Who says Bostonians have no public heart?
I had a meeting in a big office building next to the Prudential Center shopping center in Boston yesterday. I parked in the massive– and massively…
The (unseen) high cost of low prices…or, you get the type of culture and products you pay for
Last summer, I bought two Adirondack chairs. My husband had been talking about wanting this kind of chair for at least ten years. He’d routinely stop…
Bringing “place” home in a suitcase
I just spent six blissful, unplugged days in Italy. Too short, but deeply precious to me and my family. We were near Sansepolcro–a fairly untouristed section…
Would you spray this on your body?
In a world where homogenization is spreading apace, it was fun for me last week to experience a visceral, totally American, reaction to this Italian product. …
Capital efficiency taken to ergonomic extremes
I’ve heard people quip that IKEA makes more profits on startups than venture capitalists do. In our first week at Daily Grommet I, too, took a…
Out of the mouths of interns…
This is Julia Kemp, our summer intern. She’s an MBA student at Simmons College. She is also an industrial designer…in fact, Julia designed the fitness line…
Not sure where we will have meetings in the winter…
We’re pretty crowded in our office space. We have five rooms, if you include the sacrosanct and incredibly neat space maintained by our developers Gary and…
What happened AFTER this photo was shot
A very nice freelance photographer, Aram Boghosian, shot this photo at Daily Grommet. It’s running in the Globe today. We were a little worried about how…
Even in Vienna…
Two people sent me a link to this photo. (Thanks Carol Cohen, and Heidi Hofer!) It ran in the NYT, in an article about the…
Inside/Outside Jobs
One of my biggest adjustments to “real life” (as an industrial designer) post-college was having to be indoors all day. In fact, I’ve never gotten used…
Jules Pieri 