Quick Hits: A Zebrawood Sideboard, Pedal-Loomed Place Mats, and a Limited-Run Herman Miller Poster

Welcome to the latest installment of Sitting Pretty: Quick Hits, a monthly roundup of covetable furniture, decor, and objets d'art from one design-obsessed writer.

Steve Frykholm Watermelon Picnic poster

When Steve Frykholm joined Herman Miller in 1970 as the furniture manufacturer’s first in-house graphic designer, his first assignment was to produce a poster for the company’s annual summer picnic. For the next two decades, he illustrated everything from dripping ice cream cones to icy lemonade glasses and fully loaded hot dogs for the canonical series, which eventually made its way into several museum collections, including MoMA. Herman Miller just brought back Frykholm’s mouthwatering watermelon print from 1971—his second in the series—in a limited run, using the original screen in Michigan.

$895 via Herman Miller 

Jack Cartwright for Founders Furniture sideboard

Before founding his eponymous company in 1963, Jack Cartwright spent nearly a decade as head designer at the quintessential midcentury Founders Furniture Company. Much of his work there paired walnut with unexpected and elegant materials: cork, leather, and in the case of this wonderfully restored six-drawer sideboard—zebrawood.

$2,950 via Etsy

Minna Ridges place mat

Hudson, New York, design shop and studio Minna partners with artisans and craftspeople in Central and South America to produce home goods as covetable as they are cherishable. These cotton-fiber place mats, handmade using pedal loom weaves in Zinacantán, a town in Mexico’s Chiapas Highlands, are reversible and inspired by the dazzling colors of birds like goldfinches and herons. (There are matching napkins, too, if you are so inclined.)

$38 via Minna

Troy RLM outdoor wall sconce

A workhouse of traditional American lighting, Troy Lighting has been around since the 1960s, and its design-driven RLM sub-label has become a go-to for interior designers and architects alike. This sleek dome sconce with a black-aluminum finish brings just the right amount of contemporary industrialism to any outdoor space.

$427 via Overstock

Piet Hein Eek Philips cabinet

Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek is a recycler. He shapes his creations using found materials, making everything from glossy, scrap wood coffee tables to shiny modernist benches constructed of leftover metal. The Philips cabinet came to be in 1994 when the designer found several metal-framed doors in a junk pile that had been discarded by the Philips electronics company; his studio now produces the aluminum-and-glass design, a sleek yet off-kilter silhouette, in various sizes. 

$4,035 via The Future Perfect

Quickest Hits…

Vintage Ekstrem lounge chair ($1,995), Helle Damkjaer candlestick holders ($79), Jorg Neizert La Poubelle Géométrique print ($325), Vintage Ikea cocktail flatware ($19), Falcon enamel jug ($53), Per Lutken for Holmegaard glass vase ($65), 1970s Pedestal Highboy armoire ($2,245).

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