From the monthly archives:
Angela Adams, probably the most prolific designer of modern home textile products, has begun to offer select bed and bath items through Bed Bath & Beyond.
Many of her 300-thread count, 100% cotton sateen bed linens, including Lulu Mini (pictured), Spice, Ocean, and Argyle will be offered. Lulu Mini will also be available as a [...]
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Michael Tracz from Design Continuum is asking for our help: he is looking for a place that he and the 20 or so others from their West Newton office can get together and talk business. Not your typical boring, corporate meeting place (they are designers, after all), but a cool space with interesting [...]
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Boston-based architect, painter and author Jeremiah Eck FAIA will be speaking at the Worcester Public Library tonight. He will discuss “the importance of the principles described in his books ‘The Face of Home: A New Way to Look at the Outside of Your House‘ and ‘The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design.’” [...]
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Probably the wrong title for this one, since I didn’t actually go into the convention center where ICFF is going on today.
After waking up at 4:45, taking a 5-1/2 hour long bus ride into NYC, and making my way to Brooklyn, I finally got a chance to meet Catherine Halley, aka Scrappy Girl.
Instead of going [...]
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While researching my last post, the Google side bar linked me to Treeflights.com, a British company that plants trees for each flight you take. The amount of carbon release getting a plane to lift off is huge. “We plant one tree for each flight so that your trip gets greener – and a [...]
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knú is a new company, not yet but soon will be offering beautiful modern tables, desks, casegoods, and more in an environmentally responsible manner.
Dubbed “Inanimate motion in crisp, sustainable form,” knú’s pieces, like the knú desk 4 (pictured) have beautiful curves, using sustainably harvested, FSC-certified wood.
Not to be content with only using sustainable wood, knú [...]
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Julie Frith “friended” me on Curbly a few days ago. Frantically busy getting ready for ICFF and to go back to school starting next month, I didn’t have a chance to really look at what she’s all about until now. Julie makes custom mobiles.
Handmade from colored plastic (or foam) and stainless steel, these [...]
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Now here’s a company that’s right up mod*mom’s alley. nurseryworks makes contemporary furniture, bedding and rugs for, you guessed it, the little ones. “(Co-owners Traci) Fleming and (Kaye) Popofsky Kramer launched their company to provide clean, simple, and modern furnishings for creating the ideal first environment, a vision that reinforced the nursery’s relationship [...]
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Local sculpture (and program director and instructor at the Ceramics Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard) Nancy Selvage emailed me to let me know her work will be available to see for this [...]
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I was checking out brought to you by the letter L, and a cool little widget Lyn has to the right said something about scrap-wood skateboards. A former (or is it recovering from a life long addiction?) skateboarder, I was intrigued.
The widget directed me to Inhabitat, who featured Brooklyn-based Daniel Moyer’s FunkinFunction Skateboards. [...]
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