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Live Modern: Suntro House
Last night I was thinking about getting business cards with rounded corners and I thought to myself how nice rounded corners are. They’re still structural but not too harsh. They still tell a shape...
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Modern Etsy: Jessedirk
What do we look for when we are scouring the hundreds of thousands of Etsy users when it comes to choosing someone to highlight for our Modern Etsy segment? Well, someone who makes things that we...
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Hill Country Views with the Wimberley House
Does it seem like we focus on Texas-centered architects or Texas properties a lot around here? Well, it just so happens that your friendly blog editor-in-chief (Adrienne) lives in Texas (Austin, to be...
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Vid: Matthias Pliessnig Wraps a Thonet Chair
Loving this video of artist and furniture maker Matthias Pliessnig wrapping a Thonet chair. For those of you who don’t know, Michael Thonet pioneered the art of bending wood, forever opening up a...
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Live Modern: BBD House
Just loving this house! It’s such a perfect mix of old and new when you begin to examine its details. First to catch our eye are those lovely, rounded corners of the house. Instantly creating a...
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Live Modern: Maison P+C
What does a home that looks good at every angle look like? Why, this house, called Maison P + C. If you guessed by the title that it’s a French home, you’d be right. Located in Indre, France, to be...
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Interiors: The SuperGroup
We’d say we have a healthy obsession with what we’d call “future decor.” In other words, we’re always daydreaming about what homes, offices and businesses might look like in the future. Will they look...
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For the skateboard lovers.
Skate-Home makes, you guessed it, skateboard-themed decor, from benches (kind of nice actually), to upholstered chairs (we’re on the fence about) to even light fixtures for the wall (we just don’t...
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Live Modern: Country House
What does the perfect intersection between traditional, country style and modernism look like? Like this incredible home by dva arhitekta located in Bijaca, Bosnia and Herzegovina. “The approach of...
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Live Modern: Villa P
Anyone else notice a trend of naming homes with just a letter? We’ve had a few in the past, like a Villa G, House R, 4S House, Maison P+C and more. We wonder if they stand for anything interesting?...
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We Like What They Do: Caroline Gomez
In our efforts to WILL spring to us, we are focusing on posting about designers whose work is so lovely we know spring will come rushing back to us as soon as they see what we publish. Example:...
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Modern Bio: Alvar Aalto
Believe us: There are plenty of benefits to carrying such awesome and prestigious brands as our newest, Iittala (among them, of course, being able to offer such gorgeous items for the home for...
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We like what they do: BDDW
A new aesthetic trend started growing a couple of years ago…a sort of look that’s one part traditional, one part masculine, one part hunting lodge, one part French country house, one part trip to the...
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Böwer furniture at imm cologne
We’ve been keeping our eyes focused on the international furnishings show in Germany, imm cologne, for any new or cool or awesome stuff when we came across the New Impressions 2012 line by German...
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We Like What They Do: Fern
A Brooklyn-based handmade furniture company Fern is totally making us happy today. Run by Jason Roskey, Maggie Goudsmit and one-year-old Beatrice (though there are rumors that Little Beatrice doesn’t...
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How-to: Turn a dumpy table to a bench
Modern doesn’t always have to mean buying a fancy new piece of furniture (though, if you want to, we have a lot of nice affordable furniture over at 2Modern), it can mean rehabbing something that...
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Live Modern: Shou Sugi Ban
What’s up with our obsession with modern additions to more traditional homes lately?! You know sometimes we start looking for something that appeals to us (remember that barn trend we were on for...
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We Like What They Do: Lagomorph Designs
Seth Deysach of Lagomorph Design got a lot of attention for his awesome bikes. And they’re awesome, don’t get us wrong. But like his tagline says: “High end furniture and mind blowing bicycles.” He...
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Trend: Modern Romance
Those wild about modern design will appreciate incorporating passion-inducing furniture and accessories into their home. The best way to get blood pumping is with a little hue therapy in the form of...
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Live Modern: Stealth Barn
Okay we know we say this about almost every piece of architecture we showcase on the 2Modern blog, but mark it: this really is our dream house. Actually designed to be a guest house or studio next to...
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We Like What They Do: The Design Pallet
If there’s one thing we love a tad bit more than awesome modern design it’s awesome modern design made with reclaimed materials. It’s just impressive when you can take something that used to be...
