Sculptural Brass "X" Base Desk by Jonathan Adler
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sculptural Brass "X" Base "Channing" Model Desk, designed by Jonathan Adler after a Milo Baughman
Brass
Jonathan Adler Campaign Style Channing Desk
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fabulous Jonathan Adler Campaign style Channing desk featuring a white lacquer finish and polished
Nickel
Channing Desk in White Lacquer and Nickel
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
our Channing collection. The Channing desk puts a svelte spin on Classic Campaign style. The name says
Nickel
Channing Walnut Desk
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Campaign chic. We've updated our classic Channing desk in warm walnut with brushed brass. Signature
Brass
Sold
H 30.5 in W 54 in D 24 in
Contemporary Modern Adler Channing Wood Laminate Brass X Base Campaign Desk
By Jonathan Adler
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a beautiful, campaign desk, on brass X bases and with brass pulls, by
Brass
Jonathan Adler Channing Desk in White Lacquer
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New London, CT
screenplay. The Jonathan Adler Channing Desk offers a glamorized, Classic Hollywood-inspired take on Campaign
Nickel
Large Venetian Style Octagonal Mirror with Brass Details
Located in Barcelona, ES
Venetian Modern Octagonal Wall Mirror with Brass Frame Venetian style octagonal wall mirror with gilt metal accents, Spain, 1960s This octagonal mirror has a triple mirror frame. Two...
Metal, Brass
Globo Console
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Futuristic elegance. A glossy, white lacquer cabinet cradled by a sinuous brass framework and capped with blue solid acrylic cabochons. Small footprint but big impact, our Globo cons...
Brass
48″ Round Dining Table
Located in Annville, PA
Always popular this 48″ Round Dining Table extends to an oval shaped dining table of 64″ when the leaf is inserted. The table top is fastened in place using bolts and rests on a reed...
Mahogany
Bond Burled Wood Credenza
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly Chic. Pieced, burled mappa between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Pieced veneer cabinet faces showcase naturally occurring patterns in the wood, and an adjustab...
Acrylic, Burl, Wood
Milo Baughman Designed Sideboard for Directional
By Milo Baughman, Directional
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-century modern sideboard with bi-fold doors, matte black base, and matching black exposed hinges. Designed for Directional by Milo Baughman, and manufactured by Johnson Furniture...
Walnut
Sold|$4,190
H 27.56 in W 68.9 in D 38.98 in
Cini Boeri Cognac Leather 2 Seater "Bengodi" Sofa For Arflex, 1970 Italy
By Cini Boeri
Located in The Hague, NL
Mid- Century modern period stunning and rare Bengodi 2-seat sofa. Designed by Cini Boeri for Aflex Italy, 1970's circa. Original cognac leather with a stunning patina! Very good ...
Leather
$7,400 / set
H 16 in W 26 in D 21.25 in
Set of 6 Tulip Armchairs by Eero Saarinen for Knoll, plumb upholstery, 1960's
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Chicago, IL
Eero Saarinen Tulip armchairs, with plumb upholstery. Knoll Associates, 1960's Set of 6 chairs Manufacturer "320 Park Avenue" labels attached underneath cushions, which dates back t...
Fiberglass
Wooden armchairs by Studio Glustin
By Glustin Creation
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
Superb pair of armchairs in beech wood upholstered with a bouclette fabric. Creation by Studio Glustin. France, 2023
Fabric, Beech
$17,465 / set
H 29.5 in W 22.75 in D 49.25 in
Shagreen Desk & Matching Stool with Bronze-Patina Brass Details by R&Y Augousti
By R & Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...
Brass
Vintage Boho Chevron Verdigris Copper Floor Mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The Vintage Boho Chevron Verdigris Copper Floor Mirror is a striking statement piece that combines artisanal craftsmanship with bohemian charm. This tall, floor-standing mirror featu...
Copper
Shagreen Desk with Bronze-Patina Brass Details by R&Y Augousti
By R & Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...
Brass
Serpentine Ivory Bouclé Swivel Chair
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Our ultra-mod Serpentine Swivel Chair features a thick and cushy seat cradled by an ultra-mod tube wrapped in our luxe Olympus Oatmeal bouclé. Perfect for floating in the room—swivel...
