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At Home With… Tiffany Porter
Who: Tiffany Porter, Owner of Old Hollywood Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: 1-Bedroom Railroad Apartment WC: How long have you lived in the space? Tiffany Porter: Right at a year. WC: What did it look like when you originally moved in? TP: Pretty scrappy. My landlord loves to just haphazardly throw linoleum down so the floors were caked with layers of linoleum I had to rip up and the walls were all a light yellow/orange, or white. WC: So you did all this work yourself? TP: I did. [...]
Suki Cheema
Suki Cheema Home is a collection for sleeping and living – including hand crafted pillows, quilts, throws, napkins and tablecloths. A love affair between art, travel and textiles, the range is inspired by Cheema’s travels through India. Having taken hundreds of photos and translating them to prints, Suki caught the attention of Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren – all of whom enlisted his talents for color textiles print making. After meeting Diane von Furstenberg in 2002, Suki [...]
At Home With… The Objectionists
Who: Jim Dreitlein (architect), Justin Smith (architect), Serban Ionescu (architect), Narek Gevorgian (illustrator) and Eric Juron (another architect) Where: Greenpoint, Brooklyn What: 5-Bedroom Loft WC: How long have you lived in the space? Objectionists: We've been here since August first, but we didn't sleep inside the structure until it was complete, which was in December of 2009. It felt like a strange ritual to sleep outside of it, surrounding it... WC: What did it look [...]
Smoke
Photography by Maarten van Houten Dutch designer Maarten Baas was born in Arnsberg, Germany but spent most of his childhood in The Netherlands. After graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002 Baas developed two concepts. One of them was the Smoke series, for which Baas charred furniture and treated the torched skeletons with a coating, turning them into usable pieces of furniture again. Each piece is literally burned, after which they are preserved in a clear epoxy [...]
DIY: Rebuild-a-Chair
Words and Photography by Sunny Beermann Tools: 1 free chair, found on the sidewalk of Avenue B 1yd. of free scrap fabric, from my 'scrap fabric' pile 1 borrowed staple gun w/staples 1 borrowed screw driver 1 borrowed needle nose pliers 1 sewing needle + thread + pencil As someone who generally has an eye out for exciting finds of furniture that just need a little love and work... I came across a rather simple chair while also in need of a clever gift. It was a gift of thanks [...]