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Hive

Updated Apr 14, 2006

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For the best in modern furniture, lighting, and accessories, no one does it much better than Hive. Since 2002 the retailer has been a de-facto internet source for modern classics by Alessi, Artemide, Artifort, Cassina, Flos, Kartell, Knoll & Vitra, to name a few. With several hundred items in stock, even browsing the site one can get visually inspired and stimulated. Here one can find modern classics such as the Barcelona Chair, to lesser-known originals as Verner Panton's Living Tower. (via Elements of Living)

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Terra Do Brazil

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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Brazil’s mix of Asian, African, European and indigenous cultures and tastes has created some very startling styles. And some of the chicest pieces are made of such unlikely “found” materials as shaving brushes, bicycle tires and squeegee heads.
One of the major players is Terra Do Brazil, a consortium of manufacturers operating from Doral, FL. Its furnishings include the Landscape series, which makes use of <i>vime</i>, a fast-growing vine (some Americans are calling it “the kudzu of Brazil”). The vine is cut and tied together with rope, like so many bundles of sturdy kindling, to form the frames of sofas and beds and the structure of occasional pieces. (via Elements of Living)

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Ubu Chair

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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The Ubu torqued rubber chairs collapse into a flat-pack form for portability. The polypropylene frame is constructed and knocked down by opening and closing the industrial-strength zippers attached to the upholstery. (via Elements of Living)

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Frame Chair

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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Charlotte Sorensen's Frame is a handsom exercise in deception. The substantial chair made of massive birch, plywood and laminate folds and hangs, acting like a picture frame around the underside of the seat and splat. A textile hinge looks more like a horizon line than hardware. Available in red and white. (via Elements of Living)

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Cosmo's Cosmos

Updated Apr 13, 2006

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“It can’t just be about money; it has to be about what you love,” explains Lisa Purdon of the Brooklyn furniture store Cosmos Cosmos, which she and her business partner, Cosmo Prete, opened in 1998. The two started out as artists, fabricating furniture into sculpture. Eventually they turned their passion for finding interesting modern pieces into a home-furnishings boutique unlike any other. Tucked in a corner of the store, for example, on top of an Eames lounger is a Paul McCobb table. And, depending on whether Purdon and Prete have rearranged the display area that day, you’ll see everything from a $350 settee in need of reupholstering (it has an amazing frame!) to a $15,000 mint-condition Jens Risom sofa; from a ship’s spotlight (set directors like them) to Breuer’s Wassily chair (White or black? You choose) hanging from the ceiling. The partners’ rationale: “We choose our furniture based on what we think is beautiful.”
Also unlike many stores, Cosmos Cosmos offers “full service,” meaning it buys on request for all client types. “We listen to our gut,” says Purdon, “but we also listen to our client. If someone tells us he or she wants a blue sofa, we’ll find the coolest blue sofa our eyes have ever seen, based on the person’s budget and specifications.”
So if you are looking for a white vinyl sofa or a Neil Small mirror (note: Cosmos Cosmos is one of the few original collectors in the country), or if you just want to hang out in a Corbu chair all day, then step into this high-brow, high-end shop. As Purdon puts it: “We are a little rock-and-roll in our approach to art and commerce, but we are very educated and sophisticated about mid-century modern.” (via Elements of Living)

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Design Within Reach

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Joel Mozersky’s transformation of an empty warehouse in downtown Austin into the latest set for MTV’s <i>Real World</i> required nothing less than the ability to turn on a dime. He immediately turned to dwr.com, the website for the catalog and retail store Design Within Reach. “The project was time sensitive in the extreme,” says the local Texas designer, “and I knew that dwr.com would have the modern, really interesting pieces I needed, in stock and ready to ship.” Mozersky’s confidence was well placed: Three weeks after he presented his ideas to MTV, the fully furnished spaces were ready for the cameras to roll on the sixteenth season of the popular reality show.
“Prior to DWR, you would either have to have access to trade-only merchants or order retail and wait up to twelve weeks,” says Jordan Benjamin, a manager at Design Within Reach, which features such classic design names as Ray and Charles Eames, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, George Nelson and Marcel Breuer. Luckily for Mozersky and other modern-furniture lovers, DWR’s business model is borrowed from Europe, says founder Rob Forbes, where “furniture design is taken more seriously and the public has greater access to well-designed products.” With DWR, that concept has come across the Atlantic and, now, straight into the heart of Texas. (via Elements of Living)

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Sourcebook of Modern Furniture

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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By Jerryll Habegger and Joseph H. Osman
W. W. Norton $89.95

Like the two previous editions, the latest <i>Sourcebook of Modern Furniture</i> by Jerryll Habegger and Joseph H. Osman is filled with all facets of technologically innovative furniture from Gebrüder Thonet to Zaha Hadid. But this third edition offers the splendid and lively allure of color images. As the saying goes, third time’s a charm. Each of the 2,000 images is categorized by furniture type, year (in chronological order), model name or number, designer(s), manufacturer, materials and dimensions. With little text and relatively no historical information, this book is a great quick source for design professionals, furniture buyers and consumers looking for their favorite innovative and modern pieces to complete their home or office décor. (via Elements of Living)

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ESPASSO INC.

