8 Impressive New Product Collaborations to Shop in July
From a sumptuous range of performance textiles by Mark Grattan to Buchanan Studio’s whimsical reimagining of USM classics
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 caught our attention in July.
1. Bethan Laura Wood for Cassina
The acclaimed British designer’s dream-like Hooptical collection recasts the everyday mirror into a lustrous showpiece for her fearless embrace of color and craft. Each mirror pairs a clean-lined geometric frame with intricate blown-glass adornments, accentuating extra-clear glass with striking blown-glass elements in metallized, cased, and natural finishes. Positioned in opposite corners, the carefully shaped semicircles reflect to form jewel-tone rings that seemingly float in space, shifting and surprising from every angle. Integrated backlighting even sets them aglow.
2. Buchanan Studio for USM
Buchanan Studio brought its irreverent, pattern-happy sensibility to Swiss modular icon USM with Tessellate, an 11-piece collection that reimagines the precision-engineered Haller system through a boldly graphic lens. Anchored in the principles of repetition and symmetry, the line features checkerboard surfaces in classic USM red, white, and black plus a special-edition pink. From a bar trolley with a stainless-steel ice compartment and marble top to a playful stool with Buchanan’s own fabrics, every piece is designed for adaptability and standout presence. “We turn to USM time and time again in our projects,” says the studio’s creative director Angus Buchanan. “This is a defining moment for us to explore our signature motifs, colours, and materials on their iconic system.”
3. Mark Grattan for HBF Textiles
The Layered collection signals Mark Grattan’s hotly anticipated foray into textiles, translating the undeniable sex appeal of his furniture onto three distinctive fabrics. Creativo is a lush checkered velvet with alternating cut and uncut surfaces that create a tactile, dynamic grid, offered in eight rich colorways named after materials he loves, like chrome and high gloss lacquer. Wright pays tribute to his woodworking roots with a refined satin weave that mimics the pore patterns of hand-finished timber. Decadent channels the Galerie Creative Mind’s “rebellious dreamer” side with a bold zebra-inspired bouclé and chenille pattern. “The concept reflects my approach to creative work—designing spaces and objects with depth, stacking elements, color, and incorporating repetition,” he explains. “It also became a symbol of my character, with the pattern names alluding to my three creative personas.” The resulting collection is as personal as it is refined, uniting high-performance textiles with a generational talent’s idiosyncratic touch.
4. Monica Armani for Neutra
Each piece in Majesté, the debut collection by Monica Armani for stone furniture purveyor Neutra, reimagines the bath as a soothing sanctuary of wellness and refinement. Inspired by the regal collars of historic portraits, the collection’s velvety hand-finished stone surfaces rise with crisp, architectural lines before gently opening to the gaze. A freestanding bathtub, carved from Verde Borgogna quartzite, sports an ergonomic seat and discreetly integrated shelf that adds function and quiet sophistication. A seamless washbasin sculpted from a single block of stone and double-sided rotating mirror anchored on a solid base complete the ensemble.
5. Stephen Burks Man Made for Dedar
Stephen Burks Man Made recently joined forces with Sew Gee’s Bend Heritage Builders and Italian textile house Dedar to celebrate one of America’s most vital craft traditions with Quilting, which debuted at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Rooted in the bold, improvisational rhythms of quilts by Gee’s Bend, the nonprofit founded by generational artisans Tinnie Pettway and daughter Claudia Pettway, the collection turns Dedar’s vivid offcuts into ten dynamic pieces crafted by heritage quilters in Alabama. “It’s an honor to finally collaborate with the quilters of Gee’s Bend both personally and professionally,” says Burks of the deeply storied works, which amplify the theme of the U.S. Pavilion: Porch: An Architecture of Generosity. “As one of the original African-American art forms, these beautiful works of art are immensely inspiring to me.”
6. Marte Mei for SolidNature
SolidNature and Dutch designer Marte Mei are proving that waste can become wonder with Off-Cut Puzzle, which debuted at this year’s Matter & Shape in Paris. The spellbinding collection gives discarded stone fragments new life as modular surfaces and striking furniture, including benches and cocktail tables framed in solid oak. Using advanced scanning and meticulous composition, Mei repurposes broken offcuts into seamless, dynamic patterns that illustrate the material’s raw allure. “Every piece of stone tells a story that spans millions of years,” she says. Highlights like the Mark Lamp in translucent onyx, meanwhile, showcase stone’s luminous potential, underscoring a collection that treats every flaw and fragment as perfectly essential.
7. Patrick Norguet for Flexform
With its crisp silhouette and bold materials, the Ozzy collection’s new swivel armchair arrives with a fresh sense of attitude. Inspired by the dramatic collars donned by 17th-century nobility, the dapper seat’s sculptural backrest is wrapped in folded cowhide and shaped using artisanal techniques from fine saddlery, achieving a handsome structure and rich texture. Inside, plush goose-down cushions guarantee comfort, balancing a tailored exterior with welcoming softness. “It’s truly enveloping,” Norguet says—a compact yet commanding seat both refined and inviting.
8. Orlando Diaz-Azcuy for Le Gracieux
After more than 50 years shaping interiors and furniture, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy is expanding his celebrated vision into textiles with a debut collection for Le Gracieux that radiates his trademark pragmatism and quiet elegance. The design visionary devised eight hand-drawn patterns that render natural themes—feathers, orchids, palms—in wild indigo on sustainable flax and hemp linen reflecting the timelessness of nature. “In design, we often disregard what was done yesterday and concentrate only on today,” he says. “Trends come and go, but intelligent design considers longevity.” Produced in Southern California using traditional dyeing and printing techniques, the collection is rich with tactile depth and breezy élan.