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There is finally a standing desk… that isn’t absolutely hideous. Meet the Quattro desk.
What we find noteworthy is:
-A solid hardwood top (this one is White Oak).
-Four separate legs with hidden mechanisms and cast aluminum components.
-Telescoping legs that don’t show any underpinnings.
A precisely milled channel for hiding cables and monitor arm attachments.
-A cable management system designed with stitched leather and aluminum.
-A simple user interface with presets, just like a car seat.
-It’s an unremarkable and yet remarkable piece of design that is minimal, well-thought-out, and beautiful to be around.
Jeremy has actually been living with one for the last few months, which speaks to our respect for it as a work of design. We take very seriously what we choose for our homes, as design enthusiasts should!
Humanscale
06/14/2026
CASA PEDREGAL in Mexico City
Rarify recently visited Casa Pedregal—Luis Barragán’s largest private residence and the centerpiece of the neighborhood he developed from a vast field of jagged volcanic lava.
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Part architect, part landscape architect, Barragán preserved the site’s original lava formations, designing pathways and platforms that lightly traverse the terrain rather than dominate it. At one point, a later owner buried much of the lava beneath soil to create a miniature golf course. The current owners later excavated and restored the landscape, returning the property to Barragán’s original vision.
The house itself is surprisingly restrained. Painted a muted pink on the exterior, it employs a softer palette than many of Barragán’s later works, yet remains a masterclass in the orchestration of light, shadow, color, and perception. Even the pool participates in this exploration: painted green on the interior, it appears algae-filled despite being perfectly clear.
Inside, monolithic furnishings crafted from ahuehuete wood reflect Barragán’s fascination with pure planes and volumes. The immense trunks of these trees yield exceptionally wide boards, allowing furniture to be made from singular, uninterrupted surfaces. The home contains furniture by Clara Porset, including pieces developed in collaboration with Barragán, as well as a Donald Judd bed.
Throughout the house are Barragán’s distinctive cubic wooden door pulls, custom lamps with hand-blown glass bases produced using regional techniques, and original Esferas de Pulquería and Esferas de Tlaquepaque. These reflective glass objects are intentionally positioned to distort perspective, catch and scatter light, and reflect the surrounding space. As sunlight moves through the spaces, walls seem to change tone and depth, creating illusions throughout the home.
After changing hands several times, the property is now stewarded by a family dedicated to preservation.
Adjacent to the house, they have opened TETETLÁN restaurant and a cultural center—an architectural gem in its own right.
Thanks to Alejandro Artvarado for making this visit possible.
This bizarre pillow sofa is a collaboration between a fashion brand and an avant-garde design studio. Kassl is the brand that created the iconic pillow bag, which is a sort of puffy tote made from a lacquered cotton material.
The sofa has some unusual elements to it, appearing almost as two stacked pillows. It also features a sort of bag handle that definitely comes from fashion. In fact, here we see a key identifying detail that’s also present in the iconic Kassl bag.
Muller Van Severen, alongside Kassl, worked with the manufacturer BD Barcelona to create this chair. BD Barcelona has become known in particular for their avant-garde approach to selecting designs for manufacture.
This piece is an almost literal translation of the Kassl bags scaled and stacked into a sofa.
Why would a beat-up 75-year-old chair like this be worth almost $7,000 today?
This is a fairly prized example called the PAW, designed by Charles and Ray Eames. The name stands for “pivoting (P) armchair (A) with wooden legs (W).”
We effectively saved this one from the trash. Our team had to:
Entirely remake one of the legs
Re-weld parts of the pivoting base
Strip a thick coat of unoriginal green paint from the shell
Charles and Ray Eames are two of the most celebrated designers in the world, and early examples of their work are particularly coveted. While restoration is an extremely time-intensive and expensive undertaking, as design scholars and collectors, we wanted to ensure we gave this piece the respect and time it deserved.
Disclaimer : Since this one is not all-original, this one is not on the market for $7,000 but beautifully preserved all-original examples can fetch that amount
Remember NFTs? This Hortensia chair started as a 2018 digital rendering by artist Andrés Reisinger. After it became a viral hit and a successful NFT, Dutch maker Moooi decided to bring it to life as a real production piece.
The challenge was recreating that digital look in reality. Using a custom petal fabric by designer Júlia Esqué, continuous strips of pink petals are sewn onto a matching woven substrate. The result is a lush, innovative surface that marks a historical breakthrough in design and technology.
06/05/2026
Rarify and Midgard are proud to be strengthening our partnership in the US. The legacy lighting manufacturer was founded by Curt Fisher in 1919 and has been a fixture of modern environments by architects such as Walter Gropius since early on in the company’s history. To this day, they specialize in innovative and masterfully engineered works of lighting design, continuing to push the envelope similar to Bauhaus protagonists such as Tecta.
For New York Design Week, Midgard’s works including LOJA by AYNO by and RAY by and David Einsiedler were featured across venues at ICFF and Afternoon Light at WSA.
Photography by and
06/05/2026
RARIFY x TECTA at NY Design Week’s , with Berlin
Rarify presented to the Trade less-seen Bauhaus furniture designs, manufactured today by in Germany, alongside contemporary works following in the legacy of the Bauhaus.
Works included Walter Gropius’s F51 chair, which is understood to have served as a prototype that influenced the movement of cantilever chair design that occurred in the early to mid 20th century.
Also shown were Breuer’s B40 and D40 in tubular steel, inspired in part by the bicycle-making industry and its material processes.
Exhibition design by and
Photography by
06/04/2026
MLS-01 “Tangent” Lamp System, shown here with side table and screen. All available at .
MLS-01 by for , launched at . Made entirely in the USA from raw, hand-finished aluminum and diffusers using Gantri-made technology. Designed in Brooklyn.
This simple S44 bookshelf by Tecta represents a unique collaboration between architects Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret. Around 1932, while Le Corbusier and Jeanneret were working on the Clarté House apartment building in Geneva, Marcel Breuer contributed this design to become a permanent fixture within the apartments. The design concept focuses on functionality and simplicity, utilizing a system of holes and pins to make the shelving vertically adjustable. The unit’s posts terminate in a Y-shape with articulated feet, allowing it to touch the ground at four precise points. As a terrific example of early modern design, this piece prioritizes utility over exuberant materials.
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