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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On 38th Avenue at 34th Street in Queens, New York, Espasso, run by Sao Paulo native Carlos Junqueira, sells Brazilian modernist furniture from the 1930s to the present. Included are reissues of classics from renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer, as well as new pieces such as the Anel chair by Ricardo Fasanello, and Etel Carmona’s wooden tabletop objects, which are crafted from rare, government-approved wood. “Brazil had, and still has, an important modernist movement that many people are not aware of,” says Junqueira. (via Elements of Living)

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The Noguchi Museum

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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The Noguchi Museum, founded and designed by Isamu Noguchi to house his art and archives, deserves an unhurried visit. This prolific artist, who was equally comfortable designing gardens, sculpture, lighting, furniture, paintings and ceramics, left an impressive body of work when he died in 1988. Much of it can be seen in this warehouse space, which he bought and converted in 1985. The museum has always been a hidden gem, with its tranquil Japanese gardens and bright, naturally lit open-air galleries. Now, thanks to a major renovation, it welcomes visitors year-round. Among other items, the gift shop sells Noguchi’s ingenious Akari light sculptures, lamps that still seem as stylishly original and functional as they were when he designed them in the 1950s. (via Elements of Living)

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Moss

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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If you’re interested in finding museum-quality design objects in a retail setting, head to Moss on Greene Street in New York City. Here, you’ll find icons of twentieth-century design along with with the best of what’s current. In the 10 years since it opened, this idiosyncratic brainchild of former fashionista Murray Moss has helped define the Soho design scene. Bridging decorative arts, industrial design and art, Moss models his displays after museum exhibits, showcasing each item with the date, designer and provenance, so even if you can’t buy, you can learn. Major names in modern design, such as architect Gaetano Pesce, are always on display in revolving exhibits. (via Elements of Living)

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BDDW

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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BDDW is the creation of 36-year-old Tyler Hays, an energetic painter and sculptor turned furniture maker. His voluminous space on Crosby Street near Grand in New York City was an abandoned sweatshop before he stripped it and painted it white. BDDW is stocked mostly with Hays’s creations, including his Lake Credenza, which features a hand-rubbed laquer finish, choices of three premium hardwood doors and a blackened steel and bronze base, as well as hand-carved ebony handles and a walnut interior. Hays also works with selected artists to develop limited-edition pieces, such as Miwa Koizumi’s porcelain lamps, of which no two are alike. Exotic-looking slabs of domestic wood line the walls of Hays’ store. The owner eventually turns the sculptural forms into furniture; in the meantime, they help make the showroom itself a design destination (via Elements of Living)

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Galerie Meryanna Loum-Martin

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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A few years ago, Meryanne Loum-Martin and her husband, Gary Martin, an ethnobiologist, moved to the Palermaie oasis and opened a stylish guest-villa compound that’s been publicized around the world. Now the lawyer turned designer has added Galerie Meryanne Loum-Martin to the property, setting up shop in the vast double-height living room of her modernist house and a smaller adjacent room that she once used as a library. The walls are hung with paintings by African artists and all around are grand wood sofas inlaid with camel bone and broad-seated iron chairs covered with hand-woven fabrics Loum-Martin commissions in Senegal. The woven leather-and-straw carpets are from Mauritania, and here and there, vintage French Art Deco pieces add a smart colonial edge. Given that it’s a house that masquerades as a shop (by appointment), it’s no wonder that the atmosphere is decidedly homey. If you kick off your shoes and choose to settle down for a spell, don’t worry: Loum-Martin does it, too. And if you’re lucky, she just might invite you to stay for lunch. (via Elements of Living)

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Khalid Art Gallery

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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In Marrakech, Morocco, the Khalid Art Gallery, where photos of celebrity shoppers—model Kate Moss, soccer star Zinedine Zidane, Hillary and Bill Clinton—attest to its reputation among the international elite. Owner Khalid el Gharib is the city’s leading purveyor of atmospheric furniture and accessories: eighteenth-century North African ceramics, Mogul-era marble fountains from India, antique embroidered silk portières, Syrian chairs and cabinets inlaid with snow-white bone (Naomi Campbell bought a lot for her bedroom). The stock of the two-story shop is more broadly orientalist than it is specifically Moroccan, an encyclopedic array of exotica from across the Arab world. (via Elements of Living)

