Art & Design Holiday Market
DECEMBER 6–30, 2025
Hosted at Isabel Sullivan Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Tribeca, New York, United States
Starting December 6, Isabel Sullivan Gallery in Tribeca becomes home to a new kind of holiday market. Co-curated by two women gallery owners, Lin Tyrpien of Lyle Gallery and Isabel Sullivan, ONNI – Art & Design Holiday Market blends the best parts of a pop-up, a design fair, and an art exhibition.
The Mission
The young gallerists’ mission is to offer an antidote to frantic holiday shopping – an experience shaped by the warmth and unique identity of the Nordic aesthetic.
ONNI is a New York experience that will hijack your Instagram feed and make you reconsider every gift you’ve ever panic-bought on December 23rd. Think pistachio-green walls, hygge vibes, a playground for pretty, witty, luxury objects. You can flip through prints, smell pine in the air, and interact with objects and our ONNI community.
Among the objects, you will find a wooden Wi-Fi modem cover so perfectly carved it turns the ugliest thing in your apartment into a conversation piece; a dollhouse-style clock that feels like Wes Anderson took up carpentry; or a glass popsicle that looks like it escaped from a very chic, very exclusive freezer.
Artworks
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Nordic Inspiration
Nearly a quarter of the artists come from Finland, the world’s happiest country. The concept was named after the Finnish word onni, which carries a heartfelt tone in Finnish culture. It translates to a state of happiness and contentment, the joy of a shared moment, or the pleasure in giving or receiving something meaningful.
Sullivan, who spends part of each year in Helsinki, was struck by the sophistication of Finnish holiday markets. She asked herself, what if a New York art gallery and a Finnish design market had a December baby?
“New Yorkers and Finns aren’t that different,” Sullivan laughs. “We both live on caffeine, most of us dress in black, and we pretend we’re unfazed — New Yorkers by whatever happens on the subway, Finns by the fact that the sun disappears for half the year.”
Sullivan continues, “I also learned that in Finland, collecting is actually a big part of the gift giving culture, whether it's a timeless piece of Finnish glassware that reflects the country’s deep design heritage, or the new line of Moomin mugs that come out every Christmas.”
Why This Moment Needs ONNI
In a year when the internet is so oversaturated with AI slop that even Vine is making a comeback as an act of rebellion, ONNI steps in like a physical “Hide AI content” button. At its core, ONNI celebrates the human traces of labor – the marks of carving on a wood stool, the urgency of rapidly applied brushstrokes, the gesture of an imperfect ceramic.
