I’ve been pleasantly surprised lately by the interesting things that Urban Outfitters sells in its homeware section. America’s hippest chain store is introducing some emerging young designers and artists to a huge market across North America (I counted 123 locations in the US alone), which seems to me a win-win situation for everyone.
Like these [...]
The title of this post refers to one prodigious doodler (Jon Burgerman) and two innovative furniture designers (Dan Ziglam and Elliot Brook of Deadgood), all of them British. I first saw Deadgood’s debut range at the ICFF this year and introduced Elle Deco readers to it here. Now they are getting ready to unveil their [...]
This weekend, the Makers Market introduced me to a few designers in the New York City area, and further afield, whose work I was not familiar with.
The market, held in Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens blew in a breath of fresh air – as well as a thunderstorm like no other – [...]
Deger Cengiz, who calls himself “DC” for short, is co-owner of a new furniture store, Voos, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Trained as an architect, DC is also a designer of quirky conceptual pieces that fall somewhere between furniture and art.
The chaise-lawn is an amended wheelbarrow planted with sod grass.
The table above was created when DC sprayed [...]
Tall, thin pics in today’s post – suitably enough, as I’ve got a tall, thin building to tell you about! The Modulightor Building in East Midtown, Manhattan, is on the list of buildings I’ve probably rushed past, without realizing I was passing by a design icon.
It was designed by modernist architect Paul Rudolph in 1989, [...]
