2019 Year in Review: Travel Guides

Here at Design Milk, we love to travel and see the world, and from what we can tell, so do you! Traveling to a new locale can be daunting with so many options to choose from, like places to stay, visit, and shop. To help make things easier, we’ve done a lot of the hard work for you by narrowing it all down into travel guides of some of the most popular destinations in the world, as well as ones that are off the beaten path. Take a look back at the travel guides we compiled this year of some really incredible places.

Design Milk Travels to… The Hudson Valley
New York’s not just the city. Drive 2 hours North and you’ll find an eclectic mix of natural beauty, modernist homes, and designer stores in the Hudson Valley.

Design Milk Travels to… Connecticut
A mere one to two hour drive away from New York, we retrace the roots of Modernism to the East Coast of the United States to explore Connecticut, otherwise known as the Modernist enclave of the East Coast.

Design Milk Travels to… Stockholm
There may be no city that best embodies the description “winter wonderland” as does Stockholm during the months spanning December through February, and while destinations per day in winter may be limited, the experiences are magnified and every moment feels indeed wondrous.

Design Milk Travels to… Miraflores, Lima, Peru
Unlike Machu Picchu, Miraflores, which means “look at the flowers,” is very much alive. Dubbed Ciudad Heroica or “Heroic City,” a designation it earned during the War of the Pacific, is where 8.7 million people reside beside ancient ruins, modern boardwalks, open-air food courts, a park for romantics, and even the 8th best restaurant in the world.

Design Milk Travels to… Tbilisi, Georgia
If there’s anywhere in the world to go today it’s Tbilisi, Georgia, which is currently experiencing a boon in tourism, catering to Russian and European tourists drawn to the city’s colorful pastiche of dilapidated, yet captivating architecture peeling away toward inevitable modernization.

Design Milk Travels to… Lapland, Finland
Lapland, a region stretching across the Polar Arctic Circle, resembles the kind of magical, fantasy world that you may have conjured up as a child when you were wondering where Christmas presents came from.

Design Milk Travels to… Savannah, Georgia
While it may seem all prim and trim, Savannah is also home to a vibrant, young artistic community – many of whom were drawn to the town thanks to the presence and vision of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Design Milk Travels to… Zürich, Switzerland
Zürich, the city famous for its extravagant and upscale shopping, medieval architecture, renowned chocolatiers, and glorious waterfront lifestyle will have you imagining what it might be like making a home in one of the world’s most liveable cities.

Design Milk Travels to… Athens, Greece
Visiting Athens today, you’ll find a friendly modern art scene informed by classical handicrafts, the world’s best cocktail bars, as well as boutique hotels with personality.

Design Milk Travels to… The Baltic Sea
Cruise providers like Viking Ocean Cruises offer itineraries catering to interests in art, architecture, culinary adventures, and history through numerous ports, including the six-city itinerary that delivered us across the Baltic Sea.

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2019 Year in Review: Where I Work

Every month we visit a different designer and their space to gather insight into how and where they work. Obviously we’re interested in the designs, but we’re also curious about the person behind them – their work style, their design process, and how their space is set up. We went behind the scenes with some remarkable designers and now were taking a look back in case you missed any of our Where I Work column in 2019.

Where I Work: William Richmond-Watson
For the first Where I Work of 2019, William Richmond-Watson, owner and chief creative officer of Watson & Company, gave us a tour of the company’s NYC space and a view into how he runs it all.

Where I Work: Christiane Lemieux
This Where I Work visited Christiane Lemieux in her 2,800-square-foot studio in Tribeca’s design district to see where she creates and runs The Inside.

Where I Work: Beau Oyler of Enlisted Design
This Where I Work headed to Oakland, California, the home of Enlisted Design, a multidisciplinary design studio founded by Beau Oyler.

Where I Work: Lucia Bartholomew of Electric Bowery
In this Where I Work, Lucia Bartholomew of Electric Bowery gave us a peek inside her plant-filled world, as well as insight into how she works.

Where I Work: Alex Daly
This Where I Work went behind the scenes to see the colorful offices of Daly where Alex Daly, aka the Crowdsourceress, does her best work.

Where I Work: Mark Rios
This Where I Work landed us in Los Angeles to check out the offices of Rios Clementi Hale Studios and to learn about co-founder Mark Rios’ style of work.

Where I Work: Jules Wilson
Interior designer Jules Wilson, principal designer of her eponymous, San Diego-based firm, Jules Wilson Design Studio, shared her studio and design process.

Where I Work: Skylar Morgan
Craftsman Skylar Morgan took us through his new Atlanta showroom, office, and workshop, while sharing more about his work process.

Where I Work: Rachel Smith of & SMITH
Rachel Smith, partner of London-based creative agency & SMITH, took Design Milk inside to see the agency’s workspace while sharing about her work process.

Where I Work: Russell Pinch of PINCH
In this Where I Work, designer Russell Pinch of PINCH took us inside the company’s London design world to see how and where it all happens.

Where I Work: Angie Myung of Poketo
Angie Myung, co-founder of iconic lifestyle brand Poketo, gave us all a little insight into the brand’s work and design life.

Where I Work: Stéphanie Marin of smarin
For the last Where I Work of 2019, we virtually traveled to Nice, France, to see Stéphanie Marin’s smarin office and to investigate how and where they make it all happen.

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Happy Holidays + New Year!

Wow. It has been a year. It’s been amazing, challenging, and exciting. We did so much! Took the Milk Stand international to Toronto and London. We launched a shop! We grew our team!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year from all of us. We truly appreciate you and are super excited for 2020.

We’ll be posting lightly from now until January 2nd—check out our year in review and the best posts of 2019!

