The Aesthete’s Wish List: 10 Of The Best Things You Can Buy Right Now

Covering July’s new drops, restocks, and promising auctions, Something Curated has compiled a list of ten of the most coveted items available for purchase this month, spanning art, fashion, home and more.

 

Fashion

Eataly T–Shirt || Jamian Juliano–Villani

New York–based painter Jamian Juliano–Villani has created an exclusive t–shirt for House of Voltaire. Juliano–Villani’s paintings are composed using an atlas of appropriated images, personal photographs, and reproductions of existing artworks. In this work, Juliano–Villani draws from well-known imagery of Eataly, the largest Italian food hall in the world and eight-time Olympic gold medalist, Usain Bolt. Available at House of Voltaire.

 

Vintage Cow Print Jacket || Fendi

This beautifully crafted jacket by Fendi dates back to the 1990s. Made in ponyskin, it features a striking cow print in chocolate brown and white. With two front pockets, high stand collar and front and back shaped yoke the design of the jacket is inspired by a Western shirt. The metal buttons read Fendi Selleria. Lined in red silk, the Fendi tag on the inside is cast in sterling silver. Available at 1stdibs.

 

Accessories

Fusion Low Top || Maison Margiela

Maison Margiela’s latest deconstructed sneaker drop, the part-melted Fusion silhouette, features a leather and knitted upper, with rubber outsole. Other details include a padded collar, lace-up front, and the label’s signature white stitched label detail on the back. Black and white laces weave haphazardly through the tongue, while white paint on the midsole is chipped away to reveal the black base underneath. Available at FWRD.

 

Stretched Logo Baseball Cap || A-COLD-WALL*

Founded with a mission to epitomise the ever-changing nature of British street culture through dynamic and relevant designs, A-COLD-WALL*’s collections are filled with fashion-forward streetwear. Styled to a classic six-panel crown, this cotton strapback cap is embellished with the label’s signature stretched logo and oversized composition tab. Available at oki-ni.

 

Art

Untitled (Self Portrait With Sun Tan) || Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman established her reputation—and a novel brand of uncanny self-portraiture—with her “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-80), a series of 69 photographs of the artist herself enacting female clichés of 20th-century pop culture. Though her work continually re-examines women’s roles in history and contemporary society, Sherman resists the notion that her photographs have an explicit narrative or message, leaving them untitled and largely open to interpretation. Available at Sotheby’s.

 

Lily Scent, 1981 || Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg complicates the perceptual and ideological presumptions of documentation, exacerbating the ambiguities of the photograph via complex collage work. In the present work, the artist juxtaposes street scenes and organic motifs in mysterious grey scale. Indicating at once the instability of the interpretative process and the resultant banality of mainstream media from overstimulation of information, Rauschenberg encourages the viewer to create their own connections. Available at Paddle8.

 

Home

Shoreditch High Street Home || Chan & Eayrs

Occupying the entire third floor of a former shoe factory on Shoreditch High Street, this elegant three-bedroom live/work apartment has been crafted to a wonderfully refined design by celebrated husband and wife duo Chan and Eayrs. The main living space is arranged in a sweeping open-plan, flooded with light from large original Crittall windows and glazing across four aspects. Soft green plaster walls echo verdant views across Calvert Avenue to the treetops and square of St Leonard’s Church. Available at The Modern House.

 

Heikō Stone & Marble Pepper Crusher || Laetitia De Allegri & Matteo Fogale

Designed by rising star design duo Laetitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale, this hand-crafted, minimalistic pepper crusher was inspired by traditional stone mill grinders and re-imagined as an archaic way of grinding pepper, salt, or spices. The set is composed using a combination of sustainable stones sourced from Stonecycling and hand-crafted marble stones from Portugal by Mophis. Available at Pamono.

 

Books 

domus 1970s || Charlotte & Peter Fiell

Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design. This fresh reprint of the 1970s domus coverage brings together the most important features from an era marking seismic changes in architecture and design. Available at Taschen.

 

Joan Jonas || Julienne Lorz, Andrea Lissoni & João Ribas

To coincide with the Tate show, this new publication includes an introduction to Jonas’s practice and brings together selected conversations from the last fourteen years, in which the artist talks about her interdisciplinary approach as well as the influences and impulses she has absorbed from literature, music, traditional Japanese Noh theatre, and the rituals of foreign cultures. It also features a new interview conducted with Jonas by the editors, discussing her recent work. Available at Tate Bookshop.

 

Words by Keshav Anand | Feature image: Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Self Portrait With Sun Tan) (via Sotheby’s)