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Curiosity Shop: A Multipurpose Room in a NYC Loft
NYC architect Dash Marshall was commissioned to design a "room within a room" in a Tribeca loft; in the process, he created an era within another era. Comprising one floor of an 1890s warehouse, the...
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5 Essentials: Smoke Alarm Roundup
Rumor has it that industrial design-rock star Yves Behar is working on a design-worthy smoke alarm. In the meantime, we embarked on a search for attractive alternatives to the ubiquitous smoke alarm....
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The Bathroom Plunger Reimagined
Old form meets new material in the light-hearted line of bath accessories by American industrial designer Josh Owen for Kontexture. Based on the classic shape of the bathroom plunger, the new WC Line...
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LED Light Roundup Desk Lamps
While pulling all-nighters during my grad school years, I managed to melt the corner of my computer screen because of an overheated incandescent light bulb. Thanks to LED bulbs, I no longer have to...
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Radical Downsizing: High/Low Mini Kitchens
There's something seductive about the idea of radical downsizing; the idea of living with less, a la Thoreau. Here are a few kitchens for the deaccessonists among us. Above: Kitchen as Rubik's Cube:...
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Industrial Manufacturing Meets Modern Design
Located in Wolverhampton in the UK's West Midlands, a British design duo relies on the rich industrial and manufacturing heritage of the area to create a line of Old-World-Meets-New-World products....
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Light Box: A Notting Hill Remodel
Imagine completing a renovation and discovering that your architects had installed a system for flooding your living space with light, in a manner worthy of James Turrell? We’d think we got our...
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Silence Is Golden: Problem-Solving Acoustic Curtains
Why has no one thought of this before? Translucent, lightweight sound-absorbing curtains, for subduing the sounds of traffic and street noise. Textile designer Annette Douglas developed her Silent...
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DIY: Vintage Book as iPad Cover
Luddites with furtive iPad addictions, take note: Canadian artist Sally Scott, cofounder of soon to launch Shim Co. and one of the most creative women we know, has created an iPad cover from an old...
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Camping Comes Indoors: New Furniture from Copenhagen
The name "camping" doesn't quite do justice to Normann Copenhagen's camping furniture series. Designed by Jesper K. Thomsen, the pieces are made from molded beech wood and webbed leather and...
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High Style Camping Gear from Japan
We've written (and raved) about Japanese lifestyle company Snow Peak before. Founded in 1958 by Japanese mountaineer, Yukio Yamai, the company has made a name for itself by making beautiful things for...
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Stalking the Wild Mushroom
Master Finnish knifesmith Veikko Hakkarainen is probably out gathering bark from Lappish birch trees right now—as he does every midsummer during "Bark Month"—to use for the handles of his handmade...
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A High-Style Basecamp in Tahoe
Forget camping: We're staying at the Basecamp Hotel in South Lake Tahoe next time we head into the wilderness. Basecamp Hotel’s co-founders Neils Cotter and Christian Strobel didn’t have to look far...
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A Woodsy Cabin in LA's Hippest Neighborhood—$95 a Night
Discovered on The Common Pursuit: A rustic cabin in Echo Park worthy of Henry Thoreau. Photographer Brian Ferry of The Blue Hour spent a week there recently and has this to say: "I had my coffee in...
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LA's Favorite Shop Keeper
Photographer Leslie Williamson would not normally go scouring flea markets, but for Garrett she did. The Garrett in question? Garrett Colton, owner of ST&NDARD GOODS in LA. Put it down to an eye...
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Required Reading: An Elegant Wilderness
Unassailable wealth and stealth luxury often go hand in hand, and 19th century railroad tycoons, mining magnates, and financiers (think Guggenheims, Vanderbilts, and Morgans) were no different. Their...
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A Cutting-Edge Camp Chair, Made in LA
French-Colonial-meets-LA-patio in the latest design from Gabriel Abraham of Ateleir de Troupe. The LA set designer has added the Bivouac Lounge Chair to his small but growing repertoire of furnishings...
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5 Essentials for the Retro Camper
This week we got a behind-the-scenes look at Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom, courtesy of the set designers, and admired characters Suzy and Sam's vintage camping accessories. For...
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A Seattle Shop with a General Store Vibe
From Nicole Miller, the owner of Blackbird (one of Seattle's edgiest clothing shops), the Field House in Ballard is modeled after general stores "that were once at the heart of rural towns." The Field...
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The Architect Is In: A NYC Firm Answers Your Questions
We've been admiring the work of Messana O’Rorke for a while now; this weekend, the firm is on call to answer your questions about the firm’s adaptive reuse of a water tower in New York city for a...
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