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Actress Michelle Williams is a fan of Nightwood's genius reconstructed pieces...and so are we!
If you're committed to being an environmental steward, freshening up your home can pack on a whole lot of guilt. How do you justify buying a brand new sofa when your old one is still in relatively decent shape? Enter Nightwood, a décor and interior business focused on creating one-of-a-kind, reconstructed furniture and textiles, which has earned a cult following among Brooklyn residents like the actress Michelle Williams. Myriah Scruggs and Nadia Yaron, together since 1998, started Nightwood in their Clinton Hill neighborhood three years ago and have saved many a conscience ever since with their cleverly reimagined tables, beds and chairs. The duo recently spoke with Chris Frey, a regular contributor to The Inside Source, eBay's online style magazine, about their work. What follows is an excerpt of that interview. For the full article, click here.
Nightwood was born, Nadia Yaron says, "out of necessity," as a means to furnish the Brooklyn apartment she shares with partner Myriah Scruggs, when the pair moved back to New York after a short stint in Los Angeles. Armed with an intense DIY spirit but little money, they started repurposing neighborhood cast-offs and thrift store pieces "with a handsaw and a drill in our living room," Yaron says. Today, Scruggs still focuses on gathering materials-they look for freebies and dirt cheap cast-offs as far away as the Hamptons, Queens and upstate New York-while Yaron works on textiles and upholstery. With new clients piling onto their wait list, they have outgrown two studio spaces, designed and decorated restaurants and private residences and completed commercial renovations and installations. It's an impressive operation, considering neither of them has any formal training in business, design or fabrication.
The Inside Source sent Nightwood onto eBay to scout pieces they would use or repurpose. They selected a Navajo rug, hand-dyed muslin, an industrial lamp and military blankets. To read the full story, click here.
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