Located in the foreground of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s latest cultural conquest, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum, has opened its doors. Inside a spiraling luminous facade—an abstract interpretation of a discus thrower’s motion—awaits 20,000 square feet of gallery space filled with artifacts, memorabilia, and state-of-the-art interactive storytelling features. (Team USA athletes were consulted as part of the creation process.)

Ten years in the making, the museum’s opening was supposed to coincide with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which was postponed until the summer of 2021. Like other public institutions, the museum has implemented coronavirus safety measures including timed ticketing and a souvenir stylus to use on touchscreens. The opening exhibition is a large-scale survey of more than 100 works by the artist LeRoy Neiman, the official painter of the five Olympic games from 1972 to 2010.

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When: Until Oct. 31

Where: Villa Cavrois, Croix, France

What: A 1930s modernist French villa, designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens, plays host to a retrospective of Muller Van Severen, the husband-and-wife design duo known for experimental furnishings that effortlessly explore the boundaries between art and design. The estate turns out to be an ideal venue, highlighting the most timeless qualities of the Belgian studio’s oeuvre: the Duo seat and lamp’s red tubular framework contrasts a marble-lined fireplace, and on the patio, yellow bricks play off the rational lines of their gridded wire daybeds.

The pair also debuts their first-ever sofa, called Sofa Cavrois, which curves upwards at two points, resembling a pair of chaises fused together. “Time becomes irrelevant in this project,” the pair says. “We want to create the poetic feeling that our objects could originate from the same time as the building, in the same way that the building itself feels very contemporary.”

When the Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk first visited the Saint-Louis factory, she was immediately spellbound. Surrounded by forest in northeast France, the centuries-old cristallerie held an air of mystery and magic. “It’s still emotional to me, to this day,” van Eijk puts it, “how objects can carry so much meaning.”

Founded in 1767, Saint-Louis is France’s oldest glass manufacturer and has become celebrated for its classic silhouettes and quiet luxury. The work of van Eijk—an Eindhoven-based designer whose oeuvre ranges from furniture and lighting to glass—embodies a contemporary creativity and childlike wonder. So it was an unlikely, but fruitful, pairing when the two joined forces several years ago. Van Eijk released the first iteration of her Matrice collection with Saint-Louis in 2013, and added sparkling new vases to the 15-piece collection that debuted this spring.

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