Interior Design
Friday Five with Ariel Ashe of Ashe + Leandro
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.
Not Your Average Starbucks by Kengo Kuma & Associates
If you've been in one Starbucks, you've been in them all.... or so I used to think before I saw this one designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates. Gone are the generic interiors that you find in most of the empire's coffee shops and instead you'll find a very cool, and peaceful aesthetic at this location that sits close to the Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan.
Land Yacht Concept Trailer by Airstream
Everyone knows the iconic, silvery Airstream trailers from spotting them on the highways or various vacation spots and now they've partnered with Tecnoform (cabinet makers) and Officinia Italiana Design (a design studio) to create the 28' Airstream Land Yacht, a top-notch luxury trailer.
2012 Year in Review: Best of Design Milk
And here we have it, the best of all things Design Milk, the most popular, the designs you just couldn't get enough of that show you like a little bit of everything, from interiors to architecture to home furnishings to art - you like it all. So, feast your eyes on the top 10 favorites of the year because you won't be disappointed...
2012 Year in Review: Best of WTF
And now for the category that can sometimes leave us (and you) scratching our heads and wondering what in the world were they thinking when these designs were created or how in the world did they make that - I now give you our most favorite posts that have us thinking WTF...
2012 Year in Review: Best of Get Out!
We all seem to covet our time in nature so it's only natural that these outdoor furnishings will make our lives not only easier, but more enjoyable. Even though it's winter now for most, take a swing back through the best of our outdoor finds that will make summer seem not that far off in the future.
2012 Year in Review: Design Store(y)
Back in February we started a regular column that goes inside design-focused shops from around the world featuring interviews with shop owners called Design Store(y). It seems that many of you are enjoying it, so we hope to continue next year, but let's take a look back at the great stores we toured in 2012.