artists/designers that inspire me
“This is what I learned from Italian designers: the wish for a better world in mass production, and the wish for a world of diversity from craft, and how to find the treasure in all of this.” – Ronan Bouroullec
A Discreet Charm: The first family of French product design on extracting elegance from efficiency
chair sketches Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
He was a creator in the true sense, bringing new ideas and sensibility to life; it’s rare to do that over so many decades. His legacy is still undigested because he kept reinventing himself. He responded to what he saw around him and worked with the new materials and technologies introduced during his lifetime. With some historical references only... See more
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Matheson Food Company 🌟 A new legacy of pantry staples by legendary Canadian chef & Emmy award-winning exec. producer of The Bear, @mattymatheson
Over the past year with Matty and his team, we built a brand inspired by nostalgic classics, that taste the way he cooks. Translating Matty’s vision into a lasting brand that... See more
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Every day at the studio – from our old space in Chinatown to our new home in Tribeca – Laila cooks the Gohar World team lunch. It's the most exciting time of the day. The team pauses all work, meetings, and calls in order to genuinely share both a meal and our time together.
We began sharing this tradition with the... See more
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Deconstructed bruschetta. A romantic fantasy with layers of bread, cheese, really nice ripe tomatoes (which you cannot get in season), and other tasty bits.
instagram.comThe initial idea for the Vegetal chair in 2004 was to create a piece of furniture that appeared as if it had grown naturally, like a plant. For inspiration, its designers, the French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, looked to historic furniture that integrated a sense of organic growth: English garden chairs constructed in boughs of cast iron;... See more
Design classic: the Vegetal chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
Vegetal chair design process
“The single word, its guttural monosyllabic pronunciation, that’s what I was passionate about,” Ruscha has said of his early work. “Loud words, like slam, smash, honk.” The comic-book quality of these words reflects the Pop artists’ fascination with popular culture.