Trizin Stools

Minimally designed seating finds strength in warped wood

While exploring Milan’s Lambrate neighborhood during last week’s Salone del Mobile, we found no shortage of inspiration outside the fair. Inside one of many abandoned warehouse-turned-exhibition spaces we came across a group of promising young designers from Tel Aviv. While each designer involved in the TLV Express collective did well to experiment with materials and technology, Michael Blumenfeld‘s TRIZIN Stools caught our attention with an …

Okolo Mollino

A paper-engineering tribute to Italian designer Carlo Mollino

Okolo has long been a favorite destination for great finds in Eastern Europe. One of their latest projects caught our attention when we ran into them in Milan during Design Week—a simply bound, spine-less book on the life and work of Carlo Mollino. “Okolo Mollino” represents the publisher’s tribute to the 20th-century Italian renaissance man, whose interests and talent took him from notability in architecture …

A Girl and Her Pig

April Bloomfield on cookbooks, swine and the flavors of childhood

Having established both her talent and an unassuming sense of cool, April Bloomfield has chosen an appropriate cover shot for her new cookbook, “A Girl and Her Pig“, which shows the chef nonchalantly posed with a very dead hog slung across her shoulders. Her landmark restaurant The Spotted Pig and its follow-up The Breslin both welcome a whole pig each week to be butchered at …