Ancient Hearth to Modern Design: Inspiration from the Cooking and Construction in India, Hawaii & Korea

Illustration by Emily Torem American disposable food culture notwithstanding, a restaurant is about more than efficiently transferring food from a refrigerator to a stomach. The best restaurants create a sense of place—through the food preparation, the physical surroundings, the textures and the temperatures—that make diners feel at home and nurture our humanity.     At…

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How We Operate: Why we Love our Furniture Division

Its a pretty well known fact that architects like to design furniture as well as buildings. Some pieces are dramatic, site specific one-offs, and others have become by-words in furniture design, instantly recognizable to any lay person, even if not always by designer. Curbed recently set up a slideshow to pose just that challenge to…

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Out of the Woodshop: Bowling Alley Console

We’d like to introduce the Bowling Alley Console, big sib to our much beloved Bowling Alley Bench.  If you want to adopt it and take it home, click here! Like so many of our most beautiful furniture items and interior finishes, this  is wood sourced from a demolished building and RE-purposed.  For us, working with…

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Biking in Chicago: What you need to know to be safe!

With the Bike Commuter Challenge beginning TOMORROW, moss is ready and raring to go.  The moss team ranges in dedication to the cycling gods.  We’ve got  Chris, who bikes a 36 mile round trip to work most nice days, and Matt, who regularly sets out in the rain for client meetings or errand runs on…

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