Bouclé
$9,959 / set
H 10.63 in W 7.88 in D 10.63 in
Gorgeous Pair of French Art Deco Sconces Signed Muller Frères Luneville
By Muller Fres Luneville
Located in Beirut, LB
Beautiful pair of French Art Deco wall sconces signed by Muller Frères Luneville. The panels ("coupelles" diameter 20 cm) are in molded clear frosted glass with decorative rain drops...
Bronze
$8,965 / item
H 46.46 in W 12.6 in D 33.86 in
Secrétaire Desk in Cream Shagreen and Bronze-Patina Brass by R&Y Augousti
By R & Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...
Brass
Antique French Art Deco Octagonal Wall Mirror, circa 1920
Located in Paris, FR
Antique French Art Deco wall mirror, black patinated and silvered, octagonal shape, circa 1920. Original antique frame with stylized roses silvered. Re-gilding with leaf. Frame width...
Silver Leaf
Diamond Large Mirror Emerald
By Reflections Copenhagen
Located in Geneve, CH
Diamond large mirror emerald Dimensions: W 72 x D 6.2 x H 100 cm Material: 4 mm faceted mirror on black painted MDF Weight: 12.8 kg The Diamond large mirror illustrates a perfect co...
Mirror
Potter-turned-home-design guru Jonathan Adler is a man with a peripatetic mind, inspired in equal parts, it seems, by classic modern design, Surrealism and pop culture.
Although his namesake company has expanded into a mini empire touching just about every aspect of modern living — chairs and ice buckets, wallpaper and menorahs, chandeliers and rugs — made in myriad materials, Adler still creates almost every object in clay first. His guiding principle is a simple one: “I make the stuff I want to surround myself with, and I surround myself with it.”
Adler grew up in a New Jersey farm town. His grandfather became a local judge, and his father returned home after graduating from the University of Chicago. “My pop was a brilliantly talented artist. At one point, he had to decide whether to become an artist or a —,” he pauses, searching for the right word, “person.” His father became a lawyer but spent all his free time in his studio, “making art, unencumbered by the need to make money from it. It was a totally pure pursuit.” Adler’s mother, who had worked at Vogue and moved to the rural town reluctantly, was also creative, and both parents encouraged their three children’s creativity.
When he was 12, Adler went to sleepaway camp, where he threw his first pot. “And it was on,” he says. His parents bought him a pottery wheel, and he spent the remainder of his adolescence elbow-deep in clay. Even while majoring in semiotics and art history at Brown University, he hung out at the nearby Rhode Island School of Design, making pots.
Adler moved to New York City, worked briefly in entertainment, and in 1993 returned to his true love, throwing pots (in exchange for teaching classes) at a Manhattan studio called Mud Sweat & Tears. One day, at Balducci’s food market, he ran into Bill Sofield, an old friend who had recently cofounded, with Thomas O’Brien, the now-legendary Aero Studios, a design firm and shop. Sofield paid a studio visit and promptly gave him an order. Then, another friend introduced Adler to a buyer at Barneys New York, who also wrote an order.
For about three years after Adler began devoting himself to ceramics full-time. Despite the street cred of both Aero and Barneys, he also wasn’t really making enough money to live on. Then, in 1997, he teamed with Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit aimed at creating economic opportunity for skilled artisans in developing countries, and traveled to Peru to hire potters who could follow his designs, thus increasing production.
Adler’s first store opened in 1998, in the Soho shopping mecca in Manhattan. He now operates about two dozen shops, as far-flung as London and Bangkok. During Adler’s trip to Peru, he connected not only with potters but also with several talented weavers and decided to branch out into textiles. Other categories followed, leading him to travel the world in search of artisans who could execute his endless supply of ideas. In India, Adler found a man who’s expert at beadwork; he has his limed furniture made in Indonesia, his honey-colored wood pieces in Vietnam.
After a friend asked him to decorate her house, Adler expanded to interior design, taking on hotels as well as private residences — projects for which he remains “agnostic,” using pieces by other designers. “I really try to get to know my clients and then make them seem more glamorous and more eccentric than they think,” he says. “I see myself as a slimming mirror for them.”
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Pieces from the designer’s archive are joined by works from the Museum of Art and Design’s permanent collection.
In our "On Location" series on YouTube and Instagram, top designers share their personal spaces while on lockdown. Here, Jonathan Adler and his husband, fashion commentator Simon Doonan, show us their bold beach house on New York's Shelter Island.
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