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2M Collective Weekly Sale – Stig Hansen!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects, News + Events + Contests
2M Collective Weekly Sale – Stig Hansen!

This week’s 2M Collective Modern Décor Sale includes the gorgeous modern hanging light fixtures of sleek design brand Stig Hansen. You’ll love the kind of geometry these fixtures will bring to your home, and we could see them being placed in a number of different rooms! Believe us when we — Continue reading

2 B&W DIY projects from Wit & Whistle

Categories: DIY + How To
2 B&W DIY projects from Wit & Whistle

Wit & Whistle is run by Amanda Wright, a design nerd and designer who started the company to “offer witty greeting cards and whistle worthy paper goods. All products are designed and illustrated by me and printed locally on recycled paper. Wit & Whistle is based in Cary, North Carolina.” — Continue reading

Featured Artist: Filippo Minelli

Categories: Art + Graphics
Featured Artist: Filippo Minelli

Milan-based artist Filippo Minelli created a series of landscape photos unlike anything we’ve seen before, and they are hauntingly beautiful and definitely make you wonder if there’s something else out there, something untouchable, that exists alongside us all. Using handheld smoke bombs to release colored smoke and then shooting it — Continue reading

Live Modern: House of Representation

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Live Modern: House of Representation

We’re not entirely sure what this house in Kyoto, Japan is supposed to be officially representing, but we know it might be unofficially representing that cliche of not judging a book by its cover (or in this case, the inside of a home based on its exterior architecture). Frankly, when — Continue reading

Green’s awesome outdoor modern style!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects, News + Events + Contests
Green’s awesome outdoor modern style!

2Modern is so happy to welcome Green Modern Home & Outdoor Seating and their awesome modern designs to the 2Modern catalog of gorgeous modern furniture! And just in time for spring and summer seasons that are well on their way! Green is a New York-based design firm founded in 1998 that specializes — Continue reading

Interiors: StudioSynapse

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Interiors: StudioSynapse

If you are looking for ultra-minimalist interiors that are simple but also full of personality, we genuinely have the firm for you. StudioSynapse from Igarashi, Maebashi, Gunma, a female and male partner of designers, is creating stunningly simple spaces that have so much life and character—without all the clutter. All these — Continue reading

DIY: City map paper cut out

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY: City map paper cut out

It’s rare you find someone who doesn’t at least find fascination with, if not flat out love, a map. They’re so informative; they’re proof of where we’ve been and where we’re going. More than that, they’re pretty good-looking! They come in all sizes, shapes, colors, varieties and of course, locations. — Continue reading

Color is life II

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects, News + Events + Contests, Sustainability, Uncategorized
Color is life II

An urban ecological hotel, with natural materials, energy saving lighting, organic food, water reducing taps, recyclable sheets and staff uniforms from ethical brands, was designed with logic and multi functions in mind by Matali Crasset. Using the hotel as a platform, it offers a host of stimuli and experiences based — Continue reading

Tokyo House – Yo Yamagata Architects

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Photograph: Forward stroke Inc

  This Tokyo house definitely has a unique feel to it.   Architect Yo Yamagata found a creative solution for a home in a crowded residential neighborhood with height restrictions and impaired views.  The house succeeds in providing light and privacy with the use of courtyards and skylights.  Windows that let — Continue reading

We Like What They Do: Lagomorph Designs

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
We Like What They Do: Lagomorph Designs

Seth Deysach of Lagomorph Design got a lot of attention for his awesome bikes. And they’re awesome, don’t get us wrong. But like his tagline says: “High end furniture and mind blowing bicycles.” He makes high-end furniture and built-ins, too, and they’re pretty darn cool! In his words: “Lagomorph design — Continue reading

Look out Las Vegas…2Modern’s coming!

Categories: Local + Travel, News + Events + Contests
Look out Las Vegas…2Modern’s coming!

Las Vegas Market is happening January 30th – February 3rd…and we’re gonna be there (Well Monday through Wednesday, anyway)! Specifically your trusty blog editor-in-chief Adrienne will be. I’ll be scoping out designers and vendors to try and spot trends and new designs that blow my mind. I’ll be meeting with — Continue reading

Todd Oldham’s Kid Made Modern for Target

Categories: Kids + Baby, News + Events + Contests
Todd Oldham’s Kid Made Modern for Target

Todd Oldham…plus art supplies for kids…plus a modern twist? Target, good job! Inspired by his 2009 book full of DIY projects for kids, “Kid Made Modern,” Todd Oldham has teamed up with Target to create a line of art and craft kits for kiddos with modern tastes to let their — Continue reading

Mark Weaver makes something cool every day

Categories: Art + Graphics
Mark Weaver makes something cool every day

Space themes? Check. Googie retro Mid-Century Modern elements? Check. Architecture? Check. Cool color palettes? Check check check. New York City-based illustrator Mark Weaver is making the sort of things that we dream of at night and fantasize about during the day! Working for pretty high-end clients and publications like The New — Continue reading

Live Modern: Row House in Goeblange

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Live Modern: Row House in Goeblange

Just enjoying the open, colorful feeling of this home in Luxembourg. It’s a bit big, kind of quite big, actually, but just like how we enjoy and appreciate in modern design, it’s also quite cozy and homey inside. We enjoy those huge wall-to-ceiling windows that overlook beautiful outdoor areas. We — Continue reading

Rock Paper Scissors modern jewelry

Categories: Fashion + Trends
Rock Paper Scissors modern jewelry

Loving the stuff coming out of new modern design jewelry studio in Austin, Texas: Rock Paper Scissors. With the tag line: “Jewelry Leather Oddities Talismans” there’s going to be a mystical quality along with some sleek modern designs. Helmed by designers Melissa Kay Lancaster and Stephani Rose, we look forward to — Continue reading

2Modern’s more than just an online retail store

Categories: News + Events + Contests
2Modern’s more than just an online retail store

We want to connect with you on social media outlets all over the internet. From Google+, to Facebook, to Twitter to even Pinterest, you can find hot deals, discover new brands, revel in the wonder of the modern world, give us your suggestions (compliments and complaints all welcome) and just — Continue reading

Work Modern: i29 gray fuzzy office

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Work Modern: i29 gray fuzzy office

It’s always been our opinion that one of the greatest shames of the work world is how uncomfortable, harsh and yucky most offices are. Truly dismal places. Forgetting the horrible lighting they usually have, just think about all those hard, cold surfaces. Who would want to spend most of their — Continue reading

Interiors: Keiji Ashizawa Design

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Interiors: Keiji Ashizawa Design

What is it that we keep yammering about 2012? As yes, that we feel that dark and dramatic is going to take center stage this year. Previous years have seen lots of white, lots of bright cheery colors, and while we don’t necessarily want to see those go away, the — Continue reading

Singing ringing tree by Tonkin Liu

Categories: Architecture + Interiors, Local + Travel
Singing ringing tree by Tonkin Liu

Boy architecture and art can be eerily and hauntingly beautiful sometimes. What a breathtaking way to start the day out… “A musical sculpture on the top of a hill looking across Burnley, Lancashire. The architectural competition, for “all-seeing” structures on a number of derelict, high-point sites, was organised by Mid-Pennine — Continue reading

Featured Artist: Brendon Austin

Categories: Art + Graphics
Featured Artist: Brendon Austin

Whoo boy. Brendon Austin is quickly becoming one of our favorite artists and photographers. You know how much we love a good landscape, well Brendon’s got plenty of beautiful series to choose from. A particularly haunting one is his “Vacuum” series; the colors are beautiful but also sad. The landscape — Continue reading