Bradley Price: Angle Parking

For the forthcoming ICFF in New York, Brooklynite Right now, the prototype is fabricated from grey lacquered MDF and blue upholstered vertical elements, though I think an ideal manufacturing partnership would take this in a direction of mass customization, allowing users to select from an infinite variety of lacquers and fabrics. Former University of Michigan graduate Bradley spent several years cutting his design teeth in …

Korakot Aromdee: Tie the Knot

Thai artist Korakot Aromdee is a product of his surroundings. His art pairs one of his home town's most abundant resources with the time-honored Asian art of kite-flying. In creating his large scale sculptures and hanging lighting, he employs the "tie and knot" technique from kite construction, which he learned from his grandfather. He uses only bamboo, and specifically bamboo that is aged more that …

Roy McMakin: For

Just in time for next week's ICFF in New York, Any of this work could easily be integrated into a contemporary furniture manufacturer's catalog; one readily finds the confluence of ornament and Shaker-style tendencies in the collection of the Dutch company Moooi, for example. Still, McMakin's latest pieces are not simply mash-ups, nor can they strictly be considered furniture. There's something oddly unsettling about not …