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We’re excited to introduce Del Ray, a neighborhood grocer, café, and wine bar opening this fall on the ground floor of R...
06/11/2026

We’re excited to introduce Del Ray, a neighborhood grocer, café, and wine bar opening this fall on the ground floor of Ray Phoenix.

We wanted a neighborhood space that meets you wherever you are in the day. Friends coming over last-minute and nothing’s in the fridge? Pick up the ingredients for a decadent dinner and locally made ice cream for after. Working from home and short on time? Order a bite from the café or grab something homemade from the grab-and-go. Woke up feeling sick? Advil, tissues, Emergen-C, fresh fruit, and most of what you need to feel better.

We’re stocking high and low: the brands you grew up with right alongside exciting new local and emerging names in F&B. Del Ray will also carry the household basics you don’t want to make a separate trip for like pantry staples, personal care, cleaning supplies, and more.

Beyond the market, Del Ray is an all-day café that turns into a wine bar at night. Menu direction comes from an exciting local operator made in partnership with chef and tastemaker Pierce Abernathy, who joins as a Culinary Consultant for Del Ray. His seasonal, plant-forward approach will inspire the menu, along with a signature dish exclusive to Del Ray and “Pierce’s Picks,” a selection of his favorite pantry goods stocked in-store.

Opening alongside Del Ray is the second location of Studio 105, a rotating exhibition and cultural programming space co-curated by Sonya May Tamaddon, RAY founder Dasha Zhukova Niarchos, and creative director Suzanne Demisch. The inaugural show is a solo presentation of new paintings by a local artist whose work RAY previously acquired for the amenity spaces at Ray Phoenix.

More soon!

Creative Direction: Colby Mugrabi
Interiors: RAY Design Team, Colby Mugrabi, Parts and Labor Design
Product Curation: The Goods Mart

06/09/2026

He thought right angles made people anxious, so he built houses without a single one. Jacques Couëlle never trained as an architect; he came up through the antiques trade, selling stone and columns from crumbling French châteaux. Instead of blueprints, he would cover the ground in sand, have the future owners walk through their daily routines, and shape the walls around the paths they left behind. In the 1960s he built five houses this way into a hillside above Cannes, with no straight lines anywhere, granite boulders pushing through the walls, and every window facing the sea or the mountains rather than a neighbor. The most famous, Dragon Hill, is now an invite-only artist residency, and people who have lived in these houses say the curves quickly stop feeling strange and start feeling like the most natural shape a wall could take.

2nd Thursdays at Ray Philly are coming up! Join us June 11th for a night on North American Street: a full evening of eve...
06/08/2026

2nd Thursdays at Ray Philly are coming up! Join us June 11th for a night on North American Street: a full evening of events across our ground-floor studios from 5–9 PM at 1525 N. American St. Afterward, hop across the street to Wissahickon Brewing for a free drink.

is our official beverage sponsor for Studio 105. Gallery and talk attendees get a complimentary drink ticket, good across the street at the Wissahickon Brewing taproom. Family-owned in Philadelphia since 2015, they pour beer, wine, canned cocktails, and non-alcoholic options. This event is free and open to the public, so bring your friends and family!

Here’s what’s happening:

• Studio 105 & 104: and host a talk on Philadelphia’s ceramic history with , whose vessels are on view now in “Material Memory.” 6–8 PM.

• Studio 106: Volunteer Interest Mixer, 5–7 PM, covering Cleaning & Greening, Housing, and Community Development.

•Studio 108: brings a floral exhibit throughout the evening, a live DJ set by Tektite, and a hands-on floral ring activation with artist Thi Phan, building wearable floral sculptures by hand.

RSVP for Jordan McDonald’s artist talk and cocktail at the link in our bio. Hope you can join us!

06/04/2026

The best film interiors tell you who lives there before a single character appears. For Call Me By Your Name, interior designer Violante Visconti di Modrone had three weeks to turn an empty 17th-century villa into the Perlman family home, with one instruction from Luca Guadagnino: every object had to earn its place. In the entrance hall she hung an antique map, so the first thing anyone saw was a family that collected the world. Globes, paintings, and antiques from different countries and centuries filled the rooms, so no single style ever took over.

What film interiors do you still think about? Let us know in the comments!

Water in the desert is often deceptively close and still out of reach, held in the clouds above and the aquifer below. T...
06/03/2026

Water in the desert is often deceptively close and still out of reach, held in the clouds above and the aquifer below. That tension runs through Chaparral (2021), a sixteen-foot oil-on-linen painting by Justine Rivas in the fifth-floor living room at Ray Phoenix.

