The place I Work: Christina Z Antonio
Born and raised in London in a household of Greek leather-based artisans, New York Metropolis-based artist and furnishings designer Christina Z Antonio creates a spread of progressive furnishings, lighting, and objects from supplies together with leather-based, parchment, gem stones, wooden, metallic, and blown glass. In January, we landed in Christina’s Chelsea studio to see the place she goals up her much-coveted works.
The place I Work: David Weeks 2021
After first testing New York-based designer David Weeks’ studio in 2012, we determined it was time for an replace after shifting to a brand new studio in Mattress-Stuy. In his Brooklyn studio, he designs and develops a various assortment, from lighting and furnishings, to equipment and his tremendous enjoyable Cubebot® wood robotic toys. To see how issues have modified within the 9 years since we caught up, we headed to Brooklyn in February to see his new digs.
The place I Work: Dave Palmer of LOVE
Dave Palmer is the Govt Inventive Director of LOVE, a UK-based artistic company that focuses on storytelling and creating visionary branding, packaging, and promoting for prime international manufacturers. Situated in Manchester’s Northern Quarter in an outdated Victorian textiles warehouse that’s been transformed into places of work, LOVE is unfold over two flooring and encompasses a “Victorian-industrial” vibe with playful native humor and cultural references. Plus, there’s a revolving door of the staff’ canines and two bars! We needed to see it for ourselves, so in March we (just about) jumped the pond to see the workplace house that was ready for all the staff to return to as soon as it was secure post-pandemic.
The place I Work: Leonardo and Marzia Dainelli of Dainelli Studio
In April we landed in Milan, proper within the Brera district, residence to Dainelli Studio. Based by designers and designers Leonardo and Marzia Dainelli in 2007, the follow designs interiors for personal and public areas, in addition to collaborating with famous residence furnishings manufacturers, like Arketipo, Fendi Casa, Fratelli Boffi, Gallotti&Radice, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Londonart, and Mogg, to call a couple of. The duo had not too long ago gone again to the workplace after lockdown, sharing their refined studio which boasts an elegant black and white shade palette with impartial tones added as accents. The companions shared the welcoming setup designed to really feel like a front room, together with how they work within the house.
The place I Work: Aly Velji of Alykhan Velji Design
For over 14 years, Principal Designer Aly Velji has run his eponymous boutique design agency, Alykhan Velji Designs, in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in each residential and business design. Velji’s agency has perfected a timeless aesthetic by seamlessly merging trendy and basic parts and bringing their purchasers’ visions to life. This time, he grew to become the shopper in an effort to design his agency’s new headquarters. For Might, we went north to Canada to study extra about Velji, his follow, and his new residential-inspired workplace house.
The place I Work: Daniel Lantz of Graf Lantz
Holger Graf and Daniel Lantz based Graf Lantz in Los Angeles in 2009, taking inspiration from Holger’s German heritage and Daniel’s ardour for Japanese aesthetics. The unconventional residence + way of life model, recognized for updating and reimagining basic kinds utilizing sturdy and sustainable merino wool felt and high quality leather-based, creates an ever-expanding line of sensible and useful objects for the house and workplace, tech equipment, and every kind of luggage + totes for each event. June landed us of their Silver Lake studio as Daniel Lantz confirmed us round to see how and the place their designs come to life.
The place I Work: Keng-Fu Lo of Chain10
Again in July, we met up with Keng-Fu Lo, an architect and managing director of Chain10 Structure + Inside Design Institute, within the Lingya District of Taiwan. The award-winning agency delivers progressive, cutting-edge tasks with a concentrate on nature and wellness, all sustainably minded and providing key connections between individuals and their surroundings. Lo shared extra concerning the house, which he designed, with views of the Kaohsiung Port, a inexperienced backyard on the storage’s roof, and an in depth e book assortment lining the partitions.
The place I Work: Enis Karavil of Sanayi313 Architects
Enis Karavil is artistic director and co-founder of Sanayi313 Architects, a multidisciplinary studio he launched along with his brother, Amir, in Istanbul, Turkey in 2015. After finding out inside design at Inchbald Faculty of Design in London, Enis enlisted his brother’s enterprise experience to kind each their equipment model, in addition to their structure and design studio, Sanayi313 Architects. For August, Enis introduced us inside their industrial studio, previously an auto restore store, to see how he works.
The place I Work: Girls & Gents Studio
Girls & Gents Studio, based in 2010 by Dylan Davis and Jean Lee, convey a considerate method to their array of merchandise, together with jewellery, small objects, lighting, and furnishings. The Brooklyn-based pair met whereas finding out industrial design and went on to kind their studio the place they create work that continues to encourage a way of curiosity and wonderment. This previous September had us visiting their Brooklyn studio to get a style of their house and design course of.
The place I Work: Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays of The Invisible Assortment
In October, we (just about) landed in Paris to see the place Isabelle Durbern-Mallevays has been dwelling and dealing through the pandemic. The Invisible Assortment co-founder needed to get artistic about her workspace as soon as journey to her London place stopped. That meant carving out a comfortable house to focus in her open, light-filled Parisian flat. She shared how she brings all of it collectively and stays impressed whereas staying in a single place.
The place I Work: Ryan Saghian
Ryan Saghian is a not-quite 30-year-old inside designer who based his eponymous agency on the ripe age of 21, launched a couture furnishings line in 2014, opened a flagship showroom in Los Angeles in 2016, collaborated with Bijou on his personal wallcoverings assortment in 2018, launched his SoHo dinnerware in 2020, and most not too long ago, created a group of rugs in 2021. His extremely sought-after aesthetic of outdated Hollywood glamour meets trendy millennial retains him and his employees of six busy with high-end residential and hospitality tasks. In November, we went to Los Angeles to see his newly designed workplace on Robertson and third to see extra about his work fashion and artistic house.
The place I Work: Tom Dixon
For the final The place I Work of 2021, we had to take a look at Design Milk favourite Tom Dixon and his headquarters, The Coal Workplace, in London’s King’s Cross. He designed his studio and places of work, along with his showroom, flagship store, and restaurant, multi functional location, the place his distinctive lighting, furnishings, objects, candles, and many others. are on distinguished show. The British icon shared about his design course of, the way it modified through the pandemic, and a bit about his expansive London compound.
