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Friday Five

“Friday Five” is a weekly column in which we ask a designer, artist, or shop owner to tell us their five favorite things, often on a theme.

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Trip Haenisch's Friday Five feels wonderfully insider-y — in addition to a concept car and very famous fashion designer, Haenisch spotlights his favorite photographer, furniture designer, and yoga retreat.

New York City native and textile designer Thomas Paul is in this week’s Friday Five hot seat.

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Samuel Wilkinson’s Friday Five is as equally diverse as his portfolio, with picks that span categories.

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Chip DeGrace oversees the creative engine that gives FLOR its reputation as an innovative, environmentally responsible company that’s basically synonymous with modular floor covering. In this week’s Friday Five, DeGrace shares insight into his personal life and cultural inspirations.

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In this week’s Friday Five, industrial designer Stephen Burks gives us a peek at his favorite artists.

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For this week’s Friday Five we tapped New Zealand-based furniture and lighting designer David Trubridge. He presented his inspiration in terms of the five elements, along with gorgeous landscape photographs he took himself.

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Deeply ensconced in the design scene there, Thom Fougere’s Friday Five brings us on a tour of the city’s bests, as well as thought-provoking looks at the art of collecting, and an introduction to off-the-beaten-path artists and film makers.

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For Friday Five, designer Luca Nichetto revisits his youth and looks around at his everyday world.

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Reiko Kaneko designs bone china steeped in the English tradition, but with a Japanese twist. She established her design studio in London’s East End in 2007, after studying Arts and Design at Central St. Martin’s College. Kaneko’s Friday Five gives us a glimpse into her world of modern-day London, and illuminates her Japanese roots.

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Architect Michael Ferguson of Space International has designed a little bit of everything. In this week’s Friday Five, Ferguson expounds on his city, Los Angeles, with some of his favorite "Elegant Brutalisms" from the city that shapes them.

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Bradford Shellhammer is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Fab.com, the flash site favored by those who demand clean and colorful contemporary design. He reveals a few of his inspirations here, in this week’s Friday Five.

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David Lai is CEO/Creative Director of Hello Design, a creative digital agency based in Culver City, California. For this week’s Friday Five, Lai, whose clients include design powerhouses Herman Miller, simplehuman, and Adobe, shares his best in utility and inspiration.

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This week’s Friday Five is a bit of a double feature, or shall we say, “two for the price of one.” After working independently for nearly 12 years, identical twin sisters and award-winning architects Julie and Leslie Dowling have joined forces to launch a bi-coastal architecture practice that celebrates modern design.

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Brooklyn-based designer Jason Miller is a maker of bone china with beautifully delicate gold chains, and furniture, both woolly and duct-taped. It’s no surprise that his Friday Five reveals a penchant for nature and earthy art.

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Designer Josh Owen shares with us his Friday Five that includes the functional and simple.

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Industrial designer Vicente Garcia-Jimenez has designed three pendants lights for Foscarini (Le Soleil, Fields, Big Bang), as well as numerous other lamps, and sculptural and functional furniture pieces. He also works in ephemeral architecture and brand installations. He shares with us 5 images that represent the starting point for some of his designs.

Bob Vila is the star of this week’s Friday Five. Enough said.

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Karen Pellegrin Woohoo! That man is my ( and probably everyone's) *dream* builder/contractor.

Mila Hermanovski, who attended RISD for apparel design and has worked in many facets of the business, shares with us her picks that perfectly encapsulates her aesthetic.

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Husband and wife design duo, Ben and Fi O’Brien operate as an independent boutique design and illustration studio and they share with us their 5 favorite wooden, woody, or woodish things.

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The ladies of Design Glut, Kegan Fisher and Liz Kinnmark, share with us their favorite blown or molded glass objects.

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Bridget Butch, or you might also know her as the always entertaining BB-Blog, shares with us places she likes to look for vintage prints.

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bb_mke Ha! I wish you could've seen my face just now. I got totally confused scanning through the Pinterest wall and seeing my face!

