Like other mini-modernists, Ms. Schmidt often resorts to making furnishings herself — lamps out of beads, tables out of Lucite pillboxes and rugs out of place mats.
The colourful and imaginative interiors at the Swedish Vittra schools have become famous around the world with its custom made furnishings, multifunctional learning spaces, and small niches for concentration and contemplation.
Not only do furnishings made with these materials usually come in a more muted, wintery color palette, but they'll also add texture and that beautiful unfinished quality to the space that is so important when it comes to rustic designs.
Now Mr. Schrager intends to make his furnishings the subject of a cult following too.
As he stretched out on a bed at the Herald Square store, he appeared to be concerned that the pictures might make his furnishings look fat.
Meanwhile, Guildmaster, an SRC affiliate that makes home furnishings, recently attended an important industry trade show held in High Point, N.C.
The bride, 67, was until Friday the design director at Extreme Linen, a New York company that designs and makes home furnishings.
Richard Miller, a sculptor in eastern Pennsylvania, has been making home furnishings for two decades, ever since he fashioned a vase out of a glacial boulder as a present for a friend, and got hooked.
It was Ms. Sunshine who came up with the idea of asking the artists and designers who have made the furnishings for the public rooms to create additional pieces to be sold in the sales office, a k a the Galerie Mark (where sketches and swatches from Mr. Grange's designs for the project are also displayed).
