Tag: furniture

Bungalow was a game changer when it opened on Howell Mill Road, helping to launch the Westside Design District in 2000.

No mainstream home furnishings brand quite captured 1960s-era Mad Men glamour better than MGBW.

For more than a decade, owners Roy Otwell and Doug Henderson have helped Atlanta homeowners embrace modern designers like Minotti, Knoll, and Alessi—no easy task in a city that was once a bastion of traditional decor.

This New York–based service landed in Atlanta last year as an alternative to the industry’s traditional commission model, which can incentivize designers to select expensive products.

I wrote my first story about Restoration Hardware in 1998, after it opened in Lenox Square. Admiring the Arts and Crafts–style casegoods, I realized how stupid I’d been to dismiss my grandparents’ Mission buffet as “old-fashioned.”

In a 1957 Time magazine article, the iconic German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe famously said of furniture made by architects: “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.” That’s why, when Atlanta architect Jonathon Quinn decided to become a furniture maker, he started with a chair.

Butterfly chairs come in eight faux furs, from mink to Mongolian lamb. The Devyn Tufted Tête-à-Tête bed has upholstered head- and footboards for gab fests.

The Made Again storefront may be new to Inman Quarter, but the gallery has been a source for sustainably produced handmade goods since 2013, when founder Margeau Bull created the incubator as an online marketplace operating out of her garage.

Of all the iconic midcentury modern masters, only Jens Risom is still living. So when Design Within Reach offered Chris Hardy a chance to meet the almost-centenarian, the 31-year-old Atlanta furniture designer eagerly jumped on a plane to visit Risom at his home in Connecticut.

The best way to keep houseguests self-sufficient is to give them their own enticing space, says Brian Patrick Flynn. The quippy designer for HGTV’s Urban Oasis 2015 lives in Atlanta but regularly escapes to a wooded home in Ellijay that he shares with partner Hollis Smith, who has his own challenging schedule as part of the costume department for The Walking Dead.