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Just dropped: RG-01 Tufted Rug by Christian Borger for Rarify.Revealed this spring at Afternoon Light at WSA and feature...
10/26/2026

Just dropped: RG-01 Tufted Rug by Christian Borger for Rarify.

Revealed this spring at Afternoon Light at WSA and featured in Rarify’s Chadwick House project, the long awaited RG-01 rug is now available to buy (link in bio).

The hand-tufted wool rug is made in six sizes and six colorways, from 4’x4’ to 10’x12’.

RG-01 features a frontal oblique pattern based on Borger’s iconic space frame structures.

The Brooklyn-based designer’s work envisions how space frames, modular systems and tensegrity structures can create innovative functional objects that are unexpectedly lightweight. Borger is know for his unapologetically rigorous use of regulating grid systems and modular components.

10/23/2026

Take a tour of the fourth floor living space at the Frank Weise home and studio, featuring a carefully curated collection of unique modern design pieces. In the corner, a screen by Brooklyn-based designer Christian Borger stands alongside three of his Tangent MLS-01 lamps produced by Rarify. The space highlights lighting design with Stefan Diez’s adjustable Ayno lamp for Midgard Licht, as well as Midgard’s K831 adjustable pendant light, which shares its mechanism design with the brand’s new Loja light. Furniture selections include Marcel Breuer designs produced by Tecta—featuring a folding variant of the famous wassily chair, a vintage settee, and armless tubular dining chairs—paired with a prototype dining table by Richard Schultz acquired directly from his son. Grounding the arrangement is a rug designed for Rarify by graphic and typography designer Ben Fehrman-Lee, inspired by a Bauhaus-era newspaper layout. Swiss-made aluminum pieces by Lehni are featured throughout, including bespoke low shelving modules with green cross braces and a classic side table with pinwheel legs referencing Poul Kjærholm’s work. Completing the room is a rare lounge chair designed by SOM interior designer Charles Pfister; sourced directly from SOM’s Sears Tower project, it is a wider, lower variation of the Pfister 79 chair originally created for fashion designer Halston.
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10/21/2026

This is BARPHA. Hosted by the Philadelphia-based design gallery and collective Dudd Haus, the exhibition brings together artists and designers from across the country and around the world to showcase contemporary works in furniture, lighting, sculpture, and ceramics that blur the line between functional objects and art. Held at the Village of Industry and Art—a historic former University of the Arts building managed by the development firm Scout, led by Lindsey Scannapieco—the event runs alongside multiple design showcases to build community and help local creative businesses amplify their collective impact.

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10/19/2026

While famous 1950s designs like Harry Bertoia’s wire chair and Arne Jacobsen’s plywood furniture are widely recognized, many people are unaware that smaller children’s versions of these pieces exist. Mid-century architects took their work seriously and believed children deserved contemporary design, or perhaps they simply wanted to integrate more of their own creations into architectural commissions. Today, authentic mid-20th-century children’s furniture remains highly collectible because it was produced in far smaller quantities than standard-sized versions.

10/16/2026

It may not be obvious, but this lounge chair has three legs and comes apart to flat pack. It’s called the 3PC, designed by Josh Owen for Lazzoni.

Its typology is quite unique. I see it as related to safari chairs or campaign chairs where a sling hangs from a frame.

Made from high-end materials, the tubular frame is stainless steel and the sling is an aniline leather. The seating position is extremely low, and the headrest allows you to recline fully. There is also a matching footrest that Owen designed.

The unusual, goalpost-shaped seat frame is inserted through a secondary frame, which serves as the foot of the chair. The structure is very robust, made from welded stainless steel components. The leather sling acts like a slipcover with no connections other than sliding onto the frame.

Josh Owen is known for industrial design work that balances avant-garde, innovative ideas with functionality.

10/14/2026

The architect designer of this chair insisted that his entire archive be destroyed upon his death. Robert Mallet-Stevens is largely known for his Villa Cavrois, which is his most notable piece of modernist architecture.

This is a fairly minimal stacking chair that was designed for the kitchen of that villa. It’s made from sturdy powder-coated steel, which at its time of design in 1928 was considered a more lightweight material than we were used to.

It’s a great early example of a modernist piece of furniture that was intended specifically for a piece of architecture—not as a piece of art or an artifact, but a functional object that was a part of a larger whole.

With many chairs fabricated from aluminum nowadays, this now reads as quite heavy, but also retains its authenticity in its original form of production.

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Join us this Wednesday the 14th in a celebration of original design with Amuneal, Be Original Americas, and Rarify.Tour ...
10/12/2026

Join us this Wednesday the 14th in a celebration of original design with Amuneal, Be Original Americas, and Rarify.

Tour Amuneal’s 80,000 square foot factory to see their production process from start to finish, followed by a craft workshop where you will have the opportunity to make your own bronze memento. Closed-toed shoes are required.

Afterwards, Rarify will host a reception at Frank Weise’s home and studio on Chadwick Street.

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10/12/2026

Why was this sculptural chair named after two world-renowned designers, the architect Gaudí and Carlo Mollino? This is an avant-garde and arguably postmodern form that was born in the 1980s, yet still seems to have a lot of architectural and design relevance today. The designer of this chair is a guy named Oscar Tusquets, who’s actually the founder of the manufacturer BD Barcelona, a quite avant-garde design house based in Spain. The chair, first designed in 1987, was meant to demonstrate a sculptural expression in solid wood with contemporary machining. It utilizes solid hardwood components that are sculpted into a form that is at times both biomorphic and architectural. Moments like this look particularly skeletal, whereas here we see references to cathedral architecture through a buttress referencing Gaudí. Doing production of a chair like this before CNC technologies would have been nearly impossible, if not exceptionally difficult. Not unlike the Sagrada Família by Gaudí, which has been expedited hugely thanks to advances in technology.

10/09/2026

The third floor of the Weise House was curated with several distinct design pieces. Two Swiss-made Lehni benches in anodized aluminum serve as a large coffee table. Surrounding the table are Marcel Breuer cantilever and tubular furniture pieces, including two with original Bauhaus canvas straps and one in wicker. A Lehni room divider screen made of anodized aluminum is paired with a floor lamp version of the Cube One light, which utilizes the USM Haller system to elevate the fixture. The room also features an F51N armchair, originally designed by Walter Gropius, with textiles designed by Katrin Greiling. Grounding the space is a rug designed by graphic and typography designer Ben Fehrman-Lee, which adapts a Bauhaus newsprint layout. Completing the room is a custom tall, skinny Lehni shelving unit in raw aluminum, featuring custom green cross braces.

What are some of the special, rare, unique, and prototypical works exhibited in Frank Weise’s Chadwick House? This weeke...
10/06/2026

What are some of the special, rare, unique, and prototypical works exhibited in Frank Weise’s Chadwick House? This weekend hundreds got to find out as Design Philly and Dudd Haus’ BARPHA kicked off.
Photography by Charlie Schuck

Huge thanks to Todd Cooke for leading this effort, alongside Kurt Barbara Ash Schleicker and Rarify’s team at large.

Notable production works featured from Midgard Licht TECTA Lehni HIDA SANGYO Nordic Knots Keeps カンディハウス Armadillo Justin Nelson LAZZONI

Rarify custom and bespoke works from Christian Borger Ben Fehrman-Lee Ivan Nomadory

Rare vintage works from Nicos Zographos Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Charles Pfister and Treitel Gratz

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