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A person seated on a red chair holds a glowing white portable lamp with a curved wooden handle
Yes, Women Design
|Rose Apodaca
Women might account for nearly half the global population, but design, from architecture to products, remains a man’s world. If the recent rise in women designers and entrepreneurs in the... Read more...
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Just Add Gratitude
|Rose Apodaca
What to do when life serves up lemons? Make a gin and tonic, of course. For every qualifier about this year in the negative, we opted to find solace and... Read more...
A glossy yellow oval coffee table on a mirrored conical base, on a dark wood floor
Happiness is a Warm Yellow (+Gray)
|Rose Apodaca
The color gods have spoken: following a impoverished year on so many levels, the Pantone Color Institute proclaimed that 2021 serves up not just 1, but 2 colors in a... Read more...
A collage of people meditating, drumming and playing singing bowls on a lawn in front of the White House
Unites States of Goodwill
|Rose Apodaca
If the space in front of the White House were given back to the people, what gesture, activity or ritual would you bring to uplift it? So is the ask from... Read more...
Iris Murphy standing beside a large wooden floor loom in a studio, with spools of thread on shelves behind
Rising Star: Iris Murphy
|Rose Apodaca
From behind a sizeable 8-foot-wide-by-6-foot-high loom inside her Silver Lake studio, Iris Murphy commands bobbins of paper and silk, jute and upcycled yarns across 24 harnesses, interworking the textures into... Read more...
A large live-edge wood slab table on thin black metal legs in a workshop doorway, with a person walking toward it
Meet Peter De Jong
|Rose Apodaca
The best in modern design is where you find it. And while A+R's reputation is built on new and legacy collections from around the world, sometimes it's a matter of... Read more...
A wall-mounted light oak desk with thin black steel supports, a black desk lamp and an open book
Write On
|A+R Staff
Back to school or just not quite back to the office, a designated work space energizes. Make it all the more appealing to report to day after day with a... Read more...
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LA Design Fest is On
|A+R Staff
With a milestone anniversary to mark, the festival spotlighting Los Angeles design in all its creative and innovative manifestations was delayed due to the pandemic shutdown, but fiercely determined to... Read more...
Event graphic for Rose Apodaca, A+R co-owner, a speaker at Glamhive's Digital Summer Bazaar on July 11
Master Class: July 11
|A+R Staff
Learn online while paying it forward. Join A+R co-founder Rose Apodaca this Saturday, July 11, for @Glamhive's Digital Summer Bazaar, as she helms a remarkable online panel with fashion and... Read more...
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Where We Stand
|A+R Staff
At its core, design is about solving problems, about improving the human condition—for all humans. It is about a better life. At A+R, we are committed to doing our part—now—in... Read more...
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La Vie en Rose
|A+R Staff
Summer is about dreamy blush sunsets, cases of chilled rosé‎, vibrant salads topped with salmon, cotton candy, and seeing life through rose-colored specs. It is the flush of good health... Read more...
A stainless steel pool ladder with three steps set into a stone-tiled edge above teal water with blue crescent shapes
Off L.A.’s Deep End
|Rose Apodaca
More than the palm trees or the Hollywood sign or any other man-made beacon heralding that home is within grasp, it’s the sight a mile-high out of an airplane window... Read more...