The Aesthete’s Wish List: 10 Of The Best Things You Can Buy This June
By Something CuratedCovering June’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.
Art
Eroded Attaché, 2019 || Daniel Arsham
Artist Daniel Arsham re-imagines a vintage RIMOWA case from the archive as an archaeological discovery from a future, dystopian world. Cast from a RIMOWA case from decades past, the suitcase appears as an eroding artefact, illustrating how new technologies can quickly become obsolete. Presented as an archival object, this multiple is presented complete with art handling gloves and collaborative stickers, housed in a contemporary special edition of the attaché case that inspired the piece. Available at RIMOWA.
Gangster, 2013 || Aristides Logothetis
Aristides Logothetis, born in Greece, lives and works between New York and Athens. Gangster playfully suggests that sexuality is an essential human motivation. The artist notes: “Sex and procreation politics are behind many of our strategies. My own personal experience, as well as my understanding of our American sexual anxieties—particularly when manifested as racism or economic control—have led me to embrace sexual metaphors as part of a larger systemic examination.” Available at Paddle8.
Accessories
Handbag || Stefan Cooke
For SS20, London-based label Stefan Cooke showed their first season with NEWGEN. This season’s offering, entitled Drama Major, took its inspiration from NYU students and New York’s off-Broadway scene. Signature deconstructed knitwear was joined by corsetry detailed shirting, and hand-tied tulle featured on tops and trousers. A series of three handbags from last week’s show are now available for purchase. Available at Stefan Cooke.
CD Acetate Sunglasses || Dior
Dior’s futuristic glasses are shaped to a streamlined oval shape that emulates the house’s dynamic CD monogram. They’re crafted in Italy from clear acetate and set with navy-tinted lenses and wide temples, then finished with gold-tone metal and embossed accents, including the house’s namesake monogram as a nod to its storied heritage. Available at MATCHESFASHION.
Fashion
Leather Jacket || Marni
Under the creative directorship of Francesco Risso, Marni’s experimental approach is evoked through considered details and fabrications. This season’s leather jacket is crafted from leather in a soft natural grain finish, featuring a stand collar, front welt pockets, exposed seams and off-centre button fastening. Available at LN-CC.
Archive Mesh Jacket || Comme Des Garçons
Comme Des Garçons, the often avant-garde and always influential label was created by Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo in 1969 before heading to Paris in 1981 where it garnered both acclaim and controversy with a debut collection of distressed and deconstructed pieces. This archive men’s mesh jack in orange features a cutaway collar, front zip fastening, two front pockets and long sleeves. Availabe at Farfetch.
Home
Treasure Chair, 2005 || Maarten Baas
Expanding on the thinking behind his chair, German-born designer Maarten Baas explains: “With Treasure, I used my childhood method of building huts and applied it into designing a chair: with a hammer, nails and found boards. When the boards were too long or short, I improvised, resulting in a chair with naïve spontaneity. The first chair was made of various old found boards criss-crossed by coincidence, assembled into one unique chair.” Available at Pamono.
Queensborough Mews || Joanna Macfadyen
Tucked away on Queensborough Mews, a short walk from the Italian Gardens of Hyde Park, is this exceptional two-bedroom, Mid-Century house, built in 1960/62 with original interiors designed by Joanna Macfadyen. Internal accommodation is arranged across three storeys, including a private roof terrace, balcony and a garage space currently used as an artists’ workshop and archive. Available at The Modern House.
Books
Maldicidade || Miguel Rio Branco
Miguel Rio Branco unites more than four decades of work across several major cities into one astonishing poetic statement on urban life. Eschewing city landmarks or aspirational ideals, Rio Branco turns his lens to common threads of struggle in metropolises around the globe. Maldicidade is a collection in which all urban dwellers will find something of themselves, or something they long to escape. Available at Taschen.
Closing Ceremony Magazine 02 || Yuan Xiaopeng
Edited by photographer Yuan Xiaopeng, Closing Ceremony Magazine is described as, “a ceremony for the traditional/classic photography and a warm welcoming to the new.” Xiaopeng continues, “We would like to offer a platform for those new photographers who might or might not get market recognition yet to present their works on printing and create a dialogue with the world.” Available at Same Paper.
Selected by Keshav Anand | Feature image: RIMOWA x Daniel Arsham (via RIMOWA)