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Erik Jansen’s Spring Stool

By Joseph Starr

As soon as the site over at Belgium’s Wildspirit overcame the Monday internet blahs and loaded into living, breathing life, I knew the manufacturer and I were of a philosophical piece. That’s not just because I dig the featured homepage image (a rakish, if ostensibly slightly perturbed, Springer Spaniel emerging from the multifunctional Stoll 50), [...]

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Give me a slightly cryptic yet verbally evocative manufacturer’s name in Spanish and I’ll decipher its meaning nine times out of ten. But Italian? Well, that doesn’t come quite so easy, notwithstanding the many similarities between the two languages. So when I came across the firm name “Vismaravetro,” my only supposition was...

Crossville @ HD Expo 2010

By Jacob Slevin

At the HD Expo in Las Vegas this past week, I had the opportunity to talk with Frank Galifianakis, Director of National Accounts for Crossville, Inc. - manufacturer of porcelain, glass and metal tiles. He talked about some of the company’s recent sustainability initiatives - including the Tile Take-Back Program that recycles fired tile. Plus, he [...]

FORMLOS Reintroduces Bitumen and Revolutionizes Object States

By Alicita Rodriguez

Laura Jungmann is bringing objects to life with bitumen. And what exactly is bitumen? Well, it’s a sticky, black, viscous liquid—like tar—that moves very, very slowly. In the past, the inky stuff has been used for paving streets, waterproofing ships, and it even played its hand in the dev...