Totokaelo Art—Object

Fashion authority Jill Wenger expands into design with a new sister site

What might have been confined as one of Seattle’s best-kept secrets, Totokaelo fortunately grew from a brick-and-mortar shop in the Fremont neighborhood to an online boutique turning out a sharply edited selection of minimalist fashion. Founder and creative director Jill Wenger has honed an impeccable eye for clothing and accessories that balance timeless elegance with a sense of sartorial adventure—the name is Latin for “reach …

Partisans

Young architects seek to shake up design norms from Mecca to your living room

Alex Josephson, Pooya Baktash and their fellow architects at Toronto-based Partisans are engaging in architectural guerrilla warfare. They want your attention and, most likely, they’ll get it as they poke, prod, shock and awe you into changing the way you see the world, or at least its buildings. “Everyone at Partisans is young. The average age is 26,” says Josephson. “The idea was to graduate …

G&T by Bethan Gray

Polished marble meets turned wood in a new furniture line

Discovered alongside Anthony Dicken’s Tekio lighting at Clerkenwell Design Week was a beautiful range of tables by British furniture designer Bethan Gray. This capsule collection has been created by Gray in collaboration with furniture developer Thomas Turner and launched under their recently established G&T label. The G&T collection grabbed our attention with its considered offering of five minimal but luxuriously detailed table designs. The first …