Sophie Lou Jacobsen offers refined home accessories, lighting, collectibles and studio services, envisioned through a multicultural, contemporary lens. The French-American designer, artist and creative director explores daily practices – elevating prosaic objects into poetic works of art, paying homage to domestic practices and aesthetic gestures of the past. Her studio was established in 2019, with its work stemming from the idea that objects have an innate power to enhance their user's mood through form and function.
Dudd Haus is a collective gallery and storefront focused on elevating practices that use design as a medium for personal expression. With a brick and mortar space in Philadelphia, Dudd Haus embraces the principles of group action in contrast to the atomized world of solo practitioners and capital focused institutions. This form of collective organization offers representation and advocacy on behalf of its members, while the storefront gallery serves as an industry showroom and platform for public engagement.
Umberto Bellardi Ricci is a New York–based German-Italian architect, sculptor, and designer. After years of teaching at the avant-garde Architectural Association in London, followed by Cornell University in New York, he established UBR Studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2019. He launched his inaugural sculptural furniture collection with the exhibition Dawn at Matter Gallery in New York in June 2021.
Bower is a New York City–based studio with a multidisciplinary approach to contemporary furniture and product design. With a focus on mirrors, they explore and challenge perceptions of depth, light and self. The company also offers unique collections of furniture, lighting and accessories, as well as artist collaborations, design partnerships and interior design.
Founded by Drew Seskunas as both an architecture studio and building workshop on the idea that working with materials directly leads to more inventive design. Drew directs student design/build workshops for community spaces around NYC while also designing architecture, furniture and kinetic sculptures.
Based in Berkley, California, Rafi Ajl makes work driven by grace, quality, and curiosity. Working at the intersection and constellation of craft, art, and design, each piece is made by hand in his workshop, and is designed for a lifetime of use.
Sophie Lou Jacobsen
Beni
Amelie du Chalard
Anna Karlin
Danny Kaplan Studio
Simone Bodmer-Turner
Chen Chen & Kai Williams
Spaces Within
Danny Kaplan Studio is a Brooklyn-based design practice specializing in handmade lighting, furniture, and sculptural objects. Rooted in a deep respect for traditional craft and material exploration, the studio’s work bridges ancient techniques with modernist forms, balancing beauty and utility with rigor. Informed by Kaplan’s background in ceramics and his ongoing dialogue with art, design history, and the everyday object, the studio produces works that are at once functional and expressive- designed to endure, both materially and culturally.
Bower Studios
Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Simone Bodmer-Turner Studio is a multidisciplinary practice creating furniture, lighting, decorative objects, and ceramics, as well as building site-specific installations for interiors. Her studio is based in Massachusetts and New York.
Fort Standard
Emily Thurman
Chen Chen & Kai Williams is a design studio rooted in curiosity and innovation, redefining the possibilities of material and form. With a flair for invention, the studio pioneers unconventional techniques and reimagines everyday industrial materials, crafting them into unexpected, extraordinary applications.
SAW EARTH
Spaces Within is a Stockholm-based label, crafting sculptural cabinet hardware with sensual forms, textural finishes and unique proportions. The pieces they make explore themes of refinement, elegance and poetic expressions.
Rafi Ajl
Dudd House
Beni Rugs is a Marrakech-based, ethically focused brand founded in 2018 that produces authentic, custom-made Moroccan rugs by blending traditional Berber techniques with modern design. Handwoven by artisans in the Atlas Mountains, these 100% wool rugs are fair-trade certified and often feature minimalist, geometric patterns, reflecting a commitment to sustainability and artisan community support.
Anna Karlin is a self-taught product designer originally trained in visual communication. Her work encompasses furniture and lighting design, interiors, a fine jewelry collection, and creative direction. She takes great joy in working across different mediums and aesthetics with an approach that is united by the same principles: The beauty found in the tension between the natural and the manmade, the tension between the familiar and the new, and a ritualistic approach to craftsmanship and detail.
Emily Thurman is a Salt Lake City – and New York – based designer whose practice bridges interior, furniture, and sculptural design. After a decade of conceptualizing bespoke interiors for clients, the inheritance of family heirlooms right before founding her studio in 2022 prompted her to toward a hands-on practice, giving shape to her own creative language.
Founded in 2015 with locations in Paris and New York City, Amelie du Chalard Gallery supports nearly a hundred artists from around the world at various stages of their careers. Exploring all forms of visual arts, installation, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and textile art, the gallery highlights a shared DNA: the material, at the heart of every artistic practice.
Fort Standard is dedicated to the craft of lasting design for the home. Embedded within each object is the belief that the most effective approach to longevity is producing timeless design at the highest level of quality possible. Each piece possesses a material permanence that will last generations. Founder and designer, Gregory Buntain, continuously aspires to achieve a harmony of utility and beauty in each object.