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
Bond Burled Wood Six-Drawer Dresser
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly Chic. From our chic burled wood collection—warm mappa wood floats between acrylic legs with stainless steel accents. Six generous drawers showcase naturally occurring patt...
Lucite, Wood, Burl
Bond Burled Wood and Lucite Desk
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of burled wood, acrylic panels, and stainless steel. Pieced, burled mappa wood floats between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Fully fini...
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Burled Wood Six-Drawer Dresser
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly Chic. From our chic burled wood collection—warm mappa wood floats between acrylic legs with stainless steel accents. Six generous drawers showcase naturally occurring patt...
Lucite, Wood, Burl
Bond Burled Wood and Lucite Cocktail Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
but glamorous X-shaped acrylic base. At 40 in. x 40 in., the bond cocktail table is squarely large-and
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Burled Wood Dining Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. From our chic burled wood collection, a Minimalist dining table that feels organic, worldly, and wonderfully warm. Naturally honey-hued, pieced mappa wood is treated...
Brass, Nickel
Bond Cantilevered Side Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly Chic. Perfect for bedside or sofa-side, our cantilevered table features warm burled mappa wood in an eye-catching c-shape with polished stainless steel accents on both sid...
Stainless Steel
Bond Burled Mappa Wood Cocktail Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
floats atop a simple but glamorous X-shaped Lucite base. At 40 inches x 40 inches, the bond block
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Burled Wood Six-Drawer Dresser
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly Chic. From our chic burled wood collection—warm mappa wood floats between acrylic legs with stainless steel accents. Six generous drawers showcase naturally occurring patt...
Lucite, Wood, Burl
Bond Burled Wood Six-Drawer Dresser
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly Chic. From our chic burled wood collection—warm mappa wood floats between acrylic legs with stainless steel accents. Six generous drawers showcase naturally occurring patt...
Lucite, Wood, Burl
Bond Burled Wood and Lucite Desk
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of burled wood, acrylic panels, and stainless steel. Pieced, burled mappa wood floats between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Fully fini...
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Burled Wood Dining Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. Pieced, burled mappa top with a wonderfully durable satin matte finish on a polished nickel base with matte brass Campaign corners. A removable 20 inch leaf extends ...
Brass, Nickel
Bond Burled Wood End Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of burled wood, acrylic panels, and stainless steel. Pieced, burled mappa wood floats atop a simple but glamorous acrylic base. Fully finished dra...
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Lindera Wood Credenza in Charcoal
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of burled wood, Lucite, and stainless steel. Pieced lindera wood floats between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Pieced veneer cabinet fa...
Nickel
Bond Burled Wood and Lucite Desk
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of burled wood, acrylic panels, and stainless steel. Pieced, burled mappa wood floats between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Fully fini...
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Lindera Wood Credenza in Charcoal
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of burled wood, Lucite, and stainless steel. Pieced lindera wood floats between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Pieced veneer cabinet fa...
Nickel
Bond Lindera Wood Desk in Charcoal
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Timelessly chic. A Minimalist world of dimensional wood, Lucite, and stainless steel. Pieced lindera wood floats between Lucite legs with stainless steel accents. Fully finished draw...
Acrylic, Wood
Bond Burled Wood and Lucite Cocktail Table
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
but glamorous X-shaped acrylic base. At 40 in. x 40 in., the bond cocktail table is squarely large-and
Acrylic, Wood
Adler Bond Burl Wood and Lucite Desk
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Jonathan Adler Bond burl wood and Lucite desk. Beautiful warm, burl wood and crisp Lucite desk with
Lucite, Burl
Reform Hammered Brass Credenza
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
The Reform credenza is inspired by the Brutalist architecture of modernist temples and churches from Le Corbusier's Ronchamp to Miami's Temple Israel to the Cathedral of Brasìlia. Th...
Brass
$3,120Sale Price / item|35% Off
H 30.71 in W 39.38 in D 28.75 in
The Laziness Armchair in Brazilian Solid Wood with a rocking footstool
By Amilcar Oliveira
Located in São Paulo, SP
Laziness is a laid-back and spacious rocking armchair, crafted for sitting/lying down and unwinding. The low seat height from the ground draws inspiration from Japanese rocking chair...
