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The Goods: Hi-Lo Chandelier

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/25/2009

Jewelry designer Justin Giunta’s garage glamour…

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Star Turn: Michael Arras Featured On Etsy

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/22/2009

Portland-based furniture maker, Michael Arras, gets a little love from Etsy…

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PDX Furniture: Project Chaboo at GALLERY HOMELAND

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/20/2009

The furniture show that features artists and designers of all stripes started with a diminuitive bamboo bench…

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Glenn Adamson at White Stag

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/20/2009

Craft theorist Glenn Adamson at White Stag this weekend…

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New: fusefour Rugs

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/19/2009

Home grown designs for fresh, graphic area rugs…

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Design Library: Small+Modern+Urban Home

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/18/2009

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

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Portland Design Icons

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Posted By Amara Holstein on 02/18/2009

If a chess board was made for Portland, who would be the players?

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Fresh on the Table: Lamina

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/18/2009

New collection from CB2

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Core77's Carl Alviani at Art Institute

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/17/2009

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…

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Here's Looking At You, Kid

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/16/2009

A love note to the former Fed…

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11x Design Tour

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/16/2009

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

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Dutch Design for the Masses

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Posted By Amara Holstein on 02/13/2009

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.

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Our Best Machines Are Made Of Sunshine

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/12/2009

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

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ADX Furniture Dig

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/11/2009

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

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Talking Through Thinking Through Craft

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/11/2009

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

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Innovation During a Recession

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/08/2009

Panel discussion with design leaders at OFFICE

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Real Good Chair: Blu Dot at Target!?

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/07/2009

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

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Dot to Dot

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/07/2009

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…

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New: Grange Furniture at Thea's Interiors

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/07/2009

New in PDX, 100+ year old French furniture line at Thea’s Interiors…

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Fresh Fabrics

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/07/2009

Delicious new fabrics from Ikea.

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Graphic Underfoot

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/07/2009

Lookin’ good on a dime…or a nickel…

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Shout Out: Corso Staicoff in Cool Hotels

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/06/2009

Raise a toast to Portland interior design firm CorsoStaicoff…

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Blowin' Up

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/05/2009

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

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Home at Augen Gallery

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/05/2009

Augen Gallery looks at notions of Home in a new group show opening tonight, First Thursday.

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Doon Architecture's Big Idea

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Posted By Lisa Radon on 02/03/2009

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…

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Easy DIY Designs

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Posted By Amara Holstein on 02/03/2009

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.

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