by Britt Julious | Nov 24, 2021 | Work
“Each time I wake up in the morning, today cannot look like yesterday,” Delphine Diallo tells me. “That is my first mission.” On this early afternoon in her home and studio, Delphine is deep in the trenches of many assignments and commissions. There is the collage...
by Suzanne Wales | Nov 22, 2021 | Work
It’s just past lunchtime in Berlin when Lilo Klinkenberg finishes doing what she does nearly every morning. “I am looking for a big tree to bring to a shoot next week. So I was outside Berlin looking at trees. It was a lovely start to the day!” She bursts out laughing...
by Christina Elia | Nov 15, 2021 | Work
Eric Hu is in his element when he welcomes me into his Brooklyn studio. Dressed all in black, the creative director and typographer walks me through his white-walled space with quiet determination until we find ourselves inside a room so full of niche books and...
by Laura Rote | Nov 11, 2021 | Work
It’s early morning on the northwest side of Amsterdam when Najla El Zein packs up her bicycle and pedals the short distance from her home to her sculpture studio. There, inside the airy space, she is making sense of the world with her hands in clay, making models for...
by J. Livy Li | Nov 4, 2021 | Work
“Up here there’s a farmers’ market and this fishmonger that I really like, so I’ll just ball out on seafood and prepare fine meals,” Michelle Zauner laughs. When I call her she is on break after weeks of touring; the writer and musician has had an incredibly busy...
by Laura Rote | Oct 28, 2021 | Work
“I love working on nursery projects,” says Kathy Kuo, CEO of Kathy Kuo Home. “It’s a space where you can play out all your childhood fantasies for your newborn, and take risks that you wouldn’t typically take in the rest of the home.” Earlier this year Kathy...
by Chris Force | May 3, 2021 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
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...
