Sneakers That Channel Venetian Textiles

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A Subscription for Seasonal Bouquets, With a Checkered Vase

Left: the floral designer Karla Smith-Brown is selling bouquets and a limited-edition vase. Right: each vase is handmade by ceramist Elise Grace Wilken.Credit…Jenn Roberts/courtesy of Olivee Floral and Mellow

This spring, the Brooklyn-based floral designer Karla Smith-Brown, founder of Olivee Floral, launched a subscription service, offering eight weeks of seasonal, hand-tied bouquets each quarter. Her locally grown “ingredients,” as she calls them, are sourced from wholesalers in Manhattan’s Chelsea flower district; she is especially keen on dahlias, celosia, amaranth, chrysanthemums and grasses for her bundles this fall. With the idea of avoiding waste from single-use vases, Smith-Brown has collaborated with her longtime friend Elise Grace Wilken, the founder of the ceramics studio and Lower East Side pottery shop Mellow, to release a handmade vase decorated with Mellow’s signature checkered print that subscribers can add to their order for $195. (The Olivee bouquet subscription is limited to the New York City area, but the vase can be delivered anywhere in the U.S.) “It’s an heirloom object that you can have in your home beyond your flower subscription,” says Smith-Brown of the limited-edition piece, which she helped Wilken paint. Customers can order fall bouquets until Oct. 2; deliveries begin Oct. 4. From $195 for the vase, oliveefloral.com.

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In the Miami Design District, a New Hotel in a Century-Old Building

Constructed in the 1920s, the Moore Furniture Building in Miami has watched the land around it grow from a pineapple farm into the Miami design district. In 2005, the century-old landmark received its own contemporary jolt when the architect Zaha Hadid stretched a weblike sculpture across its four-story atrium for the inaugural Design Miami fair. Earlier this year, that installation and the rest of the neoclassical structure emerged from a renovation to become the Moore Miami, which comprises a new restaurant and private club that debuted this spring, as well as a 13-room hotel that opens Oct. 14. Most of the rooms are suites measuring at least 600 square feet. Living rooms are decorated with honeyed oak veneer paneling, sofas designed by Patricia Urquiola and tables and chairs made in Brazil by Sossego. Bedrooms feature walnut and linen beds fabricated in Portugal, and bathrooms are stocked with Byredo soaps and Dyson hair dryers. Hotel guests gain access to all the private club’s amenities, including exclusive dining rooms, a library and a late-night cocktail bar, sidestepping its $5,000 initiation fee (if only for the duration of a stay). Like the Institute of Contemporary Art two blocks away, the Moore also exhibits local and international artists, with a collection that includes photography from the Miami-based Harmony Korine and Rachel Lee Hovnanian, and abstract works by Cui Jie and Carlos Rojas. Rooms from $800 a night, mooremiami.com.

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Velvet Sneakers From Le Monde Beryl

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Since launching in 2016, Le Monde Beryl has become known for its sumptuous but practical flat shoes. The London-based brand initially channeled friulane, the Venetian footwear traditionally made from leftover fabric scraps and old bicycle tires, but has more recently released understated ballet flats in delicate satins and velvets alongside trendier mesh and studded Mary Janes and slippers. With all that soft stepping, it might seem surprising that Le Monde Beryl is moving into sneakers. But to co-founders Lily Atherton Hanbury and Katya Shyfrin, the trainers are an extension of Le Monde Beryl’s design ethos. “At the heart of it all is this idea of the freedom of movement,” says Atherton Hanbury. “With the gondolier slipper, there was the notion of functionality, of style being out of necessity. The sneaker is such an essential everyday part of most people’s wardrobe.” The new shoes continue the upcycled tradition of gondolier footwear with recycled-rubber soles, and further channel the Venetian spirit by incorporating velvet animal prints from Bevilacqua, the weaving workshop whose 18th-century looms date back to the Republic of Venice’s Silk Guild. “It has essentially become our signature print,” says Shyfrin of the velvet tiger pattern that the brand has also used in its slippers and Mary Janes. From $595 for satin styles, exclusive at Harrods; harrods.com. $705 for Bevilacqua velvet styles; lemondeberyl.com.