7 Designers Introduce Industrial Products
These seven noteworthy designers launch exciting industrial products into the marketplace.
Designers: Alex Proba for Wallpaper Projects
Product: Projects N.1
Made in: Brooklyn, New York
Standout: The Studio Proba founder pairs with the boutique maker to create an evocative series of type II vinyl wall coverings distinguished by dynamic collaged patterns.
Designers: Kate Casey of Peg Woodworking
Product: Zetlin
Made in: Brooklyn, New York
Standout: Classical columns and the 1964 world’s fair New York State
Pavilion observation towers were the inspirations behind these marble-top cocktail tables with bleached or ebonized ash bases.
Designers: Alex Brokamp of Alex Brokamp
Product: Handle With Care
Made in: Los Angeles
Standout: The designer’s table riffs on the plebian pallet, with a mirror-polish aluminum base supporting low-iron-glass boxes, printed with a chipboard effect and shipping crate labels.
Designers: Dylan Davis and Jean Lee of Ladies & Gentlemen Studio
Product: Myrna
Made in: Seattle
Standout: The jaunty tilt of a wide-brimmed hat worn by 1930s screen siren Myrna Loy sparked the Brooklyn studio’s blackened-aluminum light fixture, with a sliding counterweight that adjusts the shade up or down.
Designers: Fredrik Färg and Emma Marga Blanche for Bernhardt Design
Product: High Noon
Made in: Henderson, North Carolina
Standout: From Färg & Blanche’s A Stitch in Time collection, a textile interweaving cotton, recycled nylon, and rayon has a dotted-circle pattern referencing Swedish crispbread.