Adam Lippes: First Furnishings for Oka

MILAN — Adam Lippes is the most recent fashion designer to make the leap into furnishings. This week the U.Okay.-based agency Oka advised WWD that following the success of the designer’s 2021 Famille Rose china dinnerware set, the 2 determined to collaborate on three collections, considered one of which incorporates items for the examine, resembling a set of nesting tables and a desk.

Named the Avery Assortment, the furniture debut additionally features a desk lamp and wastebasket distinguished by walnut wooden surfaces, leather-based detailing and beech wooden elaborations crafted to appear like bamboo trim, clear strains and brass accents. Avery is envisaged for traditional and modern areas.

The Magistry Assortment was derived from a swatch of vintage chinoiserie-style linen material that Lippes purchased at a Paris flea market. “The material drove all of the colorways and the patterns for the gathering,” he stated, referring to an intricate design of botanical and fowl motifs, designed round core colours of inexperienced, crimson and blue over pillows and stools.

“Intricate craftsmanship was on the coronary heart of the gathering, and the designers labored intently with Oka artisans to provide items that emphasised high quality and longevity,” the agency stated. Lippes additionally designed the Everett assortment of small equipment like trays, a pen pot and field recordsdata.

“It’s all the time a fantastic pleasure to work with Adam; any excuse and I’ll take it,” Oka cofounder Sue Jones stated. “His inspiration very a lot comes from the vintage aesthetic however, like me, he likes to carry that into the twenty first century. We expect the identical manner — to make individuals really feel comfy and happy about their environment is his ethos, and that’s very a lot mine too.”

When it comes to fashion, Lippes bought his large break at Oscar de la Renta, the place he labored as artistic director between 1996 and 2003, earlier than launching Adam Plus Eve loungewear, which advanced into a recent label acquired by Kellwood. In 2012, Lippes purchased again his title and a 12 months later, he relaunched as a designer collection with a give attention to timeless sportswear and event put on in florals and fabrications, made in New York.

Lippes stated that his trend work is commonly impressed by residence and his properties in New York and the Berkshires have been photographed greater than the rest of his. “It’s all a part of the identical course of for me. I’m an avid collector of furniture and avid studier of interiors. And so it’s not a giant leap,” he stated on a Zoom name whereas internet hosting a lunch in his outdated Massachusetts farmhouse constructed by an English settler within the 18th century.

Oka is an omnichannel direct-to-consumer enterprise, working oka.com in addition to 13 shops throughout the U.Okay. and three shops within the U.S. The agency was began in 1999 by Girl Annabel Astor, inside designer Sue Jones and horticulturalist Lucinda Waterhouse.