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Rib Armchair by Ricardo Garza Marcos
Mexican designer and architect, Ricardo Garza Marcos, has released a new design project. Say hello to the Rib Armchair. Marcos, who founded rgarzamarcos Design in Monterrey, Mexico, consistently...
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We Like What They Do: Ka-Lai Chan
Ka-Lai Chan started a design studio soon after graduating from school in 2009, planning to specialize in interior designs. She’s got a great mix of cultures, being a young Dutch designer of Asian...
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Interiors: Het zwarte huis (The black house)
You know our love affair with modern homes that don’t feel cold and sterile, rather warm and inviting. This project by Bakers Architecten in Utrecht, Netherlands definitely fits that description...
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Duffy London’s Shadow Chairs, by Chris Duffy
Optical illusions for the home are good, we think. Or at the very least kind of fun! Digging these shadow chairs and shadow rugs by Duffy London, helmed by witty idea-maker Chris Duffy. Available in...
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Mutation by Maarten De Ceulaer
What’s with this trend of posting design-y things that are kind of cool but also kind of creepy we’ve got going on this week? No comment. Just came across designer Maarten De Ceulaer’s “Mutation”...
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Interview with Monte Design Group, in honor of our “Glide into Spring” contest!
Reposting this great interview with Monte Design Group, who are furnishing the awesome grand prize in our going-on-right-now-so-hurry “Glide Into Spring” Contest. Comfort. That’s not a word we use...
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4 DIY details: 2 for you and 2 for your home
Don’t have a lot of time but want to add unique, hip touches of DIY to your home? We scour the internet for you to find the coolest of DIY projects that don’t take a lot of time or money to do. Here...
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Purple Hill House by Iroje KHM Architects
“Angles is not something this house is lacking in.” “Sheesh, leave some angles for the rest of us!” “If a transformer and the mom from Beetlejuice built a home together, it’d look like this.” These...
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New FUBI Home Office Series from IN
FUBI — which stands for “Furniture Used By Individual — is a brand from the company IN. “The main goal was to consolidate like-minded people to work together. These conditions are great for...
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Eric Trine’s Earthy, Modern, Well-made Stuff
Yum. We love when craftspeople describe themselves as a “maker of things.” Really shows that they feel connected to the actual process of building with materials. Which, in turn, makes people feel...
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Zoë Mowat’s Warm Forms & Furniture
We sound like a broken record sometimes, but truly: we’re amazed that anyone can come up with a new design with traditional furniture shapes anymore! It always seems like everything’s been done before...
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Jobe Fabrications’ Industrial, Handmade Looks
Bryan Jobe of Jobe Fabrications loves steel. Like, loves. The way it looks, the way it feels. He loves steel so much, it plays the starring role in the modern/industrial furniture he makes under the...
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Look Out For: Alice Tacheny Design
Probably our favorite trend to evolve in recent years in modern furniture design is the idea of longevity. Of pieces that you will invest in and that will last a very long time. Your lifetime, yes,...
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ICFF Video: Michael Iannone!
Can’t get enough of his awesomeness? Listen to an interview we did of his awhile ago, Exclusive Interview: Michael Iannone of Iannone Design. Find his products on 2Modern: Iannone Design.
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RAD Furniture’s Howard Stool
All-weather. Stackable. Available in 3 sizes and various colors. Powder-coated. Fresh design. Modern. AWESOME. We foretold of Howard’s coming in our last RAD Furniture post about the Barbara Stool,...
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Daniel Schofield Makes Cool Furniture
Daniel Schofield makes cool furniture for modern spaces. For small spaces. For spaces filled with people who only want to fill spaces with cool things. Characterized by blond wood, pops of bold color,...
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Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading
I love this concept from Austin TX based, Trout Studios, furniture makers. A novel idea to use a seat on a chain instead of a ladder to get to those out of reach books. Their system of L shaped...
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French & Fabulous Furniture: Singularité
Founded in 2012, Singularité is a furniture company that works closely with emerging design and art talent in France and Europe — folks who love high-quality craftsmanship, creativity, experimentation...
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GABRIEL SCOTT Blackened Gold Collection
Got a lovely email from the folks behind GABRIEL SCOTT, a Canada-based design team comprised of GABRIEL Kakon and SCOTT Richler: ”We are GABRIEL SCOTT. We are furniture designers who’ve recently...
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