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AltLuxe: Peak Curtains
By Regina Connell. It became a meme a couple of months ago, this notion of “peak curtains.” This pithy phrase came from Steve Howard, IKEA’s head of sustainability, speaking at The Guardian’s...
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Reviving craft as enlightened self-interest
Knowledge is in the hand By Regina Connell However you feel about luxury, and in particular conventional luxury fashion and design (all those labels, all those ads!) you have to admit it: it is the...
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Hygge and All That: What’s Found in Translation
By Regina Connell. Language. It unites, it separates, it delights. In this political season when words are mostly used to unite in order to divide, I’m focusing on the delight side of things. Wabi Sabi...
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Shaking the House: Seeking Out “Ugliness”
By Regina Connell. Spring Cleaning It’s not just Marie Kondo and Martha Stewart anymore. It seems that these days, everyone’s cottoned onto the idea of a good spring clean. There are even apps that...
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Composure: Permanence
By Kyle Studstill. Composure If we are to do our best work in the face of constant chaos and change, perhaps we must first hone our inner virtues as guidance. Composure produces an ongoing series of...
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Craftsmanship & Geopolitics
By Regina Connell There’s been a buzz in the world of craft and artisanship of late, and I’m not talking about a new artisanal brew, air-dried hachiko persimmons or hand-turned foraged wood beard...
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The New, “New” Thing
By Regina Connell. Part of what we stand for is the appreciation of the imperfect, the undone, the used. These are states of being and evolution in objects (and people for that matter) that connect you...
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AltLuxe: Is Cool Where It’s At?
By Regina Connell. I have these friends—smart, accomplished, reasonably self-aware grownups—who a great many people would consider cool, very cool. And yet, these friends are earnestly obsessed with...
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AltLuxe: Learning to Wait
By Regina Connell. I recently received a gift from no less than Francois-Henri Pinault, the head of Kering, which holds a good chunk of the luxury industry. No, it wasn’t a little something from...
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The Seductive Danger of the New, New Thing
By Regina Connell. I’ve long been an admirer of David Trubridge. At first it was just his designs. But then after we did our interview with him, I developed a whole new respect for his way of building...
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