In 2024, AD heralded the return of lacquer. In our April 2026 issue, cover star Athena Calderone was pictured leaning over an enormous burgundy-lacquered kitchen island, and in May, cover star Mark Grattan showed off his parrot green lacquer walls. Today’s collaboration between AD100 design firm Nickey Kehoe and The Lacquer Company brings the glossy finish down to a slightly more manageable scale, applying it to coffee tables, desks, trays, and tissue boxes. Nickey Kehoe founders Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe designed the 30-piece collection with The Lacquer Company founder James Lowther, drawing on antique furniture and objects the three have collected over the years.
Many of the pieces, as is often true of Nickey Kehoe’s in-house catalog, draw on the founders’ personal vintage collections. The Pastis side table is based on a bamboo folding table that belongs to Nickey. The Hugo desk is a Louis XVI–style writing desk, with tapered, fluted legs, brass details, and three soft-close drawers in a bright red lacquer. The colorways sound like a very civilized, French late lunch: cassis and lettuce green, carreaux and marine blue, khaki and chocolate brown. The Jules catchall tray comes with a matching tissue box cover for the powder room.