James Owen Design specializes in design and product development and James Owen himself shares with us 5 must-have cassette themed novelty objects.

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Deputy Editor of Atticmag Jane Tulanian is a third generation rug restorer and she shares with us her favorite types of rugs.

Melanie Carlson is the founder of lushpad.com, an online marketplace for used designer and mid-century modern furniture and art, and she rounds up her 5 favorite pieces of architecture from around the world.

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Chroma Lab is a Boston-based furniture and housewares company whose purpose is to restore and revive vintage furniture with vibrant, hand painted color and patterns. They share with us some of their favorite Etsy sellers who have similar interests in salvaging and restyling various things as them.

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Poppytalk is a Canadian (Vancouver-based) design blog collecting inspiration and dedicated to promoting emerging design talent and they share 5 things that have caught their eye lately.

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Sally Kuchar is the founder of sallyTV.com, a blog about her life as an interior designer (and design fanatic) and she shares with us 5 things that inspire her.

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Krista, Nikki, and Sarah, or the lovely ladies of Badder Homes and Gardens, share with us their 5 favorite post-inspired purchases.

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Krista Hogg It's nice to be in such impressive company! And also, sorry to bring this board's class level waaaay down.

Bill Indursky is the co-founder of www.VandM.com (Vintage And Modern), an online marketplace for home décor, art, textiles, and jewelry, and he shares 5 of his favorite pieces of art from celebrities that are also artists.

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Justin Cooper is the co-founder (along with friends Lucas Tirigall and Justin Wills) of Society6, and he shares with us 5 things that inspire independence and creativity.

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Joy Deangdeelert Cho is a graphic designer and blogger who has worked with numerous fashion clients in New York before launching her own business, Oh Joy!, and she shares a list of of things that incorporate texture, pattern, and whimsy...

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Dave Cuzner of Grain Edit, a great blog about illustration and graphic design shares 5 things that have been on his mind.

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ModFruGal is an advertising refugee who started her blog as a renovator’s diary — only to morph into a scrounging, Craigslist tweeting, DIY stream of consciousness and she shares with us some of her faves.

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Lifelong friends Joy and Janet are the design junkies behind Moggit.com, the “guilty pleasure of the decorating world”, and they explain 5 things that they love.

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Gregory Han is an editor for the home solutions and décor site Apartment Therapy, and he shares 5+ people and things that inspire his senses.

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Anna Dorfman blogs about renovating her house, spying on other people’s houses, and coveting beautiful things at Door Sixteen. She shares 5 Swedish blogs that she thinks make the internet more beautiful.

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Husband and wife team Cortney and Robert Novogratz are Sixx Design and they share with us 5 of their favorite things.

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Christiane Lemieux, the founder and Creative Director of DwellStudio, shares with us 5 things that she is dreaming about.

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Eyal Kattan of Generate Design, shares with us 5 things that he is digging.

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Michelle Adams of Rubie Green and Lonny Magazine shares with us 5 things that are on her mind.

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Artist/gallery curator David “Netherland” van Alphen shares with us 5 things that inspire him.

Randy J. Hunt is a designer and co-founder of Supercorp, the company behind Supermarket, and he shares 5 things he's really in to.

Sought-after interior designer, Kenneth Brown, shares with us 5 things that inspire him.

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NOTCOT is all about Visual INSPIRATION and founder Jean Aw shares with us a list of 5 things she is obsessed with.

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We love designer David Bromstad and he shared with us a list of 5 things that he's really into.

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Godspeed has developed itself as a statement on contemporary design and they share 5 things they dig.

Designer extraordinaire Vicente Wolf shares with us SIX things that he was thinking about.

Anna Corpron and Sean Auyeung are the founding members of Sub-Studio, a multi-disciplinary design studio located in New York City and they share 5 theoretical architecture projects that have inspired their design process.

Antonio Ballatore, the Season 4 champion of HGTV’s Design Star and host of The Antonio Treatment, shares with us his 5 favorite online reads.

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Designer Nicole Sassaman share 5 things she can't live without.

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