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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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Arts and Crafts Gardens

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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By Wendy Hitchmough. V & A Publications, $24.95
“The house as a work of art, perfectly harmonious in its relationship with nature, was designed to have an improving effect upon the spirit as well as the lifestyle of the client,” writes art historian Wendy Hitchmough in this well-illus-trated and informative book tracing the Arts & Crafts movement from its main inspiration—the garden. Design reform at the turn of the twentieth century mirrored political and social changes of the day. In reaction to the Industrial Revolution, for example, pioneers of the Arts and Craft movement such as John Ruskin, William Morris and C. F. A. Voysey pushed for the need to get back to nature. As she guides us through the “almost wild plantings” that resulted from the movement’s desire to smudge the lines between outdoors and in, Hitch mough, curator of the Charleston, the famous Bloomsbury artists’ Sussex home, also provides an illumin-ating history of architecture, furniture and textiles. Color plates, historic black-and-white photographs and drawings of gardens in Britain, Europe and the US show readers the profound influence of Arts and Crafts on the gardens of our time. (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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Plug Lighting

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Since hanging Plug Lighting’s shingle in 1998, Lori Bush and Pia DeLeon have accumulated a star-studded following (Brad Pitt, Kanye West and Carmen Electra) by scouring the globe for new designs previously unheard of stateside. They also bring on local talents, such as Angeleno Alison Berger, as long as the work is equal parts jaw-dropping and impeccable—qualities that make this showroom a standout in every category from light sculpture to sconce to outdoor fixture. The pair gladly fields requests that go beyond the inventory, and while they don’t sell to the public, their showroom is open to the autodidactic layperson. (via Elements of Living)

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Champlain Stone

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Twenty-three years ago, with just $5 a day, a vehicle and some basic tools lent by his brother Mark, Michael Morey extracted stones by hand and hauled them to the marketplace. Today Champlain Stone’s founder employs more than 100 people in two quarries and supplies six distinct stone products--American Granite, Corinthian Granite, Van Tassell Granite, South Bay Quartzite, Great Meadow Limestone and Summit Granite--to dealers in both the US and Canada. The blue base colors of the stones are specific to New York State’s Adirondack region, and pieces can be custom-cut or ordered from stock. Champlain arranges trucking as a courtesy to the customer. (via Elements of Living)

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Maine Millstones

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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After working for years in the film and television industry, William Royall tossed the suit and set up shop in Southport, Maine, to do what he’s been doing since he was 11 years old: stone carving. Although he creates one-off works, Royall spends most of his time running Maine Millstones, which was founded when a client couldn’t find a millstone for a garden project. He makes authentic-looking reproductions of terrace pavers, fountains or other garden features, ranging in size from 16- to 72-inch diameters and in weight from 90 to a backbreaking 2,850 pounds. (via Elements of Living)

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Schwartz's Forge & Metalworks

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Designers usually turn to Schwartz’s Forge and Metalworks for stair rails, door canopies, fountains or sculpture, in styles that range from Beaux-Arts ornate to minimalist: The company produced the Federal-style exterior balcony railings for Blair House, the official White House guest house for heads of state, and, for a minimalist all-concrete house, stainless-steel metalwork reminiscent of Art Nouveau. Joel Schwartz’s shop is a home for both traditional blacksmithing (hammer and anvil) and modern metal fabrication (machine tools), matching production technique to period style. (via Elements of Living)

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Solar Innovations

Updated Apr 5, 2006

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Solar Innovations is a high-end manufacturer of aluminum exterior and aluminum exterior/wood interior glazed structures. The company was established in 1998 by Greg Header, who has since expanded his empire of the sun by offering extruded framing-system components that adapt well to conservatories, greenhouses, folding glass walls, skylights, sunrooms and windows. Solar Innovations sells its products through dealers across the country as well as through contractors where no dealers are currently established. (via Elements of Living)

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