Architecture is dedicated to discovering the essence of place.

Leah O'Dooley is the founder of Colourgirl Design--a sustainable design practice. I specialize in architectural color design for commercial, residential, mixed-use, interior and exterior projects.

Woodlabo is a passionate team who design and manufacture interior lighting in wood. Spacecraft from a borderless world, an invitation to travel between nature and space. Woodlabo, set up in Finland in 2010 and now based in France, shares a love of human values, simplicity, challenges and expertise. Woodlabo takes on architects’ bespoke projects: rescaling, lighting, fitting, adaptation for outdoors and creating new forms developed from standard models. The lights are designed to produce minimum offcuts, which are then reused to heat the workshop. We only use wood from European sustainable forests. Packaging for the lights is also wooden. Our partners, whose expertise complements our own, are all located within a radius of 300 km. www.woodlabo.com

food52.com A few years ago, we set out to bring cooks together from all over to exchange recipes and ideas and to support each other in the kitchen. We wanted to create a buzzing place for others who do what we do all day long: talk about food! Together we create cookbooks, take on food projects, help others with our real-time food Q&A—the Food52 Hotline —and support local food producers. Since we started Food52 (we cook 52 weeks a year, get it?), millions of cooks and eaters have found their way to the site. We believe that if you want to eat better, and you want to help change our food system, you need to cook. Maybe not all the time, but some. You don't have to eat local foods every day; you don't have to shop at the farmers market every week. But it's good to try. We're not extremists in a cult of purity, slow-foodness, or locavorosity. We're realists who believe in applying the best aspects of those food movements to our everyday lives.

Music, Art, Space (in that order)

Altamont Property Group, lead by Collin O’Berry, is a full-service real estate group with offices in Asheville and Brevard, North Carolina. Through data-driven market knowledge, attention to detail, communication, diverse connections, design awareness, and professionalism, our commitment to clients is uncompromising. Focus areas: Residential - Luxury - Land Tracts - Investment - Development - Commercial.

Bryan O'Rourke is an interior designer based in New York City.

contemporary/modern