Articles David Sokol
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Peter Cook: On Lines and Shadows
I am riffing off the term “unsung” with architect Peter Cook. “I feel very appreciated professionally and personally,” responds this principal at the New York–based firm Davis Brody Bond Aedas. Read
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Unsung America - Bruce Fifield: Fanny-tastic
“The first two minutes of a person’s interaction with a chair are incredibly important to how a person judges that chair and compares it to other products on the marketplace.” Read
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Unsung America - Maine Journal: Like Father, Not Like Son
As a teenager, I remember flipping through the back pages of The New York Times Magazine and stumbling across advertisements for Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers. Read
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Sara Sheth: Weaving Vision and Elbow Grease
If you ever receive an invitation to explore the inner workings of Maharam’s New York headquarters, accept quickly. This all-white office space is clearly the domain of a laudable neatnik. Read
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Maine Journal: Outward Bound
Where are the local architects? Sourcing furniture through Addo Novo, perhaps. Read
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Maine Journal: Needles in Haystack
Driving along Maine’s intestinal coastline, words and phrases like “bottom line” and “hardscrabble” appear in street and farm names. Appropriate: The local climate can be challenging, and its craggy land able to drive an Anne Proulx character to madness. Read
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Garth Roberts: On His Own Terms
There is a roughly 50-50 chance of meeting up with Garth Roberts in Milan. Like so many product designers nowadays Roberts darts from client meeting to seminar to fellowship with seeming disregard for international borders. Read
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Maine Journal
No design tour of Maine is complete without a stop in Portland. This tiny city is the largest in the state. Somehow, that’s emblematic: Despite all its efforts to be cosmopolitan, muscular coastline and forests are always nearby. Read
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Unsung America: Less Callous in Calais
In searching for an American design, one may as well start at a bookend. The sun rises over Calais, Maine, the easternmost city in the United States. But it has set here, too. Read
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Chris Redfern: Echoes of Ettore
Chris Redfern shouldn’t worry himself about youth. The British-born designer is only 36. For one-third of his life he has worked with Ettore Sottsass. And since Sottsass’ death in December 2007, Redfern has deftly led the studio in closing one chapter and starting a new one. Read
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Unsung America: Pop!Tech
Pop!Tech is a yearly conference held in Camden, Maine. Andrew Zolli will tell you, though, that it’s really a community of innovators whose ongoing dialogue just happens to culminate in the annual retreat. Read
