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Composed / Dims Vanity Desk

We're thrilled to announce our new vanity desk we design for furniture brand, Dims.

'Composed' Vanity desk began with a simple question:  how can a vanity be reimagined as a platform for healthy rituals around self-care?  We imagined a place where one does more than dress themselves up but rather nurtures themselves physically and mentally as a daily wellness ritual integrated into contemporary life.  
From this, our mission became clear - create a less vain vanity!

photo courtesy of Dims

photo courtesy of Dims

Our vision is to create a spot to take a break and focus for a moment on what makes one feel right and good.  We believe this requires a focused piece of furniture to fit its environment, so we set out to create a 'just-right' center for self-care with a set of simple, useful features:

  • Flexibility to be used as a desk or everyday storage surface in addition to a vanity.

  • A stature that doesn't consume too much space, but functions exceptionally.

  • Thoughtfully sized storage sized to hold everything from jewelry to jars to tall product bottles. 

  • A mirror size that isn't too dominating, adjustable, and removable to suit different conditions and preferences.

  • A simplified, contemporary form to fit a variety of interior styles.

photo courtesy of Dims

photo courtesy of Dims

Available in 4 color options with or without mirror on DIMS WEBSITE.

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Paris Design Week 2019: Visions/Perceptions Exhibition at Triode Gallery

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During 2019 Paris Design Week, Triode Design Galeri invited Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, Calico Wallpaper, and John Hogan to envision a collaborative exhibition express the spirit of each studio’s work. As long-time friends and collaborators, all three studios came together to explore the phenomena of illusory perceptions through a series of three distinct bodies of works installed in harmony to create an environment where material realities and optical illusions mingle.

Visions / Perceptions – was an installation designed by L&G in collaboration with Calico Wallpaper and John Hogan. The installation explores the connection between material realities and optical illusions through manipulating colors, materials, and surfaces. Calico Wallpaper introduces Singing Sand, capturing the mesmerizing patterns of an atmospheric phenomenon, John Hogan presents works in glass which play with our biological responses to sensory distortion, and Ladies & Gentlemen Studio explores the ambiguity of light and shadow through a new conceptual kinetic sculpture and lights.

An iteration of L&G's past kinetic works, the studio launched Moire, a kinetic mobile that explores new dimensions of optical material effects using bent perforated sheet metal. Through an assemblage of overlapping organic shapes, a smoothly shifting composition insects with the surrounding environment revealing a complex undulation of geometries that alternate between obscured and transparent materiality. The exploration speaks to L&G's fascination with revealing the inherent qualities of ubiquitous materials in unexpected ways - here employing sheet metal to an effect that defies its typical heaviness in favor of airy lightness. The resulting effect is reminiscent of starling murmurations across a twilit horizon. Moire is an editioned series crafted by L&G Studio at their Brooklyn studio. Custom sizes, colors, and variations available on a commission basis.

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Happy Summer

As the mid-year mark has come and gone, we're pausing to take a minute to reflect on some moments of wonderment from the year's experiences so far. 

2019 has brought some amazing opportunities to further explore and expand upon our vision for designing with thoughtful curiosity.  In this spirit, we want to thank you for being a part of the journey as we share some great moments!

Photo: L&G Studio

Photo: L&G Studio


JANUARY

INTERVIEW - WITH FERNANDO MASTRANGELO
We sat down with the talented Brooklyn-based designer, Fernando Mastrangelo, to speak about how we started, our process & approach, and our studio's evolution on Fernando's web channel, The Path. 
>> WATCH VIDEO HERE

PRODUCT LAUNCH -  ISO  
We debuted a new lighting series, Iso, a versatile plug-in swing arm lamp that brings expressive overhead light to spaces without electrical boxes.
>> LEARN MORE HERE 


FEBRUARY

EXHIBITION -  1stDIBS GALLERY 
As newcomers to the 1stDibs platform, we were honored to have a guest popup space in the grand opening of their Manhattan gallery. 
>> READ MORE HERE

