Based in a bright and airy studio in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, Lotta Jansdotter's Scandinavian print empire includes hundreds of different products such as stationery, dresses, ceramics, and now Glimma, a new fabric line with Windham.
In his Dumbo studio, Christopher Pourny sticks to old world techniques when cleaning and refinishing antique and vintage furniture. Pourny's work ranges from antique restoration to period finishes and custom reproductions.
Colombo started experimenting with fire in fall 2001. "I was sitting on the beach in front of an empty fire pit," she recalls, "and the wood was all wet. I thought, If only I could just hook up the gas from my house and flick on a bonfire..."
In Long Island City lies Patrick Townsend's cavernous workshop where the designer makes intricate light fixtures.
Ironically enough, the century-old headquarters of Townsend Design was originally a light bulb factory...
Taft visited an old mill in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and stumbled across thousands of vintage silk screens. She saved the screens from an untimely demise and commissioned the factory to use them to make her 16-pattern fabric line, Living Vintage...
"I drew before I spoke," says German artist Sabina Streeter, who has studios in both Sag Harbor, where she now lives, and Munich. Streeter carries her artist's tools whenever she travels in case inspiration strikes...
Her mason said it couldn’t be done, but Margaret Kerr was determined. It was 1986, and she was in the middle of designing a medieval herb garden at her house. Two rectangular spaces were just “crying out to be rugs.”
During a particularly stressful time as a Washington, D.C., lawyer more than 25 years ago, David Fram made a decision to throw pottery instead of fits.
As a young art student studying painting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Casey Dalene scored an internship at Marc Jacobs, and suddenly it hit her. In the fashion world, she realized, “somebody has to make all these fabrics.”
Q&A with Elizabeth Lear and Brian Mahoney of Lear & Mahoney Landscape Associates in Southampton.
Artist Stephanie Reit creates and collects wonderfully whimsical birdhouses
From his Amagansett studio, Andy Stenerson creates works of fragile beauty
In her Bronx basement, Livia Cetti brings glorious handmade blossoms to life
Design House in Southampton debuts its very own fabric line
For Springs painter Barbara Thomas, home is where the art is.