Chaparral is a common name for creosote, the drought-resilient shrub that covers much of Arizona. Rivas paints it in various stages of bloom beneath large clouds and dry mountains, using both plant and sky as linked sources of moisture in an arid land. The painting was first shown at gallery before coming to its permanent home now at Ray Phoenix. She received her MFA from UCLA and recently returned from Los Angeles to Phoenix, where she grew up. For her the creosote is familial as much as familiar, tied to a family that has lived in the borderlands since time immemorial.

Want to come home to Rivas’ painting? Ray Phoenix is now leasing with immediate move-ins available. Visit the link in bio to book a tour.

Photos by .jess.laird
Interiors by and the RAY in-house Design Team

A sunken living room, a fireplace lounge, and a communal kitchen, all on one level. The 5th floor at Ray Phoenix is the ...
06/02/2026

A sunken living room, a fireplace lounge, and a communal kitchen, all on one level. The 5th floor at Ray Phoenix is the building’s gathering place, meant to feel like an extension of home. It’s where you meet new neighbors, can cook for a crowd, or get started on a new book.

Ray Phoenix is now leasing with immediate move-ins available. Visit the link in bio to book a tour.

Architecture by
Interiors by and the Ray in-house Team
Photos by .jess.laird

Spring programming across Ray Philly and Ray Harlem included a private tour of The Studio Museum in Harlem with Shanta L...
05/27/2026

Spring programming across Ray Philly and Ray Harlem included a private tour of The Studio Museum in Harlem with Shanta Lawson, an ikebana and drawing workshop with Dylan Rose Rheingold and Corey Hucko of Collective by Corey, a bouquet making session at Ray Philly with Ori Floral Design, 2nd Thursday open studios at Studio 105, and more.

Thank you to everyone who joined and made these evenings what they were. Tell us in the comments what you want to see next!

05/22/2026

There is a glass house in the Brazilian rainforest where the trees grow up through the middle of it. Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian architect who moved to São Paulo after the war, built it for herself in 1951 on a forested hillside in Morumbi, before any road or neighbor had reached the lot.

She lifted the front of the house onto steel columns only seventeen centimeters wide, so thin they almost disappear against the trees. The main floor became a glass box floating in the canopy. In the center, she cut a square opening through both slabs and planted trees inside. The courtyard is glass on four sides and open to the sky. The trees continue past the roof.

The kitchen sits at the back of the house, separated from the public rooms, because she believed the private and the public should not share the same air. The rest of the floor is open plan, filled with her own bowl-shaped chair, pre-Columbian sculptures, Italian baroque paintings, and folk objects from northeast Brazil. Nothing was arranged by century or category.

She lived here for forty-one years. The same instincts shaped MASP, suspended on red beams over one of São Paulo’s busiest avenues with a public square beneath it, and SESC Pompéia, a steel drum factory she turned into a cultural center she wanted to feel like a neighborhood, not a museum.

The pool deck at Ray Phoenix sits inside a desert garden. Native plantings by AD100 honoree — olive trees, cacti, and d...
05/21/2026

The pool deck at Ray Phoenix sits inside a desert garden. Native plantings by AD100 honoree — olive trees, cacti, and desert grasses — surround rows of wood loungers, a built-in spa, and private cabanas shaded from the Phoenix sun. We designed it to be your at-home getaway: a sunset soak in the spa, a cookout with friends that runs past dark, or an afternoon spent reading with the Camelback mountains in the distance.

Ray Phoenix is now open and welcoming immediate move-ins. View our studios, one- and two-bedrooms, and limited collection of penthouses and multi-level residences at the link in our bio.

05/20/2026

Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence was created by some of important artists in France who spent over a decade building the museum for two friends who had lost their son.

In 1953, the Parisian art dealers Aimé and Marguerite Maeght lost their eleven-year-old son Bernard to leukemia. They represented Miró, Calder, Chagall, Giacometti, and Braque. A month after Bernard died, Braque visited them and told Marguerite to build a place where artists could work in the best possible light and that he would help.

They hired the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, who had built Miró’s studio in Mallorca. He designed it like a village: small connected buildings, courtyards, patios open to the sky. The roofs are two upturned concrete vaults, often read as the horns of a bull.

The artists built it with them. Miró spent twenty years filling a garden with ceramic creatures from his own mythology. Giacometti placed his Walking Man and Standing Woman in a courtyard himself. Braque designed the pool mosaic and a stained-glass window for a chapel they rebuilt from medieval ruins on the property. The chapel was already dedicated to Saint Bernard. Marguerite took it as a sign.

It opened in 1964. Ella Fitzgerald sang at the inauguration. Sixty years on, the artists’ children and grandchildren still hang the shows.

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