WORKSHOP - MODERNISM IN THE MIDWEST  
As organizers/curators of Furnishing Utopia, we ventured out to the Midwest spending 5 days exploring the utopian ideals at the root of American Modernist and reflected on how this visionary period has impacted design and our everyday life. 
>> READ MORE HERE


MARCH

Product: Myrna Pendant / Photo: Michael Yarinsky Product: Ikabana Base / Photo: Charlie Schuck

PROJECTS - CEDAR RESIDENCE  
Honored to be part of a lovely project in Orient, NY by dear friend and architect Michael Yarinsky, who prominently used L&G lighting throughout the project to beautiful results! 
>> READ MORE HERE 

COLLABORATIONS - KAAREM x CHARLIE SCHUCK
Some collaborations are so strong, they endure over multiple iterations.  Such is the case here as we creatively revisit and expand on past ideas with two of our favorite repeat collaborators - Kaarem and Charlie Schuck
>> READ MORE HERE  


APRIL

EXHIBITION - MILAN DESIGN WEEK
We teamed up with Calico Wallpaper and Mud Australia to create a collaborative exhibit focused on our collective embrace of craft, process, and simplicity.  It was our first official exhibition in Milan and  also marked the debut of our Myrna lighting series.  
>> READ MORE HERE 
 
WORKSHOP - ORIGIN IN PORTO 
We ventured to Portugal to participate in a 4-day workshop focused on the country's rich artisan culture, hosted by the new bespoke brand Origin founded by designer Gabriel Tan.  The result was our Salt series, a collection of beautifully textured vases using metallic salts in the firing process to create naturally varied colors and textures.
>> READ MORE HERE 


MAY

HenrybuiltEXHIBITION - COMMON GROUND AT HENRYBUILT NY 
A homecoming event of sorts as we joined up with Henrybuilt to explore the legacy and values we collectively strive towards (Dylan and Jean both worked with Henrybuilt in Seattle prior to starting L&G).  The exhibit featured select works by L&G juxtaposed thoughtfully with Henrybuilt's systems and furniture along with curated Origin accessories. Our lighting will remain on view through September 31st. 
>> READ MORE HERE  

EXHIBITION - FURNISHING UTOPIA 4.0 AT HERMAN MILLER  
This 4th iteration of Furnishing Utopia ushered in a new focus - the roots of American Modernism.  The exhibition entitled 'Drawing Upon Frameworks' featured a curation of drawings by the design collective on view at Herman Miller's NYC flagship through September 31st. 
>> READ MORE HERE


JUNE

PRODUCT LAUNCH - L&G X POKETO ISOMETRIC NOTEBOOK
We're excited to launch our first stationery product with our good friends at Poketo!  We designed a notebook to (re)introduce the use of the isometric grid for ideating and doodling. The Isometric notebook is available in Dusty Rose or Sage.
>> READ MORE HERE

FEATURE - L&G STUDIO IN POKETO BOOK
We're incredibly thrilled to be included in Poketo Founder's new book, 'Creative Spaces' a celebration of creatives, their work, and their spaces.  Featuring our studio 25+ other creatives from all around North America.   
>> ORDER A COPY HERE 

 

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China Decor / Jun / 2019

China Decoration World Magazine / Featured Work: Studio highlight including Myrna, Float, Equalizer, Maru, Aura, Kazimir, Composium, Shape Up 5 Piece Chandelier.

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L&G x Henrybuilt: Common Ground installation during NYC x Design

During 2019 NYCxDESIGN through September, Henrybuilt present Common Ground, a showroom installation by Dylan Davis and Jean Lee of Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, who conceived the show based on their history working with Henrybuilt and the resulting overlap of the two brands’ values, references, and methodologies.  Ladies & Gentlemen will be featuring new lighting and styled vignettes with object by Origin throughout the gallery space, responding to the Henrybuilt system’s elegant functionality by complementing it with organic forms and soft materiality.  

