Mavens and Storytellers: Nick Hand
By Regina Connell. There’s something about the world of craft that brings out the storyteller in people. (Obviously…) It’s the craftspeople, of course, and the beauty of the craft process itself, but...
View ArticleMavens and Storytellers: Made by Hand
By Regina M. Connell. Next up in our occasional series on people who tell the maker story so, so well: Made by Hand, a video celebration of the artisanal movement. These handcrafted, painstakingly...
View ArticleMavens and Storytellers: Nancie Mills Pipgras
By Regina Connell. I can’t imagine kicking off our coverage of mavens with anyone other than Nancie Mills Pipgras, a woman who’s helping change the way the world looks at this ancient-contemporary form...
View ArticleMavens and Storytellers: Polly Leonard
By Kathryn Clark. Every now and then someone raises the bar for an entire design field. Someone steps back and sees the bigger picture. Someone, say, finds the best contemporary textiles the world...
View ArticleMavens and Storytellers: Marcella Echavarria
By Regina Connell. There are some people out there who just can’t help themselves. And thank goodness. Because if it weren’t for them, the world would be a far sorrier place. And less beautiful, too....
View ArticleMavens and Storytellers: Rena Tom (with an update)
By Regina Connell. When we met, Rena Tom has just gotten done with a successful Kickstarter campaign for her latest venture, to create the Brooklyn outpost of the Makeshift Society, the creative...
View ArticleProfile: Megan Schwarz, Seed to Serum
By Dominique Koudsi. All photos courtesy of Megan Schwarz. In today’s world of selfies and Kim Kardashian make-up tutorials, it’s easy to start seeing beauty through the lens of an Instagram “filter”:...
View ArticleMavens & Storytellers: J Michael Welton
By Regina M. Connell. All images courtesy of Architects + Artisans. Sometimes, kindred spirits can be found in the most unlikely locales. The recognized design capitals—New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin,...
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