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A Designer's Guide to Mykonos

Our journey to Mykonos Town was a quest for inspiration, a deep dive into the island's artistic soul. As designers, we sought more than just a holiday; we were after the stories, the art, the life that thrums in the veins of Mykonos.

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What They Refused to Throw Away

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What They Refused to Throw Away

Twenty-five years after the fourth grade, two hours underground at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and the people who fought to keep the steel.

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The Office That Dreamed Too Loudly: Gaetano Pesce and the Chiat/Day Project

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The Office That Dreamed Too Loudly: Gaetano Pesce and the Chiat/Day Project

There's a particular kind of courage that lives in the space between vision and ridicule. It's the courage to make a floor out of resin so thick it had to be jackhammered out. To build desks that looked like they'd been dreamed by a fever.

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The Slow Return: Why the Handmade Is Design’s New Luxury

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The Slow Return: Why the Handmade Is Design’s New Luxury

Patina, Hutsul weaving, and a block-printing workshop on Brazos Street: why 2026’s return to the handmade is less a trend than a homecoming.

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Object Lessons: The Chair Made of Air

Object Lessons

Object Lessons: The Chair Made of Air

Zanotta’s 1967 Blow chair held its shape with nothing but air. Nearly sixty years on, Milan is inflating again - and the lesson is that joy is a legitimate design material.

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A Designer’s Guide to Palm Springs: Checking Into the Parker

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A Designer’s Guide to Palm Springs: Checking Into the Parker

We traded Austin’s swampy summer for the dry desert heat of Palm Springs and checked into the Parker - Jonathan Adler’s gloriously maximalist 13-acre playground. Here’s the hotel’s storied history, our stay, and a design lover’s guide to the rest of Palm Springs.

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The Poetics of Glass: How Sophie Lou Jacobsen Is Rewriting the Rules of Tableware

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The Poetics of Glass: How Sophie Lou Jacobsen Is Rewriting the Rules of Tableware

Hand-blown glass inspired by wrapped candy, and why I think the things we reach for every morning deserve a little poetry.

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Frames & Forms: Wes Anderson & Symmetry as a Lifestyle

Frames & Forms

Frames & Forms: Wes Anderson & Symmetry as a Lifestyle

Wes Anderson’s cinema is more than whimsical storytelling. Each film is a total work of art, where symmetry guides the frame and pastel palettes echo vintage posters and alpine hotels. His worlds spill off the screen into interiors, branding, and even real architecture, proving that design can be playful, rigorous, and deeply moving all at once.

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Frames & Forms: David Lynch & the Postmodern Dreamscape

Frames & Forms

Frames & Forms: David Lynch & the Postmodern Dreamscape

David Lynch didn’t just direct films. He designed atmospheres. From the industrial dread of Eraserhead to the velvet-draped dreamscapes of Twin Peaks, his work runs in uncanny parallel with postmodern design movements. This essay traces how Lynch’s moods - uncanny, ironic, and a little grotesque - reshaped how we see objects, interiors, and even the everyday.

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Spotlight On: Anne Grandinetti of Ashby Collective

Spotlight On

Spotlight On: Anne Grandinetti of Ashby Collective

We're thrilled to feature the work and perspective of Anne Grandinetti, a principal at Ashby Collective and a creative force behind some of Austin’s most inspiring interiors - including the newly completed 6G high-rise, Austin’s tallest residential building

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