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O & G STUDIO
Founded by Sara Ossana and Jonathan Glatt, two friends who met as graduate students at
RISD, O&G has been designing and producing modern heirloom pieces in Rhode Island for
nearly a decade. The studio celebrates the rich history of furniture making in New England
and continues the legacy, while creating work that is new, surprising and uniquely its own.
With a strong foundation in craft and quality, O&G takes cues from early-American design and
reinterprets these traditional motifs (as shown above) through a modern lens.
SELETTI
Seletti combines pop art and design/furniture. It is a wonderfully, crazy, place where more is
definitely more. A nice antidote to the minimal design current that doesn’t bring any whimsy
or warmth to the world. Their incredibly successful and fun Monkey lamps and new items like
the seriously comfy sofa and armchair called “comfy” and collection of Hybrid porcelain are
currently entertaining the Showroom.
KARAKTER
Karakter seeks out the extraordinary in design: from design history’s alumni like Bodil Kjaer, Joe
Colombo and Angelo Mangiarotti and from the ranks of new designers aspiring to join them, like
Guillaume Delvigne and the already recognised Aldo Bakker. Bodil’s iconic Office Desk from 1959
(shown below) is only to be found on display in the UK at the Staffan Tollgard Design Store. It has
been called “the most beautiful desk in the world” (Staffan Tollgard says ‘for obvious reasons’).
It is also frequently referred to as the James Bond Desk, having almost been a character in its
own right in three early James Bond films.