The GPHG 2026 nominees include a 1.65mm watch and a wearable solar system.
The Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève has unveiled its 2026 nominees, shortlisting 84 timepieces across 14 categories ahead of the November 7 ceremony in Geneva. Standouts include Konstantin Chaykin’s ThinKing Mystery, billed as the world’s thinnest series-produced mechanical watch at 1.65mm, and Christiaan van der Klaauw’s Grand Planetarium, which tracks all eight planets in real time on the wrist. Other nominees push complexity further: Ulysse Nardin x Urwerk’s hand-free UR-FREAK, L.Leroy’s chiming Vox Temporis, and a 10-kilo Louis Vuitton x De Bethune mechanical clock that winds and resets a watch overnight. Notably absent are several past winners, including Patek Philippe, Cartier, Vacheron Constantin, and last year’s Aiguille d’Or recipient, Breguet, alongside perennial non-participant Rolex, leaving the competition unusually open to independents and lesser-known houses this year.
Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi bring their cinematic eye to Zara Home.
Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and production designer Stefano Baisi have unveiled their debut Baisi Guadagnino collection for Zara Home, launching this month at Milan Fashion Week with an unusually ambitious 65 furniture and homeware pieces alongside 75 clothing and accessory items. The duo’s collaboration began on Guadagnino’s 2024 film Queer and continued through projects including Palazzo Talia in Rome. The collection draws on Italian modernists including Gio Ponti and Lina Bo Bardi, along with 1980s Sottsass-style geometry and a cinematic color palette inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, Edward Yang, and Nagisa Ōshima. Zara Home managing director Lorena Mosquera said the goal was “a complete universe where furniture, lighting, accessories and fashion exist in dialogue,” building on a relationship that began with Guadagnino’s 2021 short film for the brand.
Catbird is named the WNBA’s first-ever jewelry partner.
Catbird becomes the WNBA’s official jewelry partner, marking the league’s first-ever demi-fine jewelry collaboration. The Brooklyn-based brand is launched a limited-edition collection on September 1 to coincide with the WNBA’s 30th season. The Catbird x WNBA collection features three collectible charms: a Jumpwoman Charm recreating the league’s logo silhouette with a commemorative 30th-season engraving, a customizable Engravable Basketball Charm, and a City Letter Charm featuring tricodes from eight WNBA team cities. Pieces come in sterling silver and 10-karat solid gold starting at $74, with campaign imagery starring New York Liberty founding players Teresa Weatherspoon and Sue Wicks.
Mark Feary is announced as curator for Adelaide Biennial’s 2028 edition.
The Art Gallery of South Australia has named Mark Feary as curator of the 2028 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, set to run March 3–June 4, 2028. Feary, currently artistic director of Melbourne’s Gertrude Contemporary, was selected through an open call. Founded in 1990, the Adelaide Biennial highlights Australian artists and contributes to AGSA’s permanent collection; the museum acquired 13 works from the 2026 edition, curated by Ellie Buttrose around themes of pressure on materials, selfhood, and society. Feary previously held roles at the Australian Centre for Photography, Artspace Sydney, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography and West Space.
Christie’s October sale will feature a restituted Kandinsky from the Lewenstein Collection.
Christie’s will offer Wassily Kandinsky’s 1907 work The Colourful Life at its October evening sale in London, carrying an estimate above $30 million. The painting, restituted to the heirs of Dutch collectors Emanuel Albert Lewenstein and Hedwig Lewenstein Weyermann in 2023, spent decades on loan to Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum before Germany’s Nazi-looted art advisory commission concluded its 1940 sale bore hallmarks of forced dispossession. It’s the third work the Lewenstein family has recovered, following another Kandinsky and a piece by Jan Sluijters, though researcher James Palmer estimates roughly 100 works from the family’s collection remain missing. Painted during Kandinsky’s Paris sojourn with Gabriele Münter, the work reflects his largest canvas at the time and a pivotal fusion of Parisian avant-garde energy with Russian folkloric imagery.
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