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Furniture Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico Home

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Herman Miller and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collaborate

The Girard Snake Table and Eames Wire Chair Low Base from Herman Miller’s New Mexico collection inside Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu home.Credit…Courtesy of Herman Miller

By Sydney Gore

Since 1997, Georgia O’Keeffe’s adobe home in Abiquiu, N.M., has been a museum where visitors can see exactly how she lived. The artist decorated the modern space with pieces by her designer friends like the architect Alexander Girard and the designers Charles and Ray Eames. “She was in constant conversation with Girard to get furniture and textile recommendations,” says Kelsey Keith, the brand creative director of the furniture company Herman Miller. Now the museum is collaborating with Herman Miller on a set of O’Keeffe-inspired furniture pieces. The limited-run collection consists of Girard’s Snake Table, which features a steel top on an aluminum base, finished in white enamel and printed with a coiled snake motif, and a new configuration of the Eames Wire Chair with a triangular seat pad (known as a bikini) upholstered in Girard’s signature striped pattern in an ocher-and-sienna colorway that’s inspired by the New Mexico desert. To accompany the launch, Herman Miller is exhibiting recently discovered photos that Girard shot of O’Keeffe’s house, alongside archival images from the Eames Office, at its Park Avenue South location in Manhattan through May 29. The New Mexico collection will launch on May 20; from $895, store.hermanmiller.com.


Smell This

A Perfume That Evokes a Yucatán Getaway With Notes of Guava and Lime

Arquiste’s new fragrance, Tropical, bottles up the scent of the lush garden at the founder Carlos Huber’s home in Mérida, Mexico.Credit…Lauren James

By Laura Regensdorf

Carlos Huber, the Mexico City-born founder of the fragrance brand Arquiste, first traveled to Mérida, the Yucatán capital, on a school outing to the nearby Mayan ruins. Next came a road trip in his early 20s (“very ‘Y Tu Mamá También,’” he says), then a visit several years later, when the honeyed scent of a guava tree lodged in his mind. A 2021 vacation with his now husband rekindled his fascination with the city. They rented an airy Modernist villa — called La Tropical by its owner and designer, Antonio Salazar — with a bedroom that opens directly onto the garden. “It’s a stone city but, when you step inside this house, you’re in the jungle,” says Huber. The couple ended up buying the place from Salazar when he moved back to Spain, and now it has inspired Arquiste’s new fragrance, Tropical: a decadent homage to the home’s surrounding flora. This is Huber’s latest collaboration with the perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux, another Mexico City native who knows his way around the local fragrant plants. Tropical is ripe and enveloping, with notes of guava paste and champaca flower alongside white plumeria, Yucatán lime and a caoba, or big-leaf mahogany, accord. For those who want to experience the scent in situ, the villa is still available to rent — and Huber is working on custom-scented shower products for a full Tropical immersion. $225, arquiste.com.


Visit This

In Northern California, a Mother-Daughter Show of Textiles and Stone

For an exhibit at Blunk Space in Point Reyes Station, Calif., the artist Mariah Nielson made stone furniture to display her mother, Christine Nielson’s, textiles.Credit…Rich Stapleton

By Jinnie Lee

In 2021, Mariah Nielson, the daughter of the artist JB Blunk, founded Blunk Space — a gallery in Point Reyes Station, Calif. — to preserve the legacy of her father, who died in 2002, and exhibit work by artists who were influenced by his practice. This Saturday, Mariah and her mother, Christine Nielson, will present a joint show of their own work, cheekily titled “Soft Rock.” Christine, a textile artist and the founder of the bedding company Coyuchi, will display her weavings alongside Mariah’s stone furniture. “I had been nagging my mom to show her cushions at the gallery, and she said, ‘I’ll show the cushions if you make the display surfaces.’ So it turned into a design challenge,” Mariah says. Christine, who in 2018 returned to weaving after a 40-year hiatus, has created 66 naturally dyed cushions and two rugs — inspired by Navajo, Cherokee, Iranian and Peruvian designs — from spun sheep yarn. The textiles will decorate six pieces Mariah has assembled from granite, basalt and sandstone offcuts she sourced at the sculptor Roger Hopkins’s stone yard in Desert Hot Springs. These rocks were hauled to Marin County, where Mariah cut and polished them into tables, benches, a stool and pedestal. Even though the two worked independently, Mariah says, “there has been a creative conversation between us, and it’s impossible for me to have not absorbed all of the ways that my mother was weaving when I was treating the stones.” In the spirit of the “Soft Rock” theme, the duo encourage visitors to touch and interact with the contrasting textures. “We’re going to play Phil Collins at the opening,” Mariah adds. “Soft Rock” will be on view at Blunk Space from May 3 through June 7, blunkspace.com.


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