Studio Visit: Electric Love

The Brooklyn space where dreamcatchers are spun from leather and feathers

Upon walking into the Brooklyn studio of Charlie Walker and Hitomi Matarese, the husband-and-wife founders of Electric Love, you feel an almost immediate calm, either from the gentle scent of patchouli and leather wafting through the air or the rhythmic sound of hands at work. “I’ve lived and worked off and on in this building for about ten years. I think I’ve lived in every …

Seating at Maison et Objet 2013

Plush, rump-ready seating options seen at Maison et Objet

A perennial delight, Maison et Objet can also be an exhausting experience. Miles and miles of high design leave you craving nothing more than a frumpy pillow bed to slump down on. As part of our coverage from Maison et Objet 2013, here are a few highlights that show off the softer side of the Parisian design fair. CO9 Lounge Rabbit Back in 1998, irreverent …

Interview: Tom Peters and the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

We talk inspiration, heritage and hate mail with the designer of the hottest new American sports car

Chevrolet announced the all new 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray to grand applause and a few raised eyebrows at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. Just the seventh iteration since the iconic car’s inception in 1953, the redesign is all about moving the model, and the company, forward. Rather than playing it safe with some surface tweaks, the C7 evolves and, in some cases, removes some of …