Notes from the Showroom Floor...

In the early 1950's, Nebraska born designer and artist, Don Shoemaker created a furniture and décor company called Señal. The Mexico based company focused on using the local craftsmen and exotic materials to create their unique...

"Respecting one of the most important houses in the world whilst showing how an individual can live comfortably and still be a collector without taking away from the architecture."

The best design is almost always collaborative, so we paired up with designer Christopher Allen to take over his Santa Monica bungalow with some of his favorite DEN pieces. 

Inspired by our new Egina 38 Pendant by Angelo Mangiarotti for Artemide, it’s time to talk about High Tech (AKA Structural Expressionism AKA The Industrial Style).

Read ‘em and weep Max Bill fans! The Figuration series, from which this table lamp hails, is a collection of variants featuring opal glass globes mounted on white-enameled rods clustered or...

An important precursor to modernism, functionalism — the doctrine that the design of buildings and objects should be determined by their function — sprang up throughout Europe in between the...

What do lucite and quilts have in common? A wedding band quilt – a lovely pattern of interlocking rings often featuring distinctive scalloped edges – is cited as one of...

This marble column, an archetypal Neo-Plastic work from 1964 by Russian emmigré Ilya Bolotowsky, is essentially the fine art sibling to your Saarinen Tulip Table. Both objects strip away extraneous...

Surprise, it’s NOT Walter Lamb – but we bet it almost fooled you.  This bar cart was designed in the early 1980s by a new arrival at Brown Jordan, Richard Frinier. The...

Is this a really cool lamp, or a reason to feel bad about your career achievements so far? Can’t it be both? This postmodern banker’s lamp was designed by Robert Sonneman for George...

Don’t let the mirror shine or diminutive footprint fool you, this Swid Powell bowl holds multitudes beneath its silver surface.

Let’s start with a truly gobsmacking fact about this chair: though it clocks in at just under 7 lbs, factory testing from its debut in 1952 shows it to support...