Home Catalog #15: Breaking up with Wirecutter, behind Uhuru Design, new Holiday collections

Hi, 

Welcome to issue #15 of The Home Catalog. 

In this week's newsletter we have a new outdoor furniture brand founded by 3 ex-Tuft & Needle teammates, Holiday releases from Homesick and Bloomscape, and a new founder interview with Jason Horvath from Uhuru Design. (This is one of my favorite interviews so far.)

Before we jump in, I also wanted to share Graham Downey's essay ‘Why I Broke Up With Wirecutter’. This is one of the more interesting pieces I read this week. It chronicles Downey's experiences with trying to buy “the best stuff” and his attempts to “escape the crass, endless, and wasteful pressure to acquire more.”

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New brands

Here are three brands recently added to our Directory: 

Neighbor

Founded by three ex-Tuft & Needle teammates, Neighbor crafts outdoor modern furniture and goods meant to live a long life outside.  View Neighbor. 

• Emblem: Performance furniture for busy spaces at home and at work
• Remy: Weighted blankets for better sleep

Launches and releases

Homesick's winter collection 

Homesick dropped its Holiday Collection with thoughtful scents for every holiday-related occasion.  View the Holiday Collection here. 

Great Jones launches bakeware

It was a big week for Great Jones, the brand announced a $1.75m funding round and launched its new line of bakeware. The bakeware collection includes the Sweetie Pie ceramic pie dish, the Hot Dish ceramic casserole dish, the Breadwinner loaf pan, and the Patty Cake cake pan. Discover the collection here.

k-apostrophe for Revival 

K’era Morgan of k-apostrophe designed four limited edition rugs for Revival. The collection is woven in a family-run mill in North Carolina and inspired by aerial views of water. View the collection here. 

Bloomscape launches Holiday plants

Get yourself in the spirit with Bloomscape's festive plant collection, including Rosemary, Orange Mint, and Pineapple Sage — a trio of herbs perfect for cocktails with a muddler. View the Holiday Collection.

2nd Home by Coyuchi

Sustainable home textiles brand Coyuchi has launched 2nd Home Renewed, the brand’s line of products that are recollected, cleaned and mended, then resold. Learn more here.

Quick links

• Schoolhouse's Holiday gift collection 
• The Inside's three new Cherry Blosson fabirc additions: Blue, Jade and Mint
• Cancelled Plans Holiday candles
• Birthdate's new made-to-order book that illustrates your unique astrological birth chart

Founder interview: Jason Horvath, Uruhu Design

This was one of my favorite interviews since I started Living Cozy. 

Founded in 2004, Uhuru Design is a trailblazer in commercial furniture space, outfitting offices for brands like Nike, Shake Shack, and Vice.

And now, it wants to bring its sustainble, New American furniture design to the home and change our relationship with the pieces we share our homes with.

“Our biggest tenet of sustainability is to make stuff people don't ever want to throw away,” says Uhuru founder Jason Horvath. 

And Uhuru's approach to sustainability goes deeper than the materials it uses, every single piece the brand produces — even if it’s factory-made — has a story. “Stories create a distinct difference in how you think about something,” says Horvath.

Read the full interview here. 

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