Object Edit: The Design Launches Defining the Moment

Welcome to Object Edit, Galerie’s twice-monthly survey spotlighting the most noteworthy new furnishings, lighting, textiles, and objects debuting around the world. Every month brings a flood of launches, but only a select few distinguish themselves through exceptional craftsmanship, fresh ideas, and a distinctive point of view. Here, we highlight the pieces worth knowing about—and unpack the stories behind them.  

Difane’s Debut Furnishings Reimagine a Classic Latin American Chair

Difane has quickly distinguished itself as a champion of vanguard Latin American design talents. Since Fernanda Salamanca and Andrea Gadsden founded the Mexico City gallery in 2020, they have worked closely with makers to develop exclusive pieces and custom furniture that reflects their cultural lineage. Six years later, the founders are stepping into a new role with Atara, the debut furniture collection to carry Difane’s own name.

Its name derives from atar, the Spanish word for “to tie” or “to bind,” a reference that points directly to its inspiration: the classically woven chair that has furnished Latin American homes and public spaces for generations. Salamanca and Gadsden recast that familiar archetype across four chairs and two cocktail tables. Two of the chairs retain woven-cord seats, while upholstered versions pair nubby textiles with substantial timber frames. Chunky cylindrical details and visible joinery lend the pieces a hand-worked character whose sturdy proportions are tempered by softened edges. 

Ginori 1735 Translates Centuries-Old Lucky Symbols Into Exquisite Porcelain

Even the most rational among us can place faith in a lucky symbol. That impulse animates Fortunae, the new giftware and home collection from Florentine porcelain house Ginori 1735. Inspired by the Game of the Goose, a Renaissance-era board game linked to the Medici court and later embraced across Europe, Fortunae recasts centuries-old symbols of good fortune in exquisite porcelain: a goose perches atop a vase lid, a dragonfly alights on a decorative box, horseshoes mingle with dice, and ladybugs appear as emblems of luck. 

Comprising trays, teapots, mugs, espresso sets, decorative boxes, and porcelain miniatures, the collection is intended to be gifted in personal combinations. Fortunae also marks the first time the maison has incorporated game pieces into a collection. “We wanted to give form to the simple gesture of wishing someone good luck,” explains collection director Annalisa Tani. “We wanted to capture the joy and optimism in that gesture, creating porcelain objects designed to be used and enjoyed, whether given to someone else or chosen for ourselves.” 

Sara Story Channels Texas Terrain and an Artful Arachnid Into Striking New Rugs

Sara Story grew up surrounded by contemporary art. Her mother worked as a curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and those early encounters continue to inform her exuberant interiors today. For her new collaboration with Christopher Farr, the adventurous New York designer turns that influence toward the floor. The collection, called Hill Country, comprises three hand-knotted wool-and-silk rugs—Spider, Landscape, and Grid—each offered in four sun-washed colorways inspired by the wild terrain of her native Texas.

Spider takes its cue from Louise Bourgeois’s monumental Spider (1996), which Story encountered during frequent childhood visits to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Raised bands trace a silhouetted arachnid and irregular paths across the rug like hand-drawn lines, their fluid geometry echoing the expressive character Story admired in Bourgeois’s work. Landscape and Grid turn toward the terrain itself, abstracting the squares and rectangles visible across the Texas landscape from above. Landscape arranges broad horizontal bands with alternating rectangular blocks, while Grid breaks the geometry into a tighter checkerboard.

Apparatus’s First Collection in Five Years Spins a Seductive Modern Fable

Nearly five years have passed since Apparatus, the designer-favorite studio helmed by artistic director Gabriel Hendifar, debuted a collection. But the breadth and ambition of Act V: Afsaneh make a persuasive case for the wait. Named for Hendifar’s mother and the Persian word for “fable,” the collection spins a modern tale about the divine feminine and the pursuit of wisdom through four Persian-named series. 

Esfand: The Seed, named after the twelfth month of the Persian calendar, symbolizes fertility and protection, with seedlike sconces and vessels rendered in lacquered hues of milk, honey, pomegranate, and sky. Rahvi: The Serpent sees the storyteller slither around a chandelier, pendant, and sconce traced in water-formed brass and blown glass, embellished with amulets of tiger’s eye, black onyx, quartz, and other stones. Gol: The Flower transforms fiberglass into delicate petal-like membranes, while Jahaan: The World combines bronze and aluminum with cast glass into furnishings evocative of the cosmos.

Hendifar will portray the collection’s fable through five dreamlike short films created with the Martha Graham Dance Company, translating its recurring imagery of seeds, flowers, and serpents into movement. “I consider the heart of my work to be creating the envelope for human experience, and there’s no more beautifully distilled expression of that experience than Martha’s language of movement,” he explains. The cinematic collaboration accompanies an episodic rollout that began with a New York premiere and continues in London this month, Miami in December, and Los Angeles in February. 

Kravet Gives Its Iconic Patterns a Striking New Medium

With historic textile houses Brunschwig & Fils, Donghia, and Lee Jofa under its portfolio, Kravet boasts some of the most iconic patterns in home textiles. Now, thanks to a new partnership with TileBar, one of New York’s leading resources for tile and bath, the heritage brand is translating its celebrated motifs into stone and porcelain for the first time. The debut marks the beginning of an annual creative partnership between the two companies, launching with six collections that recast Kravet’s archive as intricate micro-mosaics, carved marble, and decorative porcelain. 

“Our team worked closely with Kravet to study the scale, rhythm, and texture of each pattern, then partnered with our expert porcelain and stone producers to identify the techniques that would most faithfully translate those details,” says Eli Mechlovitz, founder of TileBar. Highlights from the first chapter include Ellsen, a floral riff on the classic star-and-cross motif rendered in hand-placed marble; Moonwave, whose carved botanical motif fans across slabs of luminous Thassos or veined Calacatta Gold; and Rhodesia, which renders a bestselling Kravet wallpaper in tonal waves across triple-fired Italian porcelain.

For Its 80th Anniversary, Farrow & Ball Revives Three Historic Wallpapers 

Farrow & Ball has never been a brand to rest on its laurels. So when the Dorset-based paint and wallpaper maker considered how to celebrate its 80th anniversary, it delved into its archive for Heritage Papers, a limited-edition collection that revives historic patterns in contemporary palettes conceived to complement the brand’s celebrated paint colors. The launch comprises three classics: Sweet Pea, an Edwardian floral discovered in a house near Oban on Scotland’s west coast; Vine Leaf, a hand-drawn trailing botanical making its wallpaper debut; and Gothic, an atmospheric composition of cathedral shadows and soaring archways originally patented in the 1750s and later created for a Worcestershire home.

Farrow & Ball produces the papers using traditional printing techniques, including surface and rotary screen printing, which give the patterns their painterly depth. An ink-on-paper process applied to nonwoven paper also allows the company to offer a much-requested paste-the-wall application. “These designs possess remarkable versatility,” explains creative director Charlotte Cosby. “Their character is shaped not by trends, but by the homes they inhabit, equally suited to making a bold statement or serving as a quiet, considered backdrop. Eight decades on, they continue to demonstrate that timeless design remains open to interpretation.”