by Grace Perry | Apr 30, 2021 | Studio Tours
Standing in a room of 15 souped-up vintage Porsches, I had to ask the obvious question. Does Magnus Walker ever get speeding tickets? “Yes I do,” Magnus replies, a bit of rebellious pride in his voice. He got his most recent speeding ticket on the Angeles Crest...
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 30, 2021 | Studio Tours
“I’m the opposite of Marie Kondo,” writer Anne Lamott says. “I believe that an incredibly clean desk is a sign of being stuck, but of course everyone has their own way of making a desk safe or comforting for them. I like piles of paper, and I like notes everywhere.”...
by Grace Perry | Apr 26, 2021 | Studio Tours
Heidi Garner needs a bit of warm-up to tap into her creative flow. Light floods the 14th-floor DUMBO apartment she calls home, where she lives with her husband, writer Zeb Wells, and their three cats, Marshall, Cubby Bear, and Tweaky. An ideal morning includes a bit...
by Laura Rote | Apr 22, 2021 | Studio Tours
“I’m stubborn, and I enjoy repetition.” That’s ultimately how author Viet Thanh Nguyen was able to take home the Pulitzer Prize, writing every day and trudging on for nearly 20 years even in the face of countless rejection letters (he got 13 in one day for what would...
by Chris Force | Dec 25, 2020 | Studio Tours
Dominic “The Shoe Surgeon” Ciambrone is a high-end shoe customizer. If you’ve not heard of that profession before, it’s likely because Dom largely created the genre, taking name brand gym shoes and skillfully customizing them. His work can easily cost into the six...
by Chris Force | Dec 22, 2020 | Studio Tours
“It’s complicated,” says Paul Wraith, the chief designer behind Ford Bronco. This is not the answer I was looking for. I had asked, in a long, meandering, chat-cast kind of way, essentially this: “So, how did you create the all new Ford Bronco?” Dumb, I know....
by Chris Force | Dec 17, 2020 | Studio Tours
The first thing you notice in Nicole McLaughlin’s Brooklyn studio is a giant rock climbing wall setup. “Yes, I have a fully functioning rock climbing wall, which seems a little bit extra,” she admits. “But if I need a break it’s nice to work out and do a couple of...
by Mikenna Pierotti | Dec 16, 2020 | Studio Tours
Bookmaker Irma Boom’s Amsterdam studio is on a tree-lined street bathed in dappled light. There she owns a pair of stately brick townhouses bridged by an eclectic three-story structure composed entirely of glass, concrete, and steel. One-part studio, one-part library...
by Laura Rote | Dec 14, 2020 | Studio Tours
“If there’s an abundance of something, share it.” That seems to be the guiding ethos of Dario Calmese—artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, and podcast host, to name a few of his roles. Dario is working on bringing some big plans to life when I talk to him from his...
by Grace Perry | Dec 11, 2020 | Studio Tours
The way things look and feel can profoundly shape the way we interact with them. Take, for example, Yves Béhar himself. Yves has the understated, California cool style typical of Silicon Valley types, a sneakers-and-jeans-at-work kind of vibe. His aesthetic pairs well...
by Grace Perry | May 27, 2020 | Studio Tours
“I was influenced somehow or another by doodads,” art dealer Rhett Baruch tells me, utterly sincere. “Doodad,” by definition, means (literally) nothing. It’s a placeholder for words we cannot recall, like a gizmo, a whatsit, something Ariel would collect in The Little...
by Haydee Touitou | May 15, 2020 | Studio Tours
“A lot of money is spent on modeling clay.” It’s one of the first things Ronan Bouroullec tells me when I ask him about the way he, his younger brother Erwan, and their dozen assistants work in the design atelier in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris. “We’ve...
