Quick Hits: A Zebrawood Sideboard, Pedal-Loomed Place Mats, and a Limited-Run Herman Miller Poster

Welcome to the latest installment of Sitting Pretty: Quick Hits, a monthly roundup of covetable furniture, decor, and objets d'art from one design-obsessed writer.

Steve Frykholm Watermelon Picnic poster

When Steve Frykholm joined Herman Miller in 1970 as the furniture manufacturer’s first in-house graphic designer, his first assignment was to produce a poster for the company’s annual summer picnic. For the next two decades, he illustrated everything from dripping ice cream cones to icy lemonade glasses and fully loaded hot dogs for the canonical series, which eventually made its way into several museum collections, including MoMA. Herman Miller just brought back Frykholm’s mouthwatering watermelon print from 1971—his second in the series—in a limited run, using the original screen in Michigan.

$895 via Herman Miller 

Jack Cartwright for Founders Furniture sideboard

Before founding his eponymous company in 1963, Jack Cartwright spent nearly a decade as head designer at the quintessential midcentury Founders Furniture Company. Much of his work there paired walnut with unexpected and elegant materials: cork, leather, and in the case of this wonderfully restored six-drawer sideboard—zebrawood.

$2,950 via Etsy