BDDW: Handmade American Furniture
Tyler Hays (painter and sculptor) is good. His company, BDDW, fuses the hard angles of modern design with an innate understanding of natural elements. Designed and manufactured with imagination an...
Tyler Hays (painter and sculptor) is good. His company, BDDW, fuses the hard angles of modern design with an innate understanding of natural elements. Designed and manufactured with imagination an...
Mondo Cane is a beautiful, high end modernist store in Tribeca. The store is a showpiece in and of itself, specializing in an eclectic selection of 20th Century design......
We spotted a white version of this Eero Aarnio Pastil chair at a Chicago Salvation Army a few years ago when we were furnishing our first apartment. We checked the price--$75--a little too much for...
Nick Dine, son of the painter, and Richard Shemtov were young designers who started this huge, airy modern store and company in 1996 and had firmly established themselves in the design world by 2000...
Desiron continues to provide extremely chic, modern and earthy furnishings that fit quietly into a wide range of rooms. While they tend to play it safe with style, their furniture is "real furnitur...
If you have ever felt like something was missing from your life, there’s a good chance you’ll find it here.......
Our recent house tour of Patrick and Julian's Montmartre loft showed a home full of high design that wasn't just for show. Like this adjustable Le Corbusier classic that the men use as a home gym in t...
Just 45 minutes from DC is the Old Lucketts Antique Store. When we first stumbled upon this while driving down RT 15, with all the stuff strewn all over their front lawn, we thought we were halluci...
Day 2 in Copenhagen is complete design immersion... first stop Normann Copenhagen. If the name doesn't ring a bell, think about those cool products you may have played with and possibly purchased at ...
Looking for a desk and willing to venture into the biggest smorgasbord of antiques on Atlantic Avenue? Horsemen Antiques is an old school bricks and mortar operation (no website) that has been on A...
This small shop in Williamsburg features a well-edited collection of vintage and gently-used furnishings and accessories. Located near the corner of Grand and Wythe, the shop's small footprint trans...
Over the holidays, I was in Colorado and despite the snowstorms, I was able to make it to Composition. This is a great modern design store in the newish Belmar shopping district, just west of Denver...
British designer Simone Brewster created the Warhol Sofa to provide the owner with the basic furniture to comfortably inhabit a single room. In addition to the sofa component, the timber, tyvek and...
Personal Shopper: Timeless Chairs:. The Saarinen Armless Dining Chair (left) is just one of an extensive number of mid century modern re-issues in contemporary fabrics and finishes. Room to Impr...
With a bentwood design and walnut veneer finish, this piece of furniture is exceptional for us humans. But think of how extra-special it is for Fido. Holden Designs' dog bed is a modern take on what...
This article at Point Click Home is a good read if you're on the market for wooden furniture and interested in going green with it. Recipe For Green: Wooden Furniture How to evaluate and buy green f...
Low to the ground and just squishy enough to be comfortable (while retaining its unique organic shape), the Flint family of ottomans from Dune Living offer the perfect place to tie your shoes. We'd...
We swung into ABC Carpet & Home yesterday to check out the new Blu Dot space and were surprised to find a small area on the second floor home to Tom Dixon's designs. In addition to his more popular i...
A childhood love of treehouses led Hyock Kwon to design this shelving unit, called Tree House My House. The bent-metal shelf at once stores books, provides a step ladder to its high reaches, and of...
Patrick McKeon is the Tibor Kalman of thrift shops... Ever since Housing Works introduced the concept of "Salvation Armani" in the mid-1990s, NYC thrift shops have been drifting upmarket. At Angel Str...
Super-Store. With a mission to "market and sell Scandinavian Design worldwide" we thought it was time to devote a store post to the online retailer Scandinavian Design Center. After all, we've poste...
Located in St. Louis' Central West End, The Home Port carries decorative objects, furniture, and lighting with an exotic flair. ...
Eastern Influence. We had a good time browsing through the DUMBO location of Jay East this past weekend. Imported Chinese furniture, artwork and decorative items fill the garage-like space. Stocking...
Stylish Accessories. We wish we would have known about Mothology when we answered the question, Where does one find Bell Jars? Mothology's collection of vintage-inspired decorative objects is a grea...
We'll always have Paris.... A young couple on their honeymoon return to Chicago from Europe. The year? 1962. With their arms full of beautifully designed and inexpensive housewares that have never ...