Common Ground will mark a reconnection of the two brands’ creative roots that can be traced back to their beginnings in Seattle, Washington.  Davis, co-founder of Ladies & Gentlemen Studio began his design career as an intern at Henrybuilt in 2005.  Davis worked closely with founder Scott Hudson to articulate the foundational standards of Henrybuilt’s system.  Lee, Davis’s co-founder at Ladies & Gentlemen, was pivotal in the development of leather products for the company.  In addition to fostering significant growth for the Henrybuilt brand, their six-year working relationship provided Davis and Lee with the philosophical and practical knowledge upon which they based Ladies & Gentlemen Studio’s driving principles.  This installation will reflect this by highlighting the intersection of the brands’ work in shaping beautifully functional spaces that celebrate elegance and simplicity.

SEE PRESS FEATURES: Surface / Sight Unseen / Wallpaper

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Myrna Collection

Photo by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio

Photo by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio

We're extremely excited to announce the launch of Myrna, a new collection using color, shape, and materiality to define intimate spaces through light. Embracing the naturally sinuous qualities of sheet materials, Myrna expresses simple, sculptural gestures that add warmth and dimension to interior volumes.   

Space by Giancarlo Valle, Photo by Stephen Kent

Space by Giancarlo Valle, Photo by Stephen Kent

Myrna stemmed from a collaborative commission from fellow designer Giancarlo Valle in 2018, when he came to us with an intriguing request:  challenge the traditional chandelier archetype while defining the dining space of his open loft home.  The result was the Myrna Wall Mobile, a gestural variation on a swing arm lamp, made from blackened brass, tinted glass, and an oversized oval shade made from perforated steel. The counterweighted armature allows flexibility in the light's position, creating a positionable warm, embracing cast of light over the designated area. 

Photo by Charlie Schuck

Photo by Charlie Schuck

Top left space by Michael Yarinsky, photo Hanna Grankvist. Top right photo by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio

Top left space by Michael Yarinsky, photo Hanna Grankvist. Top right photo by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio

Myrna's broad shade form is inspired by actress Myrna Loy's signature floppy hats, an elegantly strong and simple form created from a gently bent piece of sheet material.  The structured, but organic shape has a remarkable ability to create an embracing gesture within larger surroundings making it perfect for dining and sitting areas.  The shade also allows for an abundant array of material options from perforated aluminum, brass and stainless steel to a lovely bent glass, a process new to our studio.  Each glass shade is formed from uniquely patterned art glass sheets and given a velvety surface finish resulting in an intriguing materiality that's thin and translucent with a stone-like pattern and hand.

(Photos by Ladies and Gentlemen Studio)

Though Myrna has already found it's way into some beautiful new homes and spaces, the collection was officially launched last month in Milan, at our Still/Life exhibition during the Salone del Mobile (more on that to come!)

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Myrna is available in an angle-adjustable pendant, sconce, ceiling-mount, and wall mobile format in a variety of materials.  The full scope of the collection can be explored via the link HERE.

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Still / Life: L&G x Calico Wallpaper x MUD Exhibit in Milan 2019

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L&G debuted at Milan during Salone del Mobile this year with Still / Life, an exhibit presented by Calico Wallpaper in collaboration with Mud Australia. A sensorial installation that offered guests a moment of introspection, interaction, and stillness, Still / Life featured site-specific gradients by Calico Wallpaper, interiors and lighting by Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, and ceramics by Mud Australia. The spatial concept designed by studio founders Dylan Davis and Jean Lee, envisioned a space that embraced a dual state of tranquility and vitality, revealing a calming yet enriching environment that opened the senses to elemental possibilities: a momentary day dream, a fond memory, or a chance conversation. The installation incorporated elements of process and materiality from the exhibitors as a means to celebrate their collective creative energy. The lighting collection Myrna, which uses color, shape, and materiality to define intimate spaces through light was launched at this occasion.

