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Frontier-Style Goods for the 21st Century
Peg and Awl is an enterprising workshop that makes use of scrap wood and leather from WWII gun holsters in its household designs. It's the brainchild of Margaux and Walter Kent, neo-homesteaders in...
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A Napa Valley Architect Designs Himself a Restaurant
Northern Californian architect Howard Backen designs an office for himself—and adds an adjoining restaurant that draws the locals in St. Helena. Backen (of Backen Gillam Kroeger Architects) is well...
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5 Favorites: Stainless Steel Office Drawers
I've always envied architects' blue print cabinets. Their size is impractical for a standard home office, but there are other stainless steel paper storage drawers that offer great storage in smaller...
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8 Ways to Stay Focused When You Work at Home, from the Unclutterer
Work at home? When we first began Remodelista, we met once a week around Julie's dining room table and worked at home the rest of the time. (We had no trouble focusing on work at home; our challenge,...
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Reader Rehab: A California Kitchen Gets a Mix of Old and New
Classical pianist Lara Downes and evolutionary biologist Rick Grosberg approached the renovation and expansion of their circa-1962 kitchen in Davis, California with a mutual desire to reimagine past...
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10 Easy Pieces: Adjustable Task Lamps (Under $200)
We've presented our most coveted, high-priced task lamps in the past (see 10 Easy Pieces: Task Lamps). This week we look at a few more reasonably priced options. Above: West Elm's Industrial Task Lamp...
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High-Style Desk Accessories, with a Japanese Edge
You can never have enough storage for small items surrounding your desk area. These wooden containers (part of the Soji Collection designed by Mute) work perfectly for storing paper clips, pins, or...
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Radical Color for the Office: Kolor in Germany
Urban edge for the office: Berlin-based design collective Kolor combines fluorescent paint and plywood in their line of office furniture. Above two: The plywood retains its natural color; an...
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6 Desk-Worthy Clipboards
Spotted in yesterday's restaurant French Blue: clipboards used for taking orders. It's an accessory that has enduring appeal. Here's a roundup of our latest finds. Above: The Rubber Band Clipboard...
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A Shared Work Space for Portland Makers
Take a neglected 7,000-square-foot industrial building in North Portland, introduce nine creatives looking to elevate craft in the modern era, and what you might get is something like Beam &...
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Studio Visit: Alison Kendall's Art Studio
Artists tend to inhabit their studios the way others inhabit their homes, and a visit to painter/collagist Alison Kendall’s studio reveals her journey from science to art. Spotted on In the Make,...
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Desk Accessories from Africa, via West Elm
Papier-mâché desk accessories good enough for use beyond the office. We're loving these papier-mâché office goods spotted at West Elm. Made by a collaborative from Wola Nani, a Cape Town–based...
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10 Easy Pieces: Design-Worthy Mailboxes
We might live in the digital age, but there is still nothing better than a good old-fashioned letter, even if they are few and far between. Here's a roundup of 10 design-worthy mailboxes, a small...
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5 Favorites: Longevity-Promoting Standing Desks
Ever since we heard the bummer stats about the dangers of sitting and working (really? we're 40 percent more likely to die in the next three years by blogging for Remodelista?), we've been thinking...
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Fashion's Night Out in Marin: Creative Growth at Erica Tanov
Spotted today on Sacramento Street (one of our local favorite local blogs): a visit with local clothing designer Erica Tanov in her workspace at home. Tanov, who has an eye for "enduring beauty," has...
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Honest Furniture from Ohio Design in San Francisco
Ohio Design, located in an industrial space turned woodworking studio in San Francisco's Mission District, is the go-to furniture fabricator for Silicon Valley's style-conscious tech companies....
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Live/Work in Echo Park: A Designer at Home
We've been tracking furniture and lighting designer Brendan Ravenhil's upward trajectory for a while now. He and his wife, Marjory, recently moved into a midcentury modern house in Echo Park, where...
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Style Counsel: Work Totes for the Long Haul
We're always on the lookout for the perfect work bag; one that can accommodate the necessities of the day while still radiating style; here's a roundup of the bags we carry (lug) at Remodelista. Have...
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The Notebook That Launched a Business
When LA-based Wakako Takagi discovered the Traveler's Notebook in her native Japan four years ago, she told herself that one day she would open a shop. And she did. Baum-Kuchen—an online resource for...
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A Work in Progress: Ben Pentreath's Parsonage in Dorset
It’s fair to say that our London-based architectural and interior designer friend Ben Pentreath knows a bit about English decoration; an entire book’s worth in fact. Up until this week, Pentreath’s...
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