Coast to Coast Continues! Colony Lassos up Great Design in Austin
The latest city Colony set out to see on the Coast to Coast series is the infinitely creative Austin, Texas.
Special thanks to Emily Rae Pellerin of Colony for the following post.
Saddled up with Design Milk, we ? Colony, a NY-based community of independent furniture, lighting, textiles and objects designers ? have developed this series of trips and editorial ?city snapshots? to explore the United States in the name of design, discovery and inspiration. We?ve been to Detroit, Nashville, New Orleans, and the Santa Fe region of New Mexico. Austin, long lauded for its music, film and food scenes, felt like a natural next destination to find where design fit in with these other creative circles.
We kicked off a whirlwind trip hopping between studios, homes, workshops and retailers with a visit to Yucca Stuff. The furniture maker behind the brand, Daniel Morrison, launched his line when he was living in Brooklyn. Yucca Stuff?s Lavaca Table, whose name nods to the Texas River and whose limestone legs are sourced out west.
Texan-born, Morrison returned to Austin a little over a year ago and now shares a massive woodworking and fabrication shop with other makers. His show-and-telling of different types of limestone ? a Texas specialty ? really rocked. (*We?d like to thank Design Milk for letting us get away with that pun.)
Rachel Wolfson Smith?s studio, our next stop, is located in Canopy, a complex of creative spaces in a redeveloped warehouse. (Architected b...
Special thanks to Emily Rae Pellerin of Colony for the following post.
Saddled up with Design Milk, we ? Colony, a NY-based community of independent furniture, lighting, textiles and objects designers ? have developed this series of trips and editorial ?city snapshots? to explore the United States in the name of design, discovery and inspiration. We?ve been to Detroit, Nashville, New Orleans, and the Santa Fe region of New Mexico. Austin, long lauded for its music, film and food scenes, felt like a natural next destination to find where design fit in with these other creative circles.
We kicked off a whirlwind trip hopping between studios, homes, workshops and retailers with a visit to Yucca Stuff. The furniture maker behind the brand, Daniel Morrison, launched his line when he was living in Brooklyn. Yucca Stuff?s Lavaca Table, whose name nods to the Texas River and whose limestone legs are sourced out west.
Texan-born, Morrison returned to Austin a little over a year ago and now shares a massive woodworking and fabrication shop with other makers. His show-and-telling of different types of limestone ? a Texas specialty ? really rocked. (*We?d like to thank Design Milk for letting us get away with that pun.)
Rachel Wolfson Smith?s studio, our next stop, is located in Canopy, a complex of creative spaces in a redeveloped warehouse. (Architected b...
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