Diane Keaton died at the age of 79 in Los Angeles this past weekend. Social media and fashion websites were flooded with remembrances of Keaton’s entirely unique mode of dressing, including a moving tribute in Harper’s Bazaar. We, meanwhile, will remember her similarly idiosyncratic approach to interior design. Some of her characters even inspired design trends — think Keaton’s Erica Barry in Something’s Gotta Give, who sparked the “coastal grandmother” craze.
Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott worked hard to make their apartment in an early-21st-century building — featured in the latest issue of Architectural Digest — evoke a sense of aged elegance. Along with crown molding and plenty of wallpaper, the couple and their designer, 1stDibs Trade member Young Huh, installed two chandeliers nabbed on 1stDibs: A vintage Murano-glass fixture illuminates the guest room, and a 1980s example in the living room presides over a bespoke sectional and Billy Baldwin Studio poufs.
Visitors to the Museum of Wisconsin Art have the opportunity view a wide range of seating designs by a true 20th-century American master, per Dezeen. “Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design” features more than 40 works by Wright, including well-known examples like the Origami chair, as well as pieces based on his previously unrealized sketches.
“Early in his career, his furniture reflected the Arts and Crafts ideal — solid, handcrafted and designed for large, often luxurious homes,” the museum’s curator of architecture and design, Thomas Szolwinski, told Dezeen. “As his work progressed through the Taliesin and Usonian periods, his designs became lighter, more modular and more attuned to the realities of modern living.” The show runs through January 25, 2026.
On view now at New York’s Emma Scully Gallery is “Framed. Running through December 13, the group exhibition of mirrors, mounted in collaboration with Friedman Benda, emphasizes the frames rather than the reflective glass they surround. With its gem-like shards scattered across the mirror’s surface, a piece by Marcel Wanders fragments and filters what’s reflected in it, while Paul Cocksedge’s contribution gives the archetypal Louis XIV frame a humorous twist.
