Wall Street Journal: Fall Off Duty 50

Published in Wall Street Journal, Off Duty, September 16, 2017

Immortalize a Shore Thing: No need to pine for your favorite strip of sand just because you’ve packed up the sun hats. Pangea’s customizable coastal maps draw on nautical charts to accurately render underwater topographies in birch plywood and acrylic. The maps can represent anywhere on the globe that abuts water—lakes, rivers, oceans—and arrive framed in an equally impressive plywood box. Though the maps are largely unlabeled, they bring memories to life. Said brand creator Tom Percy of his clients, “They’ve got stories about where they’re from, where their house is, where they grew up.” Pangea Maps, from $390 for about 18-inch square, pangeamaps.com.

Get Schooled in Design History: When home furnishings retailer Rejuvenation caught wind of authentic Thonet chairs being sold by a hotel in New York’s Hudson Valley, it promptly scooped up 700 to bring to the masses... (click here to read the rest on WSJ)