Nordic Knots turns Eltham Palace in London into a tennis club for its latest collection.
Nordic Knots has launched The Grand Open, a limited-edition collection inspired by the geometry and color of tennis’s most iconic courts, timed to the summer tennis season. The release centers on two statement rugs that translate the sport’s surfaces, lines, and rituals into the brand’s signature woven language. To mark the launch, Nordic Knots transformed Eltham Palace in southeast London, a medieval-meets-Art Deco landmark known for Swedish designer Rolf Engströmer’s century-old wood intarsia, into the “Nordic Knots Tennis Club.” The space pairs the new rugs with the brand’s existing pieces set against the palace’s layered mix of stonework, woodwork, lacquered surfaces, and golden mosaics.
Fine jewelry house Viltier debuts new creations at Paris Couture Week for the first time.
Contemporary Parisian fine jewelry house Viltier presented new creations during Paris Couture Week for the first time since its launch in 2020, marking a significant milestone for the maison. Staged in the salons of Hôtel Le Bristol, the presentation expanded Viltier’s design language across scales, from everyday pieces to high jewelry statements. At its center are three new white gold additions to the Edge collection: the Edge Pavé Plastron, Edge Pavé Cuff, and Edge Pyramid Pavé Ring, each reworking the collection’s signature displaced-line motif. The house also introduced oversized takes on its Magnetic motif, new Talisman cabochon charms, and expanded Clique designs.
The Nantucket Historical Association turns 1800 House into an open craft studio.
The Nantucket Historical Association is expanding its Heritage Craft Program with the launch of Theatre of Craft, a new open-house-style activation at the historic 1800 House during Nantucket by Design. The space functions as a flexible, drop-in environment across the 1800 House and its adjoining Carriage House, hosting a continuous rotation of workshops, open studios, demonstrations, and retail throughout the summer. Textile artist Richard Saja will lead a three-day embroidery workshop series, centered on his technique of hand-stitching selective interventions into traditional French toile to create layered, narrative compositions. Farrow & Ball will host a companion birdbox painting workshop inspired by Nantucket’s landscapes and wildlife, using the brand’s signature color palette, timed to the 1800 House’s own ongoing interior repainting project using archival Farrow & Ball colors. Mary Lacoursiere, the NHA’s Artistic Director of Heritage Craft, said the initiative reflects a commitment to preserving traditional craft while creating new ways for audiences to engage directly with it.
Tim Walker’s “Fairyland” brings 250 new LGBTQ+ portraits to the National Portrait Gallery.
The National Portrait Gallery in London will present “Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends” this fall, the fashion photographer’s largest museum exhibition to date. Opening October 9 and running through February 7, 2027, the show brings together roughly 250 newly commissioned portraits celebrating LGBTQ+ artists, activists, performers, and community leaders across more than five decades of queer history. Sitters range from filmmaker Isaac Julien and actors Ian McKellen and Miriam Margolyes to singer Chappell Roan. Known for his fantastical fashion editorials, Walker described the project as one of his most personal to date.
David Chipperfield Architects transforms a 19th-century bank into Santander’s new museum.
David Chipperfield Architects is nearing completion on Faro Santander, the firm’s first museum project in Spain, set to open September 8 after a nine-year renovation. The museum occupies the historic Pereda Building, Santander Bank’s former 19th-century headquarters, which was expanded in 1923 by Cantabrian architect Ricardo Bastida and again in 1961 by Javier González de Riancho. The museum will house more than 1,000 works from the Banco Santander Collection, with one floor dedicated to the permanent collection, another for temporary exhibitions, and additional space set aside for family programming.
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