At Versace Home, Bigger & Bolder is Better

Over the years, the Versace Home collection has been hit-or-miss: for every spectacular silk sheet set or porcelain place setting, there's been a handful of less-than-stellar offerings. Lately, however, everything from the men's and women's clothing collections to the brand's image campaigns has been wrestled back into shape. A new, higher standard seems to be the order of the day.

Case in point: Versace Home is now collaborating with the world-famous Venini, an 85-year-old Murano glass making firm, to produce limited-edition bowls and vases. Like many Versace designs, they're not for everyone, but we like them a lot. For one thing, they resonate like original notes from the '80s, playing perfectly into that decade's current revival. They're also big, bold and brash enough to sweep snobbery aside. Sometimes, good taste is just a matter of muscle.

Big-Game and Moustache Suggest You Hang It Up

Next week, Milan's famous fashion brands will find themselves temporarily nudged out of the spotlight by a different designer crowd, as the world's biggest names in furniture design descend en masse for the Salone del Mobile. Of course, this being the age of Twitter, Facebook and other instagratification tools (did we just coin a phrase?), reports have begun to filter back before the show's official opening on April 14. FA2L loves these Micro clothing hooks (that's "microphone" in French) by Big-Game for Moustache. They hold hangers, of course, but it seems even easier to drape coats and bags over the padded heads. We hope they'll come in lots of colors, too, so entry halls everywhere can suggest rainbow gatherings.