Inspiration – Process – Design we love
Debuting our new Spring collection at Dose Market this Sunday! Including new Stitch bedding and limited edition pillows. Shop our table and get 20% off! Sunday, March 10th at the River East Art Center at 435 E Illinois St. 10am-4pm.
We are excited to have two pillows featured in last week’s TOC by Shopping + Style Editor, Kevin Aeh.
#4 Geometry Poppy+Graphite Large Square / #8 Lush Peach Large Square
Thanks Kevin!
On this cold, dark and wet day in Chicago we are thinking about spring in the Studio! Here is a photo from the measure graph of Rope Turquoise, Stitch Poppy, and Lush Lime. Yum!
How exciting! We are part of the new Airstream International Sterling, a travel trailer designed by Christopher C. Deam and constructed by Airstream. It comes in two fully furnished packages – the Arctic Dijon and the Obsidian Violet. Lucky for us, they chose our Fulton White and Larch Plum bedding to accent. If we may say so ourselves, it looks fantastic! Airstream, we like how you roll!
Susan Dwyer of Up In The Air Somewhere, is one of our favorites. A local designer who creates elegant ceramics inspired by the positive and negative spaces around her. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied sculpture, Dwyer focused primarily on ceramics and papier-mâché vessels inspired by the clean, minimal lines found in industrial architecture. These took off without a hitch and got attention from the likes of The New York Times, Design Sponge, Food+Wine, Real Simple and Chicago Social, just to name a few.
Last year, our production assistant, Sarah, stumbled upon Dwyer’s newest work at a pop-up design market called Big Big City: Chicago. She loved them so much and thought Unison’s owner and designer, Robert, would love them too. Good thing it was his birthday the following week. We got him a Cutaway vase and the rest is history! Not to take all the credit, Robert had seen her work before and already owned a vase. Now we are thrilled to carry Up In The Air ceramics in the Studio+Store and unisonhome.com!
Robert and I finally had the chance to see the Bouroullec show, Bivouac, at the MCA this past week. The show closes tomorrow so… last chance! We were in love at first sight years ago while living in Finland when we came to know their furniture designs for Italian manufacturer Cappellini. Their work has been a huge inspiration for us over the years. The exhibition, their first in the United States, shows off both brothers’ abilities in creating beautiful furniture, lighting, and architectural textiles and did not disappoint.
Catalog shoots are fun, but they are even more fun when you get to shoot in fantastic spaces inhabited by fantastic people.
This fall we had the pleasure of working with Art Jackson and Chelsea Kalberloh Jackson, chef/owners of Pleasant House Bakery, who live in a retrofitted condo building in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. We shot in their sleek white and stainless steel kitchen (which made the cover of our winter catalog), and set up a bed in their light-filled living room (product and images to be seen in the spring)! We are huge fans of this lovely couple who work hard to run a fantastic savory pie business, taking after Art’s English roots. Their cute dog, Porkchop, also wanted to be in some of the photos… we shall see if he makes the cut!
Then there is the wonderful Angela Finney-Hoffman from Post 27, whose interior design and styling skills are much coveted. Her creativity never stops, especially in her very own home, where she styled our newest line of hand-printed metallic table linens and our upcoming Stitch bedding (available Spring 2013), creating a sophisticated loft-living series that we love! Here are a few sneak peaks. We are thrilled with the turnout of the Winter 2012 catalog and remain ever thankful to everyone involved!
With the release of our new catalog, scheduled to arrive at your doors any day now! we thought it would be fun to post some behind-the-scenes photos from our shoot. Though we look rather serious in these images, we had lots of laughs on set with Francois Robert, Jane Gittings Robert, Angela Finney-Hoffman, Bruce Bever, and Wendy Petrosky. Thanks for everyone’s hard work! (Photos by Lyra Jakabhazy)
Join Unison and Design Bureau Magazine for a holiday bash debuting the new fabric design and art print “SHAPES” by Alex Fuller. Also featuring Unison’s new line of metallics hand-printed on linen, available as pillows, tablecloths and aprons. Enjoy drinks and appetizers while shopping a festive selection of locally hand-made gifts and unique imported products by American and international designers. Once you’re here, sign up to win a 1-year subscription to Design Bureau Magazine, a Unison Shapes pillow and new Unison wrapping paper!
Thursday, November 29th 6-8pm / Unison Studio+Store / 2000 W Fulton St, F-109 / RSVP to events@unisonhome.com or jenny@alarmpress.com.
We love the fact that we’ve been included in this vintage-inspired vignette of excellent Chicago Design. Thanks Chicago Magazine! You’ve got some great gift ideas this year. Purchase the December issue on stands now to see what other goodies they have for Foodies, Imbibers, Men, Women, Culture Vultures, and Home-Bodies. (Included is our Stitch Poppy 22″ Pillow for $60)
