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Material Shapeshifters: How Fort Standard put a spin on contemporary design essentials
To access their design studio—a spacious shared workshop that overlooks the water—they alternate between bike, motorcycle or company truck. On...
Thrown Down: Artist Helen Levi reshapes the way we think about urban ceramicists
The craze hasn’t waned, and while more attention to local, small-scale handmade goods can only be a positive, the hype...
Master Mix: Brad Ascalon on Designing to His Own Beat
It’s music that helps the multidisciplinary designer unkink knotty design problems. And judging from the design briefs tacked to the...
Open Letter: Blake Enting and Marc Thorpe on additive manufacturing and the rise of the singular product
On closer inspection, however, are a varied assortment of everyday objects—a boombox, a bowtie, a telephone—arranged on the wall behind...
Chris Hackett
He’s a multi-hyphenate artist whose work encompasses metalsmithing, art, construction, writing, survivalism and reality TV. He is the co-founder of...
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Between 12 and 1, people leave their computers and trickle in from the neighboring room, filling the large wooden table...
Wing Yau
Just a five minute walk away from her brownstone home, Wing Yau’s studio can be found in an industrial stretch...
Chelsea Miller
There was an accident, she explains, involving an unfinished knife and some heavy machinery; one slip of the wrist and...
Nana Spears & Daniel de la Nuez
It took Spears, a New Jersey native who grew up in a farmhouse outside Princeton, a solid year of looking...
Josh Powe & Darcy Penick
On weekdays, their Williamsburg loft is a sunny, airy home with high ceilings and balconies overlooking McCarren Park. A quick...
FvF Mixtape #68
Best friends, red wine and heavenly smells emanating from the oven. What else is missing for the perfect winter’s evening?...
Alexis Georgopoulos
Alexis Georgopoulos’ home, like one of his songs, is a comfortable mix of many influences. There are woven chairs, a...
Haerfest
We’re living in a culture of instant gratification: fast fashion, manufactured music, and quick, impersonal modes of communication. Or at...
Coltrane Curtis
The charismatic and distinctive persona of Coltrane Curtis with his immaculately groomed dreadlocks rarely goes unnoticed. Often spotted sporting a...
FvF Mixtape #47
Kyra Caruso is an Austrian Mexican DJ residing in New York City. Growing up in a hippie home in Vienna...
Stephane Vacher
A new French Wave is hitting the scene, adding a good deal of laissez faire to New York’s night life:...
Johanna Burke
Every year, just as the holiday season begins, the windows of the big department stores turn into imaginative wonder worlds...