The newest iteration of 3form’s Varia product line is a breakthrough, 100 percent recycled material called Flek Pure. Where the rest of the Varia line is 40 percent recycled, Flek Pure is sourced primarily from in-house waste, for a textured, terrazzo-like look. “We’re using manufacturing fall-off,...
Sure, the Bella Notte Linen 25th Anniversary Giveaway began accepting entries four days ago, but piffle! There’s the rest of this month to enter, and then most of October to boot. And there are incentives to enter more than once a day. “People can enter once a day through Oct. 28, and they have the […]
Architect John Marx is an artist at heart – and has been since the age of seven. In grade school, he was leafing through a career-discovery book, where he found descriptions for a doctor, a lawyer, and a soldier. But none for an artist. He did, however, find a description for an architect. So that’s...
Invited by the City of Los Angeles to participate in its Accessory Dwelling Unit Standard Plan Program, wHY Los Angeles delivered two basic solutions. One’s a one-bedroom, 500-square-foot unit. The other’s an 800-square-foot, two bedroom unit. Both can be pre-manufactured and lowered into a homeowner’s...
A new bath collection from Room & Board runs the design gamut from traditional to transitional to minimal. Founded in 1980, the home furnishings company was something of a visionary at the time – committing itself to artisan workers for most of its products. Today, they account for 90 percent...
A look back at the history of New Ravenna’s founding, at the makeup of its current staff, and the British Arts and Crafts movement has inspired a new collection of handcrafted mosaics. New Ravenna was founded in 1992 by artist and designer Sara Baldwin. It’s staffed mostly by women today. And the Femme...
Marilyn Henrion may be entering her ninth decade as a New Yorker, but she’s as prolific as ever. The 1952 graduate of Cooper Union was born in Brooklyn and has been living and working as an artist in Greenwich Village for the past seven decades. She’s a student of the urban landscape of New York...
In 2018, a couple of Seattle-based architects – one formerly with Olson Kundig and the other once with Heliotrope – bailed on the Pacific Northwest and headed east for Idaho. Eschewing the life of practicing architects, they embarked on a new kind of service-based business. It’s called Notion Workshop...
Harry Mark and Cody Clark, co-founders of RSM Design, operate at the intersection of graphic design and architecture. They work with firms like Rem Koolhaas/OMA in L.A., Diller Scofidio + Renfro in Las Vegas, and Snohetta in El Paso, developing brand narratives within the context of culture or history...
Before she founded Pillow Pops, Shani Moran was designing wholesale fabrics for fashion houses – and soaking up all she could about the industry. Then she spent two years designing fabrics and color palettes for a new line she calls Pillow Pops. It consists of 24 collections of pillows designed not just...
