by Cat Nelson | Apr 25, 2021 | Work
“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 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
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 | Work
“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...
by Chris Force | Jan 6, 2021 | Work
“I have a very creative mind. I don’t sleep much,” says Dave Kindig of Kindig-It Design, a premium custom car shop and the subject of the reality TV series Bitchin’ Rides, now in its seventh season. Dave built a special ’58 Lincoln Continental named Maybellene. “It’s...
by Laura Rote | Jan 5, 2021 | Work
Touré is almost always writing—for his Touré Show podcast or working on his new book, an oral history of Prince, or in the midst of a movie script or TV show. He was quite literally working on all of these projects when I spoke with him in November. “Writing is a...
by Lark Breen | Jan 4, 2021 | Work
In a time when public bathing is rapidly diminishing in popularity, designer Jo Nagasaka took on the task of modernizing a local sento, or Japanese bathhouse, called Koganeyu. Advertisement Jo’s imaginative work engages tradition and contemporary style in one space....
by Sophia Conforti | Jan 1, 2021 | Work
“I’m not interested in the neutral object,” says American designer Johanna Grawunder. What she does find intriguing is the experience. “Experiential design is the perfect way to meld architecture, industrial design, lighting, and furniture into what’s really...
by Laura Rote | Dec 31, 2020 | Work
Part house, part art gallery. That’s the premise behind JARtB House, architect Billy Kavellaris’ family home on a tree-lined street with an eclectic mix of housing typologies in Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 2020, JARtB House is an acronym for all the members of...
by Laura Rote | Dec 30, 2020 | Work
Xiaopeng Yuan spends his days living and working in Shanghai, splitting much of his time between taking photos and importing books. The 33-year-old is the cofounder of Same Paper, a self-publishing book and photography studio that started as a blog to share Xiaopeng...