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2019 Year in Review: Deconstruction

Every week we share modern design we love to look at and hope to possibly have one day, but it’s one thing to just look at it and another thing to see all of the work that went into making it. Most of us don’t realize just how much time, skill, and labor goes into making each design out there and when you do, you appreciate it that much more. Throughout 2019 in our monthly Deconstruction column, we asked designers and brands to break down the design process that led to their creations and now we’re taking you back through in case you missed any of them.

See How This Artek + Heath Collaboration Came Together to Reimagine a Classic
To mark the first Deconstruction of 2019, Artek + Heath Ceramics gave Design Milk a tour of how their Tea Trolley 900 collaboration came together.

How Bogaerts Label Developed Jacob Nitz’s Siren Chair
For this installment of Deconstruction, Design Milk checked in with Eindhoven-based Bogaerts Label to hear more about the Siren Chair designed by Jacob Nitz.

See How Brooklyn SolarWorks Makes Their Solar Canopy
Startup company Brooklyn SolarWorks took us behind the scenes to learn more about the process of creating the Solar Canopy, which replaces those massive roof panels of the past with a design-focused solution.

A Breakdown of Cesto by Khodi Feiz for Studio TK
Designer Khodi Feiz, of Feiz Design Studio, walked us through his design process to see how the Cesto Pouf with Back for Studio TK came about.

Louis Poulsen Shares the Design Process Behind Øivind Slaatto’s Patera Silver
Danish brand Louis Poulsen shared the design process behind Øivind Slaatt’s Patera Silver pendant, which originally launched in 2015.

The Design Process Behind HAYCHE’s WW Chair
London-based HAYCHE released the WW Chair a few years ago and we thought it was time to revisit the modern Windsor design to see how it was made.

Peter Judson Creates Bold Murals for Scape Student Housing in London
Artist and illustrator Peter Judson shared how he created two bold, graphic murals for student housing residence, Scape Bloomsbury.

How Allied Maker’s Arc Lighting Series Is Made
The Arc lighting collection was built around a part, which can be seen in this Deconstruction where Allied Maker walked us through the design process.

See How Karim Rashid’s Heartbeat Gave Nienkämper Quite the Challenge
Nienkämper shared the complex manufacturing process that’s behind bringing the modular Heartbeat seating system, imagined by Karim Rashid, to market.

Sisyphus Industries Breaks Down Their Kinetic Art Tables
See how Sisyphus Industries turns average tables into kinetic art pieces for the home using a layer of sand, a steel ball, and a hand-built robot.

Wilkhahn Breaks Down the Design Process of its AT Task Chair
For the last Deconstruction of 2019, we tapped German-based manufacturer Wilkhahn to share the design process behind their AT task chair and how it came to fruition.

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2019 Year in Review: Unframed

Every month we tap our resident art expert David Behringer to seek out and report back to us what’s happening in the modern art world in New York City galleries. He finds the best exhibitions and shows we didn’t even know existed and opens our world up by giving us a bird’s eye view of the artist and their work. If you missed his posts or want to take another look, take a visual dive back into NYC’s art scene to see what he covered in our Unframed column in 2019.

Overglazed: The Sculpture of Brian Rochefort
Brian Rochefort’s sculptures are an explosion of clay, texture, and color. His latest works were on view in New York at Van Doren Waxter in an exhibition titled “2030”.

for more, 2018 (detail)

Emil Lukas: The Art of Bubble Wrap, Thread, and Larvae
Artist Emil Lukas’ exhibition at Sperone Westwater in New York mixed new work from four different series across three floors of the gallery.

Jacob Hashimoto, The Garden of Cosmic Violence (detail)

7 Intricate Objects from Armory Art Fair Week
Design Milk checked out Armory Art Fair Week to share seven incredible artworks that stood out as the most intricate and magical objects we’d seen lately.

Lands Apart, 2018

The Dazzling Damaged Photographs of Paul Anthony Smith
Paul Anthony Smith pierces and picks the surface of his photographs thousands of times to create a surface that is both scarred and dazzling.

Death Star 2018 (detail)

The Weight of Bullets: Sculpture by Robert Longo
Robert Longo’s “Death Star 2018” hanging sculpture holds 40,000 bullets that each represent a life lost to gun violence in the United States.

David Allan Peters, Untitled #2, 2019 (detail)

Carving Paint: The Art of David Allan Peters
The work of David Allan Peters is technically made of paint but the visual effect is achieved by carving thousands of gouges into the thick surface.

Bait the Hooks, 2019, 14″x11″

Unpainting: The Ethereal Art of Ryan Crotty
Ryan Crotty’s latest paintings, shown at the High Noon Gallery in NYC, trick your eyes as the canvas is not transparent and the surface is not emitting light.

Horizontal Composition with Embedded and Impressed Doorknocker Earrings with Gold (2019), in the lobby of 45 Rockefeller Plaza

Finding the Art of LaKela Brown at Rockefeller Center
Artist LaKela Brown references African-American culture and her personal love of 90’s hip hop in new sculptures at Rockefeller Center.

Marco Maggi, INITIALISM installation at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, NYC 2019 (detail)

The Self-Adhesive Intricacies of Marco Maggi – with the Lights Off
New York-based artist Marco Maggi cuts and arranges thousands of tiny pieces of self-adhesive paper into complex collages.

YOUTH, 2019 (AD/584)

A Fog of Color: The Sculpture of Aleksandar Duravcevic
Nine of Aleksandar Duravcevic’s reflective, stainless steel sculptures filled the TOTAH gallery in New York’s Lower East Side.

A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench (9 October 2013–8 October 2014)

Walead Beshty: White Shadows
Artist Walead Beshty produced over 11,000 blue cyanotypes of EVERY object that passed through his studio over the course of a year.

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