Studio Ahead, led by curators Homan Rajai and Elena Dendiberia, has created an installation for The Future Perfect titled 'The Houses Are Haunted by White Night-Gowns,' running as a satellite to the 12th edition of FOG Design+Art in San Francisco through January 25, 2026. The show features 13 designers who each produced unique bowls, displayed on a stacked arrangement of vintage furniture sourced from Berkeley-based Mid Century Møbler and San Francisco's C. Mariani Antiques, blending Scandinavian design from the 1940s–1970s with 17th–19th century antiques.
The exhibition matters because it deliberately evokes the pre-internet experience of in-person antique hunting and thrifting, offering a tactile, community-oriented alternative to digital shopping and hyper-curation. By juxtaposing contemporary craft with historical furniture, the show challenges the diminishing imagination of modern life—a theme drawn from a Wallace Stevens poem—and underscores the role of curators in creating layered, lived-in contexts that resist algorithmic consumption.