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)