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The Architects Who Made Small Spaces Do More
Design, Bitches built a serious practice out of an unserious-sounding name. Its real trick is making restaurants, houses, clinics, and classrooms behave like invitations.
JK & Co. knows what to keep
A storage building becomes an art gallery. A working winery becomes a place to linger. Inside the Los Angeles studio finding new uses for buildings that already have a past.
Astek makes walls worth a second look
From Hollywood sets to hotel corridors, Astek turns artwork into surfaces. Its real craft is getting an imaginative idea through the decidedly physical business of ink, material, color, and scale.
EDG Gives Hotels a Story Worth Staying For
A fictional heir in Santa Monica. Working artists in Scottsdale. A quieter kind of luxury in Sedona. EDG connects hospitality branding to the rooms, restaurants and small decisions that guests actually experience.
DesignArt Studios knows what to leave out
A Santa Barbara design firm makes its case through the decisions behind the finished room: where to put the kitchen, when to order the cabinets, and why the pool can wait.
SUNPAN Built a Furniture Business for People Who Cannot Afford to Wait for Furniture
The Toronto company sells the tasteful middle - thousands of coordinated, contract-ready pieces backed by warehouses, showrooms and trade tools. Its real product is not the chair. It is fewer ways for a project to go sideways.
Tuuci
A Miami yacht rigger looked at the patio umbrella and saw a badly engineered boat. Twenty-eight years later, Tuuci sells repairable shade architecture, furniture and outdoor rooms to designers, resorts and homeowners around the world.
BASE4 - Architects, Engineers, Designers
A Boca Raton firm decided architecture should behave more like a factory than an atelier - so it wired together designers on four continents into a 24-hour workday and pointed the whole thing at one goal: build faster and cheaper.
Michael Pollak
Michael Pollak is a New York based serial founder who keeps spotting personal-care rituals stuck in old-fashioned settings and rebuilding them as warm, branded experiences. He co-founded Heyday, the company that pulled the facial out of the spa and grew it into a national chain, then in 2024 launched Great Many, a hair growth studio and telehealth brand in NoHo that treats thinning hair with the comfort of a lounge and the rigor of a clinic. Trained at the Cornell Hotel School, he leads with hospitality instincts and gut-first decisions.