TENET is an indie pop-up shop bringing men’s fashion to the celebrated skiing and shopping town of Aspen, Colorado. Offering both established and emerging labels, founders Jesse Warren and Josh Warren set out to open a lifestyle store for the high season. This proved to be no easy task, and it makes for a great [...]
Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch met in Hollywood – but later transitioned from designing movie sets to more permanent architecture. And the transition has clearly worked for them! Ten years after starting their architecture firm, recent projects include the Ace Hotel, the Breslin, The Standard, and a ground-up building at 211 Elizabeth St. (Scroll down [...]
From how humble and down-to-earth she is, you would never know that Grace’s site Design*Sponge currently has 43,000 daily readers. She’s a veritable force, managing a team of 10 editors at the same time as writing a book. But it certainly hasn’t gone to her head. Grace told us, “We’re all still sort of doing [...]
Fox News iMag came over to our headquarters and asked us some questions about our interior design – watch the video below.
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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. [...]
When we think cool wallpaper, we think Flavor Paper. They have funky prints, balls-to-the-wall colors, and even Scratch-N-Sniff wallpaper (below). We had no idea that they’re actually moving most of the company to Brooklyn. We met Jon Sherman, the company’s founder, in the Cobble Hill building that will be their new home, manufacturing facility, and [...]
Shanan Campanaro of Eskayel is the third designer we interviewed in our series on local wallpaper companies. Also a fine artist, Shanan derives her patterns from pieces of her paintings. And unlike the other companies we’ve met, Shanan’s paper is digitally printed, which allows her the flexibility of custom-sizing one-offs that will exactly fit your [...]
Katie Deedy from Grow House Grow! will be showing at BKLYN DESIGNS this year for the first time. Her patterns make you do a double-take. Subtle, hidden elements emerge the longer you look. Her new line is to die for – literally – inspired by historical characters who met shocking and untimely deaths. Are you [...]
Gearing up for BKLYN DESIGNS, which opens this Friday May 8th, we interviewed several Brooklyn-based wallpaper designers who will be participating in the show. Each of these designer/entrepreneurs has a different take on making wallpaper, and we found it fascinating to compare and contrast their companies.
First we bring you Jill Malek out of Cobble Hill, [...]
“Someone once said laughter is the best medicine. They’re wrong. Morphine is the best medicine.”
Dan Golden is the comic genius who said that. His rugs manage to be high-design and yet wonderfully non-pretentious. I love all the designs, and the people behind them are just as wonderful.
What were you doing before you started your company?
Ford: [...]
