We’re OBSESSED with... LEATHER & LACE Maison K’s Kim Phillips accents a traditional, modern, or bohemian space with a handstitched leather pillow ($295, maionkstyle.com) from Morocco.
MS. MIX-A-LOT Designer Megan Rice Yager’s melange of persimmon velvet, leopard pillows, and Donald Robertson’s neon gaffer tape art is a collage worth lounging for.
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The Stephanie Vovas photography collection (from $1,250, houseofhoney.com) is “quintessential California ’60s/’70s beach bombshell vibe,” says Tamara Kaye-Honey.
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James Perse’s limited collection Montecito chair (price upon request, jamesperse.com) puts you in the mood in your own backyard.
Agraria’s air essence diffuser ($120, agrariahome.com) in Golden Cassis is a spicy, stress-reducing aroma.
ENLIGHTENED ISOLATED FROM THEIR PROSAIC FUNCTION,
lamps (price upon request, giannivallino modernlighting.com, and Raoul Textiles, 805899-4947, raoultextiles.com) by Gianni Vallino, reveal themselves as exquisite, one-of-a-kind sculptures meticulously crafted from industrial detritus (airplane filters, pressure gears, metal fittings). The Italian-born, Santa Barbara-based lighting designer—whose creative inspiration includes early 20th-century modernist art movements like Vienna’s Wiener Werkstätte and Germany’s Bauhaus—has dubbed his innovative reclamation efforts “post-industrial alchemy”; no doubt his collectors call it art. –L.D. PORTER
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