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Orson and Blake

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Orson & Blake is a chain specializing in fashion and interior furnishings, but its store in Surry Hills, Sydney is especially devoted to 21st century contemporary furniture. (via Elements of Living)

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Schamburg + Alvisse

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Return to native Australian works at the studio of Schamburg + Alvisse. The duo’s work, like the trim Stretch Series spun-fiberglass stools, could be mistaken for Italian design. It is also New York high-concept, as seen in the interactive, linked-tetrahedron modular sofa that the firm launched in 2005. But the furniture is all made in Australia. The same goes at more mainstream Schiavello, which manufactures its entire inventory on shore to the tune of a recent $40 million facilities upgrade. (via Elements of Living)

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Schiavello

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Schiavello is one of Australia's leading international designers and manufacturers of furniture products and interiors for advanced work environments. Their project-based solutions support professional businesses around the globe. (via Elements of Living)

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Chee Soon & Fitzgerald

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Opened in 1996 by a pair of lovers of art and design, Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, located in Sydney, Australia, stocks well-designed contemporary interior furnishings, including fabrics, wallpaper, lighting, decorative arts and multi-functional furniture pieces, by both Australian and overseas designers. (via Elements of Living)

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Living Edge

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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At Living Edge Studio, a design retailer in Sydney, Australia, the spotlight shines on bernabeifreeman, a local design duo whose scrim-like Peony chandelier—dangling powder-coated metal plates are pierced à la Lite Brite to look like the namesake flower—won an Australian Design Award last year. (via Elements of Living)

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Anibou

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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At Anibou, in Surry Hills of Sydney, Australia, a fine selection of Australian designers is augmented by European staples such as Artek and Gervasoni. (via Elements of Living)

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Planet Furniture

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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At Planet Furniture, designer Ross Longmuir both minds the shop and creates some of the striking pieces available for purchase. Longmuir’s streamlined chests, nightstands and stereo storage units are constructed of spotted gum, a local hardwood, that is peeled into 3-millimeter layers and crossbanded into boards. The technique combines the strength and weather-resistance of MDF but not its crumbly veneer; the resulting caramel-colored furniture is as sturdy as solid wood and will develop a rich patina over time. Planet Furniture lovingly showcases its wares with artwork, ceramics and even stuffed animals in studied vignettes. (via Elements of Living)

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Koskela

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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For a pure experience in Australian design, try Koskela. Owners Russel Koskela and Sasha Titchkosky left the finance world in 2000 to open a platform for local talents. Koskela himself designs the long, low furniture, which is merchandised compellingly alongside the personal accessories, kids’ stuff and lighting that together form a realistic picture of a stylish home. Koskela is located up a flight of steps, which heightens the sense that you’re just removed from the madding crowd. It also means less of a sidewalk presence in a quiet area of converted warehouses, so search for it carefully. (via Elements of Living)

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Pintér Antik

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Falk Miksa utca is a short, narrow, tree-lined thoroughfare considered to be Budapest’s "High Street" for antiques. Make Pintér Antik your first stop, and head to the basement, where a mazelike path leads you to one cavernous room after another filled with oversize Hungarian antiques—furniture, chandeliers, paintings, silverware and porcelain from every style and era, and at great prices. (via Elements of Living)

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BÁV

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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At the very end of Falk Miksa, on the corner of Szent István Korut (Saint Stephen Boulevard) in Budapest, Hungary, you will find BÁV, a 230-year-old, three-story, state-owned consignment store with many a high-end buying opportunity. This is where down-at-the-heels aristocrats or local gentry, fed up with their heavy Hungarian heirlooms, offer those treasures at irresistible prices. Recently on view were a French secretary with inlaid mother of pearl for less than $2,000, a 1950s Venetian chandelier for under $500 and, for a song, several antique crystal chandeliers. (via Elements of Living)

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Montparnasse Antikvitas

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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Montparnasse a French-Hungarian Art Deco shop run by the charming Beáta Szabó in Budapest, Hungary. Her pieces are streamlined and clean, and her prices are fair. Every furniture piece is restored to its original, pristine condition by their professional craftsmen. The vintage Murano lamps are surpassingly beautiful. (via Elements of Living)

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K&K Forgeworks

Updated Apr 10, 2006

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For Fergus Kinnel and Arnon Kartmazov, it only seemed natural that a business partnership could be formed from a love of metalwork, K&K Forgeworks. Specializing in custom steelwork products, from home-hardware to furniture, Portland, Oregon-based K&K Forgeworks has built a growing reputation for exquisite design and workmanship. The two blacksmiths' range of interests, techniques and objects is wide but their aesthetic is consistent. As Kartmazov puts it, "We like to combine the most modern techniques with things that have been around a long time. And we both like simplicity and achieving results with the fewest steps." (via Elements of Living)

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