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Design We Love – Venice Chairs
These exquisite, custom-made, classical Venice chairs from Industrial Storm somehow manage to epitomize both modernist severity and economy of line with with a luxurious sense of timeless, old-world comfort. The chairs come in two models (one slightly larger than the …
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Design we love – Verso Contemporary Pendant Lamps.
As gorgeous as Industrial Storm’s hanging lights are, they are admittedly quite expensive. For those who don’t want to put quite so much into a lamp, there is this sleek alternative–at designer Julie Jenkinson’s Verso. These contemporary grey, steel, pendant …
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Design We Love – Industrial Storm
These exquisitely designed and crafted hanging lamps from Sterling and Son, New York–and available at Toronto’s Industrial Storm–feature glass canopies and metal liners. The lamps come in three sizes, with diameters of 18 inches, 23.25 inches and 31 inches. …
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Design we love: Industrial Storm’s cracked coffee table
This lean, noble table–Industrial Storm‘s Cracked Coffee Table–is visually powerful enough to be regarded as both furniture and sculpture. Described by Industrial Storm’s Hanson Tan as “Asian inspired with a contemporary sensibility,” the table features a top …
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Design we love: the Duke lamp
This guileless-looking but somehow cheerfully forceful lamp–the Duke table lamp by Salgado Saucier of Milford, Pennsylvania–is made of resin with a silk shade. According to Hanson Tan of Industrial Storm you can have the lamp “in any colour in the …
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Design we love: the Luna table
“We live our lives in the middle of things. Material culture carries emotions and ideas of startling intensity. Yet only recently have objects begun to receive the attention they
deserve.”
-Sherry Turkle, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (MIT Press, …
