The Artful Life: 6 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week

1. Popupflorist’s Kelsie Hayes Opens a NoMad Creative Studio

Kelsie Hayes has come a long way since launching Popupflorist in a snug 400-square-foot booth in Lower Manhattan’s Gansevoort Market. Over the past decade, the self-trained florist has grown her business into one of the fashion industry’s most in-demand purveyors of expressive floral arrangements, attracting starry clientele such as Prada, Gucci, Hermès, and Acne Studios. Now, the entrepreneur is taking things even further. She recently opened House of Three, a design-driven destination for hosting workshops and creating content, inside an airy 2,500-square-foot former industrial space in the heart of NoMad steps from the Flower District. Designed by Hayes and her husband, Justin Fine, and named for their family of three, House of Three abounds with charming design oddities: a soaring pantry with sculptural vases lining the shelves, a florist’s kitchen outfitted with a farmhouse sink and zellige-style tiles, and a lounge-like living room where conversation unfolds on handsome Cassina sofas. There’s even a sun-washed makers’ space with Empire State Building views where she plans to host flower arranging, live painting, and jewelry making sessions. —Ryan Waddoups  

2. Galerie Creative Mind Silvia Furmanovich Explores Animal Motifs in New Capsule Collection

For the first time, zebra, leopard, and tiger patterns adorn the intricate marquetry designs of Silvia Furmanovich in a new capsule collection titled Fauna. “Animal markings are incredibly graphic and powerful,” says Furmanovich. “The challenge was translating that strength into marquetry in a way that feels sophisticated and timeless.” These intricate works by the Brazilian talent puzzle together hand-cut wood veneers to evoke animal skins and patterns on earrings, cuffs, rings, and clutches. A standout piece is a pair of earrings using iridescent scarab wings set with diamonds in 18k. Not limited to jewelry, the collection also includes highly collectible hand mirrors, jewelry boxes, and picture frames made with the same artisanry and mesmerizing mix of materials. —Jacqueline Terrebonne

3. Atra Blends Collectible Design and Contemporary Art in a Los Cabos Gallery

On March 5, Atra will launch a new platform for collectible design and contemporary art in San José del Cabo that blends curated exhibitions, architecture, and design services. Developed with DEMA Taller and Pisces Group Cabo, Diálogo will serve as both a gallery and living environment, and will feature a rotating roster of emerging and established designers, plus interior collaborations and special edition commissions. “Diálogo thinks globally and acts locally, grounding international vision in the texture of place,” says the gallery’s team. “Born from the dialogue between Baja California and Mexico City, the gallery becomes a point of convergence where ideas, textures, and forms align. Here, the desert, the sea, and the city resonate in a single Design Voice.”—Alexandria Sillo

4. Technogym Introduces Light-Filled, Mediterranean-Inspired Sand Stone Lineup

Technogym’s new Sand Stone collection delivers a new option that interior design authorities dream of in a fitness space—namely, tasteful options for when you don’t want every appliance in your home to echo Henry Ford’s “any color you want, so long as it’s black” about the Model-T. The Sand Stone collection exudes lightness and brightness in tones that reflect calming beachy nature. This sustainable and elegant new line will be available across Technogym’s full range of products and features innovative design elements such as speckled stone, warm titanium, wonderfully tactile vegan leather, and beech and ashwood. Finally, there’s a workout experience that reflects light.—Rena Gross

5. Artist John Armleder Conceives Latest Designs for illy Art Collection Series

From his vibrant canvases dripping with a full spectrum of colors to his conversation-inducing installations featuring everything from electric guitars to disco balls, Swiss talent John Armleder crafts bold, boundary-breaking works that transcend palette and medium. His newest designs are just as attention grabbing—albeit on a much smaller scale. The latest creative to envision espresso and cappuccino cups for Italian coffee company illy, Armeder transformed traditionally shaped pieces with a striking mirror look. Produced in shimmering gold and chrome as well as iridescent pearl and rainbow sheen finishes, these rock ’n’ roll styles are a dazzling addition to illy’s ongoing Art Collection series, which has introduced cups and saucers rendered in the artistic styles of everyone from Judy Chicago to Robert Wilson as well as a special series commemorating the talents of the 2022 Venice Biennale.—Jill Sieracki

6. Michael Heizer Cuts Monumental Lines Into Gagosian New York

Michael Heizer is perhaps best known for City, the vast Land Art work he realized over five agonizing decades in a remote stretch of the Nevada desert, where concrete monoliths and excavated voids stretch across a mile and a half of arid terrain. Its isolation remains central to the work; the demanding journey, harsh conditions, and tightly controlled visitation mean that few will ever encounter it firsthand. In New York, however, Gagosian is offering a rare encounter with Heizer’s thinking at full scale. At the gallery’s 21st Street location, the artist is presenting two sculptures, Convoluted Line A and Convoluted Line B, as part of the exhibition “Negative Sculpture,” until March 28. The pieces trace their lineage to Nine Nevada Depressions from 1968, a now-lost series of excavated trenches carved into dry lakebeds. Here, Heizer transfers that language indoors, inserting winding steel earth liners into a raised concrete floor so the gallery itself appears incised. Each curve follows the taut logic of a drawn line extended into space and echoes the winding passages of City, where movement through the work defines its meaning. As Heizer once quipped, “As long as you’re going to make a sculpture, why not make one that competes with a 747, or the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge?” —R.W.