by Chris Force | May 3, 2021 | Design
Jannik is a 24-year-old German student pursuing his master’s degree in business law who happens to have perhaps the oldest streetwear influencer in Europe as a grandfather. In 2014, bored and on a whim, he asked his grandfather, retired glassmaker Alojz Abram, to try... 
by Laura Rote | May 3, 2021 | Design
When David Karásek looked around the mmcité warehouse at stacks upon stacks of wooden cutoffs—scraps so small other manufacturers would throw them out—he knew something beautiful could be built from them. He just wasn’t sure what. The sustainable street furniture... 
by Samantha Stevens | Apr 30, 2021 | Design
In traditional Taoist philosophy, man and nature are closely related. Yuan Yuan draws on this unification in her furniture. “Nature is the source of all beauties,” she says. “I hope to convey this graceful connection of man and nature through my work.” Yuan Yuan says... 
by Chris Force | Apr 29, 2021 | Design
After a 230-plus trophy career racing motocross Dirk Oehlerking changed the format of his passion for motorcycles—he went from racing them to customizing them. Since 1985, when he became the German champion and went to the World Cup in Spain, he’s built Harleys,... 
by Laura Rote | Apr 28, 2021 | Design
In the 1980s, when conformity was the rule of law in China, young Ying Gao got a glimpse of deviation from the norm at a Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in Beijing. “At that time I didn’t know what was beautiful, elegant, refined. I didn’t know that vocabulary, but what... 
by Rachel Mendelson | Apr 28, 2021 | Design
Growing up in Dalton, Georgia—the “carpet capital of the world”—Trish Andersen never thought she would do anything with carpet, until a friend sent her a video of people making rugs with a tufting gun in India. “It was like a Kismet moment,” she says. Trish packed up... 
by Cat Nelson | Apr 25, 2021 | Design
“There’s nothing usual about a usual day,” Rossana Hu tells me. I’ve asked her to run me through her routine, but from what I can gather, the only typical thing about a day for the cofounders of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is there’s barely a moment to... 
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 24, 2021 | Design
For Mimi Jung, an artist whose practice centers on handwoven tapestry and sculpture, her work is often biographical, formed by her psyche and landscape. She splits her time between LA and Montana, where she’s building a new studio on nine acres of lush wilderness—an... 
by Laura Rote | Apr 23, 2021 | Design
Daniel To and Emma Aiston have been partners in work and life for 18 years. Today they work from home in their back garden studio in South Australia. “It’s far enough from our main home to make it feel as though we are going to ‘work’ but close enough to enjoy all of... 
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 22, 2021 | Design
Born in Örebro, Sweden, Camilla Engstrom never thought she’d be a painter. “I was introduced to drawing and watercolors by my grandfather when I was a kid. He was super encouraging and told me I would one day become an artist,” she says. “I thought he was wrong, as I... 
by Laura Rote | Apr 22, 2021 | Design
Utharaa L. Zacharias and Palaash Chaudhary met in New Delhi when they were studying product design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. “We were rarely in the same circles, but at a desperate moment with a term paper, Palaash approached me for help, and we... 
by Chris Force | Jan 8, 2021 | Design
“I’m always in a three-piece suit,” Niels van Roij says. “They’re tailor-made with fabric from cars I’ve worked on.” The 36-year-old designer’s studio specializes in coachbuilding, a throwback to the days when cars were sold as a rolling chassis and the body was... 
