These rollercoaster-esque columns, or as we like to call them “stems”, are a part of our newest architectural project.  The possibilities really are endless when using these ultra-flexible and elegant winding forms.

One can’t help but be reminded of one of John’s sculptures from 2008.  Ladder, seen below, seems to be at the root of our newest project!  This sculptural quality can really seen as a thread through all of our pieces, be it architectural or industrial.  Come see it for yourself at the Soho showroom!

ICFF annually hosts over 25,000  designers, architects, interior designers,  retailers, manufacturers, developers, distributors, and representatives at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.  This year the ICFF is hosting representatives from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, and U.S.  One part of the U.S. proponent?  JOHNHOUSHMAND (for the second year in a row)!

We will be located at booth #1122 & and exhibiting a carefully curated collection of both never before seen pieces as well as timeless JOHNHOUSHMAND classics.  Come join us!

We’re excited about this new process and it shows!  The guys at the shop have been having fun experimenting with the different shapes that can be created with these flexible structures.

Check out the video HERE to see how it works!

Actualized in collaboration with our good friends at Rockwell Group, this bold and angular creation joined pieces by renowned companies such as Jim Thompson, Maya Romanoff and The Rug Company.

Petrified Wood is wood that has been fossilized due to pressure over decades.  It takes less than 100 years for the transformation to take place resulting in beautiful slabs of rock resembling the wood it used to be.

In our newest low table, No. 0234, the black jasper tone of the Petrified Wood is shown off on a simple blackened steel base.  We can’t wait to come up with more uses for this elegant material.

Some things really do get better with age.

Our newest custom finish is pure beauty without the pain:  tattooed wood and acrylic.  At JOHNHOUSHMAND we love the natural and uncontrollable characteristics in salvaged wood but this “tattoo” finish is a custom dream.

At the shop upstate we create a CAD drawing of the desired graphic and send it to a CNC machine which routes out the graphics from either wood or acrylic.  Next we fill the path in with epoxy (which can be any number of colors) to really bring out the image.  So not only do we have control over the image but also the color and thickness of line!  Flexibility at its finest.

Here are some samples of the clean and crisp shapes created by this process for a project we’re currently working on.

So you would think that The World’s Largest Marble Quarry would be in Italy (I’ve been to Carrara and Pietrasanta…. Driving up the coast road I thought that was snow in them thar hills until….) or in some other far flung place.

But it turns out it’s a bit more than two hours from the ranch in nearby Danby, Vermont. I had to go there and see for myself. It helped that a project in Singapore for the W Hotel chain wanted some boulders with polished faces.

They just don’t allow you in the quarry to kick some stones, especially if you’re looking to buy a few small boulders. But a few calls to the owner of the company (who became a fan of our work) and a bit of expansive discussion, and I got an invite, a tour, and a chance to pick out some large chunks.

I wandered up and down the quarry roads, peeking around piles of blocks, scree, and precariously balanced 20 ton hunks of scrap, looking for the perfect shape. This was a dream unlike any I’ve had. I have toured the Italian stoneyards, been to Crab Orchard Tennessee with Vicente Wolf, and selected limestone in Oaxaca for Edgar Bronfman’s bathroom… but this was a mother lode, literally. We need to know more, see more, understand more. Mike the quarry manager, who was one of the most genuine humans I’ve ever met jumped me into his pickup, we veered around the John Deere block loader (capacity 80,000 pounds) and headed underground into 40 acres of subterranean stone cutting operations.

There are quarries up and down the hills, and then there is the cave, manmade, hollowed out over a century of excavating, and with miles of roads, “rooms”, trucks, pools of wastewater reclamation, mountains of scrap and slabs, and spray painted signs reminding one of “EXIT,” in case you needed to get some air. 45 degrees year round.

Visions of marble blocks, slabs, boulders, sculptures last night. All night. Going back. ASAP. Have a plan….

It begins after the client picks one of the over 200 pieces in our product portfolio.  One of our awesome salespeople then discusses specifics such as wood species and dimensions for the piece.  Once the salesperson receives the client’s specs he/she then talks to Jim, our production manager at our 950-acre facility.  Jim will then go to our abundant library of slabs searching for the top four slabs that best match the client’s criteria.  The client chooses from these four slabs and we can begin producing a distinctive piece suited just for them.  Here are some photos of slab selection process for one of our No. 0187.1 Shazam low tables for a client.

Visitors are welcome to come by the shop to take a look around anytime. It is quite the operation and allows us to control each detail of a project. Plus, it gives our clients the opportunity to be creative and conjure up work that is like no other in our style. If by chance you find yourself in upstate New York one day, just let us know and we will give you a tour!

Our friends Bob and Cortney Novogratz are masters in the art of home and interior design.  With two hit shows under their belts, 9 by Design and Home by Novogratz, these NYC residents sure do know their stuff.

Who better to go to than this power couple for a favorites list of New York City?  The List Collective recently featured the duo and their personal list of favorites for “discovering NYC”.

From Brooklyn based Flavor Paper to Arturo’s Pizza to the Crosby Street Hotel just a few blocks from us, they’ve really got New York covered.  We’re proud to say that JOHNHOUSHMAND is highlighted as one of the Novogratz’ favorite thirteen picks in New York.

Check out the rest of their list and others at the List Collective.

No. 0233, the two slab bookmatch black walnut square dining table with laquered metal tube legs is JOHNHOUSHMAND’s first foray into color.  The twelve green legs act not only to support this 7′ x 7′ black walnut table top but also accentuate the beautiful tones in the grain.

We’ve shown you our green, now you show us yours.