I walked into the Cartier Jewelry Exhibit expecting sparkle, as one does, but the scale and intention behind each piece stops one cold. Beyond making jewelry; Cartier shaped culture with a designer’s eye for architecture, history, and form. The exhibit moves through eras, influences, and entire worlds of craft. It feels both extravagant and sharply disciplined, which is exactly why I wanted to see it in person.

En route to the Cartier exhibit, I stopped at the main desk inside The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the flooring stopped me first—there’s always something in an old museum that gets me at the very first entry. Large stone pavers stretched across the hall, white and black beneath classic marble columns. The Chihuly glass sculpture hovered above the domed skylight at the main desk, but the floors pulled my attention.

Cosmic, Not Cute The Cosmic House offers inspiration—the weird kind, not the type you find in Veranda or World of Interiors. These interiors lean into conceptual architecture and symbolic design, and some ideas feel flat-out strange. Designers love strange. We can find inspiration anywhere. Anywhere. The Cosmic House London delivers exactly that. It combines Postmodern […]