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Boffi Los Angeles

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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When it comes to clean, timeless Italian design, nothing compares to Boffi Los Angeles. “I incorporate Boffi products into my designs because they are unique,” says Arizona-based architect Peter Magee. “When I first saw their Po tub, it blew my mind. It took me two months to track it down—and after it was delivered, I saw that the pictures didn’t do it justice.” Named after Italy’s Po River, this gorgeously simple tub is carved out of pure limestone and weighs an awesome 1984 pounds. It usually has to be delivered by forklift—but it would be the center of attention no matter how it arrived. (via Elements of Living)

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Atmosphere Furniture

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Atmosphere is one of the US firms that has its high-quality custom designs manufactured in Brazil; Shelly Baduay, who heads the Los Angeles–based company, calls it a symbiotic arrangement. “We work only with wood certified by the Brazilian government,” she says. “That means we never use any tree until it has completed its life cycle, and we’re proud to be able to produce 300 pieces of furniture from a single tree. It also means that it may well be five more years before we receive another such specimen of a particular tree.” (via Elements of Living)

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Artefacto

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Artefacto, a world-renowned manufacturer of luxury furnishings, sells its goods domestically through its own stores and grabs attention with a substantial marketing ploy: an annual interior design contest using Artefacto furniture and accessories. The winning designers create model rooms for customers to wander through on the second floor of each store. (via Elements of Living)

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Family Heirloom Weavers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Antique fabrics were made of all-natural materials: silk, cotton, hemp and wool. And it’s because of those moths, and the ruinous effects of water, rot and sunlight, that relatively few survive. Even fewer are actually usable, and those that are lie quietly in museum-storage drawers: cool, away from the light, and archived for textile scholars. That’s why, if you’re designing a bedroom with a linsey-woolsey coverlet in mind (especially one with your or your client’s name in the corner), you shouldn’t expect to find one on eBay or at a local tag sale. But you can find it at neighborly firms like Family Heir-loom Weavers, who’ll make it right in their workshop in Red Lion, PA. (via Elements of Living)

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Thistle Hill Weavers

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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If the only thing for the kitchen seems to be curtains in the eighteenth-century plain-weave, unglazed worsted called camlet, Thistle Hill Weavers in upstate New York know what it is and how to make it. Lovers of the formal can carefully carry their faded shreds of Versailles-era silk to Scalamandré in Manhattan for perfect copies, or even send a picture of the original, though this old, family-owned firm is also happy to re-create the velvet of Scarlett O’Hara’s (and Carol Burnett’s) Tara-drapery dress. (via Elements of Living)

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Charles Rupert

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The colors of early wools, silks and cottons were, naturally, limited to the vegetable and other dyes available at the time, and many of today’s re-creators of old textiles prefer to offer those old hues. This means that if you want to hide a TV set under a baize cloth (the way they once covered dining room tables and budgies), you might be limited to the very few colors once used. Charles Rupert, for example, which also sells reproductions of William Morris and Voysey prints, imports traditional baize from England and has it in the traditional dark green (think billiard tables), burgundy, navy and red. (via Elements of Living)

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Reprodepot Fabrics

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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For twentieth-century fabrics, Reprodepot Fabrics is among several online firms offering vintage prints that, until now, could only be found at flea markets. They sell the wild Havana and Copacabana barkcloths from the ’40s and the not-at-all depressing Aunt Grace’s Spots from the ’30s. Don’t overlook decorator sources, however: Trade-only showrooms are beginning to carry mid-century modern too, in colors and patterns so accurately goofy, they’ll make you smile. Anyone needing to upholster that pouf on the white shag rug will find plenty of groovy sources. (via Elements of Living)

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Arts & Crafts Period Textiles

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Arts and Crafts Period Textiles, reproducing turn-of-the-twentieth-century fabrics for fans of Stickley furniture and Rookwood pottery, doesn’t do orange checks or custom weaving, but it does offer quietly appropriate custom stenciling or hand-embroidery on subdued imported linens or sheer cottons. Owner Dianne Ayres studied textile arts in college and became seriously interested in Arts and Crafts design through her husband. Although the standard Gingko and Checkerberry patterns are customer favorites, she says, Ayres and the three talented ladies who do her embroidery always enjoy the challenge of special orders. (via Elements of Living)

