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The Design is in the Details Our back stairway leads up to the balcony that overlooks the rest of studio and N Williams Avenue. As I get my morning coffee or sit in the kitchen I often check-in to see how the light and shadows are interacting with the walls and wood. There is a three inch wide white detail that runs up the left side of the stairs proper – separately built and attached. It’s funny how something so simple and often overlooked can capture my attention time after time. It is a great metaphor for working here. When they built the space, rather than asking why, the partners asked why not? The stairs are just one of many examples that reinforce this point. Weather it be in a finished design, rigorous conversation during the process or part of the studio’s physical structure, the intention manifests itself in the details. See more photos and learn more about The Felt Hat.

The Design is in the Details

Our back stairway leads up to the balcony that overlooks the rest of studio and N Williams Avenue. As I get my morning coffee or sit in the kitchen I often check-in to see how the light and shadows are interacting with the walls and wood. There is a three inch wide white detail that runs up the left side of the stairs proper – separately built and attached. It’s funny how something so simple and often overlooked can capture my attention time after time. It is a great metaphor for working here. When they built the space, rather than asking why, the partners asked why not? The stairs are just one of many examples that reinforce this point. Weather it be in a finished design, rigorous conversation during the process or part of the studio’s physical structure, the intention manifests itself in the details.

See more photos and learn more about The Felt Hat.

I built this Cardboard Castle for my nieces and nephews last December. That is my dog Civ in front of it. In hindsight, it might have drawn from Michel Gondrys’s Science of Sleep film… Even though I think that movie draws it’s charm from a shared cultural memory of childhood and openness to creative solution from that age. Having access to that childlike creative space was a wonderful feeling. I encourage everyone to act on your own, if it presents itself to you.

I built this Cardboard Castle for my nieces and nephews last December. That is my dog Civ in front of it. In hindsight, it might have drawn from Michel Gondrys’s Science of Sleep film… Even though I think that movie draws it’s charm from a shared cultural memory of childhood and openness to creative solution from that age. Having access to that childlike creative space was a wonderful feeling. I encourage everyone to act on your own, if it presents itself to you.