Cara Greenberg

Like other pieces in the firm’s Candy Box collection, the cheerful limited-edition design showcases French craft.

Before founding the Memphis Group, Sottsass bent the rules of lighting design with the wonderfully wavy Cometa.

The 1940s home bar unites lively design with clever engineering.

Daring shapes and soft curves define the impressive output of five women furniture designers around the globe — in Ireland, Ukraine, Israel, Denmark and France.

It’s an excellent example of the sought-after ceramics coming out of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.

Every year, we ask hundreds of interior designers worldwide about the colors, decor, furniture and art that are on their mood boards now — and will be found in the chicest spaces in the coming months. Here are the latest results.

Karl Springer’s opulent disco-era designs maintain their polished allure.

What happens when you do something to a piece of furniture that you shouldn’t? It becomes an entirely new object.

The author and design expert was among the first to define the style and coined its alliterative name. She shares her favorite pieces on 1stDibs Auctions — including some steals.

The free-form stoneware piece is inspired by the magnolia tree and its associations with home.

Meticulously crafted in Germany, the limited-edition seat has been acquired by several institutions, including the Met in New York.

We asked hundreds of interior designers worldwide to assess the current state of their art and read the tea leaves for the coming year. Here’s what we learned.

This circa 1950 piece by the legendary Finnish lighting designer spent the past several decades in a family's home in Michigan.

Artist Simone Crestani conjures the fascination you remember from Chemistry 101.

Adams has skyrocketed to art superstardom with his exuberant depictions of Black life. Here's what makes his work important to our times.

Harry Humphrey Moore painted his scene at a time when japonisme had entranced the West. But unlike some of the genre’s over-the-top caricatures, his composition merges poetic poignancy with unblinking realism.

Who knew aluminum could be so sexy?

The world’s most opulent chess set, weighing in at 513 carats, is literally fit for a king and queen.

The furniture maker plays with perception, constructing dramatic pieces that bend reality.

The Italian designer’s playful piece offers an elegant storage solution.

This little pouf can be a seat, a floor pillow or a footrest and comes in Caribbean-inspired fabric colors.

Use them as tables or stools, indoors or out.

Commissioned for an estate in Germany, it was influenced by the teachings of an Austrian philosopher with an interest in the occult.

Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.