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A few tables
Attempting to keep all the balls in the air means that sometimes you have to throw one of those balls so high it stays up for a very long before you have to catch it. This is the latest of our sporadic entries – our latest ball to catch…….. We recently completed a lovely project [...]
Staying with chair design…
Vita is a conference chair that can fit well in the office, hospitality environments such as hotels, and even the home. Vita 2010 We developed Vita with Tuohy, a Minnesota company specializing in furniture for the workplace. Vita looks so straightforward and simple, though this design took over a year of development before we and [...]
…and for the few
Two workshops at the Aldrich gave me lots of opportunity to accost art lovers as they wandered through the galleries. The brave—almost everyone—loved my offer and took home memories of being fitted for their dream chair. Some carried home a dimensioned drawing. It’s nice to think they can build a comfortable chair in their own [...]
Something for Everyone
Allan sitting in the posture we developed together as he relaxes reading his newspaper. I’m running a workshop Personal Spatial Design within artist Fritz Haeg’s exhibition, SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. The exhibition is one of five new shows at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. In the workshop I’ll encourage visitors to discuss how they [...]
Second Ottoman Collection
Zsa Zsa by the fireside We’re excited to tell you our second collection of ottomans was launched on biusboutique this morning. This brings the number of ottomans in our boutique to six, and there’s plenty of room for growth. The first collection is available in limited editions while the new ottomans are available in an [...]
Where has the week gone?
Detail of Landers Life isn’t going to plan this week. We aren’t ready to launch our second collection, as we’d to give other commitments priority. The sky isn’t falling in, though I thought it would. The photo above gives a hint of what’s to come. To see the new collection you can check on our [...]
Introducing Collection Two
Dante, zipper detail We’ve been in the throes of developing our second collection to be launched at the end of April. The worst part is over – we now know what we’re doing! Over the next month I’ll show you the visual references that inspired and influenced us. We’ve been looking at garment construction, framing, [...]
Tour of the empire for Site Projects
In a fundraiser auction for the arts organization Site Projects, we are offering a studio tour with an opportunity to see a selection of our work followed by a gourmet vegetarian lunch, for the winning bidder and three friends. This will be in New Haven, Connecticut, on a Saturday in May. The Site Projects auction [...]
“This nod is to be celebrated and savored.”
Joanne Molina, Editorial Director of the Curated Object, has just published a wonderful article on bius. JoAnn Greco, their senior writer, interviewed us. We were so impressed by their thoughtfulness – they focused on our history and how special it is to designers to have pieces selected by curators for museum collections.
Nipa Shibori
Nipa Shibori, upholstered footstool. Designed and made by bius, 2010. We delivered this commission yesterday to Bobbie & Rusty Tunnard. Bobbie has wanted a piece from us in this fabric for many years and Rusty finally made it happen. She was so overjoyed when he gave it to her that we all got lots of [...]