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If you’re interested in design (which there’s a high chance you are if you’re reading our site!) DesignPublic.com is a place you need to know. It’s well designed, incredibly easy to use, and carries a huge selection of the most interesting designer home goods out there. For those of you that aren’t complete design junkies [...]

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Fair Folks and a Goat is an incredibly ambitious project that lands somewhere between a design boutique and a cultural center. Their spaces are meticulously curated, with everything for sale. We took a pilgrimage up to their New York space see to learn what it’s all about, and it’s safe to say we’re completely enthralled. [...]

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After a long hiatus, our interviews with creative entrepreneurs are BACK! We’re super excited to share advice and stories from the best and brightest creatives we can find. This week we sat down with Lauren Stern, a NYC-based interior designer who started her own design firm three years ago. Her work is gorgeous. She walked [...]

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We interviewed the founder of Model Citizens last year, when the show was it its infancy. Even in its first year, in a basement gallery near the Javitz center, it was an extraordinary success, showcasing work from young designers. This year, Model Citizens has grown tremendously. In a huge gallery, gleaming white walls and natural light, [...]

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Come to our show! We’ve curated an offsite event at ICFF this year, with 15 participating designers. More at uncomfortabledesign.com. We believe it’s the role of creatives to start the uncomfortable conversations that cause people to grow. “A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing [...]

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IT’S OFFICIAL – NY DESIGN SEASON IS HERE. We went over to DUMBO yesterday to check out BKLYN Designs, which every May is the event that kicks off a flurry of design and furniture shows. BKLYN Designs goes all weekend, and we highly recommend going to check it out! Here are our top picks from the [...]

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Before starting Wintercheck Factory, Kristen Wentrcek worked on a construction site in Tribeca managing a spiffy real estate development project. She dug the architecture, design and humongous machines but could pass on the loan requisitions, punch lists and filing. So she quit her job and started her own company! We’re big fans of her work [...]

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Picture a massive building, with shelves upon shelves filled with incredible pieces of furniture from every modern era, like a mashup of some design history textbook. On our recent trip to Chicago, we had the honor of meeting Richard Wright and touring his auction house. Only one thing topped the tour, and that was hearing [...]

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Francois started UM (short for Users & Makers) with a mission – to celebrate the craftmanship behind great design. In Francois’ words: “In music, the musician plays the instrument. But in design, as soon as you start to touch a tool, you become instantly downgraded. You become a nobody. That’s always baffled me.”They are last, [...]

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Over the course of this interview, Matthew Fairbank coined the terms “academically roofied” and “wood nerds,” making him my new linguistic hero. On top of having a brilliant way with words, he also has a brilliant way with bandsaws, and wood, and metal, and lacquer. One of the reasons we started our blog was because it [...]

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I ended up at a party at VOOS the other night, on N 3rd St. in Williamsburg, and felt like I’d just walked into some strange alternate reality. This huge space that I’d never seen before was filled with designs by many, many of the people we’ve interviewed. Takeshi Miyakawa’s Fractal 23 cabinet was there. [...]

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It was a great honor to visit Takeshi’s studio last week and interview the master himself. His architectural background mixes with an interest in pure geometry, impeccable craft, and poetic concepts, leading to furniture that is completely fresh and absolutely unlike anything else. Rite of Spring cantilevered storage by Takeshi Miyakawa The Rite of Spring piece you [...]