Under the October Sky: Design in Transition

The October sky carries two kinds of light. By day, it turns an almost impossible blue. With less humidity and a lower sun, the air holds fewer particles, scattering more blue wavelengths through Rayleigh scattering. The result is clarity – summer’s brightness distilled and cooled. By night, that same sky deepens to amber beneath a harvest moon, its low, full glow marking the turn toward autumn. It’s the threshold between summer’s open vitality and autumn’s grounded calm. Colors grow richer, textures heavier, and interiors begin to gather warmth while holding onto the last traces of the season’s light.

This collection follows that transition. Wood grains bring natural pattern and structure. Woven surfaces add softness and comfort. Earthen tones create cohesion through ochres, browns, and muted neutrals. Each piece reflects the meeting of two moments: the clarity of lingering summer and the quiet. welcoming abundance of autumn.

Warming Wood

Wood captures the shift between seasons. As the light changes, its grain moves through subtle variations: cooler in the clear mornings, warmer as the sun lowers. Works from Josh Page and Onno Adriaanse’s studios highlight how natural pattern can define form, each surface showing the material’s depth and direction. Shivangi Vasudeva’s Takhat Bench and Armchair reflect the spirit of gathering through strong, open shapes that feel both stable and welcoming. Together, these pieces show how wood holds warmth, texture, and light, carrying a trace of summer into autumn.

Glowing Light

As autumn settles in, daylight takes on a lower, gentler tone. The sun’s angle softens shadows, and interiors begin to glow instead of shine. Bruno Olavarrieta’s Estela Lamp translates that shift into design, using wood and linen to cast a calm, diffused light. Atelier Alz’s Liora balances glass and fabric, while FAINA’s Strikha Lamp filters light through handwoven willow, echoing the rhythm of natural materials. Tom Schoonhoven’s Rammed Earth Tube Lamp and Maison Cédrat’s Nova Pendant bring the element of earth into play, grounding light in texture and tone. These lights capture the balance of clarity and warmth that defines this time of year, the glow that lingers after sunset, when the day’s brightness turns inward.

Woven Textures

Textiles define the shift between warmth and cool. Their surfaces bring softness and rhythm to interiors. Tine Otto’s Isaro wall hanging traces subtle changes in tone and movement through hand embroidery, while Aku Zeliang’s Curl Series wall decor refines traditional bamboo weaving into contemporary form. Annie Legault’s Typha Chandelier adds a sculptural dimension to fiber, its handwoven structure translating natural rhythm into light. Lyk Carpet’s Tilda Pouf balances geometric order with tactile depth, its wool surface changing character with the light. These works lend balance to the season, structured yet soft, familiar yet renewed.

Grounded Forms

As the season settles, form becomes the focus. Shapes grow heavier, surfaces more tactile, and design takes on a slower rhythm. Studio Cupla’s Monte N1 Vessel and ZEMNA’s Earth Totem both draw strength from elemental materials – stoneware and walnut – each revealing natural variation through touch and tone. PROSA’s Ita Table recalls stones shaped by tide, while Goslo Studio’s Trb Chairs bring the body closer to the ground, rooted in simplicity and ease. Tom Robinson Studio’s Intra Side Table adds a graphic contrast, its cast form balancing durability with sculptural clarity. These works mark the point where color fades and texture endures, where design turns still but never static.

Under the October Sky

The days grow shorter, but the light stays vivid. Blue skies fade to amber evenings, and rooms begin to mirror that shift in tone and texture. The works in this collection reflect that rhythm of change, carrying the last brightness of summer into the calm of autumn. Under the October sky, design feels slower, more deliberate, and full of warmth held in reserve.