What’s Happening: After a shocking and public collapse under its previous owners last summer, the furniture industry stalwart has released its first collection under a new owner.

The Download: Almost a year ago in late August, the namesake furniture company founded by Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams shocked the industry when it announced its abrupt closure. Founded by the duo in 1989, their leather club chairs and sleek sectionals became staple pieces for shoppers who valued form and comfort from their furniture. In March of last year, they drew New York’s cool-kid design sphere to the swanky Nine Orchard hotel to celebrate the launch of a 19-piece capsule with Rafael de Cárdenas. Come August, however, Stephens Group, the equity group that the business partners sold their brand to, suddenly laid off its 800 employees and announced that the brand would be “unable to continue operations.”

Three months later, the industry again pricked its ears when furniture and textile company Surya announced its acquisition of the ​​Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams IP, inventory, and manufacturing equipment. Now, the brand has soft-launched its first collection under Surya: a trade-exclusive lineup of its 50 most-loved sofas and accent chairs. As the brand inches towards a full relaunch with a new lineup of designs, it’s focusing on rehiring previous Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams talent and reviving production at its original North Carolina facilities.

In Their Own Words: “We have a lot of customers who’ve been waiting on the sidelines for these products to be back on the market, so instead of waiting for a full launch, we decided to get the sales team rolling and bring back 50 pieces that we know designers love,” Surya president Satya Tiwari tells Business of Home. “It’s difficult to go from zero to 100, so this is a way that we can restart our manufacturing and continue to ramp up to a larger product launch in the fall.”

Surface Says: Maybe the 4,000 customers with unfulfilled orders might get a long-overdue update.

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When Shanna Nasiri was seeking a more creatively fulfilling day job than her tech background afforded in San Francisco, she spent a few years learning everything possible about wine in the hopes of one day owning her own neighborhood bar. With the springtime opening of With Others on a bustling stretch in South Williamsburg, she finally realized her dream. As the name suggests, she leaned on some help from her community. The women-run hotspot’s nonchalant Japandi-inspired digs came courtesy of friends Homan Rajai and Elena Dendiberia of Bay Area firm Studio Ahead, who dialed back to the rough-around-the-edges Williamsburg of yore, before loft parties and artist studios gave way to Hermès and Michelin Stars. That’s largely achieved through soft-industrial touches like metal-mesh bar shelving and a timeworn storefront whose grime and patina were left entirely untouched, but wooden Fritz Hansen stools and John Gnorski’s cube-shaped washi lanterns lend some warmth.

Back to the main draw: the beverages. With Others offers an incisive list of carefully selected natural wines, emphasizing small-production, low-impact wineries. There’s something for all types of oenophiles, from sparkling, white, skin-contact, and red pours-by-the-glass to a bottle list of nearly 100 varieties that focuses on female vignerons. Enjoy them alongside bites by decorated chef Jay Wolman of nearby haunts Diner and Marlow & Sons, who concocted a tight menu of wine-bar classics like marinated olives, lemony crab toast, and seasoned almonds. The program beckons repeated visits and familiar faces—the wine menu will rotate every two weeks as Nasiri’s knowledge of other regions grows, and she plans to invite guest chefs from the area.

Minerals are both the medium and the muse for Jose Miguel Schnaider, the creative director of Mexico City design laboratory Sten Studio. With a shared intrigue for natural phenomena, his tight-knit team is always finding inventive new ways to incorporate stones and crystals into furniture and decorative objects, recasting everyday items like side tables and lamps as conduits of the divine.

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When: Until Jan. 6

Where: MAK Vienna

What: The Auböck family, pioneers of Austrian design for more than a century, are the focus of an exhibition showcasing more than 400 of their most influential creations from brass candlesticks to hand-shaped paperweights that highlight the workshop’s impact during the interwar, postwar, and experimental 1980s. The show also introduces the work of his wife, Mara Uckunowa, whose abstract textiles from the 1940s reflect strong Bauhaus influences.

Vitra is a Swiss furniture company known worldwide for creating innovative products with lauded designers. Vitra’s catalog includes furniture, lighting, and objects from mid-century titans Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard, and Jean Prouvé, as well as works from Antonio Citterio, Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Hella Jongerius. Vitra products are installed worldwide by architects and designers in living, working, and public spaces that inspire comfort and productivity.

Surface Says: The Swiss furniture brand’s eye for comfort, sleekness, and versatility makes it a standout in a crowded market of beloved brands. Through its collaborations with the industry’s top minds, Vitra goes the extra mile.

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