Velvet, Foam, Wood, Hardwood
$2,860 / item
H 29.93 in W 23.63 in D 23.63 in
Ethnic Straw Armchair by +55design Brazilian Design with Indigenous Craft
By Neca Abrantes
Located in Jardim America, SP
This rotating armchair by Neca Abrantes is a striking fusion of contemporary Brazilian design and indigenous handcrafted traditions. Known for her deep passion for native craftsmansh...
Straw
Murano Sputnik Spherical Green Glass and Brass Chandelier
Located in Roma, Lazio
A fantastic emerald green sputnik, with a surprising design and for its very low height, which allows it to fit in both high and low ceilings. Very elegant, it will furnish and decor...
Brass
Pair of Modern Walnut Side Tables
By Theodore Alexander
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Pacific walnut side table, the square top with rounded corners and a reeded edge above a similar under tier, on bobbin turned legs. Dimensions: 26" W x 26" D x 28.5" H.
Wood
'Floatation' Japanese Paper Suspension Lamp for Ingo Maurer
By Ingo Maurer
Located in Glendale, CA
'Floatation' Japanese paper suspension lamp for Ingo Maurer. Designed and produced by Ingo Maurer, one of the most celebrated German lighting icons since 1966. With imagination, cre...
Metal, Iron
Rosso Wall Mirror
By Specchi Veneziani
Located in Milan, IT
Venetian mirror made in the strictest Murano tradition. Assembled with crystal/gold and red elements handmade in the Murano furnaces. Wooden frame with a natural finish.
Glass
Serpentine Upholstered Queen Bed
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Our Serpentine Bed features an ultra-mod tubular framework at the head and foot and is wrapped all the way around in our luxe yet hardworking Olympus Oatmeal bouclé—stain resistant a...
Bouclé
$6,267
H 28.35 in W 70.08 in D 38.59 in
Le Bambole sofa in velvet By Mario Bellini For B&B Italia, 1970s
By B&B Italia, Mario Bellini
Located in ABCOUDE, UT
Beautiful Le Bambole sofa in coral/pink coloured velvet designed by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia in the 1970s. This beautiful edition is reupholstered in a high quality cotton velve...
Velvet
$9,475 / item
H 39 in Dm 28 in
Modernist Sapphire & Translucent Handblown Murano Glass Disc Chandelier
By Vistosi
Located in New York, NY
This monumental and striking chandelier realized in the manner of Vistosi, boasts 84 Murano glass discs in a rich sapphire blue- reminiscent of the eponymous shade created by Yves Kl...
Nickel
Large Bamboo Pair of Table Lamps with Brass Bases
Located in New York, NY
large bamboo pair of table lamps with brass bases. Beautiful and chic table lamps. Lovely brass bases and bamboo tops held by brass top.
Brass
Lisbon Brass and Enamel Torchiere
By Jonathan Adler
Located in New York, NY
Magic Mood. Wash your room in warm ambient light with our Lisbon Torchiere. A thick marble base with a polished brass stem and three perforated enamel bowls of light, each featuring ...
Marble, Enamel, Brass
Tubetop 14 Table Lamp in Charcoal by Pablo Designs
By Pablo Designs, Peter Stathis
Located in San Francisco, CA
A minimalist statement in form and proportion, Tube Top combines a transparent formed acrylic base to support its elegant mesh fabric shade in tension, steering away from conventiona...
Acrylic, Polyester
$1,155Sale Price / item|30% Off
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
$1,275 / item
H 15 in W 13.5 in D 6 in
JENNY Large Wall Light or Sconce in Enamel & Brass by Blueprint Lighting
By Stilnovo, Blueprint Lighting, Mathieu Matégot
Located in New York, NY
Introducing Jenny, the latest vintage-inspired fixture from Blueprint Lighting. Named for multi-hyphenate Jenny Mollen; NYT best-selling author, actress, design enthusiast, mom of ...
Brass, Bronze, Enamel, Nickel
Pair of Textured Murano Glass Wall Sconces
Located in Austin, TX
Murano glass sconces with a smoke color to the textured glass and black glass sphere finials. The “stampato” glass is textured with ridges and is curved in design, making a superb de...
Murano Glass
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.”
Find Jonathan Adler seating, case pieces, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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.
Even though he's been a writer for two decades, Simon Doonan can’t escape from decorating windows.