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My father sent this to me today. I can’t decide, is this dog sim­ply a fur­ni­ture hater or is he a con­nois­seur of good design…one can argue that sofa is not the epit­ome of good taste, per­haps he only wanted a Moroso Principessa by Doshi Levien so he trashed the crap out of the JC […]

Comb­ing through pages and pages of “sup­port USA made prod­ucts” on the inter­net in prepa­ra­tion for the next Amer­i­can install­ment here at KIOSK is at once exhil­a­rat­ing – see­ing how many peo­ple think and care about this sort of thing – and sad as many of the links lead to “this site no longer […]

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some more things from Stock­holm I am remem­ber­ing:
A lovely, lit­tle, old flower shop where the man is as uplift­ing as the flow­ers. Open on Sun­days too from 10 — 15.00! Good to know if you are going to visit fam­ily. We got one amaz­ing peach glad­i­o­lus there and peo­ple were mes­mer­ized by it when I […]

A quote from a good read “The Art Spirit” by Robert Henri, pub­lished in 1923:
“I love the tools made for mechan­ics. I stop by the win­dows of hard­ware stores. If I could only find an excuse to buy many more of them than I have already bought on the mere pre­tence that I might have some […]

With the merg­ing of art and design all around me in Milan I found this per­sons com­ment on the street to be very of the moment. I mean, since when did design loose it’s def­i­n­i­tion, should it not func­tion in some man­ner and be hands on? Since when is design another pretty object to look […]