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 Colleen DeHart | May 12, 2020 | Products
Walking down the halls of the Ercol furniture factory, less than an hour’s train journey from London in the small town of Princes Risborough, I get the sense that many of the people here are like family. The names of Ercol employees of more than 20, 30, and even 40...
by Sophia Conforti | May 6, 2020 | Insights
Seven years ago, when award-winning designers Kim Colin and Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility were designing Locale, a collaborative office furniture system for Herman Miller, they had another idea: tables. “We weren’t asked for tables, but out of that work we were...
by Laura Rote | Apr 27, 2020 | Products
When I talk with Brandon Jorgensen, senior designer for the Portland-based lighting and hardware brand Rejuvenation, he speaks slowly, choosing each word deliberately. I can tell he’s thoughtful, patient, that he’s the type of person who considers each decision...
by Laura Rote | Nov 12, 2019 | Products
When the design team at Cabot Wrenn develops new prototypes, they ask one simple question: “Would you have it in your home?” After an 11-month process creating Styrofoam and 3D printed prototypes, they answered with a resounding yes. One of their results is the Den...
by Margaret Poe | Nov 4, 2019 | Design
Most collections are sparked by an outside inspiration. It could be a historic chapel, an expressive watercolor, the waves of the sea at sunrise. That wasn’t the case this time for Christiane Müller. As the Amsterdam-based designer and partner at Müller she turned...
by Laura Rote | Oct 29, 2019 | Design
When JT Marino couldn’t return the $3,500 mattress he’d bought, he didn’t just get pissed off; he took a knife and cut into the damn thing to learn how to make it better. Advertisement JT had worked in Silicon Valley for years, helping tech companies build out their...
by Colleen DeHart | Oct 16, 2019 | Design
Charles and Ray Eames didn’t believe in waste. Growing up during The Great Depression and living through World War II, they knew what it was like to have nothing—to have to conserve to survive. But what the 20th-century designers also knew was how to find the...
by Haydee Touitou | Jul 22, 2019 | Design
If you went to high school in France in the early 2000s, you had to take a course called Technologie, our version of Home Ec where we learned to use a soldering iron, make a bike light, or—and I’m quoting the curriculum—appreciate “the evolution of objects through...
by Leonid Kaplun | Jul 18, 2019 | Design
Dmitry Reutov is used to starting over, driven by a need for change and self-improvement. He keeps a tight schedule as one of Moscow’s least awarded but most hardworking—and now highly sought after—interior designers since his Mexican-inspired Manhattan interior...
by Mina Kalkatechi | May 24, 2019 | News
For the past 30 years, the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has brought together leaders in the high-end design industry and showcased the newest and best in luxury furniture design. The fair is also a resource for thousands of retail buyers and...
by Tracey Ingram | May 22, 2019 | Design
Marcel Wanders is a busy man. Just eight weeks ago we sat in this very spot: the lobby of the Andaz in Amsterdam, a lavish hotel his studio completed in 2012. Since then he’s flitted between countries—mostly nearby, he says, playing things down, with the exception of...
