It's a sad series of events that lead to the following problem: Someone sees charm in an old house; sees the need to move in; sees the need for energy; notices a lack of electrical outlets; sees electrical cords all…
Continue Reading →Designer Sean Yoo's Opus Shelving recently made its way to the open arms of Design Within Reach, where its indoor/outdoor flexibility and lightweight building materials are making the piece's sexy sensibility even more desirable. Inspired by ancient Roman wall-building techniques…
Continue Reading →Otra Design makes me wanna do step aerobics. This could be subconscious, as I'm actually pretty certain that my mom had a Jane Fonda video in which the transitions from "warm-up" to "fat-blasting" looked a lot like the transitions used…
Continue Reading →Among my contemporaries, there seems to reside a belief that it is hard to make a good thing happen; good ideas exist by the bucketful, but the initiative to turn those ideas into something graspable exists in far smaller quantities.…
Continue Reading →In general, I am not into Rachel Ray. I like Giada because she's pretty to look at, Emeril because he's feisty, and Paula because she makes me feel good about eating butter straight out of the tub. Rachel just giggles…
Continue Reading →Max Lamb makes his furniture in nice ways. When I say "nice," I don't necessarily mean by way of hammer and nail (even though hammering and nailing are, by nature, quite nice). What I mean to infer by such word…
Continue Reading →Spear Collective member and personal favorite Grant Barnhart recently released a short-run print edition of one of his latest paintings, Horse(y) 1964. As part of Grant's latest set of work (which will be shown at OKOK in early November- we'll…
Continue Reading →57 Even, is killing it. At only 24 years old, the young designer specializes in logo, brand, web, print and publication design, as well as a fine arts combination of sculpture, painting, drawing and printmaking. Clients like Loreal Paris, Harley…
Continue Reading →Who says Cobrasnake and Merlin are the only nightlife photographers who get to swing bourbon and snap pictures? The polarbeer is the project of Gard and Bee, two Norwegian friends who apparently realized that hard-partying Scandinavians are still more attractive…
Continue Reading →Just a few months ago, Kovac Architects broke ground on the Sycamore House, a modern Pacific Palisades residence designed as the home of Principal Michael Kovac. Also to serve as a laboratory for the architecture firm's ongoing research into environmentally-conscious…
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