The playful aesthetic we’ve come to expect from Marmar Studio is on full display in their latest creation, the Jot Cabinet. Made with charming inlays of contrasting wood species, the design explores flatness and dimensionality through wrapping along intersecting planes. The effect is a  shift in pattern which creates an ever dynamic constellation. 

Founder Ingemar Hagen Keith’s design practice concentrates on the relationship between minimalism and familiarity, “The inspiration for the Jot Cabinet came about from a pair of pants I sewed using a deadstock Marimekko textile. When I cut from the fabric and assembled the pants, the original pattern of the textile was entirely reconfigured. Observing where lines serendipitously intersected and diverged, I was taken by the ways the flat graphic disrupted and enhanced the form. I am guided by the ethos of creating objects that have an innate sense of animation. The Jot Cabinet is a continuation of my recent works that have explored furniture objects that endear their users.”

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Standard Materials: Oiled Walnut and Oak
Dimensions: 33″L x 14.5″D x 34″H
Lead Time: 24 -28 weeks

To Thomas Yang, craft and care are synonymous terms. This deeply felt philosophy, alongside a reverence for material and everyday use, informs his fine-tuned practice. In the tradition of sashimono, a Japanese style of wood joinery, the designer utilizes both simple and complex joints in lieu of nails. Intrinsically a cultural homage, Cabinet of Memories is also an externalized reminiscence. Within his take on a traditional East-Asian cabinet, is a devotion to daily objects evidenced by drawers and doors of unexpected and varying sizes as well as splines to display beloved texts. 

Echoes of Yang’s childhood lingered in the cabinet’s construction, “My family home was filled with Ming dynasty cabinets with different lacquers, door handles, hinges, and drawers. Creating this cabinet was about materializing the essence of nostalgia through secret drawers, in musing on the drawers my parents kept their valuables in. I imbued my book spline design on the cabinet as an ode to those authors and artists who inspire me and who I am always returning to. It’s built with the hope it will become nostalgic for those who have it in their life: everchanging, a space to hold pre-existing artifacts.”

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Standard Materials: Cherry, Maple, Hide Glue, Stainless Steel Hinges, Sterling Silver Fish Knob
Dimensions: 26″L x 14″W x 31″H
Lead Time: 16 -18 weeks

Sula Chair

Standard Materials: Shown in Oak, COM
Dimensions: 33"W x 40"D x 34"H
Lead Time: 22-26 weeks

Kana Chair

Standard Materials: Ash, Mohair and COM available
Dimensions: 24"H x 19"D x 28"W
Lead Time: 22- 24weeks

It’s the power of transformation that strikes designer Alara Alkan when she’s immersed in nature; the Designer’s Residency alum looks to the tides, sun, and wind and their abilities to shift and exist in new forms for design inspo. That reverence is eminent in her debut collection for Colony, with its deft manipulation of raw material honoring the intrinsic qualities of the wood in metamorphosis. Be it the sand-blasted Douglas Fir comprising her Maelen Cabinet or the tapered White Oak columns of her Madra Floor lamp, Alkan's work exudes a visual lightness and tactile intrigue. 

Speaking to her process and influences for this collection, Alkan notes, “I view all my works as fragments of one big, ongoing story, where my pieces are often linked or related in terms of their ideas, materials, and aesthetics, across time. I’m inspired by Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez and many others that are part of the kinetic arts movement. The play between stillness and motion just by the appearance of a line really drives how I approach form and texture. His work helps me understand motion, transition and space.” 

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Standard Materials: Douglas Fir
Dimensions: 38"W x 20"D x 32"H
Lead Time: 12 -14 weeks