Tucker Talk

The fashion king of New York decorated two stories of his Madison Avenue flagship store with more than 100,000 orchids in an "immersive floral installation". Expressive and textural skin-toned slabs and sculptures created exclusively by Tucker Robbins add to the delicate balance, bridging the ethereal walls to the 2017 collection. Birds will be chirping and butlers will be pouring glasses of champagne upon your arrival. Come experience the magical oasis!

Today, over 200 baskets dapple light throughout each Nobu restaurant and the Toraja weavers of Sulawesi, Indonesia are back at work creating these traditional baskets to catch light instead of fish.

Our Artisan Showcase last night was a resounding success. Many thanks to our artisans and guests! The image features some sustainable textiles by #avani.

This #pillow doesn't look very comfortable but it is a beautiful accent piece. Would you sleep on this? #wood #functionalart

From our Greatest Hits: a video profile of Tucker Robbins. Produced by William Geddes.

More beautiful wood than we can show at once. Stacks and stacks! #wood

I love this wood. Our paldao wood table.

Only in the realm of art and magic can opposites such as the brute and gold coexist. Reconciled through the noble hands of artist and artisans that for generations have shaped the earth’s rawest and roughest layers into beautiful ornaments and decorations. A roughing that gives way to new life. One where the Brute and the Gold coexist as part of creation. There’s beauty in both. Standing in the middle of a cedar forest, Espen’s rough-hewn totems stare back at the firing pits of the Inca where the Gold Ceramic Bangles are now being made. The same gold that Olivia rubs and shapes into iconic shapes of wax and  graphite that now grace our walls.  On a more personal level it has always been my sister - Claire Miner - design collaborator and closest friend, who’s bruted down some of my rougher edges, by incorporating a feminine touch into my collections.  These are all references of a refinement that is to me an acknowledgment of the forces of nature, a reference to civilization, to the interconnectedness that brings us together. Gold, wax, totems, circles, relationships and story telling. Where we come and where we’re going… the circle of life.

One day my friend Tucker Robbins called me, sounding like a kid who had just discovered fireflies and said, “Sara, you’ll never guess who I met on the train home to New York from Washington, DC!”. He explained that he had met an extremely charming young Arab man named Hussain Al Amry, who is the host of a program called ‘Million’s Poet’, a popular TV show in the Arabian World.

So how did I meet Tucker? We seem to always be answering that question. In the Spring of 2001 . . . After rounding a corner somewhere in the never-never land that is the Sands Convention Center, I spied an interesting booth. Inhabiting it were the sorts of pieces that are illustrated here–plus an egg shaped stool carved from Acacia wood here, a Spider’s Nest (who knew what a spider’s nest was in 2001?) there. I was instantly transfixed–nobody else was showing anything remotely similar.

Thorn Tree Project - Sereolipi Nomadic Education Foundation from The Thorn Tree Project on Vimeo.

Camels drift between morning fog, arriving from the desert, Beduin paradise.