As a Florida native, design editor Annamarie Simoldoni sees the region’s color palette through a broader lens. Rather than leaning on expected coastal blues and sandy neutrals, she draws inspiration from the richer, more complex tones found inland—Everglades greens, mangrove shadows and the mineral hues of Southwest Florida’s backwaters. The result is a palette that feels layered, grounded and distinctly tied to the natural landscape beyond the beach.
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design picks color story Dune Cabinet by Nacho Carbonell
Dune Cabinet by Nacho Carbonell
Nacho Carbonell’s Dune Cabinet stands nearly 5 feet tall, its metal frame is wrapped in cork and built up into a thick, ridged surface, then sealed in a dark varnish. The doors open like a split trunk, revealing a raw, uneven interior lined with protruding ledges and suspended metal baskets. Appearing more grown than shaped, the storage unit recalls the root systems and cypress knees in the swamps. Like with the Gulf, the first view draws you in and more beauty keeps revealing itself the closer you look. carpentersworkshopgallery.com
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design picks color story Lokum by Sabine Marcelis
Lokum by Sabine Marcelis
Sunlight has long been part of the draw on the Gulf, but it never quite loses its pull. Sabine Marcelis’ Lokum table brings the golden gleam inside, translating it into glass that holds and diffuses light into a steady amber glow. Crafted in collaboration with the Italian glassblowing artisans at Acerbis, the Lokum collection presents a departure for Sabine. Widely recognized within collectible circles for her crisp, geometric forms done with light and resin, here, Sabine lets the material take over, shifting toward a softened, rounded shape. Built from multiple gathers of molten glass, the nearly 2-foot-long coffee table is blown and pressed into shape, allowing the mass to carry and soften light across its surface. sabinemarcelis.com
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design picks color story Waterfall Meditating Sofa by Gal Gaon
Waterfall Meditating Sofa by Gal Gaon
Gal Gaon’s 8.5-foot Waterfall Meditating Sofa stretches low across the floor in saturated green mohair, its rounded base punctuated by two asymmetrical backrests that rise in soft, offset curves. The form feels continuous and weighty, designed more for reclining than upright seating, a reflection of Gal’s background in architecture and spatial design. The color lands in that dense, layered register familiar in Southwest Florida, where sabal palms and clusia hedges press into one another outside the window, collapsing into a single, saturated field. galgaonstudio.com
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design picks color story Kaala Coffee Table by Thierry Lemaire
Kaala Coffee Table by Thierry Lemaire
Working within the tradition of French decorative arts, Thierry Lemaire emphasizes proportion and finish in the Kaala Coffee Table, where a restrained, low-slung form gives way to a highly worked facade. Cast in steel, the piece is treated with a patina that shifts among deep blue, ochre and rust, the color moving across the metal rather than sitting on it. Produced for The Future Perfect in 2025, it reads like the mineral variation of back-bay water at low tide, where tannins, sediment and light create a surface that is never one fixed tone. Also available in onyx. thierry-lemaire.fr