From David Netto, Adam Lippes, and More: 8 Design Collabs We’re Loving Right Now

If the market’s latest debuts have any lessons to tell, it’s that the design community indeed works better together. From David Netto’s sunny splatterware for il Buco Vita to Michelle R. Smith’s vintage fashion-forward rugs for Nordic Knots, industry brands across categories are coming together to bring thoughtful new offerings to designers’ tool kits. Looking for the latest in furniture, decor, lighting, and beyond? Meet the industry’s latest dynamic duo.

Delicate jasmine and water lilies dance across the collection’s dinner and drinkware.

Photography courtesy Zoë de Givenchy

Adam Lippes x Zoë de Givenchy

When entertaining, both Adam Lippes and Zoë de Givenchy know layering a dinner table with striking objects is essential. Accordingly, the American fashion designer and Australian homewares designer have hatched the dreamy Nénuphar assemblage: faïence dinner plates hand-painted in France with meandering white jasmine and water lilies lifted from 18th-century Japanese obis, jacquard and linen napkins and tablecloths, as well as glass tumblers and bowls marking de Givenchy’s inaugural partnership with J. & L. Lobmeyr. Silver-plated cutlery and charger plates evocative of lace round out the elegant tablescape.

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The Orleans Rug in beige/green, designed by Studio MRS.

Photo: Adrianna Glaviano

Michelle R. Smith x Nordic Knots

More than a decade ago, Nordic Knots cofounder Liza Berglund Laserow—an interior stylist and antique dealer at the time—and Michelle R. Smith, a then up-and-coming Brooklyn designer, shared a New York workspace. Today, that serendipitous friendship yields a creative venture in their present-day lives: The Studio MRS designer’s dazzling quartet of rugs for the Swedish brand. Informed by tailored menswear, most notably a 1980s Esprit pocket scarf emblazoned with a trompe l’œil image, the three flatweaves—titled Orleans, Pierce, and Pointe—are woven from New Zealand wool. Meanwhile, the Jute Stripes rug, crafted with an all-natural jute, enlivens nostalgic geometric shapes in hues of terra-cotta and dusty pink.

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Ian Love x Streicher Goods

Wood and clay organically meld in Collection I, four tables and a complementary bench imagined by Hamptons-based industrial designer Ian Love and Ethan Streicher, founder of Brooklyn studio Streicher Goods. The bench’s carved and bleached ash seat, for example, is topped with upholstered cushions and anchored by ceramic ends. Likewise, the console and side tables marry hand-built stoneware and sculpted oak in bold permutations accentuated by tranquil blue cheese, obsidian, and olive glazes.

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Post Company x Idaho Wood Lighting

Nested in Prospect Park, Ravine is Brooklyn’s sole forest. In homage to these nearly 150 acres of woodlands, Post Company’s collection for Idaho Wood Lighting has borrowed its name to celebrate the quiet beauty of timber. The local and Jackson, Wyoming–based AD PRO Directory firm, which has previously collaborated with Roll & Hill and Sixpenny, has conceived flush mounts and pyramid-shaded table lamps in natural oil-treated Douglas fir and Western red cedar. Notably, the company used yakisugi, a traditional Japanese charring technique, for some of their finishing work, all of which was done by hand in North Carolina. Impressively, many of the luminaires feature rectangular elements deftly carved from single pieces of wood.

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The Under Way 1963 001, designed by Anni Albers and woven by Dedar.

Photo: Ilaria Orsini

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation x Dedar

During this year’s edition of Salone del Mobile, attendees headed to the Torre Velasca building to see fabrics from Bauhaus legend Anni Albers, reinterpreted by Dedar, in conversation with the 1950s skyscraper. Originally created between 1936 and 1974, the five updated textiles, developed in partnership with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, include a checkerboard of yarns that plays with the concept of light and dark, a profusion of tactile triangles, and a series of sinuous lines. A geometric print recalls the architecture that Albers fell in love with on a trip to Mexico.

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The David Netto-designed spread, including the Pienza carafes, tumblers, and splatterware plates.

Photography courtesy of il Buco Vita

David Netto x il Buco Vita

A mutual reverence for Italian craftsmanship brought together Donna Lennard, founder of rustic home decor haven il Buco Vita, and AD100 designer David Netto. For their collaboration, the duo have invigorated the Montegranaro ceramics and Pienza glassware lines brought to life for il Buco by family-run workshops in Marche and Tuscany, respectively. For Montegranaro’s hand-thrown, hand-glazed tableware, Netto dreamed up an exuberant yellow splatter motif. He also introduced a captivating emerald green and an amber hue reminiscent of Negronis to Pienza’s tumblers, slender new carafes, and decanters, all of which are now dressed up with a limited-edition cravat from Decors Barbares textiles.

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The Cameo, Triangle, Dangle, and Circle pulls.

Photography courtesy of Nest Studio

Laura Jenkins x Nest Studio

Two Atlanta-based AD PRO Directory designers—Laura W. Jenkins and Jessica Davis—have been hard at work on the 10-piece Profile collection for Nest Studio, Davis’s decorative hardware destination. Taking Bauhaus cues, Profile spans the versatile, spherical Disc pull, the geometric Dangle drop pull, as well as sleek Circle and Triangle knobs. Particularly arresting is the statement Cameo pull, for which Jenkins drew from Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures and Jean Cocteau’s surrealist figurative drawings. All of the signature styles, as well as customizable handles, are rendered in mix-and-match finishes of blackened bronze and polished brass and nickel.

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The Emile sofa system by Christophe Delcourt for Molteni&C.

Photography courtesy of Molteni&C

Christophe Delcourt x Molteni&C

Paris-based designer Christophe Delcourt has long looked to artists for inspiration—his furniture creations often nod to their impressive oeuvres. Take his sculptural Emile sofa system for Molteni&C, first unveiled during last month’s Salone del Mobile. Delcourt embraced graphic marks on the fronts, sides, and backrests of differing heights that reference the 20th-century Italian Argentine painter and sculptor Lucio Fontana. This subtle pattern lends the various modules a sense of harmony from all perspectives. Emile provides additional comfort through adjustable seat depths and large, easy-to-move cushions.