by Laura Rote | Jun 1, 2020 | Products
Clean lines, warm colors, and natural materials from all across Mexico—we spoke with six of our favorite designers across the country about their influences, from minimalism to personal experience. These are just some of their latest creations. Los Patrones “Los...
by Laura Rote | May 15, 2020 | Products
Massimo Buster Minale started out as an architect (he worked for Foster & Partners and others), but he had a serious eye for detail—beyond cool detail. He started building custom motor bikes with two friends in an East London Garage in his free time when word got...
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 Studio Sixtysix | Jun 25, 2019 | Design
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 | 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 Stephen Gossett | May 22, 2019 | News
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 | Insights
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 | Design
“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 | Products
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 | Design
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 | Design
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...
