“When I hold one of my pieces, it just makes me happy,” says ceramicist Jim Franco. (more…)

“With my work, either you get it or it just doesn’t speak to you at all,” says jewelry designer Ann Lightfoot. (more…)

“Feeling like a global citizen is really important to me,” says Harper Poe, who met me, one hot June morning, at Black Tap Coffee in her adopted hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. (more…)

Aboubakar Fofana has found art in the ancient tradition of indigo dyeing.

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Exploring a few of the Belgian jewelry designer’s favorite people, places, and things.

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A visit to jewelry designer Peter Hofmeister’s Lower East Side studio.

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Los Angelenos Leigh and Cliff Spencer—now partners and co-owners of Cliff Spencer Furniture Maker—came together in Hollywood meet-cute style, while living in the same Santa Monica building.  (more…)

A look at the entire process behind a single item—in this case, Tina Frey’s joyful pink Champagne bucket.

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A Nobel Prize nominee and her family take on the task of empowering artisans in Laos.

Changing the world takes time. “Earlier this year, I had a guy who came and trained on silk farming with us,” says Boby Vosinthavong, the daughter of Kommaly Chanthavong—an educator, activist, entrepreneur, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee whose mission, for the past 40 years, has been to train Laotian farmers, particularly women,

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Me&Ro co-founder Michele Quan returns with new work imbued with deep meaning.

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