear in Vagary Vines, offered in both wallpaper and fabric with embroidered detail that reflect Gonzalez’s sophisticated sensibility and well-traveled eye.
4. Linde Freya Tangelder for Cassina
Cassina’s partnership with Dutch designer Linde Freya Tangelder began in 2022 with Patronage, the heritage Italian brand’s platform for nurturing emerging talents. That dialogue now extends to the Fluid Joinery, a monolithic blown glass statement furnishing crafted in the Veneto region that layers transparent and colored glass to achieve luminous depth. Mouth-blown into a cast-iron mold and shaped by hand, the gumdrop-like table embodies the ambiguity of glass as it shifts between liquid and solid. Its irregular form, with varying thicknesses and engraved details, presented notable technical challenges, particularly in stabilizing the substantial upper mass on its base.
5. Annie Downing for Popham Design
Playful arcs, painterly stripes, and bold geometries define ADI Tile, designer Annie Downing’s newly launched collaboration with Popham Design. Meticulously handmade by artisans in Marrakech, the collection features four whimsical patterns that can be mixed across 20 colorways to create endlessly shifting compositions. Downing describes the launch as joyful, collected, and a tad cheeky, drawing inspiration from antique textiles, architectural flourishes, and far-flung locales. Each eight-inch-square concrete tile is pressed in a hydraulic mold, air-dried, and left with subtle irregularities that signal the maker’s hand. That process yields a chalky matte surface that absorbs pigment in velvety tones, from saturated blues and greens to earthy neutrals.
6. Vincent Van Duysen for Sutherland
Vincent Van Duysen’s debut wall coverings collection saw the acclaimed Belgian architect seek inspiration from the materials and textures that have long given his clean-lined interiors their immaculate touch: weathered concrete walls, hand-cut stone, and layered pulp textures. Each of the collection’s eight colorways explores rhythm and depth, from Tableau, a performance vinyl with the patina of old masonry, to Ashlar, handmade from layered pulp to evoke geometric stonework. “I approached it as an opportunity to translate both my architectural language and personal sensibility into something expansive and textural,” he says. “Each design expresses a different facet of that vision.” The Galerie Creative Mind also complemented these new surfaces with six performance fabrics for Perennials, four architecturally inspired rugs, and an updated collection of his 2021 outdoor furniture line but with aluminum frames.
7. Sebastian Herkner for Ligne Roset
Taking its name from serene Japanese country houses where tatami mats link the heart of the home with the outdoors, Sebastian Herkner’s invitingly plush Noka Sofa is meant to evoke the stability and comfort of home. The furnishing practically hovers owing to its generous width, lumbar cushioning, and being elevated on a barely-there central leg, giving its generous frame the illusion of weightlessness. This year, the collection is expanding to include an extra-wide settee, chaise longue, and a black-finished shelf that doubles as a side table, encouraging mixing and matching.
8. Fuksas Architects for Venini
Light drifts to dramatic effect in Venini’s newly launched Coralia collection by Fuksas Architects. Inspired by the sea and named for a Greek princess whose legend symbolizes courageousness, the pendants evoke coral swaying in an oceanic expanse. Their glass diffusers, mouth-blown and accented with delicate appliqué, glow with metallic reflections that ripple across surrounding surfaces. Suspended by transparent cables adorned with spheres and hemispheres reminiscent of marine bubbles, the lamps appear buoyant as if carried by water. The series, available in three sizes, allows for singular statements or layered constellations that envelop interiors with shifting luminosity.