SEE PRESS MENTIONS: Elle Decor Italia / Surface / Design Anthology

CREDITS:

Collaborators: Calico Wallpaper / MUD Australia

Styling by: Jean Lee of L&G Studio

Photography by: Ladies & Gentlemen Studio / Lea Anouchinsky

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L&G Lights in The Cedars Residence by Michael Yarinsky

Originally built in 1883, The Cedars sits between the bay and the sound, at the entrance to the quiet town of Orient, New York. Michael Yarinsky Studio worked with their client to create a beautiful and playfully decorated home, referencing the natural environment surrounding the property. L&G’s lighting is featured throughout, including the Myrna Pendant, Maru, Shape Up 3 Piece, Shape Up Globe, Spun Pendant and Aura.

Photography: Charlie Schuck

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Editorial series with Charlie Schuck and Kaarem

For L&G, we strive on the explorative spirit especially through meaningful collaborations. Collaborations for us is about bringing together like-minded creatives with different complementary perspectives, approach, skills. Furthermore, it’s about pushing each other to do something outside of what we each normally do to create something special together.

For our latest collaboration, we brought together two long-term friends (and collaborators), photographer Charlie Shuck, and clothing brand, Kaarem to do a editorial shoot exploring the duality of opposites.; solid vs. transparent, light vs dark, soft vs hard.

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L&G x 1stDibs Gallery Opening

L&G made its 1st Dibs debut as invitational contemporary exhibitors in the newly-opened Chelsea showroom. The showroom exhibit displayed the studio’s latest lighting collections in abstracted living vignettes, seeking to convey the studio’s playfully austere vision of space where in lighting plays a critical role in defining an environment’s function and spirit.

SEE PRESS MENTIONS: Dezeen / Domino

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Launching Iso Swing Arm Lights

We’re really excited to share a new lighting series, name Iso. Iso began with consideration towards a common problem: how to create impactful, functional overhead lighting without a ceiling electrical box.

Addressing this challenge with three simple elements, Iso's single rotating armature elegantly cantilevers from the wall by the lamp's cord to strategically place a globe light source right where it needs to be. The result is an elemental sculpture of functionality in which each of the lamp's elements work together to define its use as well as its form.

Iso installs directly into a wall by two screw points and plugs directly into a wall outlet - eliminating the need for a dedicated junction box or need for an electrician. The arm's adjustable pivot allows the lamp to be positioned and repositioned as the use of a space evolves.

Available in two sizes, 60" and 30", Iso is suitable for installation over dining tables, sofas, or bedside.

A special selection of materials range from brass to tonal texture powder coats accented by a new selection of color-washed glass globes in a subtle yet elegant pearl-like finish.

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Get more information on Large Iso, and Small iso Swing arm lights for your next project!

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L&G PRODUCT FEATURE - Shape Up

Space: Studio DB, Photo: Matthew Williams

In 2013, we began to think more deeply about how lighting can work in harmony with it's environment to create dynamic engaging spaces. 

We became fascinated by how common types of lamp shades direct light in ways that are at once functional, formal and atmospheric.  Basic ubiquitous shades - a glass globe, a metal cone, dome, etc resonated with us for their simple, elemental forms that expressed their functionality through their materials and shape.  Thinking about these as building blocks, we imagined collaged constellations of shades working in concert to respond harmoniously to a variety of spatial conditions.

The result was Shape Up, a versatile system of 5 shapes that can be networked together in response to their environment.  

 

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Shape Up also represents the beginning of an amazing partnership with Brooklyn lighting company Roll & Hill.  We were honored to be invited to design a product for the company at a time when our studio was discovering what we stood for.  In this way, the road to Shape Up was especially formative to developing our voice and vocabulary - we are so grateful to Roll & Hill for supporting that.  

To this day, Roll & Hill masterfully produces Shape Up to a quality level every designer dreams of.  We're beyond pleased to be working with them and able to offer these products to our clients directly with their amazing level of craft. 

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Shape Up is a modular system offered in many configurations from a 5 piece chandelier to single adjustable pendants to custom arrangements. 

We're here to help you configure a composition perfectly tailored to your space.

Email us at sales@ladiesandgentlemenstudio.com for help discovering how Shape Up can be a part of your next project.
 

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