When I left my cozy marketing job in April to become a furniture maker, my friends and family were a wee bit baffled. And who could blame them? To me, a screwdriver was just a cheap cocktail and a j...
The Museum of Modern Art just opened a retrospective of the design work of Israeli-born Ron Arad. To display the work for the show, Arad himself created a huge stainless steel structure, named the Ca...
Artist Ryan Reggiani creates artwork that look and serve as functional furniture objects. Though shown in a gallery in Soho — Kate Werble Gallery — Ryan wants people to know that the obj...
The Ping Pong Door was a big hit on Ohdeedoh, but we wanted to make certain that all the New Yorkers saw this one too! I've longed for the room for a proper table tennis venue in my apartment &mdash...
The URBIA Furniture System from New York Architecture firm OBRA Architects is a modular, interior system that can be customized to include furniture, room dividers, shelving, storage and even stairs...
These stools were really nice. We met Chris Jackson in his booth, which was filled with more than a dozen of his Pythagoras Stools. Each stool is made from three pieces of powder coated steel and ...
They call themselves "young talented Seattle dumpster-diving designers" and their Scrap lights were the most aesthetically impactful design we saw at the entire show that used low impact materials. ...
This small collection of furniture is by the San Salvadorean team of Claudio Segovia and Jenny Menjivar, and it caught our attention from aisles away. Beautifully conceived of opposing forms and ma...
We spent forever in this booth. Not only did we chat for a long time with founder, Sheridan Coakley, we met and traded cards with Birgit Lohmann, founder of Designboom, and learned more about the c...
This was the brightest booth we saw! Another new entry this year, Cadee Wilder founded Kreme Life just last year and produces stunning wallpaper that is low VOC, eco-solvent, and designed & manufac...
We've always been drawn to Koi's thick leather chairs on wire bases that remind us of Eames or Saarinen. This year we found Koi's founders, Kirstin Jones and Adam Bottomley, out of their booth and ...
This one was so sweet! Lizzie Allen's booth was another refresher that reached back to childhood to do it. A young Brit inspired by a nostalgia for A.A. Milne and more innocent days, her bespoke wa...
This booth was a little confusing to source, but we met Florence Edmond from Martinique and loved her pillows as well as this amazing bedroom by Aboubakar Fofana of Mali. Both are part of AfriqueAu...
This was one of our favorite new booths. Andrew Moe showed off a super simple line of ash furniture, The Oslo Line, made of reclaimed lumber that had relatively low price points, compared to the su...
More amazing color and incredible patterns. This one is from Camilla Meijer, a Swede living now in London, who was debuting her new line of designs for shades, wallpaper and cushions. Her mission i...
Here's another debut collection from Brooklyn Designs — KWH is the work of Kai-Wei Hsu. This collection is distinguished by its warmth (a wide mix of wood species and stains) and precise const...
Here's another debut collection from the 7th Annual Brooklyn Designs — Bernardo Guillermo and Jude Heslin-di Leo make up Bear & Lion, a collection that is sleek and simple. Clean lines and...
The 7th Annual Brooklyn Designs saw a healthy mix of both established Brooklyn designers and some new faces making their debut appearances — Matthew Fairbank shared his debut collection of fur...
click thumbnails for larger pics I fell instantly in love with this cute little cabinet from Polish designer Marek Gut — it combines a modern aesthetic with traditional handmade woodcraft. The ...
click thumbnails for larger pics The amazing weather this weekend made it a great time to take a walk over the Williamsburg Bridge and check out the new VOOS Furniture store on North Third. Just west...
With Liora Manné, it's all about color, pattern and texture. Her vibrant designs now include upholstered furniture, rugs, lighting, pillows, wallpaper, textiles, home accessories and rugs......
April Guest: David Weeks Attendance: 115 AT Offline: The NY Design Meetup Thanks to everyone who came out Thursday night. We had our biggest crowd yet, as people filled Knoll's showroom to hear th...
click thumbnails for larger pics Perusing the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, we were immediately drawn to the work of Annapolis-based Joseph Murphy — his designs on display were of a mu...
There are a few pioneers of the modern-organic trend, and sculptor-turned tabletop craftsman Michael Aram is one of them. His flagship store in Manhattan, where the walls are made of cast aluminum ...
Droog, the Dutch design collective that paved the way for inspiring design in the early 1990s is opening a store on Greene Street in SoHo in two weeks. This will be the third Droog store, following ...
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