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Jim Thompson

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The special silk that hails from Thailand is prized for its great texture and weight, but more so for its gleaming patina. The beautiful sheen caught the eye of Jim Thompson, an American army officer who made Thailand his home after World War II, and who forever changed the Thai tradition of enlisting a local weaver and one’s tailor or dressmaker to custom weave silk and fashion it into clothing.
Thompson, with his discerning eye for beautiful things, inspired local weavers and their families to try new patterns and to use the color-fast dyes he imported from Europe. He also supplied them with a particular silkworm that had an appetite for a particular mulberry leaf, which resulted in a spun cocoon with a very long, inherently textured filament. These coarse strands are what give Thai silk its beautiful slubs, textures, and shine. Before long, a cottage industry emerged and Thompson opened an enchanting—and internationally famous—silk shop in Bangkok. Knowing the power of the American media, Thompson brought a small collection of silks to New York, where he was introduced to Vogue editor Edna Chase, and the rest is history. It was interior designer Billy Baldwin, however, who first used Thai silk in a client’s New York apartment, thus beginning America’s love affair with interiors swathed in Thai silk. (via Elements of Living)

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Senzatempo

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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While you’re still flush with Machine Age enthusiasm, head over to Senzatempo (“timeless” in Italian) off Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, the pedestrian mall extending from Alton Road to Washington Avenue. Wolfsonian museum founder Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., is a steady customer of this fun collectibles emporium, an exuberant space stocked by owners Matthew Bain and Massimo Barracca with airplane and train models, watches and clocks, furnishings and accessories. A 23-foot-long wall unit by designer and bon vivant Carlo Mollino is chockablock with assorted treasures. Contemporary designer Omar Ali re-creates the Machine Age in his stainless steel lamps and occasional tables, often made from airplane parts. For those seeking more, more, more, talk to Bain about their private stash. (via Elements of Living)

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Bahdeebahdu

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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The most spectacular of the North Third Street shops in Philadelphia has to be bahdeebahdu. Here, lighting designer Warren Muller displays one-of-a-kind pieces made of reclaimed products. Vintage children’s toys, glass vials, bedsprings, old tools—no castoff is unaesthetic in Muller’s eyes. Bahdeebahdu’s interior furnishings were selected by R. J. Thornburg, with whom Muller opened the 2,300-square-foot showroom in spring 2002. (via Elements of Living)

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Philadelphia Print Shop

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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An alternative to the artsy Manayunk neighborhood in Philadelphia is the dreamlike Chestnut Hill, the heart of which is tidy Germantown Avenue. First stop on this cobblestone-lined street is the Philadelphia Print Shop, founded in 1982 by Donald H. Cresswell and Christopher W. Lane, a Library of Congress veteran and budding philosopher, respectively. The duo, whom you might have seen on <i>Antiques Road Show</i>, has amassed a collection of prints dating from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Woodcuts, engravings and lithographs feature famous Philadelphians, botanicals and antique maps. (via Elements of Living)

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Urban Electric Company

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Urban Electric Co., with its suave logo, theatrical windows and polished manner of displaying wares in a spacious showroom, sends a clear message that history can be a helpmate rather than a handcuff. Historically inspired lamps, sconces and chandeliers by creative director Michael Amato and designers Amelia Handegan, Mark Maresca and Justin Walling suit a contemporary loft in Tribeca every bit as much as a Charleston single house. Every fixture, including copper lanterns by master craftsman John Gantt, is handmade locally. (via Elements of Living)

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Crown City Hardware

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Growing up in California, Richard Perris was crazy about movies, and even got himself a degree in cinema. But instead of becoming a producer, he took over Crown City Hardware, the store his grandfather bought in 1936. As a youngster, Perris worked in the store on weekends and became interested in period hardware. "'Bungalow Heaven' is near here, and somebody was always searching for the right knob or hinge," he explains. "So now we specialize in Victorian, Craftsman and Deco hardware and restoration items." Crown City offers a 400-page catalog of the stores’s complete stock as well as a 60-page version that highlights popular items. As for the movies, Perris maintains a connection by providing hardware for sets requiring period authenticity. (via Elements of Living)

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Enlighten

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Seattle-based Enlighten is owned by the husband-and-wife team Kalan and Chris Intawong. He’s from Thailand, she’s from Seattle, and they met while she was in the Peace Corps. Most of the furniture in the store is made of recycled teak by artisans in Thailand. (If you’re interested, Kalan or Chris will tell you the history of each piece of wood.) Kalan is also a lighting designer, and his woven bamboo lanterns take up one whole side of the store. (via Elements of Living)

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Albioncourt

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Britain’s Albioncourt digitally customizes any of the 14 lampshade styles in its collection, whether a classic tapered coolie (Empire or fez), cube with rounded edges, or a shallow tube. For the highest quality production, the company’s website gives clear instructions for customers who supply their own photography. Households without a budding Ansel Adams can choose from Albioncourt’s small archive of original images such as landscapes, flora, food and other subjects. (via Elements of Living)

