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Stillmade Debuts the Collaborative Series With Four Artists + Designers

Design Milk

The Brooklyn-based manufacturer and designer has been a leader in the American furniture manufacturing industry for the past decade. Along the way they’ve consistently provided small, emerging designers access to production that’s generally reserved for big brand names and large manufacturers.

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Mud, Water, and Heat Combine to Add Tactile Beauty to Terracotta Collection

Design Milk

Australian New Volumes’ approach to furnishings and objects could be surmised to be one in response to the diminishing presence of the natural, textural, and the imperfect – designs defined by a materiality serving modern living innately attuned to the earthly elements.

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Artists demonstrate how to grab attention at the world's biggest design event

Creative Boom

Hideki's team also crafted sculptures that surround the car, which are physically identical but use internal lighting with different textures to represent the idea of personalisation. To some, this might sound like a lot of marketing spin, and you might think: what is a car manufacturer doing commissioning expensive artworks?

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Carlos Miranda on how an engineering background made him the illustrator he is today

Creative Boom

I grab inspiration from organic shapes that I find in nature or textures that occur in manufactured things over time through erosion," he says. I began to think of ways to use this texture and tried to find a purpose for it because I really liked it. "I

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Childhood Geometries Are Elevated in the BLOC Collection

Design Milk

Wedge Chair + Cube Chairs “I wanted to create something both playful and sculptural yet familiar and nostalgic,” says Chao, founder of From: C. There’s a playful lightheartedness, yet sculptural geometric purity, associated with the shapes that I wanted to celebrate.

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2024’s Best of ICFF, WANTED + Launch Pad: From Collaboration to Sustainability

Design Milk

Available in four silhouettes, the vessels emulate a surprising visual warmth through texture and color, and can be utilized as seating, tables, and planters. The base of this furnishing is made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic with manufacturing in both Australia and the United States.

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Meet Arper’s New 2023 Collections That Inspire Beauty, Energy & Vitality

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Manufactured to last, Aava 02 should be around for generations to come. L-shaped recycled polypropylene legs give the modules a light, sculptural look and access for cleaning underneath. Doshi Levien’s collection provides essential shapes with a sculptural touch that are finished with attention to surface and texture.