Sight Unseen

MILAN DAY 6!

1-3: Polish Modernism show by x .amaga x .foundation
4-5: x at
6: at
7-8: at
9: x takeover of Pasticceria Cucchi
10: for
11-12: 's disco apartment
13-14: x 's bachelor pad installation
15: x at
16: new direction by
17-18: Retreat to afterwards to recover 🧖🏻‍♀️

Many smaller cities — like my hometown of Columbus, Ohio — have zero hotels that would be considered true “design hotels” (or good/sophisticated ones, anyway). Meanwhile Porto, Portugal, which isn’t even a third of the size of Columbus, somehow has two. This is thanks in part to Daniela Franceschini of Lisbon’s , who designed The Rebello back in 2023, and in part to Massimiliano Salé and Jeremiah Healy, who hired her to work her magic on their own charming property, .cedo, which opened this past November. The hotel has only 8 guest rooms — plus a bar, lounge, dining room, and reception that doubles as a flower shop — but its interiors are just as ambitious as any boutique property you’d find in Paris or New York.

The building itself is a 150-year-old single-family home that was restored by local firms Atelier in.vitro and VOF, with a new upper floor and back building added and as many salvaged tiles, beams, and other materials as possible reused in the new spaces. Inside, Franceschini employed richly painted walls, large-scale artworks, and a thoughtful choreography of vintage and contemporary furnishings, among them a 1960s Torbecchia sideboard by Giovanni Michelucci, lights by Project 213A, and a recurring series of wooden tables with ziggurat cutouts and tiled tops that were designed by Franceschini in collaboration with Porto’s . Porto may not have the same pull that Lisbon does, but in addition to the stunning Pepto-pink Serralves museum, Casa Cedo adds a compelling reason to make the detour.

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Despite being in LA in February once again for my (Monica) annual winter sojourn, I promised myself this year that I would finally take it easy during Frieze week, not run around so much, rather than trying to digest it all. Well, dear readers, I failed at that task. I did skip for the first time, but then ran out to the west side anyway to check out the second annual (oops), a smaller show for up and coming galleries inside a 1930s Santa Monica post office. I stopped by the even newer, smaller fair .losangeles, saw the newest work at in Hollywood, and spent a lovely afternoon at , where I found my new favorite painter, Alessandro Teoldi , showing with . had a solo show with at the , .baruch.gallery filled his apartment with works by glass and craft artists, and released a fresh batch of work by emerging artists.

In the end, I felt the urge to go gallery hopping, too, but that’s where reality finally hit — I had a newsletter to write, and a hardware showroom to run. So I restrained myself, tore through Frieze’s online viewing room, and put together a big rundown of everything I loved back on our website. Hope you enjoy the results of my chronic overextension! Link in bio!