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Davda

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Davda’s London studio has built a reputation for ceramic tableware marked by loving imperfections. Its artist-owners, Israeli-born Mair Davda and his English wife Jo Brickett, also make lighting that have slightly irregular shapes and patterns; material flaws demonstrate the touch of the hand. But perhaps the small collection’s calling card is its love affair with dappled light. Here, the Circle Light’s anodized steel circles emit an amber glow. (via Elements of Living)

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Sunflower Lamp

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Danish lighting company Le Klint’s Sunflower lamp, by native designer Philip Bro Ludvigsen, is innovative in both style and substance: It can be hung as a pendant or turned sideways and mounted as a wall fixture. (via Elements of Living)

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UnderCover Lamp

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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With the UnderCover lamp, Le Klint has found a remedy for the same-old-lampshade dilemma. Ludvigsen’s acrylic shade is actually two-in-one: an acrylic outer shade that protects a changeable inner shade. That decorative skin is available in five collections, including Doodle Dot, Marimekko—florals by designers Maija and Kristin Isola, and solid colors. UnderCover makes your fluctuating preference an accessory—and changing trends a cinch. Shades come in diameters of 13 inches or 17 inches. (via Elements of Living)

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Big Pagoda

Updated Jun 5, 2006

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The Big Pagoda Company’s feng shui, everywhere apparent in its San Francisco store, is equally evident on its website, which now makes it possible to shop for design-savvy furniture and accessories online. While the Chinese connection is clear, both in antique and contemporary designs, the company also features items from France, Finland, Mexico and wherever else "neat stuff, stylish designs and brainy materials" emerge, says owner Kurt Silver. Offerings include custom furnishings and commissioned art. (via Elements of Living)

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Welcome to Blackman Cruz

Updated May 23, 2006

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Acutely aware that the movers and shakers of this world want unique homes, antiquarians Adam Blackman and David Cruz have launched their first furniture collection, BC Workshop. "The way to promote individuality is with antiques and pieces that obviously took a great deal of care and time to make," says Blackman. The BC pieces meet that criterion. At once classical and modernist, glamorous and quirky, clean-lined and decorative, the collection includes seating, tables, lighting and accessories. It can be seen in the West Coast showroom and on the Blackman Cruz website. (via Elements of Living)

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Architectural Pottery - Interior and Landscape Design

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Organic forms come naturally to the award-winning planters, urns and other vessels in the Architectural Pottery collection from Vessel USA. Owner Mike Stephenson, a ceramist, says he’s always been a design addict and a collector of post-war modern design. "When I started the company in the early 1990s, sculptural ceramic containers were not readily available," he says. "So I saw an opportunity to start a business in a medium I love." The collection, which is offered in custom finishes, is sold through selected showrooms and design galleries, the firm’s website and its catalog. (via Elements of Living)

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Union Studio

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Matthew Bear was just a few years out of architecture school when two of his Union Studio furniture designs were selected for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, but he isn’t resting on his laurels. He continues to explore the ways furniture and spaces can interact. He says he believes in a hands-on approach, whether the challenge is designing furniture, interiors or architectural installations. Union Studio’s furniture includes seating, chests, shelving and tables, all dramatically sparse and functional. (via Elements of Living)

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SILHO Furniture

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Designers Michelle Johnson and Jason Martin admire the classicism of modern American furniture, but when they designed their own collection of chairs, tables and upholstered pieces, they combined that look with the simplicity of organic silhouettes. "We pared down American modern to its most basic form, or silhouette," explains Martin. "That’s why our company name is Silho Furniture." The light-as-air furnishings are sold exclusively through the firm’s Los Angeles showroom. The partnership also includes interior design and is sought after for custom furnishings. (via Elements of Living)

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Steven Handelman Studios

Updated Apr 6, 2006

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Lots of companies pulled in their horns or gave up entirely during the recession of the late 1980s, but Steven Handelman Studios expanded. Handelman guessed that America was hungry for honest crafting, and he was proven right. Today, his Santa Barbara firm is a national source of such wrought-iron products as fire screens, chandeliers, ceiling mounts, sconces and outdoor lanterns. "Our products are handmade, and we offer so many options that each product is customized," says Handelman. "Clients love the attention to detail. They’ll often remark, ‘I’m so relieved that somebody gets it’ when they see our products." A catalog is available. (via Elements of Living)

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