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CHAIRS 2007-2026
CHAIRS 2007–2026 brings together nearly twenty years of Kalon through a single lens: the chair. Beginning with the Isometric Chair, one of the studio’s earliest designs, the exhibition spans production pieces, prototypes, experiments, and work still in development. Among them…
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The Simple Bed
Reduced to What Matters The Simple Bed began with the pursuit of simplicity: a bed reduced to its essentials. Low, generous, and quiet in profile, it was designed as a solid wood frame defined by proportion, material presence, and integrity. Its simplicity is the result of…
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The Gallery Without Walls
A chair in a room is not the same as a chair on a plinth. Design is understood differently when allowed to enter the life of a space. This is the premise behind The Residence, Assembly Line’s latest presentation inside 144 Vanderbilt, a three-story townhouse in Fort Greene,…
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Material Studies II
Kalon presents Material Studies II, the second chapter in an ongoing series that revisits existing studio forms through new materials. Debuting in the Los Angeles showroom, the exhibition marks Kalon’s first use of stone, recasting the Cube + Void collection in mirrored aluminum…
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Victoria Morris – New Work
New Work marks a return to practice for Los Angeles–based ceramicist Victoria Morris. Made specifically for this exhibition after the loss of her home and studio in the Altadena wildfires, the pieces on view signal an evolution in her work—larger in scale, proportionally…
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Craft as Language: How to Wrap Five Eggs
Originally published as Matter & Meaning vol.004. This Journal edition has been adapted from the original mailing and includes selected content from the issue. There’s a quiet kind of generosity in how things are made. Not just in the object itself, but in its use—in how it’s…
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Before Knowing
Originally published as Matter & Meaning vol.003. This Journal edition has been adapted from the original mailing and includes selected content from the issue. Summer brings a change in pace—less a pause than a shift in frame. The days are longer, the edges of time less defined.…
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The Architecture of Pause
The American roadside has always made room for interruption. Motels, diners, drive-ins, and gas stations gave shape to the pause between one place and another. In California, where the road is inseparable from landscape and distance, those pauses became part of the mythology…
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mexico city, by design
Originally published as Matter & Meaning vol.002. This Journal edition has been adapted from the original mailing and includes selected content from the issue. No place on earth has captured our attention as much as Mexico City when it comes to contemporary design and…
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a dispatch from Kalon
Originally published as Matter & Meaning vol.001. This Journal edition has been adapted from the original mailing and includes selected content from the issue. Black Mountain College has long been a point of fascination—for its utopian ideals, its unorthodox creativity, and its…
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Reflections on our Wildfire Relief Free Market
For five weeks between January and February, our showroom became the Wildfire Relief Free Market—an immediate, on-the-ground effort to distribute new, high-quality essentials to those impacted by Los Angeles’s recent wildfires. From the start, the goal was to create something…
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Notes on Home
Seven days after the new year, I learned that my childhood home—where my mother still lived—had burned to the ground in the Palisades Fire. A lifelong fear made manifest, and also something I’d come to expect, on some strange level. Malibu’s Las Flores Canyon, where I grew up,…