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ICFF 2008: Vicki Simon Rugs

It's not often that you see high-end designer rugs with patterns based on a 10-year old's drawings, but that's exactly what "The Depths" line from Vicki Simon Rugs is. That they manage to be still be...

ICFF 2008: Rollout Custom Wallpaper

As the wallpaper trend continues to pick up speed, more than a few companies have started offering custom wallpaper. Rollout Custom Wallpaper, based in Vancouver, is doing one of the nicest jobs we'v...

ICFF 2008: MADE Studio Wooden Tiles

Portland-based MADE Studio makes beautiful wooden furniture. At this year's ICFF they showed their new line of wooden tiles along with several applications for them, our favorite being their tile bed...

ICFF 2008: Pod Bench from Isaac Arms Studio Furniture

One of our favorite things about ICFF was meeting small furniture designers. And one of our favorite pieces at the show happened to be made by one. Isaac Arms Studio Furniture is a one man operation o...

ICFF 2008: Bean Rockers from Knoend

San Francisco-based Knoend, whose slogan is "ecodesign for everyone", debuted their new line of ergonomic seating at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair. We loved the way the Bean R...

ICFF 2008: LinkLight from Pablo

Pablo, the San Francisco-based lighting design company, showed off their catalog of iconic modern light fixtures, including their well known Tube Top lamp, at this year's ICFF. What really impressed...

Western Interiors Design + Home Show
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At the last minute, we had to cancel our plans to go to the Western Interiors Design + Home Show. Luckily, Anj went and took photos. Take a look -- and don't miss her link to more pics on Flickr. ...

ICFF 2007: Ribbon Project's Flatware

Japan's Ribbon Project is obsessed with long twirly things. This design foursome works out of Imadate-Gun, in Fukui prefecture, which is known for ribbon production. In 2002 they took it upon themsel...

ICFF 2007: Kristofer Laméy

A few seconds after this photo was snapped, the man began jumping up and down. Why, you ask? We'll get to that after the jump. First, let us introduce the table stander. Kristofer Laméy is an Atlan...

ICFF 2007: Propeller's Picks, Part One

Branch Table by Harry Allen You probably know that Propeller was voted Best Furniture Store in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay. We got to know Lorn, the owner, during our Launch ...

ICFF 2007: Vincent Reardon

ICFF introduced us to Matt Pauk and Paul Tang, also known as Vincent Reardon. These young talents should take home the unofficial AT prize for innovative concept-driven furniture. As far as we can ...

ICFF 2007: Palo Samko

There's not a lot of craftsmanship at ICFF. By this we mean that in giant center brimming with beautiful furniture there's actually very little evidence of the designer's hand. Most of what you see i...

ICFF 2007: Diana Lin and Catherine Hammerton

These two designers are a strange pairing, and frankly the only thing they have in common is that they both received their design training in the current millennium. That out of the way, we can tel...

ICFF 2007: Hirohito Saito

Dressed to match his wares, Hirohito Saito presided over his exuberantly-colored booth like the Willy Wonky of fiberglass. His English wasn't great and our Japanese was even more wanting, but we ma...

ICFF 2007: CRU Wine Rack from Umbra

It's not often that a wine rack actually stops us in our tracks. But that's exactly what happened when we came across Umbra's CRU. Designed by Dennis Lin for the company's U+ Studio Collection, it...

ICFF 2007: Council

One of the most exciting things at ICFF was the launch of Council's first collection, "Optimism." Founded by San Franciscan Derek Chen (who we blogged here), the collection includes seating, tabl...

ICFF 2007: Lighting from Ameico, Perch, and Kim

A few of our favorite lights. Yes, lighting is our weakness. In particular, we have a fondness for ambient fixtures that are essentially glowing sculptures or small works of art...and there was no sh...

ICFF 2007: Pieter Van Tuyl and Robin Gray Design

If we were furnishing our dream house, the foyer would most likely include this gorgeous bench, from Dutch craftsman Pieter Van Tuyl, and a wool rug from Sante Fe's Robin Gray Designs, pictured belo...

National Stationery Show: Relish SF

While wandering ICFF earlier this week, we decided to pop into the National Stationery Show as well. The two shows were both held at the Javits Convention Center, and resulted in a lot of walking on...

ICFF 2007: Pablo

We had the chance to meet San Francisco's Pablo Pardo at ICFF. He was very enthusiastic about his newest lamp, the Nuve, which will be available this summer. ...

ICFF 2007: Talkin' Italian

Never shrinking violets, the Italian section had a lot to say at ICFF, and it was all very flirty, happy, and sensual. Missoni Home showed off their trademark color- and pattern-celebrating seatin...

ICFF 2007: Mike and Maaike & House Creatures

San Francisco's Mike and Maaike's booth included their Windowseat Lounge. We can see it in a commercial setting, such as a hotel lobby....

ICFF 2007: Eazy Bean

FatBoy be warned: Eazy Bean, Francoise Sejourne's San Francisco-based company has been making sustainably-constructed bean bag furniture for more than ten years, and she was showing some new natur...

ICFF 2007: Thout Design

Deck the walls! That's the phrase that came to mind as we entered the booth of ICFF newbie Thout Design. This just-launched Canadian design group was showing their UtiliTILEs, a line of beautif...

ICFF 2007: Grey Design Studio

There was a lot of cool lighting at ICFF, but these lights from Seattle's Grey Design Studio caught our eye. ...