Category Archives: Furniture + Lighting
DesignCraft Heroes: OHIO Design
No other way to put it: scheduling interviews is a pain. And of course, the hotter the designer/maker, the more they have going on and the tougher it is. And that’s generally understandable and not about ego: a big production … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Heroes and Heroines, SF Bay Area, Wood
DesignCraft Global: Paula Arntzen
What is it about the Netherlands? It’s barely larger than Delaware, and yet it’s such a major design powerhouse that it really does boggle the mind. Architects Rem Koolhaas/OMA and Concrete. Multi-faceted industrial designers/artists Tord Boontje, Hella Jongerius (so fabulous), … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Global, Textiles + Paper
DesignCraft Hero: Lee Miltier
Intensely passionate. Laid back. Profound. Droll. Poetic. Profane. Boyish. Masterful. Wildly talented. Driven. Zen. Serious. Fun. Lee Miltier, maker of glass, is a man of contradictions, but then who isn’t? We love that. And we love the studio. We’ve professed … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Glass, Heroes and Heroines, SF Bay Area
DesignCraft Heroes: Anzfer Farms
The outer-Outer Richmond is not the cool, edgy, chi-chi or even touristy part of San Francisco. No, this is deeply neighborhoody, everyday-guy-who-doesn’t-work-in-a-creative-industry San Francisco: no street-life, no Cowgirl Creamery cheese-purveying fauxdega on the corner, no industrial-chic buildings converted to swish … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Heroes and Heroines, SF Bay Area, Wood
DesignCraft Hero: Brandon Morrison of WhyrHymer
Wood. What comes to mind when you hear the word in the context of modern, contemporary furnishings? I bet it’s something like solidity, weight, simplicity, straight lines, sharp perfect angles, bringing forward the grains and materiality of the wood. What … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Heroes and Heroines, Los Angeles, Wood
DesignCraft Heroine: Anne Kirk
Obsession. For some people it’s designer cupcakes with all that crazy frosting. For me, it’s fabric. Put me in Britex (the ground floor, please, with the really good stuff) and in seconds I’m gorging on the experience: pawing away at … Continue reading
Gorgeous Woods
Cloudy, foggy Saturday + procrastination = opportunity to go through design mags (not unusual) AND scan images (less usual). Take a look at this delicious eye candy from an article entitled “Good Wood” from September’s Living Etc. magazine from the … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Noticed, Wood
DesignCraft Heroes: McEwen Lighting
Ask anyone who’s ever gone into a restaurant with me. The first thing I’ll remark on is the lighting (and this was before I started worrying about lighting being flattering–just imagine it now). If it’s good, I’ll relax, linger, eat … Continue reading
Filed under Design, Furniture + Lighting, Glass, Heroes and Heroines, SF Bay Area
Cisco Home
Looking to buy furniture in the SF Bay Area? It’s just not that easy, is it? (And that’s even if you’re working with a designer). There are the stores that do traditional, vintage, antique and all the wannabes in that … Continue reading
Filed under Accessories, Design, Furniture + Lighting, SF Bay Area, Stores we Love
DesignCraft Hero: Anand Gowda, Gravy Service
True confession. I’ve spent many years in and around the branding world, worrying (oh alright, obsessing) about names and logos and the concept of brand essence. So when I first came across Gravy Service, the name of furniture designer and … Continue reading
Filed under Furniture + Lighting, Heroes and Heroines, SF Bay Area, Wood
