Marni Katz

Destination Design goes to Panama City for a peek inside a newly-opened hotel with rooms designed by local artists.

David Collins culls the visual language for his geometric planes of color from recollections of airports, homes, and construction sites.

Find out what inspires the talent behind Hemingway Design, from the British shores to physical activity and the surroundings of home.

Watch the process of how David Geckeler's simple, modern Nerd chair is sketched, produced and assembled.

The Interwebs are filled with plywood, from furniture to entire rooms. Here we spotlight twelve spectacular spaces, all featuring the unfini

We head to San Francisco to visit with Rachel Gant and Andrew Deming of Yield Design as they prepare for their first product launch—a nifty bag that unfolds into a picnic blanket.

Abstract painter Yolanda Sanchez earned an MFA from Yale in the mid '90s, 15 years after earning a Ph.D. Clinical Psychology from Florida State. It's not surprising that in her artist's statement, Sanchez discusses how her work is "a gathering of [her] awareness of being," and that her goal is "to become a more finely tuned observer." What is obvious to us, and of course the reason we chose her for this week's CMYLK, is that she clearly lives in a beautifully colored world.

Ariel Ashe, interior designer and principal founder of New York City architecture and interior design firm Ashe + Leandro, started her professional life as an intern at Saturday Night Live. Perhaps not the expected path for a chic city designer who was just named by Architectural Digest as a design talent to watch in its prestigious AD100 issue. However, Ashe did, after all, study scenery and lighting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Judging from her Friday Five picks, we can safely say her inspirations are both dynamic and eclectic.

There's nothing like the holidays to inspire one's inner Martha Stewart. But who needs to get all New England? New Year's Eve, after all, is more glitz and glam than country baked ham. While a woodsy palette with simple white ceramics, a touch of moss, and a sprinkling of pine cones can delight the modern maven, other palettes are equally as pretty. Above, a winter wonderland that's modern and femme, and finally, at the bottom, the gold sparkle that is always a win on December 31. We hope you'll find inspiration in these festive table settings and corresponding Colourlovers palettes. Happy New Year!

Photography/director team Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner are principals in the New York-based studio Floto + Warner. Their photos have appeared in Time, W Magazine, and Wallpaper; other clients include Prada and Volkswagen. I found them via Pinterest in my quest for colored smoke landscape photos (they created a beautiful colored smoke video). You can see from this trio of color-popping images that their work is irresistible. I had fun using Colourlovers to create palettes for this week's CMYLK.

Evan Clabots, who studied at RISD and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, not only won awards as a student, but designed a licensed a product with IKEA before graduating. In 2004, he joined Dror Benshetrit's studio as Benshetrit's first hire, where he headed both the Product Design and Interior Design departments. In 2004, Clabots founded Nonlinear Studio, a multidisciplinary business that offers aproduct design, furniture design, interior design, brand identity, and art direction. For Clabots, design is a process of developing a complete story. He seeks the interconnected play between what something looks like, how it works, and how it interacts with someone’s life. Let's see what he chooses for inspiration for this week's Friday Five.

Design Store(y) heads to the East Village this holiday season to tour Still House, owned by Pratt graduate Urte Tylaite. The 300-square-foot sliver of a space was designed by Brooklyn-based firm Silva/Bradshaw, and features wood plank floors, a dropped wood plank ceiling, narrow wood plank shelving along the walls, and plywood display cases down the middle. Tylaite features items from local designers, plus pieces from Scandinavia and Japan. Still House opened its doors a bit over 18 months ago; we've been dying to get inside.