Watch: Inside the Studio of Designer and Materials Master Fernando Mastrangelo

Standing in Fernando Mastrangelo’s studio in an industrial section of Brooklyn, the last thing you’d expect to see is a man in a business suit from Dallas turning up to buy a bowl. The visitor, for his part, looks a little astonished at the cavernous space and the busy young people wearing pink particle masks who surround him. But his daughter saw the bowl on Instagram and sent him a text with a photo and address, and now here he is, making a pit stop on the way to the airport at the end of a business trip.