Period Correct

Designer Collabs Galore, Food52's Fire Sale + Quince Hits $10B

Three designer collabs worth knowing about, one beloved food media brand getting auctioned off for parts, and two very different bets on the future of DTC. Your weekly design digest, assembled so you don't have to doomscroll AD. Sarah is joined by co-host Elizabeth Kott (host of Too Niche, founder of Club Artist Way, fellow bravoholic) to cover: Designer collabs worth knowing: Athena Calderone's first-ever wallpaper with Calico ("Cadence," six colorways inspired by natural hides), Jake Arnold x Everhem window treatments (11 fabrications including Everhem's first-ever fixed panels), and Colin King's 35-piece "On Objects" collection at Zara Home ($80 to $2,800). Food52's $10M fire sale: Chapter 11 in late 2025, auctioned off in pieces — America's Test Kitchen took the media arm for $10.3M, Schoolhouse went for $2.2M, Dansk for $250K. A cautionary tale for the content-to-commerce playbook. Quince hits $10.1B: $500M Series E led by ICONIQ, valuation doubled in under a year, revenue past $1B. What their rise means for home goods. Plus: Perfumer H's £3.4M raise from Elixir 1 (former Aesop execs) and what it signals about the next wave of craft-forward brands. New episodes weekly. Follow @swike on Instagram and send us your hot takes.

Pharrell’s House, The Olympic Village + Travis Scott AIA?

In the debut episode of Period Correct, Ben Jones and Elizabeth Kott join host Sarah Weichel to break down the week’s biggest design headlines. From Pharrell and Louis Vuitton’s unexpected prefab house to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s ambitious Olympic Village plans, the group unpacks the architecture shaping culture right now. Plus: Travis Scott tells Rolling Stone he wants to study architecture, and we weigh in on the red carpet fashions for Wuthering Heights. Architecture, fashion, celebrity ambition, and the projects redefining taste—consider this your weekly design briefing. Welcome to Period Correct, hosted by Sarah Weichel, your go-to design digest covering the freshest stories in architecture, interior design, and pop culture moments driving today’s taste. Brought to you by Swike Media. For more Swike check out @Swike on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/swike/] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@swikedesign?lang=en].