by Studio Sixtysix | Jun 25, 2019 | Product Designers
It all started with a stack of wood. Russell Greenberg started design consultancy RUX Studios in 2008, taking on a balance of creative and client work when, a few years later, a light bulb went off. He was immersed in projects—including a design for a house that would...
by Mina Kalkatechi | May 24, 2019 | Designers
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 Stephen Gossett | May 22, 2019 | Furniture Designers
Milan’s famed Salone del Mobile fair can feel slightly overwhelming (300,000-plus attended and more than 2,000 exhibitors were on hand in 2019), but it remains a master class in design, showing how strong leadership and a bone-deep belief in collaboration and...
by Max Gunawan | Mar 26, 2019 | Product Designers
Jakarta-born, San Francisco-based designer Max Gunawan is the creative brain behind the book-shaped, fold-open Lumio light. He raised nearly $580,000 on an initial goal of just $60,000 in a 2013 Kickstarter campaign for his trademark product. In 2015 he appeared on...
by Ayla Angelos | Mar 7, 2019 | Industrial Designers
“What if we could enable others to see bacteria as a carrier of meaning, rather than a carrier of disease?” asks Stockholm-based designer Jan Klingler. For this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair, Jan exhibited a collection of Bacteria Lamps in the Greenhouse...
by Laura Rote | Jan 2, 2019 | Furniture Designers, Objects & Gear, Product Designers, Recommended
A contemporary step forward for classic, Scandinavian-style seating; avian-inspired vases from France; sleek, minimalist dinnerware and decorative ceramics out of Belfast, and more. Check out five of the best decorative-object and furniture designs to recently hit our...
by Colleen DeHart | May 7, 2018 | Designers
London-born, New York City-based designer Anna Karlin is first to admit she is doing exactly what she was meant to be doing. “It is my happy place,” she says. Karlin, a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, has no limits. She designs across multiple mediums,...
by Maia Welbel | May 1, 2018 | News
Tom Dixon, the British designer and innovator behind his eponymous interior design brand, has launched a slick new flagship store in King’s Cross, London. Dixon established his brand in 2002 after spending years welding salvaged steel into radical furniture. He now...
by Chris Force | May 26, 2017 | Designers, Furniture Designers
Maarten Heijltjes and Simon Akkaya run Waarmakers, a design studio in Amsterdam. There most recent work is the R16 which turns the pedestrian cardboard tube into a beautiful light. “Cardboard tubing is a strangely underrated material. Soft to the touch yet...
