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Interior Designer Susie Novak
Tell us what you do, and what you’re excited to be working on right now. I am the Principal Designer/Owner of Susie Novak Interiors, a boutique interior design firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. We specialize in creating liveable yet luxurious spaces, often pairing bold statement pieces with soothing color palettes. We’re currently working...
From the Builder: R.L. Baxter Building Corp.
Small towns have a way of creating an opportunity a little differently than bigger cities. In small towns, connections are driven by proximity, location, and existing relationships, and for R.L. Baxter Building Corp. this provided space for a high school teacher to found and grow a multimillion-dollar boutique construction firm building high-end projects across the Hudson Valley…
From the Product Manufacturers: How a Trash Bin Inspired These “Hotels”
The Vipp trash bin (or really just the “bin”) is something of a product design staple in Europe, and it has migrated overseas in recent years to become recognizable among designers and architects. It has even found a spot in MoMA’s design collection. Created in 1939 by Danish metal worker Holger Nielsen’s for his wife’s beauty salon,…
From the Architect: How Transparency Transformed our Firm
In architecture school, we were always taught to keep our knowledge and ideas hidden under a veil of secrecy from other architects – and certainly from our clients. I assumed that it was based on the idea that if we isolated ourselves from other professionals, our art wouldn’t be affected by their influences. Or maybe…
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