Kalon Studios

Until now, Rugosa’s two material languages had never shared an object. Sugar Pine indoors. Powder-coated aluminum outdoors.

The Material Studies I Dining Chair is where they meet: aluminum where the chair meets the ground, Sugar Pine where it meets the body.

First shown at The Residence for NY Design Week. 144 Vanderbilt.

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Hunt Club House was built as a forever home. West of West designed a low-slung gabled structure in a clearing in the Portland woods, almost entirely of wood: Douglas fir outside, knotty timber and book-matched oak inside, for a family thinking decades ahead.

The Stump belongs here. Solid wood among solid wood, built to be used and kept. A table that will still be here when the kids come home from college.

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In May, we join at ICFF for The Domestic Artifact. A presentation of six American studios working with clarity, conviction, and close attention to material.

Alongside Mock Studio, Thomas Yang, Onibi, HB-AS, and Vy Voi, we’ll present works from Material Studies II; tables and cubes in mirrored aluminum and stone.

May 17–19 at Javits Center. Booth W1162.

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On May 15, we’re joining , .us , and for an evening in Brooklyn. Material Studies II on view alongside site-specific installation from a group of independent designers. Public Records open for the night.

We’d hope to see you there.

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„We’ve used Kalon in our projects for years.“ — Colin Stief, General Assembly, in

Inside The Residence — a first collaboration with Sarah Zames and Colin Stief of .

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Most furniture belongs to one setting. This piece doesn’t.
Material Studies I in Lime White.

What independent studios share isn’t an aesthetic. It’s discipline. Patience. The freedom to work on their own terms. A refusal to design for a season, and a commitment to make work that outlasts trends, timelines, and expectations.

The Residence gathers a room full of that kind of practice. Curated by and , with work from studios and makers we’ve been watching and thinking about for years.
These are the people we want to keep working near.

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The Cube is the smallest piece in Material Studies II. Also the most revealing.

Four variations. Stone and mirrored aluminum. Each changes with placement, light, and what surrounds it. Deep veining in Mineral Blue, warmth in Iron Red, a softer glow in Mineral Gold.

Mirrored aluminum returns the room to itself. The stone holds it there.

It invites arrangement, because it’s worth looking at from every angle.

The things we keep noticing. The showroom, over time.
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Material Studies II remains on view through April 30.

A coffee table, bench, and four cubes in aluminum and stone — placed close enough that edges blur, reflections multiply, and forms dissolve into the room. Stone flattens in photographs. Mirrored aluminum resists them entirely. It becomes whatever is around it.

In early May, the work moves to New York City for NY Design Week. Until then, it’s here.