July always feels like a lull in the cultural calendar as the design world soaks up spritzes under the summer sun in dreamy destinations, but there’s still a wealth of must-see collectible design on view to keep the creative synapses firing. Many are in unexpected locales, from the first-ever solo exhibition Oliver Gustav is hosting in his neoclassical former museum in Copenhagen to the first gallery devoted to collectible design in Minneapolis, where ceramicist Jeremy Anderson is presenting a trove of vivacious ceramic vessels and bronze furnishings.
“Hostler Burrows x HB381: Summer Group Show," HB381, New York
This stellar summer group show rethinks the ever-blurring line between art and craft with compelling works that revel in the handmade. Expect Taher Asad-Bakhtiari’s airy kilims, Frida Fjellman’s molten-looking glass lamps, Sigve Knutson’s raw, shotcrete-inspired ceramics, and Anne Brandhøj’s sculpted timber that honors the grain’s natural quirks. Zimra Beiner’s brambled clay plant stands, meanwhile, ooze gothic excess—a lush riposte to factory uniformity. Together, the artists on view reconsider domestic objects as philosophical provocations that hum with the stubborn beauty of the imperfect.
Until August 15