Installation previews TASCHEN’S fall collection and selects seven wondrous books that we would like to add to our own personal libraries.  Explore the titles of artists, photographers, architects and luminaries and lose yourself inside the creative minds of Fritz Kahn, Oliver Byrne, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Zaha Hadid, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin and Peter Beard.       […]

Crafted with Icelandic sheepskin wool and reclaimed American oak boards, the Long Wool Sofa from Brooklyn based studio, SENTIENT, combines the hard and the soft in harmony.  The natural chaos of the wool hairs measuring 6″-8″ create a rich texture and airiness that is contained within the severe lines of the oak.         All […]

We first discovered Technogel® at the West Coast debut of the West Edge Design Fair.  While their advanced technology was new to us, the brand has been developing its unique gel since 2008.  The patented gel material alleviates pain and transforms sleep, so your days of counting sheep become a dream.         All images […]

22 Design Studio embraces the avant-garde sensibility so there is no such thing as an unconventional material.  Concrete is no longer reserved for paving the sidewalk but 22 Design Studio has conquered this unusual element and has created hand-made items ranging from time pieces, jewelry and writing tools.  If the writer’s dagger is their pen, the […]

a.gor.a architects see themselves as universal advisors facilitating a dialogue with the people they are building for.   Installation Magazine:  Your projects include temporary dormitories, schools and medical training centers in remote areas.  When was a.gor.a architects founded and what is your mission? a.gor.a architects: a.gor.a architects was founded in 2012 by Albert Company Olmo, […]

Liet Heringa and Maarten van Kalsbeek are beachcombers, with a preference for things which have been discarded or used up.  The basic material for the sculptures comes from jumble sales, auctions and rubbish dumps.  And for the last couple of years their primary source material has come from the Corso floats in the Netherlands’ Zundert […]