Welcome to the inaugural Bulletin installment of Sitting Pretty Quick Hits, a monthly digest of eye-catching furniture, home goods, objects, art, et al.
If you’re looking to read some quick blurbs about design and maybe pick up something for your pad, then this column is definitely for you. Quick Hits will be sent out on the last week of every month.
Designed by Charles Pollock in 1963, the Pollock Executive Chair continues to be a high-style addition to any home office. The Brooklyn-based Renew Finds has a couple of great-quality ones in stock at $425 a pop. (The chair is still in production via Knoll, but a brand-new one will run you over $2,000.)
Hay is excellent at adding a splash of bold color where we aren't used to seeing it. Case in point: these eye-catching, color-blocked chopsticks that are made from bamboo and beech.
It doesn't get much better than Braun when it comes to clocks—wall, alarm, or anything in-between. Especially the brand's classic wall clock in this deep shade of navy.
This muggy amber vase reminds me of the smoggy sunsets in Los Angeles or the afterglow of fire season. The world is ending, but it's sometimes beautiful, no?
The incense program from P.F. Candle Co is unbeatable for the delicate dance of cost and quality. It's a nine-dollar pack that punches well above its price tag. This scent is inspired by winters in the Southwest: lingering bonfires and wool jackets in rotation.
I trust Seth Rogen to make me laugh and over the past year, I've come to trust his taste in design and homewares. Creating a match strike, holder, and ashtray all in one—with an elemental primitive vibe is no small task.
The cadmium-yellow bathroom floor featured in New York's Great Rooms column has been rattling around in my brain all week. So naturally, this bright 1970s-era end table by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin felt timely. (This chartreuse one on Etsy is a dream, too.)
Gina De Santis' ceramics mix moody tones and earthy details in unexpected ways—just the type of functional objects that you'll want to display for any houseguest to see. This spice bowl is made from porcelain clay and finished with matte blue, lavender, and bronze glazes.
The Vancouver-based industrial designer Yusho Nishioka nailed this incense holder's subtle yet unique design, with a slight slope that will catch the ashes neatly. It's an everyday object with just enough of an artful edge.
Tell me if this sounds good to you: U.S. grown organic cotton? Low-impact dye?Inserts made from recycled poly-fill? And it's all sewn and assembled in Los Angeles? That's Suay Sew Shop for you.
Paul McCobb's Group 76 chairs tend to sell swiftly when they pop up online. This design was produced in the 1950s as part of the "Wrought Iron by Arbuck" collection, an American manufacturer that also worked with George Nelson.
A clever design with just the right bit of off-kilter flair makes for an excellent two-in-one vase/watering can that doesn't need to be tucked away when not in use.
No other company is making enamel dinnerware in the same league as the Istanbul-based Bornn.
