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.

Armed with an engineering degree from Stanford University, a Master of Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts, and a love for designing and building furniture, Maggie Birmingham founded lab31 in the summer of 2004. Lab31 is located in Oakland, CA, where the cloudless vlue sky, the ripening oranges, lemons, and pears out the office window, and rich red of the mole at our favorite nearby oaxacan restaurant, create a vibrant backdrop for our designs. Our designs are inspired by color, pattern, tradition, and craft. All the pieces are equally suitable in a room full of antiques as they are in a contemporary loft. But no mater where their home is, lab31 furniture makes a statement, and with the variety of color combinations and styles available, reflects the personality of its owner.

Music, Art, Space (in that order)

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

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