The Design District
The Goods: Hi-Lo Chandelier

Jewelry designer Justin Giunta’s garage glamour…
Star Turn: Michael Arras Featured On Etsy

Portland-based furniture maker, Michael Arras, gets a little love from Etsy…
PDX Furniture: Project Chaboo at GALLERY HOMELAND

The furniture show that features artists and designers of all stripes started with a diminuitive bamboo bench…
Glenn Adamson at White Stag

Craft theorist Glenn Adamson at White Stag this weekend…
Design Library: Small+Modern+Urban Home

A book full of inspiration for living well in a small space…
Portland Design Icons

If a chess board was made for Portland, who would be the players?
Core77's Carl Alviani at Art Institute
Talk about a man with his finger on the pulse. Portland-based industrial designer and writer, Carl Alviani, who writes for online industrial design mag, Core77, is doing a tal…
11x Design Tour

This weekend’s tour of modern homes all over Portland, designed and built by up and coming architectural firms
Dutch Design for the Masses

IKEA is teaming with famed Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to create high-design products that are easy on the pocketbook—and are laudable in their production techniques.
Our Best Machines Are Made Of Sunshine

Paige Saez and Rebecca Steele with new work in The Lodge Gallery at Allied Works
ADX Furniture Dig

New, innovative furniture show/room opens next Friday at Design Department with some of Portland’s finest…
Talking Through Thinking Through Craft

My kind of book group: discuss Glenn Adamson’s Thinking Through Craft at the Museum of Contemporary Craft this Thursday
Innovation During a Recession

Panel discussion with design leaders at OFFICE…
Real Good Chair: Blu Dot at Target!?

Love the design and love the price a little bit more than I did before…
Dot to Dot

We can say we like them because they’re going to help us communicate, help us stay organized, on task…but the truth is, they just look sharp…
New: Grange Furniture at Thea's Interiors

New in PDX, 100+ year old French furniture line at Thea’s Interiors…
Shout Out: Corso Staicoff in Cool Hotels

Raise a toast to Portland interior design firm CorsoStaicoff…
Blowin' Up

The shiny, witty antedote to green burnout (with apologies, but only kind of)...
Home at Augen Gallery

Augen Gallery looks at notions of Home in a new group show opening tonight, First Thursday.
Doon Architecture's Big Idea

Can I call it sculpturetechture? New solutions from Edgar Papazian for a new year…the space you’re in…now with 150 square feet more to love…
Easy DIY Designs

For those who are less crafty, DIY projects can seem daunting. But here are two stylish projects that promise great design for little cash or time—and are easy enough for almost anyone to accomplish.




