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Yay or Nay: OKHA’s Renn?

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Yay or Nay: OKHA’s Renn?

What do you think about OKHA’s Renn table? It’s got a geometric wood base. A sleek black top. A perfect style for you? Or not a modern style enough for you? Let us know!

10 of Our Favorite Modern LED Light Fixtures

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
10 of Our Favorite Modern LED Light Fixtures

Remember when LED lights looked terrible?!!? Or when they gave out a weird, cold robot-y sort of light? Sorry to burst your light bubble, but LED lights aren’t just cool…they’re totally mainstream. So along with getting all the great benefits of LED lighting (longer life, better energy efficiency, eco-friendly, to name — Continue reading

7 Wood-Wrapped & Warm Modern Interiors

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
7 Wood-Wrapped & Warm Modern Interiors

You don’t have to live in a cabin in the woods to find yourself constantly wrapped in lovely, warm wood. In fact, many modern homes sport the woodsy look without even one hint of a threat of splinters. Here are six recent ones we discovered that we adore. Perhaps they — Continue reading

Get El Cosmico Style for Your Home

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Get El Cosmico Style for Your Home

Ever heard of this little place called Marfa, Texas? Hell, even Beyonce’s been there. It’s this hip oasis of style, design and art deep in the heart of Texas, all with a colorful, desert spin to it. Hotelier Liz Lambert had opened up a great trailer and camping hotel over — Continue reading

Hardware, exposed

Categories: Art + Graphics
Hardware, exposed

It’s safe to assume that whoever first declared “God is in the details“ was most definitely not referring to industrial hardware. Despite being indispensable to our lives, the bolts and screws and chains and wires that quite literally hold together the objects we covet and the buildings we occupy don’t get — Continue reading

Rosanna Ceravolo’s Warm & Woodsy Furniture

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Rosanna Ceravolo’s Warm & Woodsy Furniture

Just adoring Rosanna Ceravolo’s furniture designs. Sharp angles —chevron patterns and legs and arms — mix with an obvious talent for listening to what the material wants to be created into. Her tables, her bed, her credenza are all so perfectly modern, simple and complicated. “Established in 2011, Rosanna Ceravolo — Continue reading

Berthold Haas’ Modern Fireplace Inspiration

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Berthold Haas’ Modern Fireplace Inspiration

Mmmm. Do you feel that? It’s a slight chill…a small breeze taking shape in the air. It’s the undeniable proof that colder winter months are on their way. That part of the earth and its inhabitants will soon be thrust into a time of reflection, hibernation and snuggly-ness. The perfect — Continue reading

Hot or Not:Sally Floral Wall Art Light

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Hot or Not:Sally Floral Wall Art Light

From the manufacturer: “Our stunning powder coated metal wall light is an exquisite piece of wall art which flaunts a stylised modern magnolia lamp for soft mood lighting. Evocative of stained glass windows, its floral symmetry adds dramatic and sculptural impact to a feature wall, even unlit. Flick the switch — Continue reading

Shield Your Eyes: Fuchsia’s Here!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Shield Your Eyes: Fuchsia’s Here!

Hello! Forget the coffee today…all you need to stay awake through the afternoon is a shot of this new fuchsia color from P’kolino! Masters at creating furniture for play, their awesome furniture, accessories and more now come in a perfectly bright, bold and gender-neutral fuchsia that just might peel that — Continue reading

Merrick Angle’s Celestial Modern Prints

Categories: Art + Graphics
Merrick Angle’s Celestial Modern Prints

Like the moon? The Earth? Science? French words? You just might dig France-based illustrator Merrick Angle’s art prints. He’s been working as an illustrator for awhile now, and apparently enough folks have asked him to start selling his work that he listened and has opened up a new online shop — Continue reading

Hot or Not: Mem by Christophe Pillet

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Hot or Not: Mem by Christophe Pillet

From the manufacturer: “A contemporary chair, with a name inspired by an ancestral sound: Mem, which means, “water” in the ancient Egyptian language. Made of injection-moulded polypropylene reinforced with glass, it is highly resistant and elegant, with its skilfully designed corners and curves. The chair also has two holes that — Continue reading

Photos: Dwell and NY Mag’s City Modern Event

Categories: Local + Travel, News + Events + Contests
Photos: Dwell and NY Mag’s City Modern Event

Our blog correspondent and Instagram extraordinaire Promila Shastri is at Dwell Magazine and New York Magazine’s cool New York design-focused event City Modern, and she’s been snapping shots from within artist and maker studios in Brooklyn. On the tour this year have been cool creative spaces by lots of Brooklyn — Continue reading

Finn Magee’s Flat Time/Light/Sound

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Finn Magee’s Flat Time/Light/Sound

More proof that the future is here now. Smart and creative Finn Magee (is that is real name!?) has created a set of three posters that feature flat photos of a lamp, speaker and clock, but that function like they were 3D versions of those things. So the Flat Sound — Continue reading

Do you need lighting? WE HAVE LIGHTING.

Categories: News + Events + Contests
Do you need lighting? WE HAVE LIGHTING.

Three major lighting companies are on sale at 2Modern right now, so if you’re sitting in the dark with only the computer screen to illuminate your life and your home, it might be time to add a little lighting to the mix. Need a pendant light? We got ‘em. Need — Continue reading

DIY Modern Stamped Wrapping Paper

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY Modern Stamped Wrapping Paper

Are you ready for this holiday season? Have some ideas of some gorgeous gifts you’re going to get your loved ones and friends? Don’t stop at just buying a clever little something—make sure you wrap your clever little something in some gorgeous paper, showing you mean holiday business! We spotted — Continue reading

2Modern Goes to Europe!

Categories: Local + Travel
2Modern Goes to Europe!

Great news! Your intrepid 2Modern Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Breaux is headed to Europe for a couple of weeks to take thousands of photos of architectural details, get lost and eat as much chocolate and croissants as she can! And do you know what that means? You’ll get to come along, too! — Continue reading

New Fall Colors from Unison!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
New Fall Colors from Unison!

Don’t you just wanna eat up these new fall colors seen in Unison‘s lovely Lush Large Square Pillows? Full of Unison’s perfectly memorable mesh of modern and organic pattern, we just adore the new autumn hues we’re spotting and can’t wait to throw these into a living room, bedroom, guest — Continue reading

DIY: Change Up Your Bed Type!

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY: Change Up Your Bed Type!

What’s your bed type? You know — are you a modern platform kind of person? Or love a tufted headboard? Have you always dreamed of having a bed with a canopy but have stopped yourself for some reason? We came across the absolute most fun round-up post on Buzzfeed the — Continue reading

Favorite Pins of the Week Part 1

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Favorite Pins of the Week Part 1

It’s hard to say what it is about certain pins that just catch our attention more than most. Something colorful and patterned always does it. Something rich and earthy, too. Something that blows our mind or isn’t quite what it seems and something dark and dramatic always works. You’ll find — Continue reading

New from Shine Labs!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
New from Shine Labs!

Gorgeous! We’ve been big fans of the shape and look of Shine Labs‘ Taj Pendant Lamp, Holm Pendant Lamp and Paavo Pendant Lamp for awhile now…and now they come in crisp, sleek white! Perfect for the space that needs a dash of freshness and innocence, don’t just think about sticking to — Continue reading