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Pay a visit to David Alhadeff’s Beverly Hills digs and he’ll let you take the Lindsey Adelman dangling light fixture home with you. You’ll have to pay for it, though, because you’re not just in Alhadeff’s home, you’re in his contemporary design gallery, the Future Perfect, where everything from the Chris Wolston anthropomorphic chair to the Bari Ziperstein ceramic vessel is for sale.
Alhadeff’s concept began in 2017, and the design world took due notice. Fast-forward three years and it has reached critical mass. After the Future Perfect’s home galleries came the Invisible Collection’s London apartment, the e-commerce design company’s first brick-and-mortar space, and Clive Christian’s unveiling of what he called a “lifestyle apartment” for his furnishings. The trend has even changed industry terminology. No longer is visiting a “gallery,” let alone a “showroom,” in vogue; now it’s all about a “residence.” In recent months, 20th-century Scandinavian gallery Modernity appeared in an 18th-century mansion in London, and Studio Twenty Seven was in the final stages of installing its contemporary works on the 47th floor of Herzog & de Meuron’s Jenga-like Tribeca condominium tower before the Covid-19 shutdown temporarily halted work on it. And jewelry designer turned furniture-maker Lara Bohinc shared her plans with for